Esparks: Ijikuu Kara no Raihousha is a top-down action-RPG that resembles The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Secret of Mana. The player, as a character they name themselves, acquires the amazing powers of Esparks after his family is captured by a mysterious villain. Along with his...

Block Kuzushi (literally "Block Destruction", the generic name of block-breaking games in Japan) is a block-breaking game released exclusively for the Super Famicom in late 1995. As with almost other games in the genre, the player must destroy all the blocks on a single-screen stage with a bouncing ball, using...

Chinhai is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom and a variant on Mahjong Solitaire, or Shanghai. Instead of pairing and removing any two tiles that match as long as one of their sides is clear, as is the case in Shanghai, the rules of Chinhai require that the two...

4 Nin Shogi ("4 Person Shogi") is a shogi game for the Super Famicom which is based around a four-player variant of the game. Each player starts on one side of the board and has with fewer pieces than in the standard two-player game. Each side has their king, a...

Lord Monarch is an RTS game in which the player assumes one side of a conflict and must overpower the other sides using tactics and diplomacy. The player can establish alliances with other computer sides in order to get an edge, though this alliance dissolves as soon as the player...

Down the World: Mervil's Ambition is a Super Famicom strategy RPG developed and published by ASCII Corporation in 1994. The game features the eponymous Mervil, who survives an attack that wipes out his unit only to find himself travelling through time to escape. The game follows Mervil and his fairy...

Coron Land is a top-down action game released by Yumedia and Aroma in 1995. The game stars Hyou and Kiyu across a variety of stages fighting evil and saving the land of Snowia. On the day of Snowia's annual Winter Festival, a festival that starts Spring, an evil villain takes...

Sougou Kakutougi Rings: Astral Bout 3 is a wrestling/mixed martial arts game and the third game in A-Wave's Astral Bout series, which is based on the Fighting Network Rings promotion. Like previous games in the series, it features a number of martial artists of differing disciplines, and presents both single-player...

Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout 2: The Total Fighters is the sequel to Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout and like that game features various martial arts experts competing, not unlike MMA. The game is based on a real-life Japanese martial arts TV promotion, Fighting Network Rings. The eight characters represent different martial...

Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout, or simply Astral Bout, is the first in a series of competitive fighting games that focus on the then-fledgling Fighting Network Rings promotion that pits fighters of various disciplines against each other in an early form of televised mixed martial arts, or MMA. Players can select...

Wondrous Magic is an RPG developed by System Sacom and published by ASCII Corporation that was released exclusively for the Super Famicom in late 1993. The player is the young apprentice of an elderly wizard who goes with him on his travels. The game's combat uses an unusual real-time system...

Tower Dream is a virtual board game for the Super Famicom that supports up to four players. The game has a comedic angle and features expressive characters designed by Tamakichi Sakura. It was followed by a PlayStation sequel, Tower Dream 2, in 1998. The game features a number of "worlds"...

Turf Memories is a horse racing game for the Super Famicom. The player can raise their own racehorses for competitions, managing their training and entering them into races as they improve. It joins a number of other in-depth horse racing/horse raising simulation games for the system, including the Thoroughbred Breeder,...

Light Fantasy II is a turn-based RPG set in the same world of its predecessor Light Fantasy, only several centuries later. In the lore of the world, the ally Goddess of the previous game has become the antagonist, and a new party forms to remove her from power. Players can...

Light Fantasy is an RPG with strategy elements developed by A.C.C., a Japanese developer that handled the Nintendo/Super Nintendo ports for the first three games in Falcom's Ys series. Rather than an action RPG in a Ys vein, Light Fantasy's combat consists of random encounters against groups of enemies in...

Tsukikomori ("Last Day of the Month") is a Super Famicom horror-themed "sound novel": an adventure game that relies largely on text, static photographs and audio cues. It is the follow-up, but not direct sequel, to Pandora Box/Banpresto's earlier Gakkou de atta Kowai Hanashi. The game uses the grim scenario of...

Akagawa Jirou: Majotachi no Nemuri is a visual novel adventure game with a supernatural murder mystery theme. As with Chunsoft's Sound Novel series, it features a series of static photographs with Japanese text overlaid on top. The narrative is supported by background ambient music and sound effects. The story was...

Power Sokoban is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom in the Sokoban series created by Thinking Rabbit. Along with Power Lode Runner which was released the same day, Atelier Double and Nintendo took classic games and created special versions for the Nintendo Power cart-writing service, hence the "Power" in...

Konpeki no Kantai is a naval combat strategy game based on the anime of the same name that reimagines the Pacific Theater during World War 2 in which the Japanese navy had a significant advantage that would lead to a different outcome to the global conflict. This advantage is the...

Wedding Peach is a multiplayer party game that involves playing mini-games and earning the highest score after a set number. The game is based on Wedding Peach, a Sukehiro Tomita shoujo manga that features three highschool girls - Momoko, Yuri and Hinagiku - that learn that they're magical angels. Their...

Love Quest is an unconventional role-playing game where 'battles' consist of attempting to impress women. The protagonist is a player-named young man whose bride Yuka suddenly disappears during their wedding. The game involves finding out what happened to her.

3x3 Eyes: Juuma Houkan ("3x3 Eyes: Respectful Restoration of the Magic Beast") is a side-scrolling action game with graphic adventure elements based on the manga 3x3 Eyes. The player, as Yakumo, helps his companion Pai, a legendary magical creature who resurrected Yakumo as her immortal undead servant to spare his...

Based on the manga series 3x3 Eyes, the game tells the story of a young man named Yakumo Fujii. He lives in Tokyo and enjoys a life of an average teenager: he studies in school, works as a waiter on a part-time job, hangs around with friends, and so on....

Ruin Arm tells the story of a young boy named Arm, who lives together in Arff Village together with his father Borgan, his sister Linda, and the talking bird Lucia. Proud of the warrior traditions of their family, Borgan sends Arm to retrieve a powerful sword from the depths of...

Maten Densetsu: Senritsu no Ooparts is a first-person RPG/adventure game set on the islands of Japan which are suspended many thousands of feet in the air due to an unknown calamity. Demons have since invaded the island nation, aided in part by mysterious relics known as "ooparts" and human survivors...