Table of Contents
About
I started compiling information on titles that were related or similar to Saturn games over a decade ago and never really stopped. My original intention was to film gameplay footage of some of these for my YouTube channel, but that ship has long since sailed at this point. Anyway, it would be a shame for all that work to go to waste, and seeing as how most other lists of this sort are either a bit crap or outright AI-generated garbage, I figure it’s worth making it publicly available.
If anyone out there would like to help further build this list, there’s a roadmap below of games and franchises that I’ve yet to add along with research notes. Contact me via Twitter.
Changelog
October 10, 2026
- Added tables 10-Yard Fight (Irem Arcade Classics); Battle Monsters; Battle Stations; Battlezone (Arcade’s Greatest Hits); BioMetal (Dezaemon 2); Burnin’ Lover (Dezaemon 2); Chaos Control; Chou Aniki: Kyuukyoku … Otoko no Gyakushuu; Cleaning Kit for Sega Saturn; Crow: City of Angels, The; Crows: The Battle Action for SegaSaturn; Crypt Killer / Henry Explorers; Daioh (Dezaemon 2); Darius (Franchise); Densha de Go! EX; Destruction Derby; Develo Magazine Appendix CD-ROM for Sega Saturn (Promotional Disc); Disc Station Bessatsu: i miss you. (Disc Magazine); Dream Square (Multimedia Discs); Elfin (Dezaemon 2); From TV Animation Slam Dunk: I Love Basketball; G-Vector; Gex; Greatest Nine (Franchise); Habitat II; Horror Tour; Joust (Arcade’s Greatest Hits); Linkle Liver Story; LuLu: Un Conte Interactif de Romain Victor-Pujebet; Mogitate Sega Saturn (Disc Magazine); Nomura Home Trade (Stock Trading Software); Overserved: Food Fighters!; Phantasy Star Collection (Sega Ages); Policenauts; Private Idol Disc (Franchise); Pu-Li-Ru-La (Arcade Gears); Rayman (Franchise); SatMag Sono CD (Promotional Discs); Schick Protector Man: The King of Space (Game-Ware, Vol. 3); Side Pocket (Franchise); Simulation RPG Tsukuru (RPG Creation System); Simulation Zoo; Sinistar (Arcade’s Greatest Hits); Slam ‘N Jam ’96 Featuring Magic & Kareem; Sound Novel Tsukuru 2 (SN Creation System); Tech Saturn [Tsuushin] (Disc Magazine); Virtual Kyoutei (Franchise); Virus; Vulgus (Capcom Generation, Vol. 3); Wonder 3 / Three Wonders (Arcade Gears); World Series Baseball (Franchise); Zippy Race (Irem Arcade Classics)
- Merged Don’t Pull (Arcade Gears: Wonder 3) table with Wonder 3 / Three Wonders (Arcade Gears) table
- Renamed Hexen table to Heretic/Hexen (Franchise) table
- Renamed Soviet Strike table to Strike (Franchise)
- Added Gremlin Collection to the Actua Soccer (Franchise) table
- Added fangames 妄想 After Burner Climax, Top★Burn, After Burner (Scratch) x2, Burning Engine (Scratch), and After Burner 32X (Scratch) along w/ JS Flanker, The Takeover, After Banana (Scratch), G-14 Great Fighter Jerrydog (Scratch), and Takeover 2 to the After Burner (Franchise) table
- Added Mogitate Sega Saturn, Vol. 2 to the All Japan Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua table
- Added fan remake Penguin Antarctic Adventure (Scratch) along w/ Daisy Skatin’, Daisy Skatin’ 2, and Panda Adventure to the Antarctic Adventure table
- Added Psychic Force: Episode Zero to the Astra Superstars table
- Added fangame Scratch Athletic (Scratch) to the Athletic Land (Konami Antiques…) table
- Added Macross: Digital Mission VF-X and Macross VF-X2 to the Bulk Slash table
- Added Project X Zone 2: Brave New World to the Burning Rangers table
- Added Mickey Mania to the Clockwork Knight (Franchise) table
- Added The Conveni: Ano Machi wo Dokusen Seyo (Console Archives) and The Conveni 2: Zenkoku Chain Tenkai da (Console Archives) to The Conveni (Franchise) table
- Added Sol Divide, Majokko Nana (Dezaemon 2) and Lina: Witches of the Moon to the Cotton (Franchise) table
- Added Itadaki Street: Watashi no Omise ni Yottette, Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iri ni, and Culdcept Mobile: Another Chapter to the Culdcept table
- Added Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Ed., Gundam: The Master Battle, Gundam: The Master Battle 2, and Gundam: Battle Assault 2 to the Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness table
- Added M no Ma to the D [no Shokutaku] table
- Added recompilation fan ports of the 2011 Daytona USA remake and the original Model 2 Daytona USA arcade release along w/ a 32X fan port of Daytona USA to the Daytona USA (Franchise) table
- Added Musapey’s Choco Marker, Death Crimson 3 Gaiden, and Musapey’s Miracle Demon Shrine to the Death Crimson table
- Added TI-89 fan port of Deep Scan along w/ Sub Hunt and Marine Battle to the Deep Scan (Dynamite Deka) table
- Added Yokosuka Wars, Yoshida Koumuten, Tatesuka Wars, Yoshida Kensetsu, Yoshida Konzern: Shooting Game Construction Tool, Bakasuka Wars, Polygon Shooting Tsukuru, Shooting Tsukuru 98, Shooting Tsukuru V, 3D Shooting Tsukuru, Shooting Tsukuru 95, Shoot-‘Em-Up Game Builder, Shoot-‘Em-Up Construction Kit, and Dezaemon (Console Archives) to the Dezaemon 2 table
- Added NSW/NSW2/WIN port of Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators along w/ Shin Megami Tensei Pinball: Judgment to the Digital Pinball (Franchise) table
- Added Hataraku Shoujo: Tekipaki Working Love and Tekipaki: Working Love FX to the Dinosaur Island table
- Added Interplay Collection 1, Interplay Collection 2, Untitled EWJ Sequel (1), Untitled EWJ Sequel (2) to the Earthworm Jim 2 table
- Added Fantastic Fortune and Fantastic Fortune 2 to the Eberouge (Franchise) table
- Added fanports Elevator Action Scratch (Scratch) and Elevator Action (Scratch) along w/ Bakushou!! Jinsei Kaidou: Nova Usagi ga Miteru zo!! to the Elevator Action² Returns table
- Added M no Ma to the Enemy Zero table
- Added EMIT Value Pack bundles to English Dreams (Franchise) table
- Added Housing and Housing Catalog to the Eyeful Home: Oregon & Basic table
- Added fan port Fantasy Zone for Scratch (Scratch), fangames Fantasy Zone Adventure (Scratch), Fantasy Zone Fanmade Test Engine (Scratch), and Fantasy Zone GB (Scratch) along w/ Planet Harriers, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Strato Freaks DX, and Caravan Angel to the Fantasy Zone (Sega Ages) table
- Added G.A.S.P!! Fighters’ NEXTream to the Fighter Vipers (Franchise) table
- Added emulated Flicky ports along w/ Sega Smash Pack 2 and Blocky the Flickylike to the Flicky (SAMS, Vol. 1) table
- Added unreleased versions of Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster to the Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster table
- Added Galaxy Fight (Scratch) to the Galaxy Force (Sega Ages) table
- Added Silk, Borderus, Borderus: Angles & Demons, Secret Series: BJ, Kawaii Girls Panic, Uncensor Quest, Uncensor Quest Neon, Project Uncover, and Kanojo Panic to the Gals Panic SS table
- Added unreleased sequel Game BASIC for Next Generation and unreleased competitor Polygon BASIC for Sega Saturn along w/ Astro BASIC, Develo Starter Kit: Assembler Edition, Net Yarouze, Develo Starter Kit: BASIC Edition, and WonderWitch to the Game BASIC for SegaSaturn table
- Added Game Tengoku: The Game Paradise (G-MODE Archives+) to the Game Tengoku: The Game Paradise table
- Added fan remake Ghouls’n Ghosts Remix along w/ Puzzle Makaimura, Puzzle Makaimura Revenge, Puzzle Makaimura: Christmas Version, Puzzle Makaimura Final to the Ghosts ‘n Goblins / Makaimura (Franchise) table
- Added Amiga fan port of Gun.Smoke to the Gun.Smoke (Capcom Generation, Vol. 4) table
- Added Heavy Gear, Heavy Gear II, and Heavy Gear Assault to the Gungriffon (Franchise) table
- Added Housing and Housing Catalog to the Heim Waltz table
- Added Doom to the Heretic/Hexen (Franchise) table
- Added Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2, Zombie Hospital, Fatal Research, Die to Survive, and Tumor Necrosis Factor:// Amen to The House of the Dead table
- Added Final Formation to the Hyper Duel table
- Added Neo Geo fan port of In the Hunt to the In the Hunt / Kaitei Daisensou table
- Added multiple Plala Green Disc versions, @WORLD Browser; NetCruiser, Ver. 2.0; WebViwer with Microsoft; Web Blaster and WorldTALK to the Internet Software table
- Added Mickey Mania to the Keio Flying Squadron 2 / Keiou Yuugekitai: Katsugeki-hen table
- Added Armed Police Unit Gallop, Shippuu Mahou Daisakusen, and Wolf Fang: Kuuga 2001 (Console Archives) to the Kuuga / Sky Fang (Franchise) table
- Added The Double Shooting: RayStorm × Raycrisis (Simple 1500), Ray-Kudryavka X, Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, and QuinExcluder to the Layer Section (Franchise) table
- Added Darius II, G-Darius, and Space Invaders: Infinity Gene to Metal Black table
- Added Metal Slug STG, Metal Slug Gaiden: Allen’s Battle Chronicles, Metal Slug Survivors, Metal Slug Soldiers; Metal Slug Fighters; Metal Slug Warriors; Metal Slug: Mars Panic!; SNK Arcade Classics, Vol. 1; Metal Slug Mobile 4; Metal Slug Tactics; Metal Slug M1; Metal Slug: Team Mission; Metal Slug Touch; Metal Slug M2; Metal Slug Wars; Metal Slug Revolution and Metal Slug Zero Online to the Metal Slug table
- Added several Gihren’s Greed sequel expansion packs to the Mobile Suit Gundam (Franchise) table
