In Top Shop, you must be the first to reach a certain amount of money by building shops in different kinds of malls. You choose from an assortment of characters from humans, and talking cats to moving televisions. There are also random events like closing down shops or receiving money from other people. The game can go up to 6 players.

Spellings

テナントウォーズ - Japanese spelling
テナントウォーズα - Japanese re-release spelling

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SuperLite 1500 Series releases

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Producer	Kuniharu Hosoda
Director	Tomoyuki Ishikawa
Planner	Kazuyuki Shimada Takayuki Nakamura
Assistant Planner	Taro Shibata Kazutaka Komiya
Main Programmer	Tamiya Kadomatsu
Programmer	Jun Maejima
Main Designer	Kazuhiko Kitajima
Designer	Shinnosuke Ishikawa Sayaka Hozumi Mayu Hosaka Natsuko Mori Yukio Ishikawa Takumi Katsuya Hisakazu Ogura (as Hisakaz Ogurau) Makoto Onishi
Supervisor	Tomoyuki Inoue (as Tomoyuki Inoue) Masaki Nakamura Kazuhiro Ichikawa
Executive Producer	Hisayoshi Ichikawa
-	A1 Games
Producer	Kuniharu Hosoda (細田邦治)
Director	Kazuyuki Shimada (島田和幸)
Planner	Takayuki Nakamura (中村隆行)
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Licensed Stores

The original 1998 releases (under the title Tenant Wars) actually featured licenses from major Japanese retail and restaurant chains. Players could run record store Tsutaya, drug store Matsumoto Kiyoshi, and even a Denny's. Subsequent releases, including the 1999 Success release (Tenant Wars Alpha) and the North American release (Top Shop), switched the licensed stores for sometimes-comical generic stores.

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Game added by powerstone05.

SEGA Saturn added by j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】.

Additional contributors: Freeman, Parf, j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】, Nick Rycar, Rik Hideto.

Game added May 12, 2005. Last modified September 6, 2023.