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Here we have all the games in the Shop Section.
Super Famicom
RPG
Martime based RPG in the classic Super Famicom mould. The sea setting makes for anice change over the fantasy based realms and the sprites are lovingly realised. Our hero Duke must build his way up from lowly shipmate to take charge of his and the countrys destiny with plenty of pirate distractions on the way. Beautiful action RPG in that distinctive 16Bit graphical style with detailed and adorable sprite based world full of character. Borrows the hook shot from Zelda with lots of secret areas too. A little short compared to Zelda, but quality not quantity is the result.
Super Famicom
Sports
Captures the razzle and dazzle of the lycra loving sport as players stroll out before the adoring crowds and plenty of dry ice before transforming in a flash into their wresting costumes. Good mix of grapplers with WWF like fighters, Mexican style masked participants and the Japanese fighters. Tag team bouts are a real riotous rout.
Merchandise
Merchandise
A delightful bonus in this hard backed box that contains a soundtrack, lavishly illustrated art book and envelope with secret illustration sheets plus sheet to write on top of.
Nintendo DS
Platform
The best-selling DS game and its easy to see why with Mario in his element in the platform levels and it perfectly suited to the DS handheld. Hats off to you Mario.
🏆Brilliant!
Brilliant Famicom Cart
Platform
The Nyankies instead of Yankees comes from the sound a cat makes in Japanese. Captures a cheesy Eighties feel with ease as the cat heroes swing through downtown Manhattan. The game is full of innovative touches such as hoover feet and being able to grab on to platforms, Bionic Commando style. Known as Rockin Kats in the West and also abbreviated to NY Nyankies.
Dreamcast
Sports
Solid grid iron representation with Sega Sports matching the high presentation standards matching that of EAs sprawling empire and capturing the key moments of the sport perfectly. Plenty of cheer leaders for sport as slick as this and playable to non fans of the sports, just as EAs Ice Hockey back in the day.
Dreamcast
Sports
Comes with a pack in Bible that explains the rules making for a large pack. The game is a fine product of Sega Sports with plenty of cheer and razzmatazz along with the fluid mechanics and slick presentation you would expect. Good for gamers with no prior knowledge required.
PS2
Sports
Sega Sports goes on the offensive bringing American football a yard closer to ESPN style coverage with ultra realistic replays and slick play mechanics.
Miscellaneous Games
Sports
Digitised graphics that stunned as much as a sacked Quarterback along with the back up of Maddens smooth commentary giving the all mighty package to this all American sport.
Playstation
A Bit Special
Contains three arcade classics on the one disk: Moon Cresta, Crazy Climber and Frisky Tom. So we have a pre-Galga shooter with the steady hand eye co-ordination required for the docking levels, a climbing game where opening windows, flying plant pots and bird droppings conspire to hinder your progress to the top of the building and finally a puzzler where the water pipe must be repaired to help the fair lady get her shower. Quite a mixed bunch then. The extra capacity of the CD is used to have alternate, updated versions of the games in SF-X, Crazy Climber 95 and Toms Strike Back.
Super Famicom
A Bit Special
Contains three arcade classics on the one cart: Moon Cresta, Crazy Climber and Frisky Tom. So we have a pre-Galga shooter with the steady hand eye co-ordination required for the docking levels, a climbing game where opening windows, flying plant pots and bird droppings conspire to hinder your progress to the top of the building and finally a puzzler where the water pipe must be repaired to help the fair lady get her shower. Quite a mixed bunch then.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Plenty of extras from the original Nightruth release including drawings and anime. Subtitled Explanation of the Paranormal.
Wii
A Bit Special
Bound to bring a tear of joy to the eye of Saturn loving gamers containing both the Saturn original and a brushed up version for the Wii. This version has a wealth of extras plus there are beautiful cut scenes to celebrate Nights twelfth anniversary. And the rumours persist the game can be changed into Christmas Nights somehow.
Playstation
Puzzle
A cute and cuddly Puyo Puyo clone mixed with plenty of fresh spices of its own bringing to make a sweet mull of an action puzzle title. Includes time attack and practise modes along with the saccharine sweet story mode.
XBOX
Action
Combos doesn’t really go far enough as opponents are more dissected in air with a samurai sword. Yet quick reflexes are a requisite with some enemies using more modern weapons than the traditional ninja. Puts back the fear into the word boss.
Famicom Cart
Platform
A shroud of oriental mysticism encircles Ninja Gaiden’s gameplay that demands the patience of a Zen monk to complete some of the pixel perfect jumps. A very tidy conversion of the arcade giant and some towering, imaginative bosses that dwarf your character.