- Added fan remakes Monaco GP Remake (Scratch) and Doodle Monaco GP (Scratch) to the Monaco GP (SAMS, Vol. 2) table
- Added fan games NiGHTS 4K, NiGHTS into Dreams Demake (Scratch), and NiGHTS into Dreams on Scratch (Scratch) to the NiGHTS into Dreams (Franchise) table
- Added Space Harrier; Taito Memories II, Vol. 2 and Neon Revenant: Night Operations to the Night Striker S table
- Added Nindou (Dezaemon 2) to the Ninja Princess (SAMS, Vol. 2) table
- Added fangames OutRun HK (Scratch) and OutRun-Style 3D Racer (Scratch) along w/ Art Run, ‘Ghini Run, Almax Race, Just Shut Up and Drive 2, MS Paint Racers, DR1V3N WILD, Attractive Drivers (Scratch), and Nitro-Apocalypse Dagger DX40 Burning Tire Asphalt Anarchy to the OutRun (Sega Ages) table
- Added Dreamcast fan port of Panzer Dragoon to the Panzer Dragoon (Franchise) table
- Added several unlicensed clones of Pengo and fangames/fan remakes Pengo (C16), Pengo Engine, Pengo (Scratch), SEGA’s Pengo: Scratch Edition, and Pengo-Style Game along w/ Stone Age, Iktu, Pingo (C64 x2), Alca, Ice Strad, Penggo, Penggy, Pongo, Freezer Frenzy, Penguins, AI Pengo, Pengo 4K, and Super Pengo GX to the Pengo (SAMS, Vol. 1) table
- Added Aniki Maker, My Fair Angel, Musume Ikusei Simulation: Otou-san to Issho, The (Simple 2000), Prince Maker: Endless, Prince Maker: Braveness, Cute Knight, Lair Land Story: The Maiden’s Vow, Angel Profile, Project: Princess, Prince Maker III: Renascence, Princess Maker Social, Princess Maker Mobile, Lair Land Story: The Maiden’s Vow Remake, Machine Child, Galaxy Princess Zorana, Magical Princess, Lair Land Story 2: Mist of Sea, Princess Maker 4, and Princess Maker Online to the Princess Maker (Franchise) table
- Added Image Fight to the Radiant Silvergun table
- Added fangames Rampage! (Scratch) and Rampage Game (Scratch) along w/ Ravage and Mutant: Terry Gets Mutated! to the Rampage World Tour table
- Added fangames Road Rash World Tour (Scratch), Road Rash Street Racer (Scratch), Road Rush on Scratch (Scratch), and Untitled Road Rash Clone to the Road Rash table
- Added Guide to North America’s Tourist Railways and Museums to the See the World by Train I: Switzerland Edition[…] table
- Added three different Sega Rally Championship fan ports to the Sega Rally Championship table
- Added Pre-Pre, Vol. 5, Pre-Pre, Vol. 6, Mogitate Sega Saturn, Vol. 2, Pre-Pre, Vol. 10, Mogitate Sega Saturn, Vol. 3, Mogitate Sega Saturn, Vol. 6, Pre-Pre, Vol. 16, Yukawa Motosenmu no Otakara Sagashi, What’s Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase, and Net Golf to the Segata Sanshirou Shinkenyuugi table
- Added Gekioh Shooting King: Shienryuu (Console Archives) to the Shienryuu table
- Added Armed Police Unit Gallop to the Shippuu Mahou Daisakusen / Kingdom Grand Prix table
- Added emulated port of Snatcher (PC Engine Mini) and Virtual Boy fan port of Snatcher along w/ The Portopia Serial Murder Case, Imitation wa Aisenai, Snatcher Pilot Disk, Virus to the Snatcher table
- Added fangame Sonic TI-Blast and fan remakes Untitled Sonic World Remake and Untitled Sonic X-treme Remake to the Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise) table
- Added fangames 은석-아빠 손손 & 돈돈 (Scratch) and PicoPico SonSon Archive to the SonSon (Capcom Generation, Vol. 3) table
- Added Choplifter, Hellcarrier, Alligator Strike, Reflex Unit: Strike Ops, Cobra Strike, and Super Strike Trilogy to the Strike (Franchise) table
- Added Space Harrier (Scratch), The Zone (Scratch), Space Harrier: Scratch Edition (Scratch), Space Harrier X (Scratch), Space Harrier: Wyatt Edition (Scratch), Space Harrier (Scratch), Space Harrier (Scratch), and Space Harrier 3D along w/ Space Fire, Laser Blast 3: Fury of the Wizard, Si-Ki, The Last Ladybug, and Ultra0 to the Space Harrier (Sega Ages) table
- Added Death Wing, Colony Wars, Colony Wars: Vengeance, Star Ixiom, and Colony Wars: Red Sun to the Stellar Assault SS table
- Added Sky Section (Dezaemon Plus), OSU: Old School vs UFOs, and Red Titans to the Strikers 1945 (Franchise) table
- Added Full Throttle and Hyper Crash to the Taito Chase H.Q. Plus S.C.I. table
- Added a 32X fan port of Tempest 200 and fangames Tempest 3D and Tempest Web Engine Demo (Scratch) along w/ Hurricane, Atari Collection 1, and Tenet to the Tempest (Franchise) table
- Added Terra Cresta (Console Archives) to the Terra Cresta 3D table
- Added Itadaki Street: Watashi no Omise ni Yottette, Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iri ni, and Culdcept Mobile: Another Chapter to the Texthoth Ludo: Arcana Senki table
- Added Messier: The Extreme Destructive Device to the Thunder Force (Franchise) table
- Added Space Ace to the Time Gal (Time Gal & Ninja Hayate) table
- Added Tower 48 to The Tower (Franchise) table
- Added fangames Twinbee (Scratch) and TwinBee: Double Chime (Scratch) to the TwinBee (Franchise) table
- Added Quarth to the Twinkle Star Sprites table
- Added Finder Love: Aki Hoshino – Nangoku Trouble Rendezvous, Finder Love: Fumina Hara – Futari no Futari de…, and Finder Love: Risa Kudou – First Shoot wa Kimi to to the Virtua Photo Shoot: Cameraman Simulation table
- Added fan demake Virtua Agent to the Virtua Cop (Franchise) table
- Added emulated fan port of Virtua Fighter along w/ FX Fighter, FX Fighter Turbo, G.A.S.P!! Fighters’ NEXTream, Virtua Fighter Mobile, and Virtua Fighter Crossroads to the Virtua Fighter (Franchise) table
- Added fan remake Sega Virtua Racing V2 (Scratch) and emulated fan port of Virtua Racing to the Virtua Racing Sega Saturn / [TWI]’s V.R. Virtua Racing table
- Added Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise to The Yakyuuken Special: Konya wa 12-kaisen table
- Added Exodus Guilty to the YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World table
- Added Hataraku Shoujo: Tekipaki Working Love and Tekipaki: Working Love FX to the Yumimi Mix Remix table
- Added NetLink, SegaNet, Satakore, and various bundle releases
- Added numerous unreleased 32X and Saturn titles
- Added several unreleased Panasonic M2 titles
- Added release dates for several official SoC mini consoles
- Added influences for predecessor games in most franchises
- Converted old Flashpoint Archive links to point to the new database
- Improved navigation by implementing more anchor links
February 11, 2026
- Added tables for Astra Superstars, BattleSport, Discworld (Franchise), Eberouge (Franchise), EGWord, El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, Father Christmas, Fire Pro Wrestling (Franchise), Formula Karts: Special Edition, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, GT24, Herc’s Adventures, Hexen, In the Hunt / Kaitei Daisensou, Internet Software, Isto é Zico: Zico no Kangaeru Soccer, Jungle Park: Saturn Island, Kyuutenkai / Fantas[t]ic Pinball, Nekketsu Oyako, Ninja Hayate (Time Gal & Ninja Hayate), Ochige Designer: Tsukutte Pon!, Off-World Interceptor Extreme, Okudera Yasuhiko no Sekai o Mezase! Soccer Kids: Nyuumon-hen, Primal Rage, Strikers 1945 (Franchise), Swagman, Tokusou Kidoutai JSWAT, TwinBee (Franchise), Z, Zoop
- Added MSX fan port of After Burner, fangame After Burner 3D, Action 52 (Sidewinder), Hyper Fighters, MiG Busters, Top Gun: Maverick to the After Burner (Franchise) table
- Added New Japan Pro-Wrestling: Fighting Spirit Legends 2, 3, and 3 Arcade Edition to the All Japan Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua table
- Added Operation Steel Rain to the Assault Suit Leynos 2 table
- Added Queen of Heart ’98, The; Queen of Heart ’99: Dream Match Never Ends, The; Queen of Heart ’99: Second Edition, The; and Queen of Heart 2001: Party’s Breaker, The to the Asuka 120% Limited: Burning Fest. Limited table
- Added Ayrton Senna: Magic Forever and Ayrton Senna’s Super Monaco GP II to the Ayrton Senna Personal Talk: Message for the Future table
- Added fangames Baku Baku X and Baku Baku X2, Bazoo, Nyankuru, Wankuru, Wanko de Kuruin! Wankuru to the Baku Baku Animal: World Zookeeper Contest table
- Added Baroque: Become a Meta-Being Revive, Baroque Shooting: Reversed, and a new Windows port of Baroque Syndrome to the Baroque table
- Added Kaikan to the Battle Garegga table
- Added fangame Forest of Illusion to the Castle of Illusion (Sega Ages) table
- Added Puchi Carat to the Cleopatra Fortune table
- Added Akazukin Chachacha, Broom Shooter, Elfin (Dezaemon Kids!), GunElfin (Dezaemon Kids!), Halloween Ghostland, Halloween Witch Night, Mahoshu, Night Angel (Dezaemon 2), Parity Shot, Parity Shot Integral, Trouble Witches, Episode 1: Daughters of Amalgam, Trouble Witches AC, and Trouble Witches Neo! to the Cotton (Franchise) table
- Added Serk to the Courier Crisis table
- Added Culdcept Begins, Culdcept the First, Gaia Master Duel: Card Attackers, Gaia Master: Kamigami no Board Game, and Gaia Master Kessen! Seikiou Densetsu to the Culdcept table
- Added fan ports/remakes Daytona USA Remake and Daytona USA VR along w/ fangame Daytona USA: Power Edition Recreation to the Daytona USA (Franchise) table
- Added fangame Death Uchi to the Death Crimson table
- Added Extermination to the Deep Fear table
- Added VIC-20 fan port of Deep Scan along w/ Action 52 (Depth Charge) and Submarine Attack to the Deep Scan table
