Meitantei Holmes: Kiri no London Satsujin Jiken (“Great Detective Holmes: Fog of London Murder Case”) is a murder mystery adventure game where the player directs Sherlock Holmes around London, finding clues and interrogating witnesses and suspects. Like its many NES adventure game contemporaries, it adheres to the Portopia formula of text adventure whodunits. It is … Read more
Meimon! Takonishi Ouendan (usually localized as “The West Tako Cheerleaders”, but literally translates to “Prestigious School! West Tako Cheerleading Squad”) is a Famicom strategy game based on the manga of the same name about a young man who joins his school’s intimidating cheerleading squad. In 1987, this same property also saw a live-action movie adaptation. … Read more
Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu (“Meimon! The Third Baseball Club”) is a baseball sim for the Famicom that is based on a manga and anime of the same name about an underdog high school baseball team and the drama that surrounds them. The player can access the game’s story mode, which depicts scenes from the manga, by … Read more
Kickle Cubicle is a Lolo type sliding puzzle game where the Wicked Wizard King covered the kingdom with ice and hid the people and palaces deep within the ice. Armed with his freezing breath, Kickle sets out to save his friends and attempts to rescue the kingdom from this puzzling predicament of perpetual winter. Each … Read more
In Dai Meiro: Meikyū no Tatsujin the player must navigate a 3D maze and reach the goal. Along the way, the player needs to find all the special items to open the last door. With each step, the player’s POW is depleted, which can be regenerated by collecting items along the way. There are secret … Read more
Milon, a child of the Kingdom of Hudson, must go on a quest to rescue Queen Eliza from an evil wizard who has taken over her castle as well as the musical instruments that the queen’s subjects use to communicate with each other. Milon must recover the stolen instruments and rescue the queen from the … Read more
Meiji Ishin is an adventure game that allows the player to take an active role in the Meiji Restoration era, which wrested control of the country from the Shogunate and back to the Emperor. The first half of the game is spent gathering allies which involves moving from region to region, conversing with leaders and … Read more
Max Maverick is the last surviving member of his planet’s special forces following a devastating alien invasion. Far from being discouraged, Max takes it upon himself to wipe out the alien menace single-handedly. Isolated Warrior is a constantly-moving shoot-em-up, or shmup, where the hero is always walking or flying forward from an isometric overhead perspective. … Read more
Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku 2 is the sequel to the original Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku and like that game is a stock trading simulator akin to something like Wall Street Kid. The player needs to keep track of which stocks are rising and falling, identify trends and invest wisely to ensure … Read more
Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku 2 is the sequel to the original Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku and like that game is a stock trading simulator akin to something like Wall Street Kid. The player needs to keep track of which stocks are rising and falling, identify trends and invest wisely to ensure … Read more