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Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort

2005 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ7231347
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Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort (ポータブルアイランド 手のひらのリゾート, Pōtaburu Airando Te no Hira Rizōto; Portable Island: Palm Resort) is a game for the PlayStation Portable handheld system. It was shown at Sony's PlayStation Meeting on the 22 July 2005. It involves the player spending time on a tropical island. The game's clock is based on the PSP's internal clock, so if its day in the real world it will be day in the game world and if its night time it will be night time in the game. Other features include an alarm clock and also interaction with the objects in the game. For example, if the player character picks up a ukulele on the beach, the PSP can then be used as a ukulele with the buttons being the chords and the analog pad is used to strum.

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The public source identifies “Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort” as 2005 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Portable, Island and Hira.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-12-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Portable, Island and Hira providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7231347. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort” 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.