- Added TV game show versions of Delisoba Grand Prix, Delisoba Deluxe, Delisoba Gold, and Delisoba Extreme to the Delisoba Deluxe table
- Added Shoot-‘Em-Up Construction Kit to the Dezaemon 2 table
- Added unlicensed ports of Penguin Land to the Doki Doki Penguin Land table
- Added Gakkou no Kaidan and Not for Broadcast to the Double Switch table
- Added Doukyuusei 2 Remake to the Doukyuusei (Franchise) table
- Added Junjou de Karen: Meymay Kishidan – Spectral Force Seishoujo Gaiden and Spasms of Stupidity: Quest for the Void to the Dragon Force (Franchise) table
- Added fangames Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Warduke and Knights & Dragons: The Endless Quest along w/ King of Dragons, The to Dungeons & Dragons Collection table
- Added unreleased fangame Earthworm Jim Fan Game along w/ ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut and Happy Biqi III: World Fighter to the Earthworm Jim 2 table
- Added Windows fan remake of Elevator Action, Elevator Heist, Elevator Madness, Elevator Rush: Spy Mission, and Spy Games: Elevator Mission and Taito Variety Pack to the Elevator Action² Returns table
- Added Enemy Ray to the Enemy Zero table
- Added fangames Fantasy Zone: Escape from the Pyramid, Fantasy Zone: Flappy Opa-Opa, and Kipa-Kipa! 3 along w/ Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf and Sonic Superstars
- Added fangame Fighters Megamix Neo to the Fighters Megamix table
- Added fangame Flicky’s Flock and Flicky Chicky to the Flicky (SAMS, Vol. 1) table
- Added Jeropanic, LadyLove, LewdQix, QBlitz: Arcade Girl Reveal, Re:Gals Panic 2, and Spellbound Beauties to the Gals Panic SS table
- Added Basic Studio: Powerful Game Workshop, Develo Starter Kit: Assembler Edition, Develo Starter Kit: Basic Edition, Family BASIC, Family BASIC V3, Home BASIC, and Playbox BASIC to the Game BASIC for SegaSaturn table
- Added Tatsujin Oh to the Gekirindan table
- Added Beyond the Ice Palace and Ghosts and Devils to the Ghosts’n Goblins / Makaimura (Franchise) table
- Added fangames Guardian Heroes: Heaven or Hell and Guardian Heroes: Warpath to the Guardian Heroes table
- Added Psikyo Collection, Vol. 1/2/3; Psikyo Shooting Collection, Vol. 2; Strikers 1945 Collection; and Strikers 1945: World War to the Gunbird table
- Added Frame Gear Battle Operation II (Dreams) and Project MBR to the Gungriffon (Franchise) table
- Added Clash to the Head-On (SAMS, Vol. 1) table
- Added Hyper Duel fangame and Force Gear (Tokimeki Memorial) to the Hyper Duel table
- Added J.B. Harold Series: Seattle Purple Haze, San Francisco Black Bell, and The Lonely Dead – Boston Solitary Corpse to the J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues table
- Added Veigues: Tactical Gladiator to the Kuuga / Sky Fang (Franchise) table
- Added Conviction to the Langrisser (Franchise) table
- Added D-Xhird to the Last Bronx table
- Added Lupin III: The First TV Series Encyclopedia to the Lupin III (Franchise) table
- Added Flying Wizards and Ogrian Carpet to the Magic Carpet table
- Added The 7th Guest and The 7th Guest: 30th Anniversary Edition to the Mansion of Hidden Souls table
- Added Man TT to the Manx TT Super Bike table
- Added fangames Metal Slug 1.5X, Metal Slug Academy, Metal Slug Beat-‘Em-Up, Metal Slug Brutal, Metal Slug Brutal 2, Metal Slug Brutal 3, Metal Slug Counter, Metal Slug: Death Defense, Metal Slug Forever, Metal Slug Rampage!, Metal Slug Rampage! 2, Metal Slug Rampage! 3, Metal Slug Resistance, Metal Slug SB Fanthology, Urban Slug, and Urban Slug 2 along w/ Special Mission: First Level to the Metal Slug table
- Added Manic Panic Ghosts, On Point, Zero Point, and Zero Point 2 to the Mighty Hits table
- Added Dreams of Saturn to the Miscellaneous table
- Added retromachine to the Monaco GP (SAMS, Vol. 2) table
- Added Dunk Dream, Dunk Dream ’95, NBA Jam Tournament Edition SE, NBA Superstars, and RNG Jam to the NBA Jam (Franchise) table
- Added Fire & Forget II to the Night Striker S table
- Added fangame NiGHTS into Unreal along w/ 222.22, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and Volare (Dreams) to the NiGHTS into Dreams (Franchise) table
- Added Desert Breaker and Ikki to the Ninja Princess (SAMS, Vol. 2) table
- Added fan remake Ogre Conflict along w/ Eden War, Fated Era, Grand Arms: March of the Red Dragon, Himeko Sutori, Oathborn: The Chronicle of Ruin, Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga, and Unicorn Overlord to the Ogre Battle (Franchise) table
- Added fan ports/remakes OutRun (A8bit), OutRun: Amiga Edition, OutRun CPC, Seraphim190’s OutRun (Dreams), and What if OutRun GB along w/ E-Type, E-Type 2, Lamborghini: American Challenge, OutRun, OutRun 2, Red Hot Overdrive, Victory Run, and Z Speed Arcade to the OutRun (Sega Ages) table
- Added fan port of Panzer Dragoon Saga along w/ Wingz to the Panzer Dragoon (Franchise) table
- Added Block World, Cheese World, Ice World 2, Lupengo, Melon Panic, and Monster Block to the Pengo table
- Added Eve-chan’s Sexy Karaoke; Sexy Karaoke: Enka Greatest Hits; Sexy Karaoke: Enka Greatest Hits, Vol. 2; Sexy Karaoke: Pop Greatest Hits; Sexy Karaoke: Pop Greatest Hits, Vol. 2; VHD Karaoke: Love Series, Vols. 1-10; VHD Karaoke: Sexy Nude Special – American Girl 1 & 2, and VHD Karaoke Top 24, Vols. 1-59 to the Playboy Karaoke Collection table
- Added Coaster Racer 1/2/3 to the Power Drift (Sega Ages) table
- Added Skarab, along w/ an Amiga fan port of PowerSlave and the unreleased prequel PowerSlave 2 to the PowerSlave/Exhumed table
- Added Princess Maker: Children of Revelation, Princess Parent, Prostitute Maker, Rose Knight, Slave Maker 1/2/3, and Virgin Dream to the Princess Maker (Franchise) table
- Added Hard Drivin’ II: Drive Harder to the Race Drivin’ table
- Added Chaos Field to the Radiant Silvergun table
- Added Rampage X and Robot Rampage to the Rampage World Tour table
- Added fan ports Road Avenger Amiga and Super Road Blaster to the Road Blaster table
- Added untitled Road Rash sequel along w/ Bash Moto, Full Power, Furious Bikers, Moto Extreme, Motor Raid, and Speed Kings to the Road Rash table
- Added a fan remake of Snatcher to the Snatcher table
- Added fangames Flicky’s Flock, Project Sonic XDream, and Sonic X-treme 2D along w/ Sonic Mars to the Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise) table
- Added Crazy Ape and Shockway Rider to the SonSon table
- Added Aftershock, Reflex Unit: Strike Ops, and Strike Mission to the Soviet Strike table
- Added fan ports/remakes/remixes Seraphim190’s Space Harrier (Dreams), Space Harrier Clone and Space Harrier VGL along w/ Cosmic Epsilon, Cosmos Cop, Psycho Harrier, Rocket Panda, and Tunnel Star to the Space Harrier (Sega Ages) table
- Added an HTML5 fan remake of Chase H.Q. along w/ Round Up 5: Super Delta Force, Taito Variety Pack, and Undercover Break to the Taito Chase H.Q. Plus S.C.I. table
- Added Cameltry and Marble Madness to the Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth table
- Added Space Twitch to the Tempest (Franchise) table
- Added Gaia Master Duel: Card Attackers, Gaia Master: Kamigami no Board Game, and Gaia Master Kessen! Seikiou Densetsu to the Texthoth Ludo: Arcana Senki table
- Added fangames Cursed Brotherhood: Thunder Legends, Destiny Thunder, and Project Thunder Force R: REVERIETHUNDER along w/ Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer, Illusion Blaze, Vastynex, and Varyznex to the Thunder Force (Franchise) table
- Added High-Roller Battle to the Thunder Storm (Thunder Storm & Road Blaster) table
- Added fan port Time Gal Amiga along w/ Time Gal Flash to the Time Gal (Time Gal & Ninja Hayate) table
- Added Dream Heights and StarScraper to The Tower table
- Added fangame Macky & Pentell along w/ ADK Damashii to the Twinkle Star Sprites table
- Added fangame Virtua Cop: Black Market Headquarters P.1 (Dreams) along w/ Virtual Cop: Arcade Crisis and Virtua Cop Shooter 2 to the Virtua Cop (Franchise) table
- Added fangame SEGA vs. Capcom: The Next Level along w/ Battle Tryst, Dual Heroes, Fighters’ Impact, and Slam Dragon to the Virtua Fighter (Franchise) table
- Added a 32X recompilation of Virtua Racing Deluxe along w/ 4PGP and Virtuoso GP Race-On to the Virtua Racing Sega Saturn / TWI’s V.R. Virtua Racing table
- Added fan port/remake Godot Commando along w/ Metal Dragon and Special Forces Soldier to The Wolf of the Battlefield (Franchise) table
- Added Extasy Visual Shock to the X Japan: Virtual Shock (Franchise) table
- Moved LINEAR S to the Sega Touring Car Championship table
- Updated numerous formerly incomplete release dates to include release months
- Updated platform/date info. for hundreds of backwards compatible games currently or formerly available on digital marketplaces
- Updated platform/date info. for numerous games that natively support Linux
- Updated platform/date info. for dozens of games that appeared on the Mega Drive Mini and Mega Drive Mini 2
June 11, 2025
