A baseball game featuring the team from the Nippon Professional Baseball league. The game uses Mode 7 to present the field stretching out from behind the batter, allowing the player to see far into the distance. It also includes a mini-map of sorts of the baseball diamond that makes it easier for the batting player … Read more
The Adventures of Hourai High is a silly little RPG, with a Dragon Quest combat presentation, a Final Fantasy 5-ish class system, and a sense of humor straight out of Earthbound. You can tell that a lot of heart went into the creation of this game. It’s quite charming!
A simulation game with RPG elements. The player chooses their character from three heroines and guides them through their school life, giving them additional tasks to complete and controlling other elements of their development. The player can also develop their combat skills with special training, which plays out in automatic RPG battles.
The game is actually a set of seven main games: Spring Breeze, Dynablade, Gourmet Race, The Great Cave Offensive are unlocked at first, and later Metaknight’s Revenge, Milky Way Wishes and The Arena become available, as well as a couple of minor minigames. These are all typical Kirby platformers, each one with its own set … Read more
That mean old King Dedede is at it again! He’s causing his mischief and Dreamland’s in trouble! Kirby, the resident hero of Dreamland, sets out to teach Dedede a lesson, this time with the help of many of his good friends! But wait! Something’s wrong! Dedede doesn’t seem to be himself… Looks like Kirby has … Read more
Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation 3 (“Sankyo Fever Original Machine Simulation 2”) is a 1996 pachinko game for the Super Famicom and the follow up to Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation 2, released the previous year. It is the last title of the Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation sub-series of games, part of the larger … Read more
Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation 2 (“Sankyo Fever Original Machine Simulation 2”) is a 1995 pachinko game for the Super Famicom and the follow up to Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation, released earlier the same year. Like its predecessor, the game features a number of simulations of real-life pachinko machines that the player can practice … Read more
Honke Sankyo Fever Jikki Simulation (“Sankyo Fever Original Machine Simulation”) is a pachi-slots simulator and part of the Sankyo Fever franchise. The game presents a number of virtual recreations of real pachi-slot machines manufactured by company Sankyo, the idea being that the player can practice on them risk-free in a virtual environment to prepare for … Read more
Honke (“Chief Household”) Hanafuda, or simply Hanafuda, is a virtual hanafuda card game simulator for the Super Famicom. It features multiple different modes and AI opponents, and an assortment of photographic backgrounds. It was developed by Aisystem Tokyo, which would go on to create Super Famicom Igo and Shogi games later the same year. Hanafuda … Read more
Honkakuha Igo: Gosei (“Real Go: Gosei”, where Gosei is the name of a national Go competition in Japan, and also the title conferred to its winner) is a Go game for the Super Famicom developed by Aisystem Tokyo and published by Taito. As the name suggests, the AI in this game is competition level and … Read more