Pop’n Land is a cancelled side scrolling action game for the Sega Mega CD probably developed by Takeru ( as you can read on GDRI ) and to be published by Takeru’s publishing label Sur De Wave. The game added a RPG flavour to its gameplay by letting players to costumize their hero. In fact you could have assigned 16 different choices for the head, body and weapon allowing 4,096 different combinations, some useful others totally worthless. Pop’n Land had 15 cute and colorful stages, each with a unique Boss. The game was never released for unknown reasons.
Not everything was lost, because a Pop’n Land music track (“Pleasant Companions”) composed by Yoshitsugu Yokoyama and arranged by Issei Asaoka is included in Super Mega Drive Fan – Mega-CD Super Music Collection Vol.1.
Scan from EGM issue 51 and Joypad issue 27.
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4 Responses to Pop’n Land [Sega Mega CD - Cancelled]
Anonymous
September 13th, 2011 at 3:25 am
This seems a lot like the released NES game Cocoron made by the same company. Wonder if it has any relation to the also cancelled PC Cocoron for the PC Engine?
Celine
September 13th, 2011 at 9:01 am
Indeed it looks similar ( and the sprite reminds me of Little Sanson …).
As you said the company is the same so there is surely a relation.
PC Cocoron article will come in the coming months.
myfishbone
September 29th, 2011 at 10:03 am
nice work celine :)
Celine
October 31st, 2011 at 10:41 am
New images added.