- Added tables for 3D Lemmings; Actua Golf / VR Golf ’97; Actua Soccer / VR Soccer; Antarctic Adventure (Franchise); Athletic Land / Wanpaku Athletic (Konami Antiques); Ayrton Senna Personal Talk: Message for the Future; Batman Forever: The Arcade Game; Chisato Moritaka: Watarasebashi / Lala Sunshine; Comic Bakery / Pompokopan (Konami Antiques); Conveni, The (Franchise); Creature Shock; Cubic Gallery; Culdcept; Dino Island; Edo City Renaissance; Eyeful Home; Feng Shui Master; Game BASIC for SegaSaturn; Gekirindan; Gouketsuji Clan (Franchise); Guardian Force; Gun.Smoke (Capcom Generation, Vol. 4); Heim Waltz; King’s Valley (Konami Antiques); Knightmare / Majou Densetsu (Konami Antiques); Kururin Pa! (Franchise); Langrisser (Franchise); Magical Tree (Konami Antiques); Media ROMancer Daisuke Asakura; Message Navi (Franchise); Mopiranger (Konami Antiques); Noon; Pict Flash Dondon; Pippols (Konami Antiques); QuackShot (Sega Ages); Real Sound (Franchise); Revolution X; Samurai (SAMS, Vol. 2); Sega Saturn de Hakken!!; SonSon (Capcom Generation, Vol. 3); Star Bowling, The (Franchise); Tamagotchi Park; Ten Pin Alley; Tenchi wo Kurau II: Sekiheki no Tatakai; Terra Cresta 3D; Texthoth Ludo: Arcana Senki; Touryuu Densetsu Elan Doreé; Tower, The; Wolf of the Battlefield (Franchise); X-Multiply; and Yumimi Mix Remix
- Merged Purikura Daisakusen table into new Gouketsuji Clan (Franchise) table
- Added Target: Terror to the Area 51 and Maximum Force tables
- Added mobile version of Battle Garegga to the Battle Garegga table
- Added a mobile version of Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton, Magical Pachinko Cotton, Witch ‘Em Up to the Cotton (Franchise) table
- Added Senko no Ronde 2 to the Cyber Troopers Virtual-On table
- Added Segata Sanshirou Shinkenyuugi to the Decathlete / Athlete Kings (Franchise) table
- Added Darius Ocean along w/ PC-8K and mobile versions of Deep Scan to Deep Scan table
- Added Cool Riders, Delisoba Gold (Tokyo Friend Park II DS), Delisoba Gold (Tokyo Friend Park II: Perfect!), and Ramen Crisis to the Delisoba Deluxe table
- Added a mobile version of Don’t Pull to the Don’t Pull (Wonder 3: Arcade Gears) table
- Added two mobile versions of DDPL to the Doki Doki Penguin Land table
- Added Elevator Action DX, Elevator Action: Episode-ZERO, Elevator Action Real, and Elevator Action Real 2: Ghost Hunter to the Elevator Action (Franchise) table
- Added Classic Collection; Game no Kanzume, Vol. 1; Game no Kanzume Otokuyou; and Wondermega Collection to the Flicky table
- Added Rad Rally to the Gale Racer table
- Added Buta-san, Tatakae Buta-san, Exerion, Exerion II: Zorni, Exerion DX, Final Exerion, Field Combat, Field Combat DX, Formation Z, Formation Z DX, FZ: Formation Z, Momoko 120%, Momoko 1200%, Momoko 1200% in Machigai Sagashi, Momoko no Kasei Bowling: La Mars Cup, Plus Alpha, and Plus Beta to the Game Tengoku: The Game Paradise table
- Added mobile ports of Ghouls ‘n Ghosts and Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, GnG minigame Ko Maikamura, three unreleased Ghosts ‘n Goblins titles, Ghost’n Zombies, GladMort, and Knight ‘n More to the Ghosts ‘n Goblins / Maikamura (Franchise) table
- Added Tatakae! Big Fighter to the Hyper Duel table
- Added Sengoku Blade, Taisen Hot Gimmick, THG Kairakuten, and THG 4 Ever to Gunbird table
- Added Image Fight & X-Multiply, Irem Collection, R-Type Final, R-Type Final 2, R-Type Final 3 Evolved, Shuyaku Sentai Irem Fighter, and War of Aero: Project MEIOU to the Image Fight table
- Added MoonStriker to the Layer Section (Franchise) table
- Added Hyperdimension Neptune vs Sega Hard Girls and LINEAR S to the Miscellaneous table
- Added a fan remake to the Motteke Tamago w/ Gunbare! Kamonohashi table
- Added Neon Genesis Evangelion: Eva and Good Friends – The Stripping Instrumentality Project, two mobile ports of Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel, and the PC version of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Illustrations to the Neon Genesis Evangelion (Franchise) table
- Added Xmas Lemmings to the NiGHTS into Dreams table
- Added a mobile version of Ninja Princess to the Ninja Princess (SAMS, Vol. 2) table
- Added fangames Javascript Pseudo 3D Racer and OutRun 4K to the OutRun (Sega Ages) table
- Added Ice Muncher to the Pengo table
- Added mobile vers. of Pirate Ship Higemaru and Higemaru Makaijima to the PS Higemaru table
- Added Coaster Race to the Power Drift (Sega Ages) table
- Added arcade version of Rabbit to the Rabbit table
- Added Hellbound Rampage and a Flash version of Rampage to the Rampage World Tour table
- Added Sega Rally: First Stage, Sega Rally: Next Stage, and Sega Touring Car Championship to the Sega Rally Championship table
- Added arcade and Windows versions of STCC to the Sega Touring Car Championship table
- Added mobile ver. of Mahou Daisakusen to the Shippuu Mahou Daisakusen / Kingdom GP table
- Added Hai no Majutsushi, JPP Wrestling ’96: MV, Snatcher Pilot DS to the Snatcher table
- Added EX-Terra and a mobile version of Soukyuugurentai to the Soukyuugurentai table
- Added Son of Space Harrier to the Space Harrier (Sega Ages) table
- Added Tac/Scan to the Star Jacker table
- Added Chase H.Q. 3D to the Taito Chase H.Q. Plus S.C.I. table
- Added Tama-Run to the Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth table
- Added Flash port of Tempest and fangame Tempest 1000 to the Tempest (Franchise) table
- Added Broken Thunder and Segagaga R-720 with SYRINX to the Thunder Force (Franchise) table
- Added Windows version of Time Gal HD Remaster to Time Gal table
- Added Calcolo! and TSS Gaiden: Twin Star Memories to the Twinkle Star Sprites table
- Added Shenmue III to the Virtua Fighter (Franchise Table)
- Added Tomoyasu Hotei: Stolen Song to the X Japan: Virtual Shock 001 table
- Fixed the anchor link for titles beginning w/ the letter “D”
March 3, 2024
- Initial public release
Roadmap
The below table serves as a rough guide for identifying games that are similar to ones that appear on Saturn and tracks my progress.
| TO ADD | SEARCH PARAMETERS & NOTES | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
(Irem AC) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| 194X (Franchise) | Capcom’s 194X games inspired a ton of WWII-themed shmups. Its first three entries in the series are set in the Pacific Theater and remain somewhat more grounded in reality than later entries, so those two points could potentially serve as limiting factors for determining what qualifies for this table if the list gets too long. | Medium priority |
| Any puzzle game that follows the traditional Lemmings formula on a 3D playfield would qualify, IMO. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| 3×3 Eyes: Kyuusei Koushu S | ||
| 6 Inch My Darling | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Advanced V.G. | I’d like to find some other fighters like this with all-female rosters and similar mechanics without falling into the trap of just rattling off every game in a subgenre. IIRC, the more unique aspect of AVG’s theme has something to do with the girls all being waitresses, but I seriously doubt any other fighter before or since has done that, lol. | Low priority |
| Advanced World War: The Rise & Fall of the Thousand Year Reich | ||
(Franchise) | Very fast-moving, behind-view railshooters — usually featuring some sort of lock-on mechanic. Doesn’t necessarily need fighter jets, but having them obviously makes a candidate more likely for inclusion. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Ai Iijima: Good Island Cafe | ||
| Air Management ’96 | ||
| Airs Adventure | ||
| Albert Odyssey [Gaiden]: Legend of Eldean | ||
| Album Club: Mune Kyun Saint Paulia Jogakuin | There’s a bit more going on here, but this is essentially Virtua Photo Studio minus the outright nudity. The only challenge here will be determining how much of the VPS table to copy over. | High priority |
| Alien Trilogy | ||
Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua | If I had to pinpoint the defining feature of AJPWFV, it would probably be the crowd meter. I’m not sure if any other wrestling games have something similar, but if they do, they’d probably belong in this table. The ability to “work over” certain body parts also seems pretty novel for a game of this time period, but I imagine that’s gotta be pretty standard in wrestling games these days, right? Anyway, for the moment I’ve limited the table to sequels and what was probably the game’s direct competitor in the Yuke’s-developed New Japan games that appeared in arcades and on PS1. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Alone in the Dark 2 | Medium priority | |
| Amagi Shien | ||
| AMOK | ||
| Andretti Racing | ||
| AnEarth Fantasy Stories: The First Chapter | ||
(Franchise) | FMV jigsaw puzzles featuring models / beautiful women. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Angelique (Franchise) | ||
| Ankh (Franchise) | Low priority | |
| Another Memories | ||
Adventure (Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Aqua-World: The Marvels of the Sea | Low priority | |
| Aquazone (Franchise) | Aquarium simulator. There’s a bunch of these out there, so it might be fair to say it’s a simulation subgenre at this point. That makes me hesitant to bother tackling this. | Low priority |
| Arcana Strikes | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Assault Rigs | ||
