Sailor Moon video games
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The Sailor Moon video games, both console and arcade, were released in Japan during the height of the media franchise's popularity. By 1998, 20 games were released.[1] The games released as of 1995 each had sales figures of about 200 000 to 300 000.[2]They have never been released in any other country, with the single exception of the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon game developed by Angel, which was released in France in 1994.[3] The games are hard to find in any other country unless downloaded from the internet as ROMs.
Bandai produced a small number of Sailor Moon games, but the majority were handled by a Japanese game company called Angel. Early games were side-scrolling fighters, whereas later games were unique puzzle games, and even later titles chose to go a versus fighting game style. Another Story was the only game to stand out, being a role-playing game. Panic in Nakayoshi World was also released, an overhead Adventures of Lolo-style puzzle game featuring characters from various Nakayoshi-printed manga. Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon are playable characters.
The games mainly saw release on the Super Famicom, with the first side-scroller being ported to the Sega Mega Drive. A separate arcade side-scrolling fighter was also released.
In addition, two side-scrolling adventure games were produced for the Game Boy (Sailormoon and Sailormoon R), and a side-scrolling game was also produced for the Game Gear (Sailormoon S).
The first versus fighting game from the series was released for the 3DO. However, as the 3DO did not sell well outside of Japan, this game has gone largely unnoticed. Produced by Bandai themselves as opposed to Angel for the other two, this game is considerably different. A final versus fighting game was released for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.
A game was released in the US for the PC. It was a minigame compilation titled The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon. Aside from the theme, the games did nothing to tie in to the series.
[edit] Sailor Moon (Angel) 1993
| Sailor Moon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Angel |
| Publisher(s) | Angel |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, SNES, Super Famicom, Sega Genesis |
| Release date | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | 1 Player or 2 Players |
| Media | SNES/Super Famicom Cart, Genesis Cart. |
| Input methods | 1 or 2 SNES/Super Famicom Controllers, 1 or 2 Genesis controllers |
Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) is a beat 'em up arcade game developed by Angel in 1993, and adapted to the SNES. It was translated into French in 1996.
The game is set in the first series of Sailor Moon, and you control one or two of the five heroines (Guardian Senshi). Each Senshi has some sequences of blows , three aerial attacks (neutral, moving forward/backward, downward) and a special charge-up projectile.
The game is divided into five stages:
- Latin Quarter (boss: Bakene)
- Amusement Park (boss: Murido)
- Secret Machine (boss: Zoisite disguised as Sailor Moon)
- North Pole (boss: Kunzite)
- Dark Kingdom (boss: Prince Endymion and Queen Beryl)
The five heroines are:
- Sailor Moon alias Usagi Tsukino; her special attack is Moon Tiara Action
- Sailor Mercury alias Ami Mizuno; her special attack is Shabon Spray.[4] She is faster than the other Senshi but has a shorter attack.
- Sailor Mars alias Rei Hino; her default attack is the kick, which is stronger than her punch. Her special attack is Fire Soul.
- Sailor Jupiter alias Makoto Kino; her special attack is Supreme Thunder. She is stronger than any other Senshi and is the only one who jabs enemies with a fist, she does not flip anytime she jumps, and is the only Senshi that can slam enemies on the ground making the level rumble rapidly.
- Sailor Venus alias Minako Aino; the only Sailor Senshi who uses a weapon (a chain) in battle - her special attack is Crescent Beam. She is the most difficult Senshi to control, but her chain has a better reach than the other Senshi that are unarmed.
The enemies are mostly the youma of the Dark Kingdom that appeared in the anime, but if more than one of the same kind appears at once, the others are coloured differently (a common device for this genre of games):
- Akan
- Crane Arashino Joe
- Garoben
- Jumeau
- Jiji
- Chiffon Puppet (unique to the game)
- Clown (unique to the game)
- Female magician (unique to the game)
This game was translated into French in Europe, but was never imported to the United States. In the French translation, there were many errors:
- If you lose the game, "SIN" is displayed onscreen, rather than "FIN" ("game over").
- After each level, Tuxedo Mask appears to grade each Senshi's performance. He says "MOYENE" (a non-existent word) rather than "MOYENNE" ("Average").
- Sailor Venus was renamed Sailor Mathilde.
