Famicom Cart
Here we have all the games in the Famicom Cart Section.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Traverse the lands in your merry band with battles never too far away. The classic Enix fight interface is never celebrated more than in the Dragon Quest series and it remains a cherish memory in many a Japanese household.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Dragon Quest requires face-to-face encounters with spooky looking tree monsters and mean looking moles alongside chewing the cud with the local shopkeepers to glean essential info. The text is written in hiragana to give language learners plenty of chances to sample conversational Japanese, albeit in a video game. Also a tidy addition for the collectors with luscious box art. Known as Dragon Warrior IV.
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RPG
Falcom made the classic RPG genre their own over time and the roots of its slid oak can be found with this deep and involving adventure. Superb stuff with plenty of love and effort thrown in and it shows. Was released as the Legacy of Wizard in the US.
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Shoot Em Up
Vertically scrolling shooter set in a land before time. Some very smart power ups available to turn your dragon from a look a like of Puff the Magic Dragon into a three headed fire breathing beast!
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Board Game
Subtitled The Legend of Goku, our hero manoeuvres around the board getting into scrapes where the fights play out in the form of card battles. Plenty of lively avatars and tunes add that Dragonball vitality.
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Board Game
Card based combat as players traverse the Dragonball lands getting into scrapes more often than not.
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Simulation
The Datach system looks like it’d be more at home in a back street Hong Kong games dealer sitting as it does on top of the Famicom, plugging into the cart slot. It accepts mini carts with the games on, leaving the top access for data cards that can be scanned in to gain advantage in the many bouts players face. A real collectors unit.
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Board Game
Colourful take on the board game based fight fest with strategic cards the order of the day to beat an opponent in combat. Plenty of animated fight scenes to savour. Full title: Dragonball Z KyouShuu Saiyajin.
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Puzzle
Unusual puzzle title in which players control a blue orb and must make as few moves as possible in order to free up the required items from the switches and hieroglyphic characters onscreen. Very cleverly executed with an air of mystique about it.
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Action
Manoeuvre the cleverly designed levels nipping in and out of lifts and doors to get to the goal before the agents take you down. Classic retro video gaming.
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Action
Scroll the RPG style lands, but instead of stat heavy scraps, players must have a quick trigger finger to shoot down the fairies and dragons that stalk the fantasy lands. Having a sharp eye out for a shield power up helps immensely too.
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Sports
Fans of the Commodore 64 cracker Kickstart will be right at home here as the fumes mass on this speedway simulator. A real chest of gold in Nintendo’s back catalogue that was updated to the N64. Fun from start to finish with big jumps and brave bends for those who refuse to relinquish grip on the throttle.
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Shooter
Vertical scrolling shooting action bringing that arcade feel home to the Famicom that dominated homes from Honshu to Okinawa.
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Shoot Em Up
Great innovation on the Galaxian or Space Invader theme that sees the players ship progressing forward given a sense of momentum by the 3D style scrolling landscape below. The shooting action has tight collision detection and some great, old school sound effects.
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Sports
Nintendo’s Famicom success was backed up by many superb Nintendo produced titles, besides the likes of Mario and Zelda. This formula one racer ticks all the boxes and has incredible attention to detail and presentation, as you would expect from a triple A title.
Famicom Cart
Sports
Never a dull moment with players such as Cupid having a game on a court in space. Players also have very varied shot repertoires adding to the novelty of the colourful and varied courts.
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Sports
The Famicom was decades ahead in terms of its escapades into peripherals and this Family Trainer jogging game is a fine example followed up in years to come by the Wii version. It even tells players how long they have run for and how many calories burned up running through the parks of Tokyo against rival competitiors.
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Action
A maze version of Family Trainer where the young lad must run through the 3D levels avoiding bats and the like. Interesting use of the Family Trainer mat.
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Sports
Players get their daily fix of exercise by manoeuvring around the park trying to track down criminals and apprehnding them. Not as easy as it may sound when using your feet to control the action, but a great use fo the peripheral.
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Sports
Walking like a crab, pushing a beach ball along in a race and hopping from log to log in this sports themed game for the Family Trainer mat. A fine peripheral and well supported by Nintendo.
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Shoot Em Up
Conversion of the coin op is garishly illustrated in primary colours. Traverse levels in a wee opa opa pod trying to restore peace to the Fantasy Zone. Unusually the levels don’t scroll but are wrapped around and the boss can only be reached through destroying the ten bases first. Thankfully supplies can be procured from passing hot air balloons bringing welcome relief.
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Simulation
Military action as the army must capture enemy territory, but fear not: its arcade roots make this very accessible to pick up and play with hidden tactical depth for the budding field marshals.
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RPG
Combines the first two adventures on the series on one rather large cart. Also includes a fold out map with the layout of the two worlds along with a paperback guide book/instruction manual in full colour with plenty of screenshots and illustrations. Highly collectable.
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RPG
Fight back against the evil empire whose Dark Knights have burnt down your village. Square does justice to its immense FF series with this sparkling sequel to the Famicom original.
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RPG
The early potential of Square’s masterpiece realised in a superb piece of programming. Simple commands to attack, block, run or use an item but when he story is so skilfully woven it stands as a tapestry in RPG design. The airship allows players to take to the skies opening up the gaming universe allowing greater freedom without the trekking.
Famicom Cart
RPG
The early potential of Square’s masterpiece realised in a superb piece of programming. Simple commands to attack, block, run or use an item but when he story is so skilfully woven it stands as a tapestry in RPG design. The airship allows players to take to the skies opening up the gaming universe allowing greater freedom without the trekking.
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Side Scrolling Beat Em Up
Reminiscent of Master Karateka’s rotoscoped sprites, Ken journeys through a post-apocalyptic world dishing out a few well-timed sweeps and high-kicks like Kung-Fu Master. Boss patterns have to be quickly memorised or the fear is the end of level bad guys will be using the phrase on Kenshiro himself.
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One on One Beat Em Up
Kenshiro faces up to some mutant size bosses, as if living in a post-apocalypse wasn’t depressing enough. Delivers the tough battles and gritty settings of the source and famed anime, proving the Famicom is far from already dead.
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Action
The deceptively cute Flappy bird must get the blue rock to the goal but other rocks and birds must be negotiated with careful thought to succeed.
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Shoot Em Up
Players charge along the lunar or desert landscapes with a keen trigger finger a requisite to progress. The impression of motion is very nicely done and the land based sections are spliced with horizontally scrolling shoot em up levels.