Leynos 2 | Horizontally scrolling run-and-gun mech game, no forced scrolling, customizable weapons loadout, shot angle can be controlled with a reasonable degree of precision. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Astal | In terms of aesthetics, Astal has a crystal theme and makes heavy use of pastels. I haven’t been able to find any other platformer like it in that regard. Gameplay-wise, you have a number of fairly unique attacks — a few of which might have been replicated elsewhere at some point. Limited command over a secondary character (the bird) definitely feels like something another platformer would have done. | Low priority |
| Asteroids (Arcade’s GH) | There are far too many Asteroids clones out there for me to bother… | Low priority |
| 2D perspective, strictly limited to aerial combat. | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Atelier Marie | Long-running franchise with a lot of sequels. I don’t know jack about it so coming up with clone criteria will take some time. | Low priority |
(Konami Ant.) | A slightly more kid-friendly version of Pitfall. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Atlantis: The Lost Tales | ||
| Ayakashi Ninden Kunoichiban Plus | ||
Personal Talk | Table created, suitably populated | |
| BackGuiner (Franchise) | ||
Animal | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Bakuretsu Hunter (Franchise) | ||
| Baldy Land | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
The Arcade Game | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Batsugun | ||
| Battle Athletess Daiundoukai | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Naval combat game. The ships in a player’s fleet are moved on an overworld map. Encountering an enemy ship triggers a real-time 1v1 battle from an isometric top-down perspective, during which the player has full control over their warship. There are a number of games somewhat similar to this — the most prominent of which are the ones in the Navy Field franchise. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
(Arcade’s GH) | Keeping the list of similar games to just BZ clones that use vector graphics might be a way to prevent things from getting too lengthy. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Beach de Reach! | ||
| Big Thanks Super Keirin: Dream with Keirin 50 Years | ||
(Dezaemon 2) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Bishoujo Variety Game: Rapyulus Panic | A minigame collection featuring anime girls that you defeat and partially undress. There is an attempt to mix in adventure elements, but it’s so underdeveloped that it may as well not be there. | Low priority |
| Black/Matrix | ||
| Blam! Machinehead | ||
| Blast Chamber | ||
| Blast Wind | ||
| Blazing Dragons | ||
| Blue Breaker: Ken yorimo Hohoemi wo | ||
| Blue Seed: The Secret Records of Kushinada | ||
| Bomberman (Franchise) | Huge franchise, lotta clones… I could narrow things down by keeping it more in line with the aesthetics or gameplay innovations of Saturn Bomberman — unfortunately, I think the latter is mostly limited to the expansive multiplayer mode. Ugh… Also gotta account for Bomberman Fight and Bomberman Wars. | Low priority |
| Bouken Katsugeki Mono Mono | ||
| Brain Dead 13 | ||
| Break Thru! | ||
| Bubble Bobble (Franchise) | Symphony is pretty much just BB2 and there are a ton of BB clones to pick from. There are also a crapload of a Puzzle Bobble clones, so putting those two under the same table might get confusing. And then there’s Rainbow Islands too… | Low priority |
| Bubbles (Arcade’s GH) | ||
| Early 3D platformer where all stages are suspended in the air and movement is entirely limited to the four cardinal directions. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Transformable mech shooter with a multi-lock homing missile mechanic when in fighter mode. Levels generally allow ground combat, but flight tends to be the best approach in most cases. The defining feature here is the collectible female navigators, which pop up on screen to relay information to the pilot and provide various perks and stat boosts. Indie title Nightshift Galaxy is specifically inspired by this game. Other than that, the next closest games might be a few of the early 3D Macross titles. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| A Burnin’ Rubber (Bump ‘n’ Jump) fangame created in Dezaemon 2. Table will be added in the next big update. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Can Can Bunny (Franchise) | ||
| Casper | ||
(Sega Ages) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | Who hasn’t done a Symphony of the Night clone at this point? This would take quite a while, and I’d probably end up adding about half-a-dozen clones every damn year for a piss poor PS1-to-Saturn conversion. If Konami didn’t care, then why should I? | Low priority |
| Cat the Ripper: 13-ninme no Tanteishi | ||
| Centipede (Arcade’s GH) | There’s a ton of Centipede clones out there, but not so many that this would feel impossible. | Medium priority |
| In terms of similar games, I’m looking for sci-fi-themed first-person railshooters where the graphics are either pseudo-3D via sprite scaling, prerendered 3D via FMV, or outright 3D polygons. Generally speaking, the player should be in some sort of spacecraft or futuristic fighter that automatically moves about at a fairly quick and smooth pace while the player simply aims a reticule and fires. Try to avoid games of this type that incorporate static ground combat segments like Rebel Assault. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Chibi Maruko-chan no Taisen Pazurudama | One of the many versions of Puzzle-dama, which was Konami’s take on Puyo Puyo. Tokimeki Memorial also has a Puzzle-dama spinoff on the system. | Low priority |
Watarasebashi / Lala Sunshine | Table created, suitably populated | |
The Ultimate Man’s Counterattack | Gotta find other homoerotic shmups (not something I ever expected to find myself saying). Preliminary searches haven’t yielded much in the way of similar games, but Wikipedia mentions a couple unrelated ones in which CA characters appear, so at least there’s that. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Choro Q Park | Takara has farmed out the Choro Q license to various development studios across three decades, so there are quite a few games I could list here. That said, I’m not sure if I want to do that or narrow things down to Choro Q games that play a bit more like the Saturn title — so think kart racer-esque item pickups or the mid-race car swapping mechanic. | Low priority |
| Civilization: Shin Sekai Shichidai Bunmei | ||
for Sega Saturn | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| ClockWerx | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
Moujiya | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Columns Arcade Collection (Sega Ages) | Medium priority | |
(Konami Ant.) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Command & Conquer | Dune II is a predecessor, some Petroglyph titles could possibly be considered successors. Haven’t exactly nailed down the criteria for clones. There are already tons of suggestions out there for C&C clones, so I’ve got a starting point. Just gotta get around to reviewing game footage myself to confirm. | Medium priority |
| Contra: Legacy of War | Probably the worst Contra game to appear on a game console. LoW isn’t worth wasting my time on while there are still a ton of much better games that I’ve yet to tackle. | Low priority |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
Graveyard Edition | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Right now the table is mostly populated by horizontal cute-’em-ups featuring witches, which — admittedly — are sorta superficial points of comparison. It might be worth throwing in other horizontal shmups that use fighting game commands such as Ai Chou Aniki (Sol Divide will definitely be added since it’s a confirmed influence). | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| CrimeWave | I’ve found a number of police-themed, top-down, free-roaming driving games, but I don’t think any of them emphasize vehicular combat to the extent of blowing up your opponent using military-grade weapons, lol. | Low priority |
| Criticom | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Cross Tantei Monogatari: Motsureta Nanatsu no Labyrinth | ||
City of Angels, The | Table created, seeking to expand | |
The Battle Action | Crows has some staff overlap with the Kunio-kun games, so they can probably be listed as spiritual predecessors. There’s also a number of other beat-’em-ups out there with the whole chibi/super-deformed thing going on. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Crusader: No Remorse | ||
| It’s part of that brief transitional stage for gun shooters where the levels were either pseudo-3D or fully 3D environments, but the targets were all sprites. I guess you could compare it to something like Alien 3: The Gun, but that doesn’t quite hit the mark thematically. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Cube Battler (Franchise) | It seems unlikely that there’s anything out there remotely close to this strange FMV puzzle game. I’ll keep looking though… | Low priority |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Cyber Doll | ||
