Sanrio Cup – Pon Pon Volley (Japan) [JP]

Sanrio Cup: Pon Pon Volley is a volleyball video game featuring many of the popular Sanrio characters including Hello Kitty, Keroppi and Minna no Tabo. Matches can be played in with either two, three or four players. Players can choose between three different tracks of background music, or to simply play without the music. The … Read more

Sanrio Carnival 2 (Japan) [JP]

The genre of this game is a puzzle game, like the original Sanrio Carnival. The game features a mode in which the player must advance through multiple stages, such as one featuring the character Minna no Tabo.

Sanrio Carnival (Japan) [JP]

The genre of this game is a puzzle game. The player must place blocks with various Sanrio character faces on them. Matching three of these characters (e.g. vertically) causes them to disappear and this counts as a ‘line’. There are various game modes, such as the Famicom version’s introductory course (in which the playing field … Read more

Sanma no Meitantei (Japan) [JP]

Sanma no Meitantei lit. “Great Detective Sanma”) is a murder mystery detective adventure game developed and published by Namco for the Famicom in 1987. In the vein of Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, the player must visit several locations associated with the murder victim, to discover clues which will open up more locations in order to … Read more

Sangokushi II (Japan) (Rev 1) [JP]

The sequel to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The game concept is still the same, though they did improve a lot of features that one may consider ‘disturbing’ from RTK I (e.g. Generals dying easily due to disease, etc.). RTK can be said to be much more ‘stable’ where players no longer have to worry … Read more

Sangokushi II – Haou no Tairiku (Japan) [JP]

The sequel to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The game concept is still the same, though they did improve a lot of features that one may consider ‘disturbing’ from RTK I (e.g. Generals dying easily due to disease, etc.). RTK can be said to be much more ‘stable’ where players no longer have to worry … Read more

Sangokushi (Japan) (Rev 1) [JP]

Based on the events of the Three Kingdoms era in China (3rd century), and on Luo Guanzhong’s famous novel Sanguo Yanyi, you take command of one of the many warlords rivaling for control after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. This strategy/RPG game introduces hundreds of historically real characters of the Three Kingdoms era. The main purpose … Read more

Sangokushi – Chuugen no Hasha (Japan) [JP]

Sangokushi refers to a novel written about the Three Kingdoms period of China, where the country was temporarily split into three warring states. This is different to the the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, a mostly fictionalized account written some considerable time after the conflict was over and has had many video game adaptations, … Read more

Sanada Juu Yuushi (Japan) [JP]

It is a Sengoku era themed RPG featuring ninjas. Sanada Yukimura (also known as Sanada Nobushige) is the titular character. He was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the losing side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called “A Hero who may appear … Read more

Samsara Naga (Japan) [JP]

Sansara Naga is set in the fantasy-filled lands of India during the Vedic age and also mixes elements of Japanese folklore such as the legend of Brahman Umibozu (“sea bonze”). Many of the NPCs in game will tell you that Cows are sacred animals and a few will mention the Tower of Rta Satya. There … Read more