GENPEI TOUMADEN (c)1986 1990 NAMCO LTD.,ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Release : 1990-3-10 (¥6800) HuCard (4 Mbits) NC90001 Action / Platform game Genpei Toumaden is a side scrolling action game by Namco and was released first in the arcades back in 1986. The player takes control of a samurai ghost and the goal of the game is to help him travel through mystic worlds and defeat spirits with the help of his sword. The game is divided into two different kind of stages. In the first ones, our hero is displayed using a tiny sprite and the overall action is extremely fast paced. Then some stages are the complete opposite. The character's sprite is simply huge and covers most of the screen. However, such big sprites penalize the overall action and this part of the game has a much slower pace to it. and the action much slower. Related GenpeiToumaden2 (Pce-Hu) The original arcade game was released by Namco in 1986. Genpei Toumaden was also converted for other systems including the Japanese computer Sharp X68000 (1988). It also came out as a Computer Board game for Nintendo's Famicom (1988) and the original arcade game is part of Namco Museum Vol.4 (Playstation,1996). O M A K E Click on picture to enlarge S E C R E T S LK Add your Pov here ! P O V s Genpei Toumaden is such a weird game. This title is quite old now, but yet, the actual design and gameplay is kind of strange. The idea of two different 'scale' is somehow interesting. But it doesn't really add anything to the gameplay. Other games like Sunsoft's famous Chou Wakusei Senki MetaFight (aka Blaster Master) for the Famicom system succeeded in this field. But Genpei Toumaden doesn't really impress and controls are too clumsy to be effective. I don't recommend this title. I also wonder why this game can be so expensive sometimes...

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