Daikaijyu Deburasu

It was published by Data East and released on January 21, 1990. While it did not receive an official English release, the game received a partial fan translation in the 1990s and a full translation in 2023. Reviews in Famicom Tsūshin and Hippon Super! Complimented the light-hearted approach to the kaiju genre. Some reviewers found the game might be too difficult for its intended younger audience or that it was hard to strategize moves when movements depended on dice roll.

• Title — Daikaiju Deburasu • Publisher — Data East • Platforms — Family Computer • Released — December 21, 1990 • Genre — Strategy • Modes — Single-player

Daikaiju Deburasu is a single-player strategy video game. The game has a kaiju-movie theme. It involves the player assisting the military to guide a giant egg through a large city and protecting it from a huge monster that has risen from the sea.

Hiromichi Nakamoto of Data East met Haruki Kamiya of Bandai at a game show and became friends. The two agreed to work together on a project which became Daikaiju Deburasu. Most games were created by suggesting ideas and themes they found interesting and then pitching the ideas to their CEOs. For Daikaiju Deburasu, the two even performed a dance which was originally going to be in the game for their CEO. The game was initially going to be made so that the player could also control the monsters in the game. They opted to make this a secret cheat code in the game, so they could put the code in game magazines later to recoup interest in the game once sales on the title had slowed down. Daikaiju Deburasu was published by Data East and released in Japan for the Family Computer on December 21, 1990. The game's name "Deburasu" is a pun with "Debu" meaning chubby in Japan. The game did not receive an official release in the West, but received a partial fan translation in the 1990s and a full English fan translation in 2023.