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Itazura Tenshi

1984 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ11492586 ↗
Source-derived summary

Itazura Tenshi is a 1984 multidirectional shooter video game developed by Alice and published by Nichibutsu for arcades. It was only released in Japan in November 1984. Hamster Corporation acquired the game's rights alongside Nichibutsu's portfolio, releasing the game outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in November 2022.

Gameplay

The player controls an angel who must connect various constellations by flying into stars in the night sky, while fending off enemies with arrows. Completing each constellation gives extra points depending on their size, with a set number of constellations in each stage. In the end of each stage, the angel has to reunite Ran and Lum in the manner of Altair and Vega, which grants more points when successful.

Editorial summary

“Itazura Tenshi” enters the record as 1984 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Itazura, Tenshi and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1984, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Itazura, Tenshi and video.
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“Itazura Tenshi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Itazura, Tenshi and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11492586. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Itazura Tenshi” 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.