A baseball game sponsored by Osamu Higashio, a former pitcher for the Nippon Professional Baseball League who has his own entry in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. The game takes the vertically-aligned batter/pitcher angle favored by series like Namco’s Famista series (from which RBI Baseball spun off), but mixes it up by changing the … Read more
Hi no Ouji: Yamato Takeru (“Prince of Fire: Brave of Yamato”) is a turn-based RPG based on the legend of Prince Ousu, or Yamato Takeru, who lived in the 1st century CE. It plays like a traditional top-down Japanese RPG, where the player can form a party, meet NPCs and fight creatures in turn-based battles … Read more
Part of the Compati Hero Series of games that feature cameos from the Gundam, Kamen Rider and Ultraman franchises as super deformed characters of relative size. The series also ties in with the Super Robot Taisen (Super Robot Wars) series of crossover anime mecha RPGs. The game introduces the Gespenst and other narrative elements of … Read more
In this installment of the Glory of Hercules RPG series, you are a young man who lives in Atlantis, an ancient land with advanced civilization, which is surrounded by a huge wall. He studies the wisdom of Atlantis together with his best friend Platon and his sweetheart Epipha. One day, he and Platon visit Epipha … Read more
In this third installment of The Glory of Hercules series, you once again visit the world of ancient Greek mythology. Cast into the role of a young boy from a remote village, you live a peaceful life until one day the pigs in your village go crazy, and as a result you are thrown underground, … Read more
Join Pac-Man in a side scrolling adventure where you must guide him through Pac-Land, solving puzzles and finding objects in order to defeat the evil Ghost Witch of Nentor. You don’t control Pac-Man himself, as you must show him where to go and what to look for, while using the slingshot to knock over and … Read more
Heiwa Parlor! Mini 8: Pachinko Jikki Simulation Game is a pachinko game developed and published by Telenet Japan for the Super Famicom platform. This eighth game in the series is endorsed by and features the machines of the Heiwa Corporation, which are more closely associated to the Heiwa Pachinko World series from Office Koukan/Shouei System. … Read more
Heiwa Pachinko World 3 is a pachinko gambling game for the Super Famicom and the third of Shouei System’s Heiwa Pachinko World games for the system. Like its predecessors, it features virtual approximation of real-life pachinko machines manufactured by the Heiwa Corporation. Players can train for the real thing by playing their virtual facsimiles over … Read more
Heiwa World Pachinko 2 is a pachinko simulator that features four machines produced by Heiwa Corporation, for which the game is named. The goal of the game is to figure out how the machines tick and win big, both on the virtual versions and their real-life doppelgangers. The game is part of a larger series … Read more
Heiwa Pachinko World is a pachinko simulator that highlights and tutorializes the machines put out by Heiwa Corporation, a professional manufacturer of pachinko machines. A number of pachinko simulators of this era were designed to help professional gamblers to understand and exploit the real-life equivalent machines for better payouts, learning each magine’s configuration of pins … Read more