Virtual-On | Table created, suitably populated | |
Fullmetal Madness | 2D mech fighter with big chonky sprites and somewhat slower combat. The Gundam: Battle Assault games are probably the closest analog. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Cyberia | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| D-Xhird | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Daisenryaku (Franchise) | ||
| Giant robotic marine life and lots of it. Got at least two clone candidates so far… | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Dark Seed (Franchise) | Low priority | |
| Darklight Conflict | ||
| Darkstalkers (Franchise) | Low priority | |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Dead or Alive | ||
| Deadalus | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Escape from the Quarantined City | Table created, suitably populated | |
| DeathMask | There’s more than a few cyberpunk FMV games — in fact, I’ve already got several listed in the Blue Chicago Blues table… | High priority |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Defcon 5 | ||
| Defender (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Dennou Tenshi (Franchise) | ||
| Denpa Shounenteki Game (Franchise) | ||
| Train simulation has pretty much morphed into its own subgenre since Densha de Go! became a thing. The best way to tackle this would probably be listing train sims that still maintain some arcade elements to them. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Deroon Dero Dero | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
Appendix CD-ROM for Sega Saturn | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Device Reign | ||
Code Name “Zivernauts” (Dezaemon 2) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Digital Dance Mix, Vol. 1: Namie Amuro | As far as I can tell, Namie Amuro has never starred in any other video game, and no one else has ever created a glorified tech demo featuring a dancing J-Pop idol. The EPS series on PlayStation might be the closest analog in that it too has FMV music videos featuring various J-Pop idols with some bare bones minigames tacked on. I’d also argue that Digital Dance Mix itself was intended to be a multi-volume series like EPS — in fact, it may actually have been Sega’s answer to that series since DDM released six months later. | Medium priority |
| Digital Monsters, Ver. S: Digimon Tamers | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
Bessatsu: i miss you | A goofy simulated recording studio, some minigames, and a music video. I haven’t been able to find anything else like it, and I doubt I ever will. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| DJ Wars | There are a few big DJ titles, but they’re actual rhythm games. DJ Wars, on the other hand, is a completely baffling simulation. A few indie games on Steam look sorta similar. | Low priority |
Penguin Land (SAMS, Vol. 2) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Donpachi (Franchise) | I hate danmaku… Thanks, Cave. Y’ruined shmups. | Lowest of low |
| Doom | The amount of games that Doom inspired is staggering… This would take forever. | Low priority |
| Doraemon: Nobita to Fukkatsu no Hoshi | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Dragon Ball (Franchise) | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Dragon Master Silk | ||
| Dragon Slayer (Franchise) | Remakes of first two Dragon Slayer titles, which are both top-down, fantasy-themed action role-playing-games that introduced the sort of bump combat seen in later RPGs like Hydlide and Ys. I’ve already identified more than a dozen other similar games, but I still need to explore a few more search avenues. | High priority |
| Dragonheart: Fire & Steel | ||
(Multimedia Discs) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Duke Nukem 3D | Low priority | |
| Dungeon Master Nexus | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| DX Jinsei Game (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| A dating sim that takes place at a magic school. This concept has been revisited more than a few times since this game came out. | Table created, suitably populated | |
Renaissance | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Eiyuu Shigan: Gal Act Heroism | ||
The Magnificent World | Table created, suitably populated | |
Legend of Dragoon | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Returns | Run-and-guns with a heavy emphasis on verticality via elevators. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
(Educational Games) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Eternal Melody | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Exed Exes (CG, Vol. 3) | ||
Oregon & Basic | Essentially real estate software w/ an interactive FMV home tour. There were probably at least a few other CD-ROMs like this produced during the ’90s, but now they’re buried in landfills amidst billions of America Online free trial discs… | Table created, seeking to expand |
| F1 Challenge | Aside from a few nifty car customization options, I’d argue that F1 Challenge doesn’t do much to stand out. Keeping the list of similar games exclusively to its Formula 1 racing sim contemporaries might be the best approach. Alternatively, turning to the Japanese version that features running announcer commentary could be a way of further limiting things. | Medium priority |
| Fantastep | ||
(Sega Ages) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Farland (Franchise) | ||
| Fatal Fury (Franchise) | ||
| Carmen Sandiego clone. Probably just wanna connect this one to CS since all other games like CS will obviously be copying CS rather than FC. There’s also another game based on one of Raymond Brigg’s other Christmas stories. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| FEDA Remake!: The Emblem of Justice | Low priority | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Fighter’s History Dynamite | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Final Fight Revenge | The weird Final Fight fighter… I’m not even sure where to begin with this oddball, lol. | Low priority |
| Find Love (Franchise) | ||
(Franchise) | The Fire Pro series is generally characterized by its large rosters, timing-based grappling system, and an expansive amount of moves that become more and more available as opponents wear down. There are a couple wrestling games that are said to play like this, but none of them resemble Fire Pro in terms of visuals. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Flash Sega Saturn (Promotional Discs) | High priority | |
(SAMS, Vol. 1) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Formula Grand Prix Team Unei Simulation | ||
Special Edition | I’d hazard to guess there aren’t a whole lot of realistic 3D kart racers out there, so this could be easily doable. | Table created, seeking to expand |
Through the Eyes of the Monster | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Slam Dunk: I Love Basketball | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Fully Cowled Mini Yonku | This is actually part of a franchise, I think, lol. As for similar games, the slot car stuff from Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 might fit the bill… | Low priority |
| Funky Fantasy | ||
| Funky Head Boxers (Franchise) | Finding some other boxing games where the characters have misshapen heads of some sort would be a good start. So far, nada… | Low priority |
| 3D futuristic railshooter featuring a multi-lock homing laser mechanic. Fellow Saturn title Panzer Dragoon could easily be a possible influence and should be listed as such. That said, G-Vector lacks the 360-degree camera, so I think it’s important not to include later railshooters with that camera rotation mechanic in this table. Furthermore, be careful not to add Star Fox 64 clones. While that game does include a lock-on attack, it does not launch multiple projectiles. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Gaia Breeder | ||
| Gakkou no Kaidan | I think we might have a Japanese take on the Night Trap / Double Switch formula here, but I’m not 100% positive. The player seems to be tasked with protecting a group of kids walking around an abandoned school, it’s mostly presented in FMVs, there’s a map that lets you jump from room to room, and a timer. I’m not sure that you’re actually trapping anything and all of the FMVs don’t seem to be constantly running in the background at the same time though. What do you guys think — close enough or nah? | Medium priority |
| Gal Jan | ||
| Galaxy Fight | ||
(Sega Ages) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Galaxy Fräulein Yuna (Franchise) | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Qix but with scantily clad girls. | Table created, suitably populated | |
for SegaSaturn | Unlike Dezaemon, Ochige Designer, or ASCII’s Tsukuru series, Game BASIC for SegaSaturn is game creation software that requires some degree of programming knowledge. This was a one-off release for Bits Laboratory, but many other consumer-grade programming kits for home consoles have been released by other companies. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Game of Life, The (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
