While I take vague pride in fleshing out the article for Takeshi's Challenge just now, the quasi-encyclopedic nature of Giant Bomb prevented me from providing too much color commentary on such an infamous Japanese Famicom game. This is actually a pretty sad thing because being relatively neutral about the game when attempting to describe the, ah, "interesting" challenges that the game throws at you just doesn't really do justice to the experience. Really, the only way to truly understand the completely intended horrors of the game are to either play it for yourself or, at the very least, read an article which goes into more humorously biased detail than a wiki article on this site can. This is one such example of an unencyclopedic discourse which does a better job of telling you why the game is so satanic and notorious on the other side of the Pacific to this day.

I hope this comes to Europe, in a future Hanabi Festival on the Virtual Console..

It's just nearly impossible to progress in this game. All the menus, phrases, dialogues are entirely written in japanese and actually understanding them is kind of blowing my mind.