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HIKARI GENJI - ROLLER PANIC
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光GENJI ローラーパニック
©1989 Pony Canyon Inc.
©1989 Johnny & Associates
Release: 1989-03-20 (¥3200)
DiskCard PNF-GEN(L32V5820)
Graphic / Adventure game
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Hikari Genji - Roller Panic is a simple adventure game by
Pony canyon and featuring a J-Pop boy band popular in the 1980s.
The story if fairly simple - right before one of their music concert,
someone steals the band's favorite roller skates. And obviously, they
can't start the concert without their shoes on wheels. So they decide to
explore the nearby town to retrieve them. The band counts seven kids and the
player starts by picking one of them. He then selects a partner
and starts to look for his colleague's roller skates. Once the rollers are
retrieved, the player picks another partner and repeat the process until
the seven rollers get back in the hands of their rightful owners. A
top view of the town shows where our heroes are and which building can
be visited. Once inside one of them, the view changes and the game
follows there a traditional digital comic structure with several
possible choices to pick from.
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Hikari Genji was a hugely popular seven member japanese J-Pop (aka
Japanese Pop) boy band in the 80s/90s. Their most memorable feature was most
certainly their ability to sing while rollerskating around the music stage
(hence the name of this Famicom Disk game).
The game packaging is certainly unusual. Hikari Genji is the only
Famicom Disk that I know which used a 'CD Case' box.
We have to keep in mind that Hikari Genji was a popular J-Pop boy
band and I wonder if they actually designed the packaging this way
so it would look more like a traditional Music CD. Maybe it was even
displayed next to the band's CDs on the music stores' shelves.
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Add your Pov here !
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What can I say about Hikari Genji - Roller Panic ? I mean,
the game is about a J-Pop boys band popular in Japan back in the '80s
and, obviously, totally unknown in the West. Then the game is all in
Japanese and will obviously give you a hard time if you do not understand
this language. So what's left ? Not much really, it is an interesting piece
of Japanese video game history but it doesn't bring much entertainment to
players like me who didn't grow up with J-Pop, Hikari Genji
and the likes.
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