Hat Trick Hero 2 is a soccer game released exclusively in Japan in 1994. An American version was originally planned under the name Super Soccer Champ 2, but was cancelled. The game allows you to choose the different international teams present during the 94 World Cup. At the beginning of the game, you will have … Read more
This conversion of a Taito arcade game was released to coincide with the 1992 European Championships. The game scrolls horizontally at a slight angle, and recreates the coin-op’s close-up zoom effect after a player scores. Only a small area of the pitch is on screen at a time, but there is a scanner to show … Read more
Hashire Hebereke (“Run Hebereke”) is an isometric racing game from SunSoft that features Hebereke, Sukezaemon, O-Chan and the rest of Hebereke’s friends. The player must race across a course hitting three checkpoints before returning to the starting line to move onto the next lap. The courses all have different layouts and the player must use … Read more
Hungry Dinosaurs is a variant of the board game Othello with a dinosaur setting. In each turn, one player gets to lay an egg into one grid of the 9×9 playfield. When a player manages to trap a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) of an opponent’s eggs, i.e. having an one egg at each end … Read more
“Ryu Knight” is based on an animé series of the same name. The story of the game is simple: you are Adyu, an apprentice knight who spends all his time training. One day, a mysterious old man appears out of nowhere, approaches Adyu and tells him the world needs more paladins, and therefore you must … Read more
Spanky’s Quest is a game about a monkey who decides to go on a picnic. While on his way through the forest he see’s a witch in the sky and out of nowhere bricks begin to make a tower around the area Spanky is in. The witch challenges Spanky to come to the final tower … Read more
Hanjuku Eiyu is set in a semi-comical universe called the Egg World, populated by two nations: Hanjuku and Kanjuku, or soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs, respectively. You take the role of the commander of the Hanjuku army, and your goal is to guide it successfully through a series of events (called “tales”), capturing enemy castles and … Read more
Hanafuda Ou (“Hanafuda King”) is a hanafuda game for the Super Famicom. It follows Super Hanafuda, Honke Hanafuda and was released concurrently with Gion Hana: a series of games from various developers and publishers that built on Nintendo’s well-known background as a hanafuda card producer. Like its contemporaries, it provides various options for playing hanafuda … Read more
Hana no Keiji (“The Flowery Keiji”) is an adventure-fighting game from TOSE and Yojigen and is based on the manga of the same name. The protagonist Keiji Maeda wanders around the countryside of Edo period Japan and gets into fights with various villains and other warriors. The player controls Keiji’s actions by selecting decisions off … Read more
In Violinist of Hameln you play the role of Hamel, a sort of wanderer / adventurer whose weapon is… a violin. His music can cover enemies in fear, or even control their minds. Hamel and his mascot Oboe arrives at Staccato, a small town attacked by monsters, and drives them away with his power. Impressed, … Read more