I can’t bring myself to use the subtitle of this game in the main title, because it’s such a hideously bad translation… I’ll just call the game “Fancy World” and leave out the “Earth of Crisis” part… 🙂 The intro sequence also has some of the funniest English videogame translations I’ve ever read… So, for lovers of bad translations, this game is a goldmine. 🙂
Developed by Unico Electronics of South Korea in 1995 and first released into arcades in 1996, Fancy World is an obscure arcade game that few people will have ever heard of. In spite of the dodgy title screen, the bad translations, and the silly name, this game is actually really rather good. It’s a bit like Taito‘s superb Parasol Stars, or SNK‘s Nightmare in the Dark, and it even has a two-player cooperative mode, like those games.