Famicom Cart
Platform
The mere site of a ninja gets Genki going, but Tecmo’s skill of shrinking down the shuriken spiked world gives a great sense of scale to the levels and the colossal bosses. And in true ninja style it often requires outthinking and outwitting the boss rush to win the day. Known in the West by its subtitle: The Dark Sword of Chaos.
PS3
Action
Based on the X Box release Ninja Gaiden Black, Tecmo seems to have taken influence from Hong Kong action movies, Onimusha, the speed of the PS2 Shinobi and the raw power of the PS3 to create an intense action title. Water and fire effects are stunning as our masked one sprints over the waters surface or slices through foes entombed in burning buildings. Combos doesnt really go far enough as opponents are more dissected in air with a samurai sword. Yet quick reflexes are a requisite with some enemies using more modern weapons than the traditional ninja. Puts back the fear into the word boss.
Famicom Cart
Platform
More ninjas than you could shake a stick at as Hattori takes evasive action by heading from the trees as the procession marches through the forest. A shuriken throwing star or two never did any harm to Hattori’s chances of progression either. Good, traditional, staple platforming fun, as Japanese as miso soup.
Switch
Action
Six Ninja Ja Ja Maru games from 1985-91 well worth investigating and not just for the superfluous number of ninjas. Our wee ninja leaps around the platform levels dispatching shurikens to clear a path to rescue his beloved. Smashing though platforms to get a shortcut and grabbing the ghosts that rise from bosched opponents are all part of the fun.
Playstation
Platform
3D adventure including obligatory Indiana Jones style cart chase, yet with less cliched walking umbrellas, Lum Chan look-a-like and a kabuki styled enemies. Well worth taking on to rescue the kimono clad Princess Sakura. Also known as Ja Ja Maru.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Perfectly suited to the hardware as our wee ninja leaps around the platform levels dispatching shurikens to clear a path to rescue his beloved. Smashing though platforms to get a shortcut and grabbing the ghosts that rise from bosched opponents are all part of the fun.
Famicom Cart
Platform
An old school coin op style to the gameplay as our Ninja hops upwards to try and gain vertical ground up the screen. Cheeky oni enemies and nasty ninjas try and hinder progress, but a well-dispatched shuriken assists to put paid to them. And the gratitude of the little obachan at having hoped from wall to wall up the well makes it all worthwhile.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Delightful gaming as the wee ninja sprints through platform section to avoid the unwanted attentions of Dharma or sneaking along the sea bed avoiding over zealous octopus. Climbing up the mountain platforms to reach the top dispatching shurikens and the inevitable fall to the base is a good dose of arcade gameplay. Just remember the saying in Japan “Fall down seven time, get up eight times.” (Or twenty seven in Genki’s case…)
PC Engine HU Card
Action
Any title combining ninja’s, kunoichi (female ninja’s), shadowmen, snipers and fire ninja’s can’t be bad. Ninja Warriors is a fine conversion of Taito’s late eighties coin-op smash with the only feature lacking being the Darius style three sectioned screen.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Ninjas are never too far away in this feudal Japan RPG with cute sprites and turn based combat very much of its 8Bit style.
GameBoy Original
One on One Beat Em Up
Great use of the two buttons to provide some cracking special moves with many colourful in game characters.
PS2
Action
Ancient chanbara title set in feudal Japan with lovely period setting cut scenes adding to the atmosphere. Includes a few mini games to boost your stats such as gambling away on the dice. Plenty of weapons to choose from; some looking more at home in the garden shed, but adding to the variety nevertheless. Battles are jammed with speed lines and the fleeting effect screen when the fatal blow is struck does justice to the samurai’s honour – even in death.
🏆Sizzler
Nintendo DS
RPG
Anything that the hand of Studio Ghibli touches screams animated gold and this emotive RPG is no exception. Right from the start Oliver sheds a tear wishing his mother would return and its the emotional investment in this exquisitely animated adventure that makes it so worthwhile. The accompanying Magic Book contains simple drawings that can be copied onscreen to unleash powerful attacks in the Final Fantasy style battle sequences. Miyazaki’s characters seem to almost transcend language and speak from the heart. Unless of course we are just trying to gloss over this being Japanese language… Yet should this fail to make a translation, to miss out on it would surely be the more heinous crime…
Super Famicom
Platform
Based on the antics of the TV anime series jammed packed with ninjas and kunoichi, or female ninjas. Genki is a sucker for any ninja game, especially in the colourful SFC style. The setting of the anime is in a ninja school where you train to become a fully fledged assassin, but not without a few mishaps on the way.