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Daisenryaku Expert

SystemSoft, ASCII Entertainment

Daisenryaku Expert is a Strategy game, developed by SystemSoft and published by ASCII Entertainment, which was released in Japan in 1992.

UFO: A Day in the Life

Love-de-Lic, ASCII Entertainment

UFO is essentially a puzzle game with adventure elements (navigating a character). The hero must travel to different rooms in the apartment building at different times, trying to snap the perfect picture of the invisible alien. The player is given a time limit and a picture limit (ten pictures per visit). Afterwards, the hero has to return to Mother, who will eat the negatives (really), produce pictures, and then decide whether they are suitable or not. Each successfully taken photo opens a new area and/or a new time of the day in the apartment block.

Master of Monsters: Disciples of Gaia

SystemSoft, Agetec, ASCII Entertainment, Hamster Corporation, Toshiba-EMI

Masters of Monsters is an anime, turn bases strategy / combat game. You have the option of Story Mode, Single Map Mode, or VS Mode. You choose one of the Disciples of Gaia. The alignment of the Disciple (Law, Neutral, and Chaos) determines what type of creatures you can summon. The goal is to capture and control towers and to summon / build up / replace your monsters as you combat your opponent on a hex grid / turn based map. In Story mode you play as Iros and have the aid of one of the Disciples where you have to fight the other Disciples and your goal is to defeat Gaia, the once “protector” of the world turned evil.

Felony 11-79

Climax Entertainment, ASCII Entertainment, Yanoman

Hit and run, baby! Thrash beach-front property, police cars, glass fronted mini-malls and billboards -- essentially, any and everything goes for the greatest joyride of your life! The mission is grab the goods, destroy what you can and get the heck outta town...fast!

Fighter Maker

ASCII Entertainment

Have you ever played a fighting game and thought you could come up with something better? Then it's time to put your money where your mouth is with FIGHTER MAKER. You can create the character of your dreams, because every aspect can be edited: you can alter wardrobe, hair color, muscle tone, and skin color. Developing poses and artificial intelligence for your characters will bring them to life. For those who like some plot in their fighting games, you can create detailed profiles and histories for every character you create. Once you have a character that looks right, create the moves, combinations, and throws that will allow your fighter to become the greatest. Be sure to give all of your moves damage values, because you want that awesome kick or throw to cause a serious amount of damage. If you don't like something in FIGHTER MAKER, you can always change it. If you ever thought you could create the ultimate fighting machine, now's your chance with FIGHTER MAKER.

Bokosuka Wars

ASCII Entertainment

This game revolves around a leader who must lead an army in phalanx formation across a battlefield in real-time against overwhelming enemy forces while freeing and recruiting soldiers along the way, with each unit able to gain experience and level up through battle. The player must make sure that the leader stays alive, until the army reaches the enemy castle to defeat the leader of the opposing forces. The game was responsible for laying the foundations for the tactical role-playing game genre, or the "simulation RPG" genre as it is known in Japan, with its blend of role-playing and strategy game elements. The game has also variously been described as an early example of an action role-playing game, an early prototype real-time strategy game, and a unique reverse tower defense game. In its time, the game was considered a major success in Japan.

Sasa

Mass Tael, ASCII Entertainment

Sasa, is an arcade video game released for the MSX1 in 1984 and later for the Family Computer titled as Astro Robo SASA in 1985. This video game involved obtaining capsules with an 'E' on them, sometimes suspended by balloons. The main character could only use bullets to propel himself, and when the bullet count reaches 0, the game ends. A player can also lose bullets by colliding with an enemy, the other player, or the other player's bullets.

Galerians

Polygon Magic, ASCII Entertainment, Crave Entertainment

Galerians is a survival horror game in which the player navigates a 3D character model over pre-rendered backgrounds, using character-related controls similar to those implemented in Alone in the Dark. Items must be collected to unlock new areas and advance the story. Unlike in most other games of the type, the protagonist is unable to use weapons. Rion fully relies on his psychic powers to combat enemies. These powers must be replenished by regularly taking drugs. In addition, Rion has a special meter that throws him into uncontrollable rage when full.

