Klonoa: Door to Phantomile From Videogame Morgue File
Publisher
Namco Namco🇪🇺 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Platforms
PlayStation (original) PlayStation • i-mode (mobile phone service)
Date
December 11, 1997 (original) 🇯🇵 December 11, 1997
[1] [2] 🇺🇸 March 11, 1998
[3] 🇪🇺 June 5, 1998
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a 2.5D platform game released for the PlayStation in 1997 (in Japan) and 1998 (the rest of the world).
History [ edit ]
Concept art 🇯🇵 1997
Focusing on Klonoa's design
Press kit 🇺🇸 1997
Excerpt from Namco's E3 1997 press material (featuring an early English logo)
Press release 🇪🇺 May 1998
From SCEE, released for E3 1998
Several pages of concept art from Famitsu's official guidebook (Japanese; February 21, 1998)IGN published a multi-part history of the game's development (among other topics) in 2009 to promote the Wii remake:
"The Concept of the Original" (part 2, wherein Hideo Yoshizawa explains the inception, setting, and story of the game; March 5, 2009)"Character Design" (part 4, wherein character designer Yoshihiko Arai touches on Klonoa's design; April 7, 2009)"The Sounds of Phantomile" (part 5, wherein sound designer Kanako Kakino mentions the experience of composing the game's songs; May 7, 2009)"Level Design" (part 6, wherein Yoshizawa discusses just that; May 18, 2009) Previews [ edit ]
CoroCoro Comic 🇯🇵 July 1997
CoroCoro Comic 🇯🇵 August 1997
GameFan 🇺🇸 August 1997
Short preview of various PlayStation games previewed by Namco at E3 1997, Door to Phantomile included
Computer & Video Games 🇬🇧 September 1997
Part of the magazine's E3 coverage
CoroCoro Comic 🇯🇵 September 1997
Electronic Gaming Monthly 🇺🇸 September 1997
CoroCoro Comic 🇯🇵 October 1997
NOURS 🇯🇵 Winter 1997
From Namco's official magazine
CoroCoro Comic 🇯🇵 December 1997
Ultra Game Players 🇺🇸 December 1997
Erroneously calls the game Kinoa
Electronic Gaming Monthly 🇺🇸 January 1998
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 🇺🇸 January 1998
Ultra Game Players 🇺🇸 January 1998
Computer & Video Games 🇬🇧 February 1998
Super Juegos 🇪🇸 February 1998
Computer & Video Games 🇬🇧 April 1998
Also includes a very short aside comparing the game to Yoshi's Story
Official Australian PlayStation Magazine (Next Gaming) 🇦🇺 April 1998
PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española 🇪🇸 May 1998
Gameplay footage from E3 1997
Short preview from Game Catalog II (a Japanese TV show run by Famitsu; December 4, 1997)
Video preview taken from a CD-ROM bundled with issue 39 of Next Generation (dated March 1998)
Magazine covers [ edit ] Features [ edit ]
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 January 30, 1998
Guide to the endgame
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 January 30, 1998
Guide to every boss fight
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 February 13, 1998
Guide to beating the final boss
EGM2 🇺🇸 April 1998
Guide to the game
Super Game Power 🇧🇷 April 1998
Short guide to unlockable content
Tips & Tricks 🇺🇸 April 1998
Guide to the game
Super Game Power 🇧🇷 May 1998
Guide to the game
PSM 🇺🇸 June 1998
Explanation of how to unlock the sound test
Dengeki Urawazaō 2000-2001 Kanzenhan 🇯🇵 ~1999
Guide to various secrets
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 🇺🇸 June 2001
Blurb about the demo included with the issue's cover disc
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 🇺🇸 June 2001
Description of the demo included with the issue's cover disc (also including a screenshot from the sequel )
Reader submissions [ edit ]
Nice Games 🇯🇵 Spring 2001
A reader shares their impressions of the game at length
Advertising [ edit ]
Booklet 🇺🇸 1997
Excerpt from a booklet outlining then-upcoming Namco games
Print ad 🇺🇸 1998
Taken from the thirty-ninth issue of Nickelodeon Magazine (dated March 1998)
Nickelodeon Magazine 🇺🇸 March 1998
Blurb from the issue's "advertising directory"
Print ad 🇺🇸 1998
The infamous STD ad, taken from EGM' s 104th issue (dated March 1998)
Print ad 🇪🇸 1998
Taken from the eighteenth issue of PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española (dated June 1998)
Store display 🇺🇸 ~1998
Closeup picture
Namco Soft Line-up! 2000-2001 🇯🇵 ~1999
Blurb from a promotional booklet advertising a budget rerelease
Japanese TV ad (with English subtitles by the uploader, Chris Aaron)
Japanese store promo video
Interviews [ edit ] Reviews [ edit ]
PlayStation Magazine 🇯🇵 December 18, 1997
🇯🇵 ~1997
Newspaper excerpt, possibly from Asahi Shimbun
Computer Games 🇸🇦 ~1997/1998
Printed right to left & watermarked
Consoles + 🇫🇷 February 1998
Import review
GameFan 🇺🇸 February 1998
Panel review
GameFan 🇺🇸 February 1998
Full review
Ultra Game Players 🇺🇸 March 1998
Strana Igr (Gameland) 🇷🇺 March 1998
Super Game Power 🇧🇷 March 1998
Computer & Video Games 🇬🇧 May 1998
PSM (Italy) 🇮🇹 May 1998
Italian translation of the English PSM review
PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española 🇪🇸 June 1998
PSM 🇺🇸 September 1998
The game makes #19 on the magazine's revised top 25 list
PSM (Italy) 🇮🇹 November 1998
The game makes #19 on the magazine's revised top 25 list (translated from the American magazine's equivalent feature)
Hardcore Gamer 🇺🇸 January 2007
Retro review
Flights of Fantasy review
Date
Copies sold that week
Total sold
Chart position
1997-12-14
48,950[4]
3
1997-12-21
24,309[4]
73,259
20
1998-01-04
112,575[4]
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 January 30, 1998
The game ranks eighth in the issue's "Top 20"
North America [ edit ] Note that the below data was taken from the NPD Group's TRST, which did not include sales from Walmart (and potentially other retail chains) at the time.
Date
Total sold
2002-12
25,851[5]
Websites [ edit ] Forum posts [ edit ] "Length" (a brief conversation about how long it takes to beat the game on IGN's Klonoa board; began October 10, 2004, archived via Wayback Machine on February 22, 2005)Miscellaneous [ edit ]
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 January 30, 1998
Blurb highlighting the game out of the issue's "Top 20"
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 April 10, 1998
Time attack challenge for a bonus level
Dengeki PlayStation 🇯🇵 April 10, 1998
Contest to win a Klonoa -branded pencil board
Electronic Gaming Monthly 🇺🇸 October 2001
Short description of rising secondhand prices after the sequel's release
Tips & Tricks 🇺🇸 November 2001
Short description of the game's secondhand value at the time of publication
References [ edit ]