The Game Paradise! | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Gebockers | Is it fair to call this a Virtual-On clone…? I’m not entirely convinced. | Meh… |
| Vertically scrolling, time travel-themed shooters. There’s also some design overlap with Toaplan’s earlier Truxton II. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Gekitotsu Koushien | 3D baseball sim based on Japan’s big high school tournaments that take place in the spring and summer at Koshien Stadium. | Medium priority |
| Closest annoying TV/movie-themed mascot platformer is probably Bug! Not sure if I want to compare them since the original Gex game plays nothing like Bug! Might have to just keep it to Gex ports, sequels, and compilations… | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Ghen War | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Girl Doll Toy | ||
Motion Puzzle (Franchise) | FMV jigsaw puzzles featuring models / beautiful women. | Table created, suitably populated |
Anarchy in the Nippon | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Golden Axe: The Duel | The distinguishing feature here revolves around how the super meter is charged — collecting potions by smacking around the imps that run onto the playfield during matches. I haven’t been able to find any fighter with a similar mechanic, so the only other obvious point of comparison for similar games would be theme, which in this case is a Conan-esque dark fantasy fighting game featuring weapons combat. | Low priority |
| Gotha (Franchise) | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Gradius (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
| Gran Chaser | Actually predates Wipeout — is it the first antigrav racer in 3D? How many other antigrav racers should I compare it to? Maybe just ones with a story mode…? | Medium priority |
(Dezaemon 2) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Grandia | I’ve seen some people compare Grandia to stuff like Child of Light and the Trails games. Not really sure though. I probably need to consult with people who are more into RPGs than I am… | Medium priority |
| Grandread | ||
| Great Adventure: St. Elmo’s Miracles, The | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Grid Runner | ||
| Super GT 24h, obviously. I guess I could add other 3D endurance racing games, but that’s basically a genre unto itself, so maybe don’t do that…? Gotta figure out the criteria or I’ll just be listing every single game that does Le Mans… | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Forced vertically scrolling shmup with multidirectional shooting. Should probably feature a tank or at least some sort of armored vehicle. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| At a bare minimum, I’d say a potential clone would need to use Guardian Heroes’ three-plane movement system. Incorporating expansive fighting game-style movesets, RPG elements, or branching paths would be big pluses too. | Created table, suitably populated | |
| Gun Frontier (Arcade Gears) | Are there any other sci-fi meets Old West-themed shmups out there? Sadly, I’ve yet to find anything else… | Medium priority |
| Nothing about Gunbird’s gameplay is particularly novel. What really makes it stand out is its presentation — a sort of weird blend of cute-’em-up mixed with an early industrial/sci-fi/fantasy setting. Of particular note is the constant presence of and interactions with a rather comedic gang of pirates that are probably modeled after the villains of the Time Bokan anime series or one of their many, many derivatives. The only other game that I’ve found that’s obviously trying to mirror Gunbird in these ways is AngerForce. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| GunBlaze S | ||
(Franchise) | A first-person 3D mech combat simulator. I’d argue that what sets Gungriffon apart from so many others is the VOTOMS-esque dash, which makes for a much more fast-paced gameplay experience. The Heavy Gear series seem to be the only other big commercial mech sims to adopt this mechanic. | Table created, seeking to expand |
(CG, Vol. 4) | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Franchise) | Lemmings x Tetris | Table created, suitably populated |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Hang-On GP [’95/’96] | It’s so easy to look at a motorcycle racing game and compare it to either Hang-On or Super Hang-On because those games are so distinctive. Hang-On GP, on the other hand, is not… It’s just a generic closed circuit 3D motor cycle racer, which makes it difficult to come up with a narrow list of similar titles. | Low priority |
| Hansha de Spark! | Often compared to Bomberman, but this game has a much higher emphasis on playfield manipulation. | Low priority |
| Hardcore 4×4 | ||
| Harukaze Sentai V-Force | ||
| Haunted Casino | There are plenty of strip poker/blackjack/etc. games out there, but finding something that mixes in adventure game elements is key here. So far, I’ve come up empty. | Low priority |
(SAMS, Vol. 1) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Essentially real estate software w/ an interactive FMV home tour. There were probably at least a few other CD-ROMs like this produced during the ’90s, but now they’re buried in landfills amidst billions of America Online free trial discs… | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Heiwa Pachinko Soushingeki | Medium priority | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
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| Hi-Octane | ||
| High School Terra Story | ||
| Hissatsu! | ||
| Hop Step Idol | ||
| Horde, The | An early top-down tower defense game that tasks the player with defending medieval towns against rampaging hordes of goblins. You can construct obstacles and traps, hire mercenaries, and buy weapons and abilities for the player-controlled hero character to use during the defense phase. Towns will grow or decline automatically between phases and generate income depending on how well they’re managed and protected. Said income must be put toward paying taxes but can also be reinvested in defense or further income generation. I’ve yet to find another game that combines most of these elements. | Low priority |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Houma Hunter Lime Perfect Collection | ||
Dead, The | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Horizontal shooter featuring a flying transformable mech. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Hyper Securities S | ||
| Idol Mahjong: Final Romance (Franchise) | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Impact Racing | ||
| Submarine-themed horizontal shooter with that classic Metal Slug-esque visual style. Sub moves right sticking mostly just below the water’s surface and has a couple different ways to fire. Clones should adhere to most of these points. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, The | ||
| Independence Day | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
Zico no Kangaeru Soccer | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Jantei Battle Cos-Player | There are a couple other cosplay-themed mahjong games out there. I think this would be a pretty easy game to cover. | Medium priority |
Blue Chicago Blues | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Jewels of the Oracle | Low priority | |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu (Franchise) | Chibi/SD baseball franchise. ID’d at least two similar. | Medium priority |
| Jikuu Tantei DD | ||
| Johnny Bazookatone | ||
(Arcade’s GH) | Balloon Fight is the first really obvious Joust clone and probably spawned a crapload of clones of its own. Just gotta make sure other clones are modeled more after Joust than BF. | Table created, suitably populated |
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Saturn Island | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Squadron 2 | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| King of Fighters, The (Franchise) | ||
(Konami Ant.) | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Konami Ant.) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Koi no Summer Fantasy: in Miyazaki Seagaia | As far as I can tell, Megumi Okina never appeared in any other game, but I’d bet there are probably a few other dating sims out there that feature real world Japanese celebrities. | Low priority |
| Konami Rally (Konami Ant.) | ||
| Krazy Ivan | ||
| Kumitate Battle: Kuttu Ketto | ||
| Kunoichi Detective Story | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Kyuukyoku Tiger II Plus | Low priority | |
| Kyuutenkai is clearly aping Compile’s Crush series of multipart scrolling digital pinball tables but with a cutesy anime theme instead of sci-fi or horror. There have been plenty of other digital pinball games since then that copy the Crush formula, but I’ve yet to find one that patterns itself after Technosoft’s take. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Tokyo Bangaichi | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo, The | Dragon Slayer spinoff. I’m not sure yet if it’s going to get its own table or only appear under the Dragon Slayer (Franchise) one. | Low priority |
