Rolypolys no Nanakorobi Yaoki

Rolypolys' Seven-Downs Eight-Ups
Original name	ロリーポリーズの七転び八起き
Release date	14 March 1997
Format	Videogame
Lost?	No

Rolypolys no Nanakorobi Yaoki (ロリーポリーズの七転び八起き, Roriiporiizu no Nanakorobi Yaoki lit. Rolypolys' Seven-Downs Eight-Ups) is a 1997 point-and-click videogame developed by OutSide Directors, released as a hybrid CD-ROM for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. It's the first of Osamu Sato's only edutainment game series, featuring the Rolypolys.

The game was entered into a multimedia competition held by Macromedia in 1996, where it was a finalist in the "Kidsware" department. Originally, it was scheduled to release in Japan that November, but for unknown reasons, the date was pushed back. Additionally, North American and European releases were considered, under the name "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog," but these ultimately never materialized.

Former Lost Media Status

For a long time, Rolypolys was not available to the general public. Several gameplay clips emerged over the years, but the game as a whole held its lost media status until July 2019 when an online auction was discovered and posted on Reddit by community member VisualMenace. It was quickly snatched up by another member, Gohald, who later posted scans and a disc image with the assistance of DeeDyne on July 22nd.

External Links

• Complete asset rip of the game
• Disc image and scans on Internet Archive
• OST on Youtube
• This disc, included with a Japanese edition of the magazine MacUser, contains a demo version of the game.