- The final scene's dialogue has many incomplete sentences.
The Genesis counterpart had most of the stages from the SNES game but a few were removed such as the time demension but had a new stage where you ride an elevator and a roof stage and has different boss battles along with a hidden final boss, Queen Metallia if playing on hard mode. The Sega Genesis counterpart did not conain any of the music from the SNES game, with the exception of the main theme song at the title screen, bosses also had their own song rather than sharing the same one. The game had different endings depending on which character you play as.
[edit] Sailor Moon R (Angel) 1994
| Sailor Moon R | |
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| Developer(s) | Angel |
| Publisher(s) | Angel |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom |
| Release date | 1994 |
| Genre(s) | beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | 1 Player or 2 Players |
| Media | Super Famicom Cart |
| Input methods | 1 or 2 Super Famicom Controlers |
A sequel was made to the first game and had an additional character to play as, Chibiusa. This game wasn't as long as the first game. Like the Genesis game, bosses had their own music. By playing the game on hard mode, there is a minor change to the ending that involves Sailor Pluto. Like Another this game has been translated unofficially into English.
Unlike the first game, this game had 4 stages in it:
- Academy Culture Festival (Boss: Esmeraude)
- Fantasy Attraction (Boss: Saphir)
- Crystal Tokyo (Boss: Rubius)
- Planet Nemesis (Boss: Prince Demand)
Other differences from the first game include a special attack which allows you to preform one of the senshi's attacks, damangeing/destroying all foes on screen or knocked off screen.
[edit] Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon S - Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen (Angel) 1994
| Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S - Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen | |
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| Developer(s) | Angel |
| Publisher(s) | Angel |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom |
| Release date | 1994 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | 1 Player or 2 Players |
| Media | Super Famicom Cart |
| Input methods | 1 or 2 Super Famicom Controlers |
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S - Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen is a fighting game developed by and published by Angel and was released in December, 1994.
The game has three types of modes. In the story mode you select one of the Guardian Senshi and compete with all the others. Should you win the title of the game changes to show the Guardian Senshi's silouhette instead of Sailor Moon's.
In the other two modes, VS and Tournament, you can compete either with the computer or with a friend. In these modes all the Senshi are selectable including the Outer Senshi. All the Senshi are in the game with the exception of Sailor Saturn.
[edit] Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (Gazelle/Banpresto) 1995
| Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Gazelle |
| Publisher(s) | Banpresto |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Arcade game |
| Release date | March 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | 1 Player or 2 Players |
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon is a beat 'em up arcade game developed by Gazelle (one of the offshoots of shooter developer Toaplan) and released by Banpresto in March, 1995.
You control one of the Guardian Senshi. Each of them has some sequences of blows and has their own special attack that does damage to all on-screen enemies at once.
[edit] Personnel
- Supervisors : Naoko Takeuchi, Fumio Osano
- Executive Producer : Kisaburoh Higashi
- Producer : Johan Satoh
- Coordinator : Toshifumi Kawashima
- Director : Hiroyuki Fujimoto
- Artistic Director : Satoshi Iwataki
- Assistant Artistic Director : Toshinobu Komazawa
- Graphics : Junya Inoue, Mihoko Sudoh, Otokazu Eda, Yuhko Tataka, Shingo Ishikawa, Mikio Yamaguchi, Kumi Kayama, Noboru Inamoto Masayuki Ohsumi, Tohru Iwataki
- Animation Supervisor : Kensei Sasaki
- Animation Director : Kazuko Tadano
- Animators : Hiromi Matsushita, Studio Live
- Digitising animations : Miki Higuchi, Mutsuo Danki, Hiroko Koyano, Mayumi Onodera
- Music : Seiichi Sakurai
- Sound Effects : Yoshitatsu Sakai
- Hardware Supervisor : Hideki Ikinaga
- Hardware Coordinator : Kazuhisa Takasu
- Hardware Conception : Hiroyuki Nagayoshi
- Programming : Hiroyuki Fujimoto
- Voices :
- Kotono Mitsuishi : Sailor Moon
- Aya Hisakawa : Sailor Mercury
- Michie Tomizawa : Sailor Mars
- Emi Shinohara : Sailor Jupiter
- Rika Fukami : Sailor Venus
[edit] Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story (Angel) 1995
| Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story | |
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 Box art to Another Story |
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| Developer(s) | Angel |
| Publisher(s) | Angel |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom |
| Release date | 22 September, 1995 [1] |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| Mode(s) | 1 Player |
| Media | 1 Super Famicom Cart |
| Input methods | Super Famicom Controller |
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Another Story is unique among the Sailor Moon games as it is an RPG. In battle, compatible Sailor Senshi (2 or 3) can use "Link Techniques". [2] EP (energy points) regenerate after each battle [3], unlike the MP of Final Fantasy. The storyline of the RPG is fairly linear. All ten members of the Sailor Senshi are playable.
