While two children, Poke and Piki, are reading a story, a monstrous hand suddenly appears from inside the pages and kidnaps them. When the rest of the Dream Factory family hear their cries of help, they jump into the story and help save them from the evil Wart.
The game was released as part of the Yume Koujou '87 event (sometimes referred as Dream Machine, in English), which was sponsored by Fuji TV, and stars its mascots.
The game was edited and released as Super Mario Bros 2. Due to Nintendo of Japan feeling like their version of Super Mario Bros 2 would be too difficult and outdated by the time it got to the United States.
This version of the game extensively modifies the graphics and sounds. It is the only version of the game that has color graphics. While the original game took place in a dungeon, this version takes place in a forest.
Palps is a cancelled Famicom Disk System game. The game would have involved a mixture of programming and gameplay. It is believed that the player would have not have been controlled by themselves, but rather that the player would program how they react to other things around them.
Tonkachi Mario is a bootleg kaizo rom hack of Super Mario Bros. made with Tonkachi Editor, an unlicensed code editor for the Famicom. It is currently the earliest known rom hack of Super Mario Bros, alongside being the first hack of the kaizo genre, dating back to 1987.
Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de... is a text-based adventure game developed by Pax Softnica under Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System in 1991. The game was never released outside Japan.
Time Twist was sold across two separate discs released on the same day, and completion of the first disc is required to activate the second.
Roger Rabbit is the first game in the Crazy Castle series, known in the West as Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle. The Roger Rabbit version was developed for the Famicom Disk System and released only in Japan.
Seiken Psycho Calibur is an adventure game for the Famicom Disk System, developed by Imagineer and published in 1987. It is part of the Wave Jack series of games produced by Imagineer that come with more accessories than the average video game, including a story book and audio cassette tape.
Seiken Psycho Calibur is, in many ways, an attempt to copy the success of The Legend of Zelda. However, it fails to inspire the same level of wonder and fascination. It also lacks a good degree of polish that made the afore mentioned title so great. Nevertheless, Seiken Psycho Calibur is a relatively fun game to play, as long as you have a fair degree of insight into how the game is played. There are some unintuitive aspects of the game that can make progress in the game quite difficult.
For example, you begin the game in a town which offers a variety of goods for sale, but you only receive so much money, and you can never return to the town once you leave. Therefore, what you decide to invest your money in has a substantial
Famicom Mukashibanashi: Yuuyuuki is a 2-part Famicom Disk System game.
Yuuyuki is an adventure game played by choosing from several text commands shown on screen. It resembles its predecessor, Shin Onigashima, in its implementation of the "Change Character" command, usage of traditional Japanese fairytales, and general screen layout and appearance. The story-line is a parody of the Chinese novel Journey to the West, where two main characters, Goku and Chao, embark upon separate journeys to find one another.
In Yuuyuki, the "Change Character" command can switch between a maximum of five different characters. However, there are very few points in the game where it can actually be used to such extent. Its main use is to switch between Goku and the others accompanying him. Like Shin Onigashima, the character in use can greatly affect the descriptive text shown on screen, and the significant increase in number of characters allowed for more variety in each scene. It is possible to enjoy the game by viewing the reactio
Tantei Jinguuji Saburou: Kiken na Futari is the third game in the Jinguuji Saburo series, known in the West as Jake Hunter. It was originally released across two Famicom Disk System disks, the second of which went on sale several months after the first. The game was eventually localized, as part of the Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles DS compilation of his early cases, as Jake Hunter: Crash and Burn.
In this game Detective Jinguuji Saburo/Jake Hunter must solve the mystery behind a sudden death during a motorcycle race. The intrigue is deepened when the body recovered is actually of a different racer.
Kaettekita Mario Bros. is an updated version of Mario Bros. that was released only in Japan. It had several new features including new levels and the option to save high scores. Excluding ports, this is the last Mario Famicom game. It was co-published by Nagatanien, a food company, and contains in-game advertising.
A graphic adventure/RPG for the Famicom Disk System developed by Square. The goal is to track down Cleopatra's cursed treasure while saving the main character's archeologist father.
A Konami shoot-em-up depicted from behind the ship on a Z axis, similar to After Burner or Space Harrier, for the Famicom Disk System. It has the distinction of being one of the few games that worked with the Famicom 3D imaging system.