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Gamera: Gyaos Gekimetsu Sakusen is a kaiju strategy game for the Super Famicom featuring the Daiei Film characters Gamera, a giant turtle with flame breath, and Gyaos, a giant pteradon that frequently uses sonic attacks. The two are frequent rivals, with Gamera often having to protect Japan from Gyaos's destructive sprees. The game was released...

A variable racing game focused on open-wheel/Formula One racing using a top-down perspective. There's rally and stock cars available as well an the game includes numerous pieces of comic art that displays various scenes of the racing world.

Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Tamashii: Rider's Spirits is an arcade minibike racer very alike to Super Mario Kart, that uses the same game engine and utilizes similar gameplay. There are five courses and four modes to race in: Grand Prix, Chicken Run, Time Trial, Endurance. Player can choose from 8 playable characters, each with their own statistics and...

A strategy sim from Wolf Team based on Japan's Sengoku era and the third in their Zan Spirits series. Zan III Spirits is the third game in Wolf Team's series of warring states era-set strategy war sims. While similar to Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series in many ways, the Zan games are far more focused on warfare and logistics. Zan III is also the s...

A war simulator set in the Sengoku era of Japanese history. The first Super Famicom game in Wolf Team's series of strategy sims set in historical Japan. It was eventually followed up with a sequel, Zan III: Spirits. As with its thematically-similar contemporaries, like Shingen the Ruler or Nobunaga's Ambition, Zan II puts the player in the geta of...

Yume Meikyu Kigurumi Daiboken is a wacky and cute dungeon crawler published by Hector. The game tells the story of a boy who dreams of the mysterious kingdom of Enderia every night. There, he constantly lives exciting adventures and this time he is on a quest to save this world from destruction. Our hero must explore perilous towers and rescue all...

Zakuro no Aji is a visual novel from Imagineer and adopts the then-popular presentation of using text on static backgrounds with the use of sound effects and music to create atmosphere. The game's story concerns a five-story office block that suddenly sinks into the ground after a major earthquake. The protagonist, Domon, and the other office drone...

Mahjong Club is a mahjong game developed by Natsu System and published by Hect (or Hector). It was originally released on the Super Famicom in 1994 and later ported with enhancements to the Sony PlayStation in 1998. The PlayStation version was released a second time as part of a budget series. Neither console version saw a release outside of Japan....

Asahi Shimbun Rensai Katou Hifumi Kudan Shogi Shingiryuu is a 1995 shogi game for the Super Famicom. The game features two endorsements: The first is from the Japanese national newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which helped produce the game as part of their multimedia "rensai" or "series", and the second is from professional shogi champion Hifumi Kato (or K...

Honkakuha Taikyoku Shogi: Shogi Club is a shogi game for the Super Famicom. The developer/publisher team of Natsu System and Hect previously developed Mahjong Club in 1994; this game is its shogi equivalent. The player has a limited number of customization options for one-on-one shogi games with the CPU. The player can opt for specific tile configu...

The follow-up to Natsu System and Hect's previous shogi game, Honkakuha Taikyoku Shogi: Shogi Club. The game includes additional features and is more of an improved remake of the original. Players still take on CPU opponents of varying difficulties with a suite of customization options.

Katou Hifumi Kudan Shogi Club is a shogi video game adaptation developed and published by Hect for the Super Famicom platform. The game is named for Hifumi Katou, a prestigious professional shogi player, and the Kudan in the title refers to the ranking system used for shogi and other professional pursuits like mahjong and martial arts. It offers a...

A management video game that allows players to become the head coach of an international football team. It was supervised by the Brazilian former footballer Zico (also known as the White Pelé). The game was released five months before Zico ended his career as a professional footballer. The team he was representing at that time (Kashima Antlers) is...

Shinseiki Odysselya II is a turn-based RPG for the Super Famicom and the follow-up to the 1993 SFC game Shinseiki Odysselya. A party of trainee heroes are forced to take up arms when invaders arrive in their town. The game borrows a lot from Mediterranean history and mythology, with countries and monsters inspired by Greek, Persian and Roman locati...

A traditional turn-based RPG, with the first-person combat view made popular by Dragon Quest and the earlier RPGs like Wizardry that inspired it. The protagonist is an amnesiac human woman that is rescued by a friendly dragonman during the game's intro. Shinseiki Odysselya was intended to be released in the US with the name Lost Mission, but the lo...

Yume Maboroshi no Gotoku is an RPG set in a version of Sengoku era Japan. It otherwise plays like a standard JRPG, with a turn-based system that uses large enemy sprites in the center of the screen a la Phantasy Star or Dragon Quest. The game was one of two games ever published by Intec for the Super Famicom. It was never localized into English or...

Yadamon: Wonderland Dreams is a point and click adventure game developed by Sting Entertainment exclusively for the Super Famicom. The player, as the young witch Yadamon, her human friend Jean and her guardian fairy Timon, must navigate a series of screens to solve puzzles and reach the conclusion of the story. The game uses the SNES Mouse peripher...

Libble Rabble resembles Qix in that it consists of a series of single-screen stages where the goal is to cut portions of the screen by moving markers around. The markers take the shape of arrows with a string attached between them; areas are cut out by wrapping the string on poles equally distributed throughout the screen. Each stage contains mu...

Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile is a vehicular combat game from System Sacom, which was released on the Super Famicom in Japan only. The story concerns a newlywed couple who are accosted by Mad Max-esque highway bandits, leading to the death of the wife. The aggrieved husband spends the following year building a high-tech combat veh...

A mahjong game with a parody supernatural superhero theme. Like its predecessor, it uses mahjong as a sort of component for its "battle" system. Kikuni Masahiko no Jantoushi Dora Ou 2 is a bit more "free", allowing the player to explore the world map. It also allows for four-person games, removing the two-person limitation of its forebear.

Unleash your mahjong power!!! Jantoushi Doraou is a simple mahjong game for the Super Famicom. It features a wide variety of strange and ridiculous characters and is largely comical in nature. It follows typical Japanese mahjong rules, although there are a few exceptions. Many characters are also capable of performing special attacks when their "co...

A spin-off of the board game collection Game no Tatsujin, The Shanghai features three single-player games based on the game of mahjong solitaire: - Shanghai - Based on the Shanghai series. Traditional mahjong solitaire, where players are given a multi-layer tile formation and must attempt to remove all pairs from the board. - Rong Rong - Base...

Game no Tatsujin ("Game Master") is a board game simulation game that offers four different types of board game. In addition, there are two modes: one that lets the player compete against an invisible CPU opponent that can be customized, and another where the player has to defeat five increasingly stronger CPU players, this time with anime portrait...

Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock... It's Time to Fix the Clock The Master Clock of the Universe is broken and guess who has to fix it? Manuever your spinning clock hand on a variety of colorful clocks to make the moves that will save Time and maybe the Universe. Dodge oil globs, spikes, cannon blasts and wild clock hands through 100 challenging leve...

In this game the player assumes the role of a young adventurer named Rick, who reaches the land of Vulcannon by ship to search for his fortune. Rick finds and recruits other adventurers along the way, and can ask around the various towns of the world to find quests to pursue. The game's combat uses the typical Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy: Mystic Que...