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Enma Daiō
Enma Daiō
Developer(s)	Toaplan
Publisher(s)	Taito
Producer(s)	Masahiro Yuge
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	JP: November 1993;
Genre(s)	Quiz
Mode(s)	Single-player

Enma Daiō^[a] is a 1993 hybrid quiz/lie detector arcade video game developed by Toaplan and published exclusively in Japan by Taito.^[2] In the game, players answer a number of question. As of 2019, the rights to the title is owned by Tatsujin, a company founded in 2017 by former Toaplan member Masahiro Yuge and now-affiliate of Japanese arcade manufacturer exA-Arcadia alongside many other Toaplan IPs.

Gameplay

Enma Daiō is a hybrid quiz/lie detector game where players must answer a series of random questions given by the in-game character.^[3]^[4] Depending on the question selected and the player's state, the titular deity either stays calm or becomes angry.^{[citation needed]}

Development and release

Enma Daiō proved to be the most expensive project developed by Toaplan, as former Toaplan composer Tatsuya Uemura stated in a 2009 interview with Japanese publication Floor 25 that it "cost a lot of money".^[5] Uemura revealed to a Twitter user in November 2020 that Truxton composer Masahiro Yuge was involved during the game's development at Toaplan as producer.^[6] The title was distributed exclusively in Japan by Taito in 1993 on two variations; a standard upright variant and a deluxe variant.^[1]^[3] The title was also showcased to attendees at the 1993 Amusement Machine Show and later at the 1994 AOU Show.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Legacy

In more recent years, the rights to Enma Daiō and many other IPs from Toaplan are now owned by Tatsujin, a company named after Truxton's Japanese title that was founded in 2017 by former Toaplan employee Masahiro Yuge, who are now affiliated with arcade manufacturer exA-Arcadia.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] In 2019, M2 acquired the license to nearly all titles developed by Toaplan for re-release on modern platforms in the future, but Enma Daiō was excluded for multiple reasons.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]

Notes

^ Japanese: えんま大王, lit. "King of Hell"

References

^ ^a ^b Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). タイトー (Taito); タカラ／タカラアミューズメント Takara; 東亜プラン (Toa Plan) (in Japanese) (1st ed.). Amusement News Agency. pp. 44, 46, 50. ISBN 978-4990251215. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ "お年賀状スペシャル!! 1994". Gamest (in Japanese). No. 107. Shinseisha. February 1994. p. 84.
^ ^a ^b Enma Daiō arcade flyer (Toaplan/Taito, JP)
^ "えんま大王" (in Japanese). Shooting Star. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Iona; VHS; K-HEX (June 2009). "東亜プラン FOREVER". Floor 25 (in Japanese). Vol. 9. pp. 1–70. (Translation by Gamengai. Archived 2020-10-10 at the Wayback Machine).
^ @kagap_t (28 November 2020). "しかもこいつのプロデュースはTATSUJINシリーズの弓削さんですぜ！" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020 – via Twitter.
^ "'93 AM ショーレポート - えんま大王". Gamest (in Japanese). No. 101. Shinseisha. November 1993. p. 51.
^ "'94 AOUショー紹介 - えんま大王". Gamest (in Japanese). No. 110. Shinseisha. 19 March 1994. p. 98.
^ "'94 AOUショーレポート - えんま大王DX". Gamest (in Japanese). No. 113. Shinseisha. May 1994. p. 67.
^ "ライセンス事業" (in Japanese). TATSUJIN Co., Ltd. 2019. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Bravo, Roberto (12 September 2018). "Nueva compañía "Tatsujin" asegura tener gran parte de las IPs de la extinta Toaplan" (in Spanish). Gamercafe. Archived from the original on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ "Tatsujin". exA-Arcadia. 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Bravo, Roberto (25 January 2019). "Tatsujin, los dueños de Toaplan, anuncian que están trabajando para exA-Arcadia" (in Spanish). Gamercafe. Archived from the original on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ "［JAEPO2019］TATSUJINやナツメアタリの参入が発表されたexA-Arcadia。出展コーナーの模様を紹介". 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). Aetas Inc. 26 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Wong, Alistair (December 7, 2019). "M2 To Bring Nearly All Toaplan Games To Modern Home Consoles". Siliconera. Curse LLC. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Romano, Sal (December 7, 2019). "M2 to release nearly every Toaplan game for console starting 2020 in Japan - Mahjong Sisters and Enma Daiou not included". Gematsu. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
^ Muñoz, José David (December 8, 2019). "Snow Bros. Truxton y más juegos de Toaplan llegarán a PS4, Nintendo Switch y Xbox One". Hobby Consolas (in Spanish). Axel Springer SE. Archived from the original on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
^ McFerran, Damien (December 9, 2019). "M2 Is Bringing Toaplan's Back Catalogue To Modern Consoles". Nintendo Life. Nlife Media. Archived from the original on 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2019-12-09.