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Parodius Prototype

Parodius is the genuine Japanese import experience. Though the shell of the game does not vary much in terms of other side-scrolling shooting games in the sky, as in the same vain of Gardius, the incredibly bizarre and fun graphical characters add a style that is unique to anything else. Parodius, first released on the Famicom in 1990, saw a release in all other continents but North America two years later, making it one of the few Pal-only titles on the NES.

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*Scans graciously submitted by the dashing Metaleggman from the NP messageboard

You can tell from the label that this Parodius NES sample came from Germany; and it is the PAL version.

I bought it from a Swiss seller living in Bern, Switzerland. The "sample" is in reality the whole version of the released game, and all of the in-game text is done in English. While playing through Parodius, I was not able to find any differences between the released PAL version and this PAL sample.

NES-TKEPROM-02 Board Pictures