A SFC game I picked up not too long ago along with some other titles Asameshimae Nyanko is basically a lot like ’Riversi’ (or Othello if you prefer)．．． except a lot cuter．．． and with fights that are similar to rock-paper-scissors to intercept additional moves．．． and with cats．．． lots and lots of cats that have different proficiency with vertical／horizontal and diagonal moves．．． did I mention it has cats and that it’s cute？ It was published by Zamuse and developed by the group known as J-Force a little-known developer who made a few other games such as the RPG gem ’Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes’ (published by Enix) and Granhistoria before quietly disappearing around 1996． One of the major heads of Wolf Team lead J-Force． While they primarily made SNES／SFC games their last involvement in video games was with Dragon Force on the Sega Saturn which they had to pass development over due to bankruptcy and abandonment of the project (it’s sort of a miracle that development on Dragon Force continued)． J-Force was founded in 1990 but didn’t do much until several years later． Asameshimae Nyanko was one of their first games． In the game you play a Riversi-esque game and get to choose a number of stages to play on the type of cat you want to use and you can change the rules and settings to an extent． It’s red versus blue with a random player going first． As you would in Riversi or Othello sandwich cats vertically horizontally or diagonally (though since the game is b．．．／b

Ahh Fighter’s History．．． the infamous ’Street Fighter’ ripoff． Well at least that’s what Capcom more or less made it out to be when they took Data East the developers to court over what they felt to be infringements on their Street Fighter II property． Originally released in Arcades in 1993 the game was later ported to the SNES and would end up having two follow-up titles ’Karnov’s Revenge’ and ’ Fighter’s History： Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!​’ Capcom rightfully lost the case as Data East basically said ’if we ripped you off then just about everyone ripped us off Karate Champ was the true originator of the competitive fighting game genre which predated the original Street Fighter by three years’． Sure anyone who has played SFII can take one look at this game and come to the conclusion that it was more than ’heavily inspired’ by SFII but honestly who cares？ So many games from the early-mid 90s fell under what many would consider the same category (ripping off SFII) that it isn’t even funny． Well with the unfortunate demise of Data East Capcom won’t have to worry about them ripping off Street Fighter IV (＊shrugs＊)． Fighter’s History is a decent fighting game with some unintentionally funny characters (where character’s like Ray McDougal uses a ’Big Tornado’ that everyone calls a ’Baked Potato’) and a ’weak point’ system where repeatedly hitting opponents where it hurts (a flashing article of clothing) can daze an opponent． It features nearly a dozen characters b．．．／b

Menu music for the Super Famicom game Asameshimae Nyanko