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Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Over an hour of choice choons to celebrate a cracking fight fest with a great sense of humour. Hopefully old lady Otane’s denture snapping attack or knicker elastic twanging celebration isn’t amongst those effects. Based on the arcade version known as Goketsuji Ichizoku Saikyo Densetsu.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
First in the long running Power League baseball series from big hitting Hudson Soft.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
First in the long running Power League baseball series from big hitting Hudson Soft.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
A realistic approach to the sport with real stadiums such as Saitama and Yokohama as well as classically named teams such as ‘Straws’, ‘Fibers’ and ‘Wholes’. Nice home run sequence.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
Enjoyable game of rounders with PC Engine sponsored stadiums and teams based on their real life counterparts, just with slight adjustments to avoid litigation. So forget playing as Hiroshima Carp, best go for the Cark.
GameBoy Original
One on One Beat Em Up
Smashing little Capcom scrapper with silky roster of special moves as pugilists take on fellow robot fighters. Some tidy character designs as you might expect from Capcom with a giant skulled robot and simply a giant robot. Backgrounds make clever use of the hardware limitations to still conjure a futuristic feel, such as the robotic plans of the samurai armour in the temple level. Good use of combos too.
Dreamcast
Sports
The ultimate in gaming fantasy escape – a British major title is possible with the appearance of Tim Henman in this slick tennis sim. Reveals its arcade roots in its simplicity to pick up but with a fiendish difficultly gradient after the opening rounds. The finest realistic tennis game. Brilliant with four players.
PS3
Sports
Update of the seminal Dreamcast series that combined arcade mechanics with deeper techniques to produce a well rounded game of tennis that was an absolute joy to play. The raw power of the PS3 does the arcade smash justice with some amazing rallies possible due to the well rounded mechanics. Genki just wishes Ms. Anna Kournikova was still on the circuit…
PSP
Sports
Combining swooping camera angles, realistic ball and player mechanics, plus a solid gaming engine comes a very fine tennis title. Segas experience and rich arcade heritage has led to a superb version of the sport for the PSP. Brings out the smell of strawberries and cream, Robinsons juice, sunny days and Cliff Richard. Well it does for Genki anyway.
Nintendo 64
Sports
Konami includes all the ingredients required to make a masterful representation of the sport, just like the Bero Flour men characters in game would. You can almost smell the hot dogs and see the spilt popcorn as a home run gets hit.
Nintendo 64
Sports
Konami includes all the ingredients required to make a masterful representation of the sport, just like the Bero Flour men characters in game would. You can almost smell the hot dogs and see the spilt popcorn as a home run gets hit.
Super Famicom
Sports
Konami includes all the ingredients required to make a masterful representation of the sport, just like the Bero Flour men characters in game would. You can almost smell the hot dogs and see the spilt popcorn as a home run gets hit.
Sega Saturn
One on One Beat Em Up
Risque girl on girl fighting game originally on the Super Famicom, all aspects of the title have been improved as you’d expect. The developers have also tweaked the saucy-ness factor in the move away from Nintendo with it now warranting a yellow over 18’s badge from Sega.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Tough guy fight title that uses elbows, knees and no holds barred as pugilists become wrestlers when bouts crumble to the floor with a submission as good as a knock out. The legendary Brazilian Gracie features alongside Japanese wrestler Sakuraba with a lot of work having gone into making a great resemblance only for players to bash away at their chiselled features. But its not just the players features that have been carefully mapped out: each individuals moves add a lot of depth and make for a very well rounded fight fest.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Mixed martial arts groups are very popular and Pride is the appropriately named leader of the pack. Plenty of footage to get you in the mood with the music and announcer cranking up the tension, pugilists stroll out as player characters as they would in a real bout. A wealth of camera angles ensures not a single feint is missed with intelligent switching as the action progresses and you land on your opponent with a sharp knee. Brutal but mightily impressive and essential for fans of the movement.
Playstation
Sports
Prince of Tennis stars Ryouma, a young tennis whizz kid who joins a new school and must battle to overcome the challenge of his new peers and also the looming shadow his father casts over him as a one-time tennis champ. Adds a lot of fun to a very tidy tennis title.
GameBoy Advance
Sports
Prince of Tennis stars Ryouma, a young tennis whizz kid who joins a new school and must battle to overcome the challenge of his new peers and also the looming shadow his father casts over him as a one-time tennis champ. Adds a lot of fun to a very tidy tennis title.
PS2
A Bit Special
Music clip game from the smash anime series with mini games and plenty of original scenes unavailable elsewhere including the characters singing.
PS2
A Bit Special
Music clip game from the smash anime series with mini games and plenty of original scenes unavailable elsewhere including the characters singing.
PSP
RPG
Fantasy style action RPG with gorgeous graphics to die for – fluidly animated and all in colourful, painstakingly detailed 2D. Highly original battle system where by you fight your opponents real time as opposed to turn based number crunching. And the attack effects look dazzling on the PSP screen, although unfortunately the code hasn’t been optimised to fit the screen snugly. Unlockable characters add to the longevity. Updated from the rare and coverted Saturn release.
PC Engine Super CD ROM
Simulation
Create your very our princess or spoilt brat with this sequel and conversion to the incredibly popular PC game.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Help bring up your own little princess in this rather under subscribed genre! Originally a success on the PC Engine.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Help bring up your own little princess in this rather under subscribed genre! Originally a success on the PC Engine.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Rescue the Tomato Princess and receive the praise of the Broccoli King to become a fine, upstanding cucumber. Possibly the strangest way to encourage salad consumption, but a wonderfully crafted adventure and in friendly Hiragana for those budding students of Japanese: be in language or culture. Known in Japan as Salad no Kuni no Tomato Hime.
GameBoy Original
Simulation
Captures the fun of taking print club pictures which dominated the arcades of Japan. Features can be tweaked in capturing a dream sticker. Also known as Purikura Club Pocket.
Sega Saturn
Stimulation
An off shoot of the series with this disk focusing on the Japanese ‘kogyaru'(from ‘dark’ and ‘girl’ fashion phenomena of dark skin with light eye make up. Packed full of photos, FMV footage and kogyaru themed mini games making this a must for the ‘Fruits’ savvy fashion fan.
Mega CD
Sports
Boxing game with FMV graphics that require players to bob and weave in order to avoid staring up at the referee too much from the canvas floor of the ring. Stylish video capture and nice presentation make for an enjoyable bout.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
Despite the cartoony look to the cover, this baseball game is actually quite an accurate representation in the C64 World Series mould with both pitching, batting and fielding all working well with good use of the screen to provide the full package. Full title: Kore Ga Pro Baseball 89 (This is Pro Baseball 89.)
Famicom Cart
Sports
Known as RBI Baseball across the pond, this sports slugger certainly covers all bases with some nice touches such as the homerun fireworks. But the secret of Moneyball is not the big slugs, but the percentages.
Famicom Cart
Sports
Known as RBI Baseball 3 in the US of A. And you can almost smell the corn dogs and popcorn. Just ensure any catches are left to the players and not the crowd reaching over the barriers as happened in one crucial match we would hate to remind the culprit of…