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:
“The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.... No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one’s pocket for another meal.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Has Michael Finn been in here today?”
—Mahatma Kane Jeeves, U.S. screenwriter, and Eddie Eddie. Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields)