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System Sacom

Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2

System Sacom

Hiroshi Saijo has done the impossible: when his father fell ill, he managed his software company with success. Now his father is the boss again, Hiroshi can relax and focus on his college studies and dating plans. However, he is still very much needed at the office, and matters become even more complicated when the new receptionist Rie Ishida arrives at the workplace. Like its predecessor, Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2 is essentially a visual novel. Simulation elements have been reduced, and interaction mostly confined to decisions the player is prompted to make for the protagonist, which may affect further events and branch the storyline.

Soft de Hard na Monogatari

System Sacom

Soft de Hard na Monogatari is the third entry in System Sacom's Novel Ware series. The story has humorous overtones and deals with production of computer games. The protagonist is the son of a software company manager and has to fill in as a temporary leader when his father falls sick and is hospitalized. Himself an avid gamer, the young boss has to use his employee's strengths and his own imagination to produce a successful game such as the "Nobara Series" DAME (an obvious parody of DOME).

Dome

System Sacom

DOME is based on Shizuko Natsuki's novel of the same name. The original work as well as the game's plot focus on the construction of a nuclear shelter called "The Dome", capable of protecting humans from an impending atomic war. The player takes the role of an employee in an advertisement company, whose job is to raise people's awareness of the shelter's importance, and donate money to the project. Novelware was a concept to oppose tiresome gameplay and at the same time present serious text-intensive stories. Game scenario reached over 700 pages which was unseen before.

Chatty

System Sacom

Chátty is the third entry in System Sacom's Novel Ware series. It was meant to be the second title, but delays during development pushed its release date past that of the would-be third game. Its story is set in the future and involves a man who was framed for a crime he did not commit. In attempt to clear his name, the protagonist discovers a device that allows interdimensional travel, and ventures into a parallel dimension in search for answers. Unlike the previous Novel Ware game, Chátty is a more traditional Japanese-style adventure, with fewer and shorter conversations and text descriptions. Interaction with the environment and navigation are performed by selecting verb commands and combining them with objects from a menu list. There are no real puzzles, but it is possible to pick up objects, use them, and examine them in an inventory.

Marchen Veil I

System Sacom

People inhabiting a world called Felix communicate with gods to divine their future. The king of the Forest Country is looking for a husband for his daughter and organizes a tournament for noble young men from different countries. The prince from the Lake Country is victorious, but an evil magician turns him into a strange-looking creature and banishes him to faraway lands. The prince has to travel back and find a way to remove the curse. Märchen Veil I is an overhead action game with light role-playing elements. The game consists of maze-like stages heavily populated by enemies. The prince has to fight his way through by using ranged magic, which effectively turns the game into a shooter. The magic attack can have different properties depending on the special items picked up by the prince. Throughout the game the player will also find items that restore or permanently increase the protagonist's health. Still-screen scenes (called "visual stages") advance the story between levels.

Yami no Ketsuzoku: Kanketsu-hen

System Sacom

Yami no Ketsuzoku: Kanketsu-hen is a direct sequel to Yami no Ketsuzoku. After a series of murders has occurred in Tokyo, Miyu Izawa, the heroine of the game and amateur detective endowed with supernatural senses, travels to Mexico with her friend Risa. There she has to learn about the history of the country's indigenous peoples, and venture into mysterious temples in order to finally discover the whole truth about recent horrifying events.

Are! Mo Kore? Mo Momotarou

System Sacom

Are! Mo Kore? Mo Momotarou is an adventure game based in the folklore japanes tale of Momotarou. The game features more than 50 minutes of movies and more than 100 characters. The gameplay is more like an interactive comic, touching in different places of the screen makes the character to do different actions and the story to go in a way or another.

Marchen Veil

System Sacom, SUNSOFT

The king of the Country of Forest in Felix sent out a proclamation all throughout Felix announcing that he was seeking a suitable young man to take his beloved daughter as a bride. Many suitors responded and were subsequently put through a large variety of trials by the king. In the end, the decision was narrowed down to two suitors. One was the prince of the Country of Lakes in Felix, and the other was a wizard who had used his powers to transform himself into a handsome young man. The princess' heart was set upon the prince of the Country of Lakes, and the two proclaimed their love for one another with an oath. However, after learning about this, the wizard transformed himself into the shape of the prince in order to take the princess for himself. He placed a curse upon the prince and transported him far from Felix, to the other end of the world.

Moon Ball Magic

System Sacom, Disk Original Group

A pinball game published by Squaresoft for the Famicom Disk System. Moon Ball Magic is a pinball game released exclusively through the Famicom Disk System's "Disk Writer" service, where the player must write the game onto an existing FDS disk before playing it. As such, it has no box art and is difficult to find. It was published by Squaresoft through their DOG label, though it (and Akuu Senki Raijin, which was released on the same day) would be the last games ever published through that label - Square would focus on regular Famicom carts from then on. Moon Ball Magic begins with a fake-out, as dropping the ball in one of the nearby holes will begin an elaborate intro sequence which the player can control. Whatever score they earn will also carry over into the game proper once it begins. The game has eleven tables and the player can move to the next one by putting the pinball down a difficult-to-reach hole. Later levels provide more points, though are more difficult as well.

Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile

System Sacom

Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile (roughly "Breakthrough Bullet: Final Car Fight: Battle Mobile") is a vehicular combat game from System Sacom, which was released on the Super Famicom in Japan only. The story concerns a newlywed couple who are accosted by Mad Max-esque highway bandits, leading to the death of the wife. The aggrieved husband spends the following year building a high-tech combat vehicle out of a sports car and is determined to make the bandits pay. The game plays like a mix of a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up and a racing game, where the best means of removing on-screen enemies is by charging into them. Out-of-reach enemies, like helicopters, can be taken down with missiles instead.

