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Namco Open is a golf game for the Super Famicom that was never released outside of Japan. Though Namco published the game and lent their name to it, the actual game was developed by independent contractors TOSE. The player has many options for customization, down to their character portrait (both male and female options are available), the clubs...

G-O-D: Mezameyo to Yobu Koe ga Kikoe is a time-travelling/post-apocalyptic RPG inspired in part by other SNES RPGs like EarthBound and Chrono Trigger. The protagonist Gen (though the player can name them whatever they want) accidentally travels ten years forward in time from 1999 to 2009 to discover a massive calamity has destroyed his home town...

GanGan GanChan ("GanGan" is Japanese for a loud repeating noise, or the sensation of a headache) is a maze action game for the Super Famicom. The star-shaped hero GanChan has to rescue a number of creatures lost across grid-like stages while avoiding an ever-changing roster of enemies. The goal of the game is to collect various cone- and ball-sh...

Esparks: Ijikuu Kara no Raihousha is a top-down action-RPG that resembles The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Secret of Mana. The player, as a character they name themselves, acquires the amazing powers of Esparks after his family is captured by a mysterious villain. Along with his companions, he moves across the world and eventually bac...

Block Kuzushi (literally "Block Destruction", the generic name of block-breaking games in Japan) is a block-breaking game released exclusively for the Super Famicom in late 1995. As with almost other games in the genre, the player must destroy all the blocks on a single-screen stage with a bouncing ball, using a paddle at the bottom of the screen t...

Chinhai is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom and a variant on Mahjong Solitaire, or Shanghai. Instead of pairing and removing any two tiles that match as long as one of their sides is clear, as is the case in Shanghai, the rules of Chinhai require that the two tiles can only be removed if it's possible to draw a line between the two that doesn't...

4 Nin Shogi ("4 Person Shogi") is a shogi game for the Super Famicom which is based around a four-player variant of the game. Each player starts on one side of the board and has with fewer pieces than in the standard two-player game. Each side has their king, a rook, two gold generals, two silver generals and three pawns. Players have the option of...

Lord Monarch is an RTS game in which the player assumes one side of a conflict and must overpower the other sides using tactics and diplomacy. The player can establish alliances with other computer sides in order to get an edge, though this alliance dissolves as soon as the player attacks that particular CPU side. The player must conquer the entire...

Down the World: Mervil's Ambition is a Super Famicom strategy RPG developed and published by ASCII Corporation in 1994. The game features the eponymous Mervil, who survives an attack that wipes out his unit only to find himself travelling through time to escape. The game follows Mervil and his fairy companion as they follow quests and grow stronger...

Coron Land is a top-down action game released by Yumedia and Aroma in 1995. The game stars Hyou and Kiyu across a variety of stages fighting evil and saving the land of Snowia. On the day of Snowia's annual Winter Festival, a festival that starts Spring, an evil villain takes the snow goddess statue, preventing the festivities from happening and...

Sougou Kakutougi Rings: Astral Bout 3 is a wrestling/mixed martial arts game and the third game in A-Wave's Astral Bout series, which is based on the Fighting Network Rings promotion. Like previous games in the series, it features a number of martial artists of differing disciplines, and presents both single-player and two-player match options.

Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout 2: The Total Fighters is the sequel to Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout and like that game features various martial arts experts competing, not unlike MMA. The game is based on a real-life Japanese martial arts TV promotion, Fighting Network Rings. The eight characters represent different martial arts, including wrestling...

Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout, or simply Astral Bout, is the first in a series of competitive fighting games that focus on the then-fledgling Fighting Network Rings promotion that pits fighters of various disciplines against each other in an early form of televised mixed martial arts, or MMA. Players can select between nine fighters that each us...

Wondrous Magic is an RPG developed by System Sacom and published by ASCII Corporation that was released exclusively for the Super Famicom in late 1993. The player is the young apprentice of an elderly wizard who goes with him on his travels. The game's combat uses an unusual real-time system where enemies often surround the player, and they must po...

Tower Dream is a virtual board game for the Super Famicom that supports up to four players. The game has a comedic angle and features expressive characters designed by Tamakichi Sakura. It was followed by a PlayStation sequel, Tower Dream 2, in 1998. The game features a number of "worlds" the player can try out, each with different board configu...

Turf Memories is a horse racing game for the Super Famicom. The player can raise their own racehorses for competitions, managing their training and entering them into races as they improve. It joins a number of other in-depth horse racing/horse raising simulation games for the system, including the Thoroughbred Breeder, Derby Stallion and Classic R...

Light Fantasy II is a turn-based RPG set in the same world of its predecessor Light Fantasy, only several centuries later. In the lore of the world, the ally Goddess of the previous game has become the antagonist, and a new party forms to remove her from power. Players can put together parties made of fellow humans and friendly monsters that can be...

Light Fantasy is an RPG with strategy elements developed by A.C.C., a Japanese developer that handled the Nintendo/Super Nintendo ports for the first three games in Falcom's Ys series. Rather than an action RPG in a Ys vein, Light Fantasy's combat consists of random encounters against groups of enemies in grid-based strategic battles in which playe...

Tsukikomori ("Last Day of the Month") is a Super Famicom horror-themed "sound novel": an adventure game that relies largely on text, static photographs and audio cues. It is the follow-up, but not direct sequel, to Pandora Box/Banpresto's earlier Gakkou de atta Kowai Hanashi. The game uses the grim scenario of the seventh anniversary of the deat...

Akagawa Jirou: Majotachi no Nemuri is a visual novel adventure game with a supernatural murder mystery theme. As with Chunsoft's Sound Novel series, it features a series of static photographs with Japanese text overlaid on top. The narrative is supported by background ambient music and sound effects. The story was written by Japanese thriller au...

Power Sokoban is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom in the Sokoban series created by Thinking Rabbit. Along with Power Lode Runner which was released the same day, Atelier Double and Nintendo took classic games and created special versions for the Nintendo Power cart-writing service, hence the "Power" in the title. Unlike Power Lode Runner, the su...

Konpeki no Kantai is a naval combat strategy game based on the anime of the same name that reimagines the Pacific Theater during World War 2 in which the Japanese navy had a significant advantage that would lead to a different outcome to the global conflict. This advantage is the eponymous submarine fleet, which proves to be almost unstoppable. The...

Wedding Peach is a multiplayer party game that involves playing mini-games and earning the highest score after a set number. The game is based on Wedding Peach, a Sukehiro Tomita shoujo manga that features three highschool girls - Momoko, Yuri and Hinagiku - that learn that they're magical angels. Their duties to protect the humans from devils s...

Love Quest is an unconventional role-playing game where 'battles' consist of attempting to impress women. The protagonist is a player-named young man whose bride Yuka suddenly disappears during their wedding. The game involves finding out what happened to her.

3x3 Eyes: Juuma Houkan ("3x3 Eyes: Respectful Restoration of the Magic Beast") is a side-scrolling action game with graphic adventure elements based on the manga 3x3 Eyes. The player, as Yakumo, helps his companion Pai, a legendary magical creature who resurrected Yakumo as her immortal undead servant to spare his life, to become a human. In doing...