Hisshou 777 Fighter III: Kuroryuuou no Fukkatsu (“Winning 777 Fighter III: Resurrection of the Black Dragon King”) is a pachi-slots game for the Super Famicom and the third and final game in Jorudan/Vap’s Hisshou 777 Fighter series. The game features two modes: One allows the player to play any of the six machines in the … Read more
Hisshou 777 Fighter 2: Pachi-Slot Hi Jouhou (“Winning 777 Fighter 2: Pachi-Slot Confidential”) is a pachi-slots game for the Super Famicom. It is the second game in the Hisshou 777 Fighter series. Once again, the player must earn cash by playing the slots over and over. The game uses spy/detective genre fiction for its story, … Read more
Hisshou 777 Fighter: Pachi-Slot Ryugu Densetsu (“Victory 777 Fighter: Pachi-Slot Sea Dragon Palace Legend”, sometimes stylized as Pachi-Slot Eiyu Densetsu), is a pachi-slot game for the Super Famicom. It contains four machines the player can virtually gamble on, as well as a two-player multiplayer mode in which the two players compete to earn the most … Read more
Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 4 (“Sure-Fire Pachinko Collection 4”) is the fourth and final game in SunSoft’s Hissatsu Pachinko Collection. As with the previous three games in the series, it features a life sim element and a number of virtual approximations of real-life pachinko machines that were in operation at the time. The previous game used … Read more
Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 3 (“Sure-Fire Pachinko Collection 3”) is a pachinko simulation game from SunSoft and part of their Hissatsu Pachinko Collection series on the Super Famicom, of which this is the third game of four. Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 3 features a credit on its title screen for Nifty Serve, a telecommunications company in Japan, … Read more
Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 2 (“Sure-Fire Pachinko Collection 2”) is a pachinko simulation game from SunSoft and part of their Hissatsu Pachinko Collection series on the Super Famicom, of which this is the second game of four. The game adopts a familiar format of having the player start in their apartment and move around the city’s … Read more
Hissatsu Pachinko Collection (translates as “Certain Death Pachinko Collection”; however, Hissatsu is most commonly seen in the idiom “Ikken Hissatsu”, or “one-shot, one-kill”, meaning “take the opportunity when it presents itself”) is the first of four Super Famicom games based on playing virtual recreations of real-life pachinko games in various parlors. The game was originally … Read more
Hiryuu no Ken S: Hyper Version is a fighting game developed by Culture Brain for the Super Famicom. Hyper Version differs from Golden Fighter by increasing the playing speed and adding more options. The American version, which was released in 1993 and was titled Ultimate Fighter (likely to cash-in on the yearly Ultimate Fighting Championship … Read more
A beat-em-up for the SNES, this game features two styles of fighting genre: one-on-one fighting (like Street Fighter) and side scrolling brawling (Like Final Fight). Golden Fighter is very camp and colourful: the player’s character can best be described as The Ultimate Warrior (the 80’s wrestler) on LSD. Locations too, are very bright and tacky: … Read more
A real-time strategy RPG that is depicted from an isometric perspective. The game was developed originally for the PC-9801 computer in 1992 and was then ported to the Super Famicom in 1994.The story concerns the young Crown Prince Richard A. McIntyre (who would eventually be known as the Scarlet King) who is chased from his … Read more