Quiz Torimonochou/Round 7

七、北海道 (Nana, Hokkaidō) 一之国胆振 (Kazuyuki kuni Iburi) 最後の戦い. (Saigo no tatakai.) 心して戦え! (Kokoroshite tatakae!) Translation: 7, Hokkaido First country Iburi The final fight. Fight your heart!

Scene 1
どのかごで行くんでえ (Dono kago de iku ndē) 乗らねぇんだな (Noranē nda na) 四択か 難しいぜ (Shitaku ka muzukashī ze) 次のノルマは3だ. (Tsugi no noruma ha 3-da.) Translation: Going in which cage Do not ride it Four choices are difficult The next quota is 3.

As the final round's first three-script question appears on the scroll at the top of the screen, and its four possible answers are shown below it, the six "do-not-disturb" hotel signs hanging on hooks above the answers with the Kanji text of Jikan (時間) to their left will disappear (one for every second); you will have to press one of the four Answer Buttons to answer it before they all disappear, or your lord will lose a life-onigiri. If your answer is correct, a red "O" will appear around your chosen Kanji numeral as your lord receives 50 points for every tenth of a second he has remaining and one of the three correct-answer lights above him turns on - but if it's incorrect, a blue "X" will appear on top of the chosen Kanji numeral as he loses a life-onigiri. Once you have answered three questions correctly (if you are using MAME to play this game, the virtual cabinet has a "Show Correct Answer" setting which can be set to "Yes"), the game will return to the map as both lords proceed onto the second scene and the following Kanji/Hiragana text appears in its bottom-right:

二之国十勝 (Ni no kuni Tokachi) はーる ばる (Hāru baru) 来だぜ 十勝 (Kida ze Tokachi) Translation: Second country Tokachi All the way to come to Tokachi

Note: It is also possible to press a button to select one of the other three cages at the start of a scene, and doing so may cause one of three other Kanji texts to appear in it: Ni-taku (二択), in which case the Kanji/Hiragana text of Ungaīna ni-takuda ze (運がいいな 二択だぜ) shall appear at the top of the screen and the questions shall only have two possible answers, Mitaku (三択), in which case the Kanji/Hiragana text of San-taku ka yōjin shite iki na (三択か 用心して行きな) shall appear at the top of the screen and the questions shall only have three possible answers, or Chikamichi (近道), in which case the Hiragana/Kanji text Medetē na chikamichi wo iki na (めでてぇな 近道を行きな) will appear at the top of the screen and the scene is skipped; when either Ni-taku or Mitaku appear in a cage you select read the word "four" in the above description's "four possible answers" as "two" or "three"; also, if Chikamichi (近道) appears in a cage you select at the start of a fourth scene, the boss of the scene will not be skipped and must be defeated.

Scene 2
どのかごで行くんでえ (Dono kago de iku ndē) 乗らねぇんだな (Noranē nda na) 四択か 難しいぜ (Shitaku ka muzukashī ze) 次のノルマは4だ. (Tsugi no noruma ha 4-da.) Translation: Going in which cage Do not ride it Four choices are difficult The next quota is 4.

This scene is much the same as the previous one (only there are four correct-answer lights above both lords, instead of three); once you have answered four questions correctly, the game returns to the map as they proceed to the third scene and the following Kanji/Hiragana text appears in its bottom-right:

三之国釧路 (San'no kuni Kushiro) 北国の方々こ (Kitaguni no katagata ko) んにちは. (N ni chi ha.) Translation: Third country Kushiro Hello North Korean people.

Scene 3
どのかごで行くんでえ (Dono kago de iku ndē) 乗らねぇんだな (Noranē nda na) 四択か 難しいぜ (Shitaku ka muzukashī ze) 次のノルマは5だ. (Tsugi no noruma ha 5-da.) Translation: Going in which cage Do not ride it Four choices are difficult The next quota is 5.

This scene is much the same as the previous two (only there are five correct-answer lights above both lords, rather than four); once you have answered five questions correctly, the game returns to the map as they proceed to the last scene and the following Kanji/Hiragana text appears in its bottom-right:

四之国天塩 (Shi no kuni Teshio) 最後の旅が潜 (Saigo no tabi ga sen) む国. (Mu-koku.) Translation: Fourth country Teshio The country where the last journey lives.

Scene 4
どのかごで行くんでえ (Dono kago de iku ndē) 乗らねぇんだな (Noranē nda na) 四択か 難しいぜ (Shitaku ka muzukashī ze) 次のノルマは6だ. (Tsugi no noruma ha 6-da.) Translation: Going in which cage Do not ride it Four choices are difficult The next quota is 6.

