YuYu Hakusho is a Super Famicom game based on the horror-themed manga and anime about a belligerent young man who dies unexpectedly from being hit by a car and is revived as a “spirit detective” by the rulers of the afterlife, and it becomes his job to investigate ghostly matters in the mortal world. The … Read more
YuYu Hakusho: Tokubetsu Hen (“YuYu Hakusho: Special Edition”) is a fighting game for the Super Famicom. Rather than controlling the character directly with the d-pad and buttons, the players charge attacks and unleash them at the right amount of power. Combat is depicted as a series of dramatic cutaways as each fighter launches their attacks … Read more
Long, long ago, in the Kefin Desert, on the Continent of Afroka, a strong wind blew throughout the night… There is nothing but desert in Kefin area, but a legend tells a city was once was there -the city of Kefin. There is a rumor a legendary treasure is hidden somewhere amidst the ruins of … Read more
Ys V was originally released in 1995. In 1996, Falcom released a second version of the game for the Super Famicom with a higher difficulty level, known as Ys V: Expert. Despite making the game more challenging, Ys V: Expert also added a Time Attack mode, an extra dungeon, a new area to explore and … Read more
After having defeated the ultimate evil in his previous adventure, the great hero Adol stands on a sea shore, thinking about the fate of the once peaceful Utopian land of Ys, while the wind is blowing through his red hair. Suddenly, Adol notices a bottle, thrown onto the shore. It contains a letter, written in … Read more
Adol’s long time friend, Dogi wishes to return to his home town of Redmont after hearing about strange disturbances that are happening there. Always looking for an adventure, Adol joins him and soon finds out the cause of this new evil. Ys III breaks away from the “bumping into enemies” battle system of the first … Read more
Game developers Sting’ were contracted by the publishing comglomerate Kadokawa Shoten for a tie-in game for their gaming magazine Marukatsu Super Famicom, which had recently just started pushing a new mascot named Ruka (with an accompanying mini manga in each issue) to try and help boost sales of the magazine. Rather than create a new … Read more
Madara Saga: Youchien Senki Madara (“Madara Saga: Kindergarten War Journal Madara”) is an RPG exclusive to the Super Famicom. The game features the Madara license, an anime and manga about the titular supernatural hero and his group of resistance members who attempt to take down a tyrant of the youkai world, but instead imagines four … Read more
In Yoshi’s Safari, Bowser, King of the Koopas, and his evil offspring have invaded Jewelry Land. The Koopalings have seized the Kingdom’s precious jewels. It’s up to Mario, armed with his trusty Super Scope, to ride Yoshi to track down Bowser and put a stop to his evil plans. Unusual for the Mario games, Yoshi’s … Read more
Yoshi’s Cookie is a tile-matching video game in which the player is given a playing field populated with cookies of several types, arranged in a rectangular grid. The main objective of each level is to clear the playing field of all the cookies. The player mixes and matches the cookies such that entire rows or … Read more