The game appears to be set between the third and fourth story arcs. The story combines its own elements with those of both anime and manga, such as Tuxedo Mask's anime-based rose-throwing, or Chibiusa's manga-based use of the Holy Grail to become Super Sailor Chibi Moon. Throughout the game, the player can also collect puzzle pieces which make an image of the Senshi and Tuxedo Mask. If the puzzle is completed, there is a reward at the end.
While the game was never internationally released, a fan translation exists, though it gets some of the characters names wrong and sometimes uses fan names or names from the dub instead of the Japanese names.
In Another Story, an evil woman named Apsu arrives from the 30th century. She has gathered a group of girls from Crystal Tokyo and ordered them to affect the past in order to change the future to her liking, with the ultimate goal of attaining the Mystical Silver Crystal. Her followers are called the "Oppositio Senshi," and succeed in changing the fates of the defeated villains from the first three story arcs, bringing deceased villains back to life and turning reformed and healed individuals back to the darkness.
With the advice of the ghosts of the Shitennou, the Senshi set out to regain the Barazuishou, Tuxedo Mask's stone (which replaces the Golden Crystal in the game) in order to change Sailor Moon's destiny back, and to save Crystal Tokyo.
The game has two endings. If the player loses to the final boss, Chibiusa and the remaining Senshi will fight a slightly easier form of it and the player will receive the "bad" ending.
[edit] Characters unique to the game
The villains in Another Story are all named after Babylonian gods, corresponding in both element and astrological symbolism to each of the regular Senshi.
- Apsu: The woman controlling the villains. Named for the primal being of Babylonian creation myth.
- Sin: The Oppositio version of Sailor Moon. Named for the moon god.
- Anshar: Sin's younger brother, who becomes a friend to Chibiusa. Named for the sky god.
- Nabu: The Oppositio version of Sailor Mercury. Named for the wisdom god.
- Ishtar: The Oppositio version of Sailor Venus. Named after the fertility goddess.
- Marduk: The Oppositio version of Sailor Jupiter. Named after the king of the gods.
- Nergal: The Oppositio version of Sailor Mars. Named for the fire god.
[edit] Changes made for the game
- Pluto's Garnet Rod is green on the puzzle and silver on Plutos sprite instead of its normal purple.
- In the unofficial English translation, the Holy Grail is called the Moon Cup.
- The Grail is present even when the eight Senshi needed are not present (Manga) despite being broken (Anime)
- The Barazuishou (Rose Crystal) replaces the Golden Crystal, as it had not been introduced into the continuity at the time the game was published.
- Sailor Pluto can stop time without falling into a dimensional rift.
[edit] Quiz Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Gazelle/Banpresto) 1997
| Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Gazelle |
| Publisher(s) | Banpresto |
| Series | Sailor Moon Games |
| Platform(s) | Arcade game |
| Release date | 1997 |
| Genre(s) | Quiz game |
| Mode(s) | 1-2 Players |
Quiz Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon - Chiryoku Tairyoku Toki no Un is a quiz game developed by Gazelle (one of the offshoots of shooter developer Toaplan) and released by Banpresto in 1997. It is based on the Sailor Moon S arc.
[edit] References
- ^ Grigsby, Mary (1998). "Sailormoon: Manga (Comics) and Anime (Cartoon) Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States" The Journal of Popular Culture 32 (1) 59-80 doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1998.3201_59.x
- ^ Schodt, Frederik (1996). Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, p.95. ISBN 978-1880656235.
- ^ Ken Arromdee's Sailor Moon FAQ. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ Shabon comes from Sabão, the Portuguese word for soap.
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