This scene is much the same as the previous three (only there are six correct-answer lights above both lords, rather than five); once you have answered six questions correctly, this round's boss, who has a black beard (and unlike the previous round's, is human) shall appear on the right side of the screen:

拙者が北海道の旅 (Sessha ga Hokkaidō no tabi) 主である. (Omodearu.) Translation: I am travelling in Hokkaido.

よくぞここまで来 (Yoku zo koko made ki) たものだ、ほれ、 (Ta monoda, hore,) かかってこい. (Kakatte koi.) Translation: Often you come this far, Come on, Take it.

The screen shall then pan down to reveal four doors with the Kanji numerals for 1 to 4 on them as their categories are displayed at the top of the screen:

一 歴史・地理 (Ichi Rekishi chiri) 二 自然・科学 (Ni Shizen kagaku) 三 支学・芸術 (San Sasō-gaku geijutsu) 四 グルメ・旅行 (Shi Gurume ryokō) Translation: 1 History and Geography 2 Natural Science 3 Supportive Arts 4 Gourmet Travel

When you press a button to select a door (and a category), that geisha who sits on the inactive player's side of the screen in a one-player game will walk up to it as it slides open and enter it; you then have to answer seven questions of your chosen category correctly (indicated by the seven correct-answer lights above the lords). Once you have done so, the screen shall cut to a shot of both lords sitting on the now-defeated-and-tied-up boss on its right side:

うーむ、やられた. (Ūmu, yara reta.) 拙者を倒すとは (Sessha wo taosu to ha) さすがだ. 家来に (Sasugada. Kerai ni) してもらえるか. (Shite moraeru ka.) Translation: Hmmm, I got it. It is a good idea to beat me. Can you be patient.

Bonus Scene
The game shall now proceed to its final bonus scene, which has an old man speaking the Hiragana text Sukina torī wo erabu noja. (すきなとりいをえらぶのじゃ. ) in its bottom-right, as the arrangement of its paths rapidly changes several times; once they have stopped, both lords' heads will appear in two of the four torii at the top of it and the four boxes at the bottom of it are revealed to contain either one, two or three life-onigiri, or the Katakana text Suka (スカ). The lords' heads will now automatically start moving down the screen, going along a horizontal path every time they come to one until they reach one of the boxes at the bottom of it - and for a seventh and final time, whatever ones they were, the game will then proceed to the Golden Capital itself. The Hiragana text Sukina torī wo erabu noja. also means "Choose your favourite torii", implying the buttons may also be used to choose a starting one.

Golden Capital
黄金の都の地図を手にした平八と成吉は、(Kogane no miyako no chizu wo te ni shita Heihachi to Nariyoshi ha,) 黄金の都 (Kogane no miyako) へと上っていくのであった・・・ (He to agattedeatta...) クイズを解くと牢の鍵が壊れるのだ、 (Kuizu wo hodoku to rō no kagi ga kowareru noda,) 皆が待ってるぞ. (Mina ga matteru zo.) 一問正解すれば次の都へ、 (Ichi-mon seikai sureba tsugi no miyako he,) だが不正解なら次へは行けないぞ. (Daga fu seikainara tsugi he wa ikenai zo.) 見事十人を助けられるかな. (Migoto jū hito wo tasuke rareru ka na.) 但し、30問以内だぞ. (Tadashi, 30-mon inaida zo.) Translation: Heihachi and Nariyoshi got a map of the golden capital, The golden capital They went up to... Solving the quiz breaks the key of prison, Everyone is waiting. If you answer correctly one question to the next capital, But if you are wrong you cannot go next. I wonder if I can help ten superb people. However, it is within thirty questions.

Once you've answered this next question correctly (indicated by the single correct-answer lights above the lords), a man bawling his eyes out will appear in the centre of the screen; the screen will then return to the map of the Golden Capital as its next city flashes. Once you have repeated the process nine more times, the Kanji names of all seven rounds and the Golden Capital (Kogane no Miyako) shall appear at the top of the screen - and below them, the total amount of questions both players were asked will be displayed on either side of the Kanji text Sō mondai-sū (総問題数) with their amount of correct answers displayed on either side of the Kanji text Seikai-sū (正解数) and their correct answer averages (which were also seen above the correct-answer lights during the gameplay) on either side of the Kanji text Seitō-ritsu (正答率). The game shall now go into high-score mode; your scores will most likely be the two highest ones on the cabinet to date, so you should enter your initials at the top of the table with pride regardless of which way round they are positioned, by using the first and second Answer Buttons to pick letters and the third one to confirm them. The game will now go back into attract mode.