Nippon Ichi no Meikantoku is a baseball management game, where you take control of a team and manage it by controlling the player training and various other aspects of the team. You can watch games being played out and make changes during the match, such as changing the pitcher, outfield player positions and batting order. You start the game by creating your manager and entering your name, then you get a randomized number of attribute points to distribute for four different categories. After that, you choose a team to manage and five other teams to play against.
Nishimura Kyoutarou Mystery: Blue Train Satsujin Jiken is a mystery game released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1989.
Nishimura Kyoutarou Mystery: Blue Train Satsujin Jiken ("Kyoutarou Nishimura Mystery: Blue Train Murder Case") is the first game in a series of murder mystery adventure games based on novels by famed Japanese mystery author Kyotaro Nishimura. It was developed by TOSE and published by Irem on the Famicom in Japan only. Along with other similarly themed franchises such as Tantei Jinguuji Saburo and Yamamura Misa Suspense, it invites players to solve the mystery by talking to witnesses and suspects and interacting with the environment to discover who is behind the murder.
Kyotaro Nishimura's novels tend to focus on murders that occur on or around trains with this game being no exception. A body is found on a Blue Train - the name given to Japanese cross-country sleeper trains, i.e. those built to accommodate sleeping passengers - and the player character is brought in to solve the mystery.
Nishimura Kyoutarou Mystery: Super Express Satsujin Jiken is an Adventure game, developed by TOSE and published by Irem, which was released in Japan in 1990. Sequel to the previous Nishimura Kyoutarou Mystery game, Blue Train Satsujin Jiken.
An educational game to teach children Hiragana.
Oeka Kids: Anpanman no Hiragana Daisuki is a Miscellaneous game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai, which was released in Japan in 1991.
Tablet-based drawing game.
Oeka Kids: Anpanman to Oekaki Shiyou!! is a Miscellaneous game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai, which was released in Japan in 1990.
A block moving puzzle game similar to Sokoban.
Okkotoshi Puzzle Tonjan!? ("Drop Down Puzzle Tonjan?!", sometimes known as simply Tonjan) is a puzzle game from NMK that features anthropomorphic pigs pushing mahjong tiles around in a maze, attempting to push entire stacks down one of the many holes in the area. Bonus points are awarded for pushing certain specified tiles into holes first, and there's one tile in particular that will complete the level once pushed down a hole and is the only compulsory target. Future levels increase the number of tiles and the difficulty, adding fish tiles that cause the player to lose a life if they are pushed down a hole.
Okkotoshi Puzzle Tonjan!? appears to a sequel to NMK's earlier Arcade multiplayer action game Butasan, which features similar looking pigs. The rights to the Arcade version of Tonjan were sold to a Korean company, Dooyong, which turned it into a game named Yam! Yam?! featuring a tanooki wearing an apron.
The second game based on the Osomatsu-kun anime and manga, released in 1989 for Famicom.
Osomatsu-kun: Back to the Me no Deppa no Maki is an Adventure game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai Shinsei, which was released in Japan in 1989.
Pachi-Slot Adventure 2: Sorotta-kun no Pachi-Slot Tanteidan is a Miscellaneous game, developed and published by Coconuts Japan, which was released in Japan in 1993.
Pachi-Slot Adventure 3: Bitaoshii 7 Kenzan! is a Miscellaneous game, developed by Aisystem Tokyo and published by Coconuts Japan, which was released in Japan in 1994.
Kurogane Hiroshi no Yosou Daisuki! Kachiuma Densetsu is a Sports game, developed by Make and published by Nihon Bussan, which was released in Japan in 1990.
An adventure game for the NES published by Sunsoft. A boy named Kyle must rescue the princess of a kingdom where very small humans and animals peacefully co-exist.
Ripple Island (occasionally seen translated as "Lipple Island") is a graphic adventure game where the player interacts with the world using a series of commands, such as "pick up", "walk" or "use".
Rather than the usual murder mystery games which were the trend at the time, Ripple Island instead adopts a fantasy storybook setting where smaller humans and friendly animals, such as raccoons and rabbits, co-exist peacefully. The kingdom is threatened by the arrival of Gerogeru, a self-styled Emperor of Darkness and giant frog, after he kidnaps the princess. Kyle, a young boy and the game's protagonist, is attempting to rescue her.
The game was never released outside of Japan. It was, however, re-released as part of a Japan-only PS2 compilation based on Sunsoft's works. It also received a manga adaptation.
Koufuku wo Yobu Game: Dora Dora Dora is a Mahjong video game released on the Nintendo Famicom in 1991. This game allows you to play traditional Mahjong games against a computer or to play an RPG adventure in which you fight enemies by playing rounds of Mahjong.
The first installment in Koei's mahjong series.
Mahjong Taikai ("Mahjong Tournament") is a 1989 Famicom mahjong game from Koei and an unknown developer. It features multiple historical figures as possible CPU opponents, including Masamune Date and Napoleon Bonapart.
As with any mahjong game, the goal is to complete a winning hand before any of the other players can, and the player earns an amount of points dependent on the "strength" of their winning hand. They might also lose points depending on who won and how.
Koei would continue making Mahjong Taikai games for other platforms, including Super Mahjong Taikai for the Super Famicom in 1992.
A stock-trading simulator for the NES that uses the name of famed Japanese financial adviser Matsumoto Tooru. It was developed by Imagineer and was never released outside of Japan.
Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku ("Matsumoto Tooru's Stock Success Knowledge") is a stock exchange simulation developed and published by Imagineer. The goal of the game is to make 100 million yen (approximately $1.3mil) in the stock market in the span of a single year via a series of shrewd financial decisions and listening to advice about which way a certain type of stock might turn.
The game is fronted by Matsumoto Tooru, a nationally well-known financial adviser who is often considered to have an expansive knowledge of the Japanese stock market. The game also features the song "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin.
Though it focused on unusually complex subject matter for a video game, it sold enough copies to inspire a sequel that was released the following year.