Popful Mail

Popful Mail
PC-8801 cover art
Developer(s)Nihon Falcom[a]
Publisher(s)
Nihon Falcom
  • Sega CD
Director(s)Yoshio Kiya
Producer(s)Masayuki Kato
Programmer(s)Jun Nagashima
Artist(s)Hiroyuki Imai
Kunihiko Tanaka
Yuichi Shiota
Composer(s)Atsushi Shirakawa
Mieko Ishikawa
Platform(s)PC-8801, PC-9801, Sega CD, Super Famicom, PC Engine Super CD-ROM², Mobile phone
Release
December 20, 1991
  • PC-8801
    • JP: December 20, 1991
    PC-9801
    • JP: May 22, 1992
    Sega CD
    • JP: April 1, 1994
    • NA: February 23, 1995
    Super Famicom
    • JP: June 10, 1994
    PC Engine Super CD-ROM²
    • JP: August 12, 1994
    Mobile phone
    • JP: September 9, 2003
Genre(s)Action role-playing, platform-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure (ぽっぷるメイル, Poppuru Meiru) is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Nihon Falcom. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801 home computer in 1991 and the PC-9801 in 1992. The game was later ported to the PC Engine CD-ROM by NEC Home Electronics, to the Sega CD by Sega, to DoJa mobile phones by Bothtec, and to the Super Famicom and Microsoft Windows by Falcom.

After the failed attempt to bring the game to the west by reworking it to be the part of Sonic the Hedgehog series, the Sega CD version of the game was localized by Working Designs and released in North America in late 1994. Most versions of Popful Mail are for the most part similar to each other, but the Super Famicom and Sega CD versions differ significantly both from each other and from the previous releases.
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