3D Shooting Tsukuuru

Success, ASCII Entertainment

3D Shooting Tsukuru is a game in which you can make your own 3D shooter games. There are lots of settings and graphics to tinker with to make your own game the next Star Fox. You can set your vehicle's looks, movements, weapons, special attacks and much more. The same goes for the enemies, music, sounds and the stages, where you can change a plethora of things to suit your needs. Once you're satisfied you can save the game to your memory card to play the finished product later. There are also three sample games included to show what you can do with the editor. The three games are very different in style and difficulty.

RPG Tsukuuru 2

Kuusou Kagaku, Nintendo EAD Tokyo Software Development Group No.1, ASCII Entertainment

RPG Tsukuuru 2 is a Satellaview-compatible Slotted Cartridge game belonging to ASCII's Tsukuuru series. The title of these games are portmanteau-word puns mixing the Japanese word tsukuru, which means "make" or "create", with tsuuru, the Japanese transcription of the English word "tool". As the title suggests, this RPG creation tool is a sequel to the earlier RPG Tsukuru. Data broadcast for this slotted cartridge also included the earlier-released RPG Tsukuuru - Super Dante.

RPG Tsukuuru 95

ASCII Entertainment

The first Windows incarnation of the RPG Maker series.

The Best Play Baseball Special

ASCII Entertainment

A Japanese baseball sim developed by ASCII for the NES. It focuses more on team management than playing the sport itself.

Tower Dream

C-Lab, ASCII Entertainment

A property-developing board game with a surreal sense of humor. A sequel was released in 1998 for the PlayStation.

AX-9: Flight Simulator

ASCII Entertainment

Flight sim developed by ASCII.

King's Field

FromSoftware, ASCII Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Prepare yourself for an epic action-adventure never before imaginable. Only now, with the gaming power made possible by the PlayStation is a world as vast and detailed as King's Field a reality. This first-person game is completely rendered in beautiful 3D polygon graphics, with texture mapping and fully controllable 360° viewing. Imagine a universe where you can travel freely - being able to look up and down, climb ancient ruins, traverse across oceans, jump off ridges, and duel enemies - all in real time, non-linear play. This visual world will not only astound you, but will pull you right into its universe. You will embark on a journey to an island of evil-ridden dungeons, villages, and castles as you seek the Moonlight Sword, which had been stolen by a cult of insidious worshipers of evil.

AX-6: Powered Knight

ASCII Entertainment

Action game developed by ASCII.

Silver Jiken

Grasshopper Manufacture, ASCII Entertainment

This debut game from developer Goichi Suda (also known as Suda51) follows the investigation of a series of murders which appear to match the profile of the killer responsible for a high-profile series of government assassinations twenty years prior.

AX-4: Black Hole

ASCII Entertainment

Hoshizora Navi

ASCII Entertainment

Japanese DS title, Hoshizora Navi (Star Sky Navigator) charts the night sky, helping you identify stars and planets and other heavenly beings. It contains a special cartridge with a sensor, that let's the game know where, in the night sky, you are aiming the DS.

DogDay

Eyst Pty, Something Good, Infogrames Europe, ASCII Entertainment

In this 1st-person, point and click adventure game, you play a dog (in a dog's universe) living under the brutal and corrupt regime of a dictator named Chegga. Chegga has full control of the media and has placed his friends in positions of power. Players must collect evidence of Chegga's wrong doing and sell it to a shadowy group called C.A.T.S. (Coalition Against Totalitarian Society) which will presumably use the information to wrest control from Chegga. In selling this information, the goal is also to be gaining enough money to purchase a train ticket, leave this part of the world, and try to make a better life.

King's Field II

FromSoftware, ASCII Entertainment

King's Field II -- the hour of destiny is at hand... Your kingdom is once again under attack by the ruthless minions of evil. This time they have possessed King Alfred himself! As the King's son, Prince Lyle, you must bring forth the tide of change that will effect the universe from now until the end of time. The fate of the world is in your hands! Re-enter the realm of King's Field for the most explosive debut on the PlayStation yet... ASCII Entertainment went all out to provide a fully non-linear three dimensional world that even blows away the original! The intense action and powerful storytelling will keep you riveted for months!