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Ancient Magic: Bazuu! Mahou Sekai

HOT-B

Ancient Magic is a story RPG where you play a young boy or girl whose father, Ricardo, was a powerful mage. Determined to follow in your father's footsteps, you make a vow to your mother to attend the Magic School in Selas. When starting, you can choose the occupation of the character, and you can choose a teacher from among some of the magicians while playing the game. You are joined on your journey by Feyr, a bard, Romal, a knight, Lot, a priest, and many others. As you progress as a mage, you are sent on quests to explore ruins and uncover spells. Meanwhile, a mysterious man named Kuroizel and the evil Veranede Tribe are plotting something, and it's up to you to find out what. This old school RPG is strictly fantasy. It has the nostalgic feel of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. See if you can spot the advert by developer and publisher Hot-B for another of their products in the game! Despite its rather pedestrian roots, the game takes several surprising twists towards the end, and is generally worth sticking it out even if the wrap-up (or lack thereof) is a bit of a let down. As a note, there’s more game past “THE END.” Also as a note, do set your window speed to “fast” in the in-game options menus - it’ll improve your experience dramatically.

Hoshi wo Miru Hito

HOT-B, Another Ltd.

Hoshi wo Miru Hito is a role-playing video game produced and sold exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer in 1987. Published by HOT・B, it is based on their earlier 1984 cyberpunk-themed computer role-playing game Psychic City. The game is set in a decadent cyberpunk-style future world in which everyone has extrasensory perception. These powers can also be used by the player characters when they confront the various monsters in the game through combat. The eventual target of the game is to defeat the villains. In order to accomplish this, the player's characters must go to the Ark City and eventually to outer space. Unlike the Final Fantasy series, the game does not give the player an automatic "game over" when it is impossible to win the battle. This makes it possible for players to accidentally walk into a walking dead situation every time they are forced to do battle with the game's monsters.

Insector X

HOT-B, Taito Corporation

The player controls an insect-sized warrior named "Kai", who takes on a vast army of cyborg insects to free the insect world from the dark ruler queen. The game uses two buttons: an upgrade-able main shot and a seemingly random selection of secondary weapons.

Schmeiser Robo

HOT-B

Schmeiser Robo plays much like other 2D versus fighting games of its era, with characters battling in best-two-out-of-three matches against the CPU or another player. It uses an 8-way joystick and three buttons (punch, kick, and guard), introducing one of the earliest dedicated guard buttons in the genre. Unlike typical fighting games, the guard button allows movement even when pressed repeatedly, though it does not block attacks. It also supports advanced defensive and offensive options including short hops, air-guarding, parrying (early form of guard-canceling), counter-attacking, and rush-attacks

Kaleidoscope

HOT-B

King Salmon: The Big Catch

HOT-B, Vic Tokai

King Salmon: The Big Catch is a fishing competition simulator: a player has to spend a day fishing for king salmon. Activities simulated include driving a boat to choose the best place to fish, choice of lures, line lengths, fishing depths, driving a boat to troll for salmon and, finally, pulling the caught fish out. The objective is to overcome some fictional fishermen, played by computer, in terms of the fish caught. Game also includes simple role-playing elements, as player's skill improve with time and experience and it's possible to catch bigger and better fish successfully.

Steel Empire

HOT-B, Flying Edge

A steampunk style horizontal shoot 'em up developed by HOT・B.

Shingen the Ruler

HOT-B

Shingen Takeda was one of the most powerful warlords of medival Japan. You being with two small city states and attempt to conquer the country as Shingen did back in the 16th Century. Control all aspects of your territories from social, economic, and military in attempt to spread your influence. If you are good enough, you can do it faster than the real Shingen himself!

The Blue Marlin

HOT-B

The Blue Marlin was developed by Hot B in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Following their earlier release The Black Bass, Hot B built on some of the original features for this fishing game. With the abilty to gradually increase attributes in muscle power, body strength, and skill; the player has more control over how the game is played compared to Black Bass.

Over Horizon

HOT-B, Pixel, Takara

Over Horizon is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed by Pixel and published by Hot-B, which was released in Europe in 1991.

Steel Empire

HOT-B, Zoo Digital, Starfish SD

In the year A.D. 18XX, under the dictator Sauron, a military nation of the MotorHead Empire invaded the surrounding countries, but the nation of Silverhead stood defiantly. With the help of the ultimate weapon, No.012X Imamio Thunder, you have to blast away enemies and save the world in this port of the oft-forgotten classic Hot-B shooter for the Genesis. The game's strategy system features the ability to level up your two chooseable ships independently as you progress, and the original's throwback ship designs and frantic every-direction shooting gameplay is preserved in this remake.

Genji: Time Suspense Adventure

HOT-B

Adventure game developed by Hot-B in 1988.