Comments on: [I ♥ The PC Engine] Yokai Dochuki

By: [I ♥ The PC Engine] Dragon Spirit @ Magweasel

[I ♥ The PC Engine] Dragon Spirit @ Magweasel — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:06:40 +0000

[...] wouldn’t go quite that far when talking about the PC Engine port, though. Like Yōkai Dōchūki, this adaptation tries to act like a faithful port and somewhat looks the part, but lacks polish [...]

By: [I ♥ The PC Engine] Hani in the Sky @ Magweasel

[I ♥ The PC Engine] Hani in the Sky @ Magweasel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:50:32 +0000

[...] somewhat remarkable how many early PC Engine games depicted the Buddha in one way or another. First Yōkai Dōchūki, then SonSon II, and now this game, where a very Amidabha-like god named Izanaki (not to be [...]

By: [I ♥ The PC Engine] Galaga ‘88 @ Magweasel

[I ♥ The PC Engine] Galaga ‘88 @ Magweasel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:27:24 +0000

[...] the horizontal TV screen means there’s less empty space between you and the aliens.) Like Yōkai Dōchūki, the game’s from the golden age of Namco — nearly every one of their System 1 arcade [...]

By: [I ♥ The PC Engine] X1 Twin @ Magweasel

[I ♥ The PC Engine] X1 Twin @ Magweasel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:08:46 +0000

[...] allow for stereo, ironic because many PCE games had stereo music even by this point, most notably Yōkai Dōchūki.) The composite cable was included in the package, and if your TV (like mine, back in the day) only [...]

By: keving

keving — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:40:13 +0000

The PCE version is pretty faithful to the arcade visually. There isn’t anything really gory in the arcade original, actually. Maybe you’re confusing it a bit with Splatterhouse, which did have several cuts applied to the PCE version for gore ‘n things.

By: MK

MK — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:14:18 +0000

Amazing… it’s been 20 years since I first came across this game and here you are doing a write-up of it only a week before I took the effort to actually look for info on it.

Do you have any info/pics on the arcade version? I remember it being somewhat grotesque with flayed corpses hobbling toward you within the first few screens. The impression I had was that its graphics were rather good (for the time, I’m sure).

By: Sardoose

Sardoose — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:04:52 +0000

Excellent writeup! I always knew there was more to this game than the few levels I played, but I had no idea it had so much depth. Totally want to play more of it now.

Characters from the Famicom arcade ending:

- Guy from Metro-Cross
- Guy from Genpei
- Pac-Man
- The little “I’M YOUR FRIENDO!” alien from Baraduke.
- Gilgamesh
- Ki

Can’t really place the spaceships, though. Is one of them the Solvalou?

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:59:49 +0000

I will have to actually double-check some of these guesses, but here we go (left to right):

* Ship 1: ship from Galaxian? (it can’t be from Galaga, could it?)
* Ship 2: ship from Xevious? (I can’t think of any other games it could be from)
* I don’t know who the guy in the yellow suit + white helmet is
* The protagonist from Genpei Tomaden, standing in stoic silence
* PacMan
* Tarosuke (our hero from Yokai Dochuki)
* A Reject from Warpman/DigDug floating midair?
* Gilgamesh and Ki (Tower of Druaga)

These characters are probably (mostly) from Namco’s Famicom releases, which would help me narrow things down… but still…

By: brandon

brandon — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:30:31 +0000

jeez, talk about ahead of its time! That story and scenario is nutso.