Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru

The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru
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Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Toru Osawa
Producer(s)Makoto Kano
Programmer(s)
  • Seiki Sato
  • Yasuhiko Fujii
  • Hiroya Kuriyama
Artist(s)
  • Masahiko Mashimo
  • Tomoyoshi Yamane
Writer(s)Yoshio Sakamoto
Composer(s)Kazumi Totaka
Platform(s)Game Boy
Release
  • JP: September 14, 1992
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの為(ため)に鐘(かね)は鳴(な)る), officially translated as The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls,[1] is an action role-playing video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems[2][3][4] and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy exclusively in Japan in 1992.

The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is known in Japan as Ta ga Tame ni Kane wa Naru (誰がために鐘は鳴る).[5] This is in turn an allusion to John Donne's famous Meditation XVII. In 2011, an English fan translation was released.[6]

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  2. ^ Nintendo; Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd (September 14, 1992). Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru. Nintendo. Scene: staff credits.
  3. ^ Nintendo (April 1, 1998). Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo (Super Famicom). Nintendo. Scene: staff credits.
  4. ^ ゲームソフト (in Japanese). Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd. Archived from the original on May 18, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
  5. ^ Daiker, Brandon (July 11, 2011). "How exotic! For the Frog the Bell Tolls". nsidr.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  6. ^ "Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru Fan Translation Project". Romhacking.net. July 11, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2021.