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Bonze Adventure

1988 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Bonze Adventure, released in Japan as Jigoku Meguri, is a 1988 platform video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was released only in Japan in June 1988. A PC Engine port was published in 1990.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bonze Adventure” is 1988 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bonze, Adventure and video, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bonze, Adventure and video is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1988 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1990.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bonze Adventure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.