Fat Cat in the Space Ship of Shame

[vgthing]

Anyone heard of it? what is it about? Any Screenshots?
I found out about this game, but can't find any info on it.
From what I can guess, it involves fat cats and shameful space ships. Am I wrong?

[UglyJoe]

You might have better luck searching for ''89 Dennou Kyuusei Uranai".

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/game/579365.html

The box art has a cat in a spaceship, but it's really just a fortune telling "game".

[vgthing]

Is this the same game just for the NES?

[UglyJoe]

Sounds like an alternate title of some sort.  It's in our database:

http://www.famicomworld.com/Games/Game.php?dbid=2

but I don't know who added it.

[vgthing]

O.K. Thanks a lot!

[JC]

That alternate name comes from NES Player. They've got the AKA on their site. Don't know why. Check out the article about it; lists several unusual Famicom games with screenshots. I have a CIB copy of this game -- the only CIB cart I've got, don't know why I bought it -- but I've never been able to navigate passed the menu screens to see anything, so maybe there's nothing but menu screens (and somewhere along the way, fortunes).

[UglyJoe]

You mean this?

http://www.nesplayer.com/features/famicom/index.htm

They're not calling the game "Fat Cat in the Space Ship of Shame", they're just giving a name to the icon (which appears to be from '89 yada yada).  The icon is there as a sort of rating system.  If we're calling it Fat Cat, then we have to have "Pac-Man Pimp" in the database somewhere, too.

[JC]

Beats me, man. It's one of those "that's just the way it's always been" sort of things, since FW's inception really. I kinda like the AKA, regardless of how mistaken we were when including it in the database, back when we were young and innocent, and so naïve.

[ericj]

We should put [sic] beside it when the site is updated.