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Hissatsu Pachinko Collection is the first of four Super Famicom games based on playing virtual recreations of real-life pachinko games in various parlors. The game was originally released in late 1994 for the Super Famicom, and was joined by three sequels across the next two years (two in 1995, one in 1996). In early 1996, this game was released...

Super Ninja-Kun is a 1994 Japan-only side-scrolling action game developed and published by Jaleco for the SNES. It is a graphically updated version of UPL's Ninja-kun Arcade games from the 1980s, which Jaleco had previously adapted for consoles (as well as creating their own spin-offs, named Ninja Jajamaru-kun). As well as featuring 16-bit graph...

Battle Soccer 2 is a Compati Hero Series soccer game for the Super Famicom and the sequel to 1992's Battle Soccer. It once again pits soccer teams of superheroes and villains from the universes of Gundam, Kamen Rider and Ultraman against each other in an SD format that standardizes everyone's heights. Matches are played with a horizontal perspec...

Gakkou de atta Kowai Hanashi is a visual novel with a heavy emphasis on scrolling text and photo backgrounds, with the school-aged cast depicted by photos of actors. The game has a horror theme with a spooky tale that is shown from various angles, depending on the character the player chooses to play as.

Seijuu Maden Beasts & Blades is an isometric RPG for the Super Famicom. The game uses a tactical turn-based combat system, with characters and enemies moving across a grid-like map to line up attacks and perform other actions. The player-named protagonist collects allies as he travels the world, exploring dungeons and speaking to NPCs in towns to f...

Touge Densetsu: Saisoku Battle is a touge racing game that primarily features motorcycles. As with other touge racers, the goal is to catch up with an opponent and pass them without colliding with them. These races are traditionally held on the narrow and winding paths which makes overtaking other racers difficult, hence the challenge. The game...

Bakutou Dodgers is a Japan-only action game for up to four players. It superficially resembles Hudson's Bomberman series, with its top-down grid stages and chaotic gameplay, but rather than leaving bombs and waiting for them to explode, the player can shoot energy at blocks and each other. The goal is to sneak up behind the opponent and shoot th...

Super Jinsei Game 3 is the third of three games released on the Super Famicom to be based on the Jinsei Game board game from Takara, which is actually a translated version of Milton Bradley's The Game of Life. The player selects and names an avatar, and uses a spinner to move around a board encountering various random life events that can lead t...

Super Jinsei Game 2 is a board game adaptation for the Super Famicom and the second of three official adaptations of the Milton Bradley board game The Game of Life from the Japanese license holders Takara. The player selects an avatar and makes their way across the board, landing on either positive or negative event spaces. Depending on how they...

Super Jinsei Game is a video game adaptation of Milton Bradley's The Game of Life board game. Takara, the Japanese license holders for the game, commissioned a number of video game adaptations of the Jinsei Game (as the board game is known in Japan). This particular game is the first of three Super Famicom games, and is followed by 1995's Super Jin...

Computer Nouryoku Kaiseki: Ultra Baken is a horseracing game from Culture Brain that is specifically built to help players gamble on the real thing. The idea is to input the data of all the horses in an upcoming race and let the CPU determine who will be the most likely winner. The more precise the data that the player inputs about the horse, inclu...

Thoroughbred Breeder III is the fourth game in Hect's Thoroughbred Breeder horse raising/racing simulation series, and the third and final game from the series to be released on the Super Famicom. The series would see one more entry after this: 1998's Thoroughbred Breeder: Sekai Seiha-hen for the Sony PlayStation. The player is once again given...

Thoroughbred Breeder II is a horse racing sim from Hect and the follow-up to 1993's Thoroughbred Breeder. As with its predecessor, the goal of the game is to buy, raise and race horses in the player's stable and make a fortune with champion racehorses. The game is packed with management options to help ensure horses are healthy and race-worthy.

Thoroughbred Breeder is a horse racing simulation game from Hect. The player raises horses to be raced on various circuits, ensuring they are bred and raised correctly and sold off once the time is right. In addition, the player can bet on and watch races. The goal is to amass a large fortune from their shrewd decisions.

Derby Jockey 2 is a horseracing sim that offers players the opportunity to raise their own racehorses and use them to compete in competitions across Japan, heading up to the prestigious G1 tier. The game is a sequel to 1994's Derby Jockey: Kishou e no Michi and features similar gameplay.

Derby Jockey: Kishou e no Michi is a horseracing game from Graphic Research Co. (GRC) and published by Asmik. It joins contemporary franchises like ASCII's Derby Stallion or Hect's Thoroughbred Breeder in giving players some control over the horses they raise and their prowess in races. The player can decide when the horse should move into a sprint...

Hero Senki: Project Olympus is a sci-fi RPG and part of the Compati Hero Series of games that feature cameos from the Gundam, Kamen Rider and Ultraman franchises as super deformed characters of relative size. The series also ties in with the Super Robot Taisen (Super Robot Wars) series of crossover anime mecha RPGs. The game introduces the Gespenst...

Galaxy Robo is a sci-fi strategy game from Copya System and Imagineer. The player directs a group of mech pilots, each riding distinctive bi-pedal suits and other vehicles. The game is structurally similar to Fire Emblem: the player moves all their units for their turn, either fighting enemy units or performing other tasks, and then control switche...

Chou Mahou Tairiku Wozz is a JRPG developed by Red Company, best known for their Tengai Makyou/Far East of Eden series, and was published by Bullet-Proof Software in 1995 for the Super Famicom. The game's defining feature is the ability to choose from three different protagonists that lead to one of the game's three endings.

Sgt. Saunders' Combat! is a 1995 strategy game for the Super Famicom that takes an isometric perspective and liberally uses clips and images from the black and white ABC TV show Combat!, which ran from 1962 to 1967 and continues to hold the record for the longest running TV show based on the second World War. Sgt. Saunders was one of the major char...

Daisenryaku Expert WWII - War in Europe is a strategy simulation game for the Super Famicom and part of the long running Daisenryaku series. It was the second and final game from the series to be released on the Super Famicom, after 1992's Daisenryaku Expert. The game presents a number of scenarios from across Europe during World War II, startin...

Daisenryaku Expert is a military strategy game from SystemSoft and the eighth in their Daisenryaku series. As with many others in the series, the goal is to defeat the other side by taking over key strategic locations, use those locations to produce new units and overwhelm the enemy forces who are busy attempting to do the same to the player. These...

Super Bombliss is a puzzle game that is based on Bombliss, a modification of Tetris that originally appeared in the 1991 NES game Tetris 2 + Bombliss. Bombliss is best known in NA and Europe as Tetris Blast, from the 1995 Game Boy game of the same name. The game features credits for Alexey Pajitnov and ELORG, the creator of Tetris and the Soviet te...

Naruhodo! The World is an adaptation of a game show of the same title broadcast on Fuji TV between 1981-1996. The goal is to pair up into four teams and compete with each other by answering questions about locations all over the world. The teams are sorted by rank after an initial quiz round and the lowest ranking pair is offered questions first, w...

DunQuest: Majin Fuuin no Densetsu is a top-down action RPG for the Super Famicom published by Technos Japan. The player is a brave hero attempting to quell the hordes of evil emerging from nearby dungeons. The game has a hub town that the player can restock at before moving to one of four dungeons that surrounds the city: a cave, a tower, a volc...