Smart Ball

Game Freak, System Sacom, Sony Imagesoft, Epic/Sony Records

The game involves going through 8 stages (broken up into two parts each) of side-scrolling action. At the end of each stage is a boss monster that must be disposed of. Jerry moves by sliding across the ground and can latch on to walls and climb them. Jerry can also jump, stretch out to cling to ceilings, and also move at a faster pace. Jerry can consume balls that he finds during a stage and can then fire them out of his body at enemies blocking his path. Enemies can also be defeated by jumping on them and then flattening Jerry's body on them. Also, there are flowers that contain items for Jerry to collect. Items include life, which refills health, a 1-up that adds an extra life, and a seed, which will grow a climbable beanstalk when planted. If the player collects the scattered letters that appear in every stage that spell out the name Jerry, the player will earn two extra lives.

Gaball Screen

System Sacom, Antinos Records, Sony Computer Entertainment

Promotional music-visual experience released exclusively in japan.

The Mansion of Hidden Souls

System Sacom, Sega

This Saturn-exclusive game is actually a sequel to the Sega CD game Mansion of Hidden Souls, even though the title might lead one to believe it is a remake. This game takes place after the events of the first game. The souls of the hidden mansion have asked you to return, because they have recognized that you possess special powers that allow you to see the butterfly manifestations of the souls living there. Something terrible is afoot at the mansion, and you must investigate things and set them right. Along the way you must discover the true purpose of the mansion and it's significance in the universe. Much like the Sega CD game, this is an FMV adventure. You move from location to location via video sequences, and solve puzzles to move on in the story.

Deep Fear

Sega CS2 R&D, System Sacom, Sega

All contact is lost with a submarine on a routine mission which then crashes into an underwater facility. The occupants of the underwater facility are ordered to board the submarine and find out what went wrong. On board the vessel, strange things are happening which are taking control of the crew. The crew are mutating due to an alien parasite and members of the search team have to figure out what is happening and how to stop it! The game is played via a third person view which is just behind the character and you look over his shoulder. The game is based underwater in a submarine so the developers have added a claustrophobic feeling by giving some areas a limited amount of air so you have to run through to activate the air circulation system. Controls are your typical Resident Evil style which is you pull the Right shoulder button to draw your gun, your d-pad to aim and then a button to shoot. Along your journey of the submarine, you will need to find objects such as keycards to unlock doors and better weapons.

Jennifer Capriati Tennis

System Sacom, Renovation Products, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

This is a tennis game featuring the game modes Exhibition, Circuits, and Training. Exhibition allows for either singles or doubles play. Circuits mode involves the player competing to win four major tournaments: the Sydney Open, Paris Open, London Open and the Florida Open. The player can also customize their own tennis player by choosing their race,sex, and tennis wear color. Players can also choose whether their tennis player is right or left handed, their type of spin, forehand, and backhand. They can also distribute a set amount of points between skills such as the power forehand, backhand, their footwork, and their net game. The game also offers the option of either playing on lawn, hard or clay surfaces.

Mansion of Hidden Souls

System Sacom, Vic Tokai, Sega

Mansion of Hidden Souls is an adventure game created entirely with full-motion video. It takes place in a pre-rendered mansion that the player explores from a first-person perspective. As they wander from room to room, the action unfolds via video sequences. The player takes on the role of Jonathan, a boy whose sister has wandered into the spooky mansion. When she entered the mansion, she disappeared! What's more, the mansion is full of talking butterflies. The player must search the whole mansion to unlock its secrets and find Jonathan's sister.

Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei

System Sacom, ASCII Corporation

Sci fi/noir detective-themed FMV first-person adventure game released for the PlayStation and Saturn in 1996 (Japan only). The game stars time-travelling vampire private eye Raizo (the titular "Dracula Detective") who travels from his native 2238 to 1939 Nazi Germany in order to find a client's missing father.

Murder on the Eurasia Express

System Sacom, Enix

Murder on the Eurasia Express is a Japanese adventure game published by Enix and Developed by System Sacom, released exclusively for the PlayStation

Rampo

System Sacom, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

Rampo is an interactive movie which uses pre-rendered backdrops and live actors. The game features Edogawa Rampo, a Japanese mystery novel writer, as a protagonist.

Lunacy

System Sacom, Atlus, Sega

Lunacy, released in Europe as Torico and in Japan as Gekka Mugentan Torico (月花霧幻譚 Torico), is an adventure game developed by System Sacom and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn in 1996. Lunacy is an interactive movie adventure consisting of a long series of interconnecting full motion video (FMV) sequences, much like The 7th Guest and System Sacom's earlier Saturn game, Mansion of Hidden Souls.

Gale Racer

System Sacom, Sega

Gale Racer is an illegal race set on a public road, and the main purpose of the game is to cross the United States. Starting in Los Angeles on the West Coast, it travels across state lines to cities such as Las Vegas and Chicago before ending up in New York. There is also an element of competition with enemy cars, and they change places frequently during the race. The screen is fixed in view from the cockpit.

38 Man Kilo no Kokuu File 1: A Day in the Life of 2049

System Sacom, D4 Enterprise

A sci-fi adventure game that is the fifth installment in System Sacom's Novel Ware franchise.

Astronoka

MuuMuu, System Sacom, Enix

Astronoka is officially described as a "space vegetable production and pest control game". The game revolves around the player cultivating vegetables on a fictional, futuristic star system. The objective is to win vegetable contests and eventually the All-Universe Vegetable Competition, while setting traps and defense to protect the farm against a species of pest called Baboo.