Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの為に鐘は鳴る?, lit. "For the Frog the Bell Tolls") is an action role-playing video game developed by "Team Shikamaru" of Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division, in cooperation with the external company Intelligent Systems. It was published by Nintendo for the Game Boy and released in Japan on September 4, 1992. The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. which is itself an allusion to John Donne's famous Meditation XVII.
In 2011, an English fan translation was released.
Famous quotes containing the words tame and/or kane:
“To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Has Michael Finn been in here today?”
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