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The game is set in the end of Edo period in Japan (1600-1868). Japan, controlled by the feudal rulers (shoguns) of the Tokugawa dynasty, consumed by a peaceful sleep for three hundred years, was awoken by the arrival of the Westerners. It seemed that they only wanted the end of Japan's isolation from the rest of the world. But their true purpose wa...

The game is based on the anime series The Legend of the Swordsman Yaiba. Yaiba Kurogane has been raised by his father in a jungle, training to become a samurai warrior. When Yaiba arrives at Tokyo to continue his training, he stays there at the house of his father's old rival, Raizou. Later Yaiba meets Takeshi Onimaru, an exceptionally talented app...

The game is based on the manga Akazukin Cha-Cha ("Red Riding Hood Cha-Cha") by Min Ayahana, and subsequently on the animated TV series that followed it. The manga tells the story of a little girl named Cha-Cha who lives with her teacher on a mountain and studies magic. In the anime, the story was expanded to include the villainous Demon King, whom...

Magical Taluluto-kun: Magic Adventure is an action platformer from Bandai based on the Magical Taluluto manga and anime. Like its source, the game is bright and colorful and features a comedic sensibility. It's one of several games to be based on the license. The game is superficially similar to Wonder Boy in Monster Land, with its inclusion of...

Gaia Saver: Hero Saidai no Sakusen ("Gaia Saver: Hero's Greatest Strategies") is a 1994 Super Famicom turn-based RPG and part of the Compati Hero Series. It features characters from Gundam, Ultraman and Kamen Rider, all in a super deformed form. It's distinct for being a Compati Hero game that wasn't developed by Winky Soft, but rather eventual Gui...

Sugoro Quest++ Dicenics ("Sugoro" comes from sugoraku, a classic Japanese board game similar to Snakes and Ladders) is a video game that plays like a board game. It follows similar games like Dokapon 3-2-1 that combines RPG mechanics with a board game presentation. Sugoro Quest++ is the sequel/remake of Sugoro Quest for the Famicom and plays simila...

First Queen is a 1988 PC-9801 RPG that combines traditional turn-based RPG gameplay with large-scale strategic battles. This game, the first in Kure Software's First Queen series, introduced the Gochyakyara ("Multiple Characters") system that allowed many AI companions to fight alongside the player character. It features a tactical pausable real-ti...

Popeye Ijiwaru Majo: Sea Hag no Maki ("Popeye and the Harassing Witch Sea Hag") is a Popeye platformer-action game from Technos Japan. After Popeye trounces his nemesis the Sea Hag, she gets her revenge by separating all of Popeye's friends from their lifeforce, causing them to turn to stone. Popeye has to recover all their life energy (in the form...

Ball Bullet Gun: Survival Game Simulation is a Japan-exclusive turn-based strategy game for the Super Famicom. The game allows the player to create a party of "soldiers", though the implication is that these are regular civilians taking part in a military simulation, and determine their names, faces and loadouts. The player then takes this team thr...

Tokimeki Memorial: Densetsu no Ki no Shita de ("Beneath the Tree of Legend") is a port of the highly popular Konami dating simulation game, compressed into a 32-megabit Super Famicom cartridge and based on the original 1994 PC-Engine CD version (as opposed to the enhanced PS1 port "Forever With You", which contained additional content). To date, it...

It's a quiet day at the Mikami Ghost Sweeping Company until a mysterious package arrives. It seems the kindly old storekeeper Yakuchin found a magic statue and figured it would best be kept in Mikami's hands. Of course, where there's magic, there's wealth (or something like that), so Reiko sets out to find the seven gems needed to complete the stat...

The year is 20XX, World War III has occurred and decimated the planet. Recovering from nuclear war has not been easy as the citizens of Zeus Heaven Magic City, one of the few surviving metropolis centers, will tell you. Zeus is a world unto itself, a world of power and technology. A world with precious little food supplies. It is imperative to inge...

Included in Super Mario All-Stars. The games in Super Mario All-Stars are updated to take advantage of the 16-bit hardware of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The updates range from remastered soundtracks to revamped graphics and the addition of parallax scrolling. Game physics are slightly modified and some glitches are fixed. All-Stars...

Included in Super Mario All-Stars. The games in Super Mario All-Stars are updated to take advantage of the 16-bit hardware of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The updates range from remastered soundtracks to revamped graphics and the addition of parallax scrolling. Game physics are slightly modified and some glitches are fixed. All-Star...

Included in Super Mario All-Stars. The games in Super Mario All-Stars are updated to take advantage of the 16-bit hardware of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The updates range from remastered soundtracks to revamped graphics and the addition of parallax scrolling. Game physics are slightly modified and some glitches are fixed. All-Stars...

Super Fire Pro Wrestling 2 is the second Super Famicom game in Human's long-running wrestling series, and the sixth overall. It directly follows 1991's Super Fire Pro Wrestling. As with other games in the series, Super Fire Pro Wrestling 2 is notable for its deeply technical mechanics and timing-based grappling moves as well as featuring many wr...

Psycho Dream is a side-scrolling action game with light platforming elements, similar in style to Valis games, though less story-driven. The game is set in predominantly modern-day environments. The player can choose to control either Ryo Shizima or Maria Tobari, two demon hunters who must save an innocent girl named Sayaka and rid the world of ram...

In Prehistorik Man, the player takes control of a neanderthal who is on a quest to travel through various levels, collecting food items to get his village ready for the fast approaching fall feast. Along the way, the player will encounter an assortment of enemies ranging from spiders, giant rats and even the mighty T-Rex. There are five levels i...

You're "Big George" Foreman - the people's champion - and you've got an appetite for big action that only KO boxing can satisfy. It's a full menu of hard-hitting, real-ring action! Take on a roster of heavyweight contenders as you go for the World Championship. Rock your opponents with stinging left-right combos and pound your way to the title with...

Welcome to the world's most popular sport with the kind of detail and realism that only Jaleco can deliver. In Super Goal! 2 you'll be able to control a whole soccer team - from selecting a stadium and formation, right down to making a spectacular bicycle kick with 10 seconds on the clock. Choose a team that you can take all the way to the finis...

The clock ticks down. The roar of the crowd rises in a deafening chant of "U-S-A! U-S-A!" Suddenly, your winger breaks free, and spots the open man in the middle. Pass... shot... GOAL! It's America's favorite new sport, soon to become your favorite new home video game, thanks to Jaleco! Because GOAL! brings soccer to life like you've never seen it....

Enter a world most people have never heard of -- 16th century Japan. The Shogun has just fallen, leaving the government weak and ineffective. The country's greatest warlords, the daimyos, have taken up arms against each other. Alliance and friendships are quickly forgotten as each daimyo pursues the same goal: to rule the entire nation -- to become...

This is the sequel to the original side-scrolling shooter Cotton, and it continues the adventures of the cute young witch and her quest for candy. The game features new levels and enemies, all rendered in a much lighter family-friendly tone. Gameplay remains the same as in the original, with the addition of being able to collect different magica...

The adrenalin's pumping, and the crowd is on the edge of its seat, waiting for you to play Smash Tennis. Jam-packed with options and features, with 9 gloriously realistic courts, including grass, indoor, clay, and even a mountain top! Choose Tournament option and play up to four of your friends using the multi-tap system, or sweat it out against up...

Getting your helmet split by a blind sided hit has never been so much fun! NFL Football puts the pressure on your shoulder pads to carry both the pro-style offense and defense. When driving for the end zone, you'll call every shot, firing bullets and bombs to your favorite receivers. Or run bootlegs, blasting upfield behind snarling, thick-necke...