Ganbare Goemon
| Ganbare Goemon | |
|---|---|
| Original title | が ん ば れ ゴ エ モ ン |
| transcription | Go for it, Goemon! |
| developer | Konami |
| Publisher | Konami |
| First title | Mr. Goemon (1986) |
| Last title | Ganbare Goemon: Tōkai Dōchū Ōedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki (2005) |
| Platform (s) | Arcade , Game Boy , Game Boy Advance , Game Boy Color , MSX-2 , Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo 64 , Nintendo DS , Nintendo Entertainment System , PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 4 , Super Nintendo Entertainment System , Wii , Wii U , Windows , Xbox 360 |
| Genre (s) | Action-Adventure , Jump 'n' Run |
Ganbare Goemon ( Jap. がんばれゴエモン , literally as "Do your best, Goemon!" Outside Japan Mystical Ninja ) is a computer game - Franchise of the Japanese game developer and publisher Konami . The games are about the adventures of the main character Goemon and his companions. The arcade machine Mr. Goemon (1986, Japan only) marks the start of the series .
Overview
The protagonist Goemon is vaguely based on Ishikawa Goemon , the noble thief from Japanese folklore. While the earlier games still portray Goemon as a noble thief, over the course of the series he has become more and more the standard video game hero. Typical of Goemon is his blue, bushy hair and a kiseru used as a weapon . The universe of the games is set in a cartoon-like, mystical, feudal Japan, where allusions to folklore and legends of Japan are made again and again. Although the series has its roots in the genre of action adventure games , there is now a wide range of Ganbare Goemon games such as role-playing games, puzzle games or board games. Ganbare Goemon is extremely popular in Japan, there is a wide range of merchandise, as well as various animes and mangas .
Single title (selection)
- Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū ( Japanese が ん ば れ ゴ エ モ ン！ か ら く り 道 中 ) is an action-adventure game for the Famicom home console released in 1986 only in Japan . In 1987 it was published as a plug-in module for home computers according to the MSX2 standard.
- The Legend of Mystical Ninja was released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo (1991 for the Super Famicom in Japan) and was presented as an action adventure with a bird's eye view. The game took advantage of all the new possibilities offered by Super Nintendo's Mode 7 technology and stood out from the versions for other systems of the time.
- Mystical Ninja-Starring Goemon (also called Mystical Ninja 64 or Goemon 64) was released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64 and was the first Mystical Ninja part in 3D. A sequel appeared in 1998. This part, however, was only in 2D with a 3D room design
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Bouken Jidai Katsugeki: Goemon was released in 2000 exclusively in Japan for the Playstation 2.
It is a more serious mystical ninja game and is very similar to the Nintendo 64 parts of the series.
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Mystical Ninja DS was released for the Nintendo DS in 2005, also only in Japan.
You can see the game world from a bird's eye view. It is very reminiscent of earlier SNES parts.
Web links
- The Ganbare Goemon series at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kontek.net: Mystical Ninja starring Goemon. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu at MobyGames (English)
- ↑ Ganbare Goemon in the database of generation-msx.nl
- ↑ Brian J. Wardyga: The Video Games Textbook. History. Business. Technology. CRC Press, Boca Raton 2019, ISBN 978-0-8153-9091-6 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).