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Instruction booklet · November 1991

ActRaiser

PlatformSimulatorStrategy1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

ActRaiser is a 1990 platform and city-building simulation game for the Super Nintendo, combining traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban planning god game sections. In 2007, ActRaiser became available on the Wii's Virtual Console download service. A version of the game was also released for European mobile phones in 2004.

Specifications

Released
November 1991
Developer
Quintet
Publisher
Enix
Players
1
Genre
Platform · Simulator · Strategy
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
ActRaiser
Themes
Action · Fantasy
View
Bird view / Isometric · Side view

What the magazines said

9
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
EGM · eight reviewers
6
7
7
6
Famitsu · four reviewers
Players
79/100 (70 ratings)
GameRankings
79.25%
Computer and Video Games
95%
Game Informer
7/10
GX
91%
Super Play
90%
Total!
(UK) 91%, (DE) 2+
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
10/10
Control
70%, 79%
Game Boy
4/5, 4/5, 3/5, 4/5, 3/5
Game Zone
74/100
Hippon Super!
6/10
Mean Machines
91%
SNES Force
87%
Super Action
90%
The Super Famicom
81/100
Super Gamer
84%
Super Pro
91/1000
BE KIND, REWINDNovember 1991
#1 songRomanticKaryn White
#1 albumRopin' the WindGarth Brooks
Admit one · #1 movieThe People Under the Stairs$5,522,250 weekend
Vol. 1 · No. 11Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of November 1, 1991
Nov. 1

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💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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