Lost In Translation/Don Doko Don

About The Game
Don Doko Don is a platform arcade video game where you play a bearded dwarf with a mallet as your only weapon. Very abstract colors, talking trees, cute graphics and sounds. The object is to defeat all the enemies and advance to the next round which reveals more and different enemies.

Trivia
Released in July 1989.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Don Doko Don - PCCB-00008) on 21/10/1989.

Updates
The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

Teddy Bear Cheat
In the demo mode during the attract mode (not the tutorial), press 3 times the attack button and a cute picture of a bear will appear in the left bottom of the screen.

Series

 * 1) Don Doko Don (1989)
 * 2) Don Doko Don 2 (1992, Nintendo NES)

Staff

 * Producers:
 * Seiji Kawakami
 * T. Matumoto
 * H. Sakoh


 * Software:
 * Kazutomo Ishida
 * Masaya Kinoshita


 * Characters:
 * Seiji Kawakami
 * Yukiwo Ishikawa
 * Yukio Abe (Y. Abechan)
 * Minori Ishino
 * Kazuhiro Numata
 * Kohzoh Igarashi
 * Tetsuya Shinoda
 * V.A.P.


 * Sound (Zuntata):
 * Masahiko Takagi
 * Yasuko Yamada


 * Hardware:
 * K. Fugimoto
 * Who Manchu


 * Designers:
 * Hiroyasu Nagai
 * V.A.P

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * NEC PC-Engine (1990)
 * Nintendo Famicom (1990)
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Taito Memories Vol. 1")
 * Microsoft XBOX (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, "Taito Legends 2")


 * Computers :
 * PC [CD-ROM] (2006, "Taito Legends 2")