Dezaemon, or Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu (“Draw, Make, Ready to Play”) Dezaemon is a shoot ’em up construction kit from Athena. It allows players to draw their own ships, including additional frames of animation for moving right and left, as well as creating enemies and bosses, customizing weapon types and other elements. The game comes with … Read more
Jutei Senki is a turn-based strategy game, never released outside of Japan. The game takes place in an alternate universe where centuries ago humanity and their tree soldiers called Junei fight against Letum, a race of robots powered by magic. The player commands the human army. The mission in each battle is to defeat the … Read more
One of the earliest titles based on the animé series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures, this game is not a pure fighter, like Capcom’s more known title, but an adventure/RPG hybrid with turn-based fights. In a futuristic world, there lives a young man named Jojo who holds a terrible power within: the power to drain life from … Read more
Step up to the ring with Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling. As the name implies this is a wrestling game in which wrestlers from different leagues collide in grappling contests to determine who’s the king of the hill. Select your character with his unique stats and movesets, and go at it against any opponent from four … Read more
The game involves going through 8 stages (broken up into two parts each) of side-scrolling action. At the end of each stage is a boss monster that must be disposed of. Jerry moves by sliding across the ground and can latch on to walls and climb them. Jerry can also jump, stretch out to cling … Read more
Jelly Boy 2 is the unreleased squeal to Jerry Boy, known as Smart Ball in the US, that was planned to be released in 1994 for the Super Famicom. The game was developed by Game Freak and was going to be published by Sony Music Entertainment but it was canceled supposedly because of Sony’s impending … Read more
Ihatovo is a magical land created by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. In the game, you are a stranger who arrives at Ihatovo and has to find seven missing notebooks by Miyazawa, to complete his stories, such as for example The Fire Stone, and others. This is an adventure game in which you can freely … Read more
Golf Daisuki! O.B. Club is a view-limited Downloadable golfing game for the Satellaview initially running between August 10, 1997 and August 23, 1997. The game was rebroadcast for at least 4 runs ending in March 30, 1998. Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine produced a preview of this game. Their preview had an English-language logo even though … Read more
Hyper Iria is based on the anime prequel to the sci-fi movie Zeiram. As in the anime and movie Iria is a space traveling bounty hunter who keeps running into the immortal villain Zeiram. In the game Iria can select one of four missions with a fifth selectable after the other four are completed. On … Read more
The Adventures of Hourai High is a silly little RPG, with a Dragon Quest combat presentation, a Final Fantasy 5-ish class system, and a sense of humor straight out of Earthbound. You can tell that a lot of heart went into the creation of this game. It’s quite charming!