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A fishing game endorsed by and named for Shigetaka Kashiwagi, a Japanese professional bass angler. The game has a far stronger simulation element than many of its Super Famicom/SNES contemporaries, allowing the player to pick specific lures and fishing equipment and fish for bass with the correct steps for casting the lure and reeling in a prize-wi...

A block-stacking game with the goal to stack 2x2 blocks of penguins, ice cubes, or penguins in ice cubes within a grid, each of which has a different set of criteria to remove them. The game comes with single-player and two-player modes, as well as a tutorial mode to help players understand the rules of the game.

Nage Libre, or Nage Libre ~Seijaku no Suishin~ is a strategy game exclusive for the Super Famicom. It features five heroines who compete with one another in highschool-related events to escape back to their homeworld. These battles are represented on a grid-like battlefield, common to strategy games of the era, and when two units meet on the battle...

Ugoku E Ver. 2.0: Aryol is a 1994 Super Famicom puzzle game published by Altron and developed by an unknown contract developer. It is a spiritual sequel to Altron's Olivia's Mystery, released earlier the same year. Like that game, Aryol features an ongoing story that is occasionally interrupted with a jigsaw puzzle the player must solve to continue...

Olivia's Mystery is a puzzle game published by Altron and developed by an unknown contract developer. It features a story, told with scrolling text, that every so often segues to one of the game's puzzles. The game's puzzles resemble normal jigsaw puzzles: the player has to take several pieces, often flipping them vertically or horizontally, and pl...

Logos Panic: Goaisatu is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom. This game Relies about knowledge of kanji and Japanese language. Also, Goaisatsu is a formal traditional greeting, the player must form phrases with a list of kanji. The characters were designed by Kotobuki Shiriagari

Natsume Kiroemon, the 45th leader of the Natsume family, is due to inherit the Koryuu no Mimi, a tool which gives its bearer easy access to wealth and women. As a result of his father's death, he left the Italian monastery where he'd been training and rightfully took the name "Natsume Kiroemon" as well as the power of the Koryuu no Mimi. Upon his r...

Keeper is a cute action-puzzle game. A five-by-five grid fills up with colored blocks with different icons on them. Pikuru and Kintoto, the player characters, can move freely about the grid, climbing over the blocks, and pushing or pulling them in any direction where there is room. Line up three or more blocks of either the same color or the same s...

Umi no Nushi Tsuri is a fishing game in Pack-in-Video's Nushi Tsuri series, which combines traditional angling with RPG elements such as upgrading equipment and stats, and fighting turn-based battles with wild animals. This spin-off moves from "Kawa" (river) to "Umi" (sea), focusing on saltwater fish instead. As with other games in the series, the...

Kawa no Nushi Tsuri 2 is a Japan-exclusive fishing RPG from Natsume and the third game in their long-running Nushi Tsuri/River King franchise. Like its predecessor, released on the Famicom in 1990, the game crosses fishing game elements such as finding bait and ideal fishing spots with RPG elements such as fighting wildlife in turn-based battles an...

Matsukata Hiroki no Super Trawling ("Hiroki Matsukata's Super Trawling") is a fishing game for the Super Famicom featuring actor and enthusiastic angler Hiroki Matsukata, best known for his tough guy roles in yakuza movies. The player travels to exotic fishing locations across the globe, looking for especially large fish such as blue marlin. The ga...

Wakataka Oozumou: Yume no Kyoudai Taiketsu is a sumo wrestling game for the Super Famicom. The name Wakataka refers to two famous brothers -- Wakanohana and Takanohana -- who both made Yokozuna rank, the highest ranking for a sumo wrestler. Unusually for a sumo wrestling game, each match is dictated by a sort of rock-paper-scissors system where...

Tetris Battle Gaiden is a competitive puzzle-battle game, similar to games such as Puzzle Fighter or Puyo Puyo. One can play against a friend or the Computer in a story mode. There is also an included Rensa mode, which ensures a more hyperactive game due to increased gravity. The player can choose from a list of characters in the story mode, includ...

Yet another version of the famous soviet puzzle game. However, despite what the title may suggest, contained within are actually four different versions of Tetris: Tetris Classic, Familiss, Sparkliss, and Magicaliss. Tetris Classic, of course, is the basic version of the game, which comes with an endless mode and a 25-line "standard" mode. Famil...

Based on the 1993 Formula One Season, Final Stretch features a GP, 1P VS 2P, and Time Attack modes. In GP mode the player can choose either beginner or expert which have many differences. At beginner any team can be chosen and the player will start all races without having to qualify. There's no machine setting, and one other difference is that dur...

Kat's Run: Zennihon K Car Senshuken is a mode 7 racing game for the Super Famicom that features kei cars: a smaller weight/size category of vehicle in Japan that includes microvans and convertibles. The single-player mode has one of ten female drivers competing to win a street racing tournament. A small window allows players to see their driver's e...

The game's story continues where the previous game, 1990's Momotarou Densetsu II for the PC Engine, leaves off. Momotaro returns home to his adoptive parents while the demons he's foiled previously continue to plot against him.

Super Wrestle Angels is a all female professional wrestling simulation game by Great and published by Imagineer. The first playing mode can be described as a 'professional wrestling group management mode', which is the original feature of this Super Famicom version. There, the player takes the role of a woman wrestling group manager, picks a team a...

Super Fishing: Big Fight is a fishing game released on the Super Famicom in 1994. The player, as an avid fisherman in a green backwards cap, is invited to participate in a multi-stage fishing contest that takes place across Japan. The game uses a third-person behind-the-angler perspective, and the player can select a spot in each of the game's fish...

Marmalade Boy is a dating sim game that was released only in Japan and based on a popular anime of the same name. Marmalade Boy was originally released on the Game Boy system, and later released on the Super Famicom. In Marmalade Boy the player assumes the role of Miki. As Miki the player must try and win the affections of one of three characters...

Super Birdie Rush is a top-down golf game released exclusively in Japan and the sequel to Golf Club: Birdie Rush. Super Birdie Rush was either developed by Data East or commissioned by them, and they also published the game. The player can select between Stroke Play, Match Play and Tournament, each of which takes progressively more time to complete...

The sequel to the 1994 SNES game Super Pinball: Behind the Mask, though did not join it with a release in North America. The game is, however, entirely in English. The game features three tables: The sci-fi "Space Sister", the James Bond-inspired "The Spy Eyes", and the circus-themed "Showtime". Each table has its own quirks and high scoring zones...

Jaki Crush is a pinball video game for the Super Famicom that was originally released in 1992, exclusively in Japan. The game is the third in the Crush Pinball series, and was preceded by Alien Crush and Devil's Crush. It is considered to be very obscure and is often thought to be the forgotten entry in the series. The game features a theme revolvi...

The spiritual successor to Naxat Open, a golf game that Naxat published and lent their name to. The game uses the standard top-down perspective for golf games from this era. It is unusual for the inclusion of Naxat's Dorabocchan ("Little Dorabo") character, who had appeared in two games at this point: 1990's Makai Prince Dorabocchan for the PC Engi...

Leading Company is a construction-oriented strategy video game that was released for the Super Famicom, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000 and FM Towns. The traditional definition of a leading company is a corporation that currently dominates the "corporate wars" against their competitors. Its employees are considered by most people to be winning the "rat r...