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes | There seem to be several more LotGH strategy games by the company that made this… | Low priority |
| Lifescape: Life’s Four Billion Year Journey | Low priority | |
| Lifescape 2: Body Bionics | Low priority | |
| Linda³ | Low priority | |
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| Loaded | ||
| Lode Runner (Franchise) | There are a ton of games based on Lode Runner and/or Alien Panic. | Low priority |
| Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest | High priority | |
| Lost World: Jurassic Park, The | Low priority | |
| An interactive children’s adventure using clickable animated pictures displayed within a storybook motif. A number of games have done this, including a few more by Romain Victor-Pujebet. | Table created, suitably populated | |
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| Lunar (Franchise) | New collection makes me want to get these on the list sooner rather than later. Not really sure about clones. Everyone says Pier Solar. Saw a few others compare it to Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Gotta consult RPG fans… | Medium priority |
| Master File and Chronicles are multimedia discs about the various Lupin anime produced up to that time. The First TV Series Encyclopedia CD-ROM is basically an earlier version of these. The Sage of the Pyramid is a Tomb Raider clone. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Macross: DYRL? | Pretty much identical to the second Zeta Gundam game. Might be able to find some other horizontal-scrolling Macross games w/ an “Itano Circus” lock-on mechanic and the transformations. | Medium priority |
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| Magic Knight Rayearth | ||
| Magical Drop (Franchise) | ||
(Konami Ant.) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Mahjong Hyper Reaction R | ||
| Mahjong Tenshi Angel Lips | ||
| Mahoutsukai ni Naru Houhou | ||
Hidden Souls, The | Table created, suitably populated | |
Super Bike | There is a modern Manx TT franchise, but — of course — it’s very much a racing sim that feels and plays nothing like the Sega arcade racer. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Marica: Shinjitsu no Sekai | ||
| Martian Successor Nadesico (Franchise) | The Sega-developed Nadesico title on the Saturn has a fairly similar FMV combat system to the Sega-developed Evangelion one that was released about a year earlier. I’m sorta hesitant to mark them as similar games though because the Eva game isn’t also a love sim. I dunno… | |
| Marvel (Fighting Games) | Probably shouldn’t be too hard. Just link them to the Capcom fighters they borrow elements from and map out the franchise. | Medium priority |
| Mass Destruction | There’s a few games like this one. Shouldn’t be too hard. | High priority |
| Master of Monsters: Neo Generations | ||
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| Mechanical Violator Hakaider | ||
| MechWarrior 2 | ||
Daisuke Asakura | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Mega Man (Franchise) | Identifying Mega Man clones isn’t that difficult. There just happen to be a lot of them… | Low priority |
| Megami Tensei (Franchise) | ||
| MeltyLancer (Franchise) | ||
(Personal Ads Discs) | Table created, suitably populated | |
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| Minami no Shima ni Buta ga Ita: Lucas no Daibouken | ||
| Missile Command (Arcade’s GH) | Low priority | |
Daibouken | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Gundam (Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Sega Saturn (Disc Magazine) | This was Sega’s official disc magazine for Saturn. Dreamcast Express acted as a successor and Pre-Pre (Play-Play) was the direct competitor. I should have this table published as part of a big update planned for late summer, possibly early autumn. | Table created, suitably populated |
(SAMS, Vol. 2) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Monster Slider | ||
| Moon Cradle | ||
(Konami Ant.) | A fairly easy top-down maze game where the player is tasked with collecting baby mice while avoiding or attacking hostiles. The maze is flooded though, so speed will be reduced when moving against a current. I have seen this mechanic duplicated using conveyor belts in a few other maze games like Pac-Man Arrangment (2005) and I’m Sorry, but I can’t think of any others where it’s employed to the same extent as in Mopiranger. Feels like there should be more, so I’m going to keep searching… In the meantime, I went ahead and added a table since I found a fan remake. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Mortal Kombat (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
with Ganbare! Kamonohashi | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Mr. Bones | Musically-themed horror title that makes heavy use of FMV. In terms of genre, it’s all over the place. Sometimes it’s a platformer, sometimes it’s a shooter, other times it’s a rhythm game… I enjoy Mr. Bones, but it’s definitely a game that doesn’t really know what it wants to be, and that makes the prospect of finding anything similar to it extremely unlikely. | Low priority |
| My Best Friends: St. Andrew’s Girls School | Scantily-clad anime girls in jigsaw puzzles, accompanied by light nudity in a few of the FMVs. There’s no shortage of stuff like this out there. | Low priority |
| Myst (Franchise) | I’d say the hallmarks of a Myst-type adventure are isolation (especially on an island), puzzle solving, and potentially using some sort of medium to move between ages or worlds. There are a ton of games like that to sort through though… | Low priority |
| Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari | The Wonder Project J games are both Givro titles that share some common staff and themes with NKnSM, but are basically raising sims, so I don’t think they’re quite close enough. I’ve seen one person compare it to the Samorost games, and I can kinda see it… Kinda. | Low priority |
| NASCAR ’98 | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Closest thing might be Final Fight. The father resembles Mike Haggar quite a bit, so that’s one fairly obvious connection at a glance. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Evangelion (Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Next King: The Eternal Kingdom of Love | ||
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| Nile-gawa no Yoake | Low priority | |
| Although unrelated in both story and genre, Taito’s Legend of Kage series pretty much recycled Hayate’s character design — especially for promotional artwork. I think those games could safely be listed as pseudo-sequels. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Ninja Jajamaru-kun | Not sure I’m gonna find anything quite like the Saturn/PS1 games. The one Goemon game on the N64 might be the closest thing. There’s a bunch of games in this franchise worth listing even if I can’t find anything else that’s similar. | Medium priority |
(SAMS, Vol. 2) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Ninkuu: Tsuyokina Yatsura no Daigekitotsu! | ||
| Ninpen Manmaru | ||
| No-Appointment Gals Olympos | ||
Home Trade | Online stock trading software that connected through the Sega Saturn Modem. Dreamcast has a port or successor by the same name, and Famicom has more than a dozen produced by various Japanese investment companies in the late ’80s. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Nonomura Byouin no Hitobito | ||
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| Nouvelle Fanpasia Gulliver Boy | ||
| Design software for creating user-made games in the falling puzzle piece genre. So far I’ve been unable to find anything else like it. Considering that there’s all sorts of software like this for RPGs, shooters, and even sound novels, that’s kinda surprising! | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| I’ve got the Ogre Battle side of this table covered pretty well, but I need to more clearly define what counts as a Tactics Ogre clone and find some games that meet that definition. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Yasuhiko no Sekai o Mezase! Soccer Kids: Nyuumon-hen | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Ousama Game | Essentially just a collection of minigames with some scantily-clad models as your reward for winning, but the whole premise is supposed to revolve around the Japanese children’s game where “the King” (O-sama) orders everyone around. I guess you could say it’s like truth or dare without the truth component. I bet there’s probably a ton of stuff like this out there but searching it out isn’t a high priority for me. | Low priority |
(Sega Ages) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Food Fighters! | I know the creators specifically cite Saturn Bomberman as their inspiration, but I can’t help but see Atari’s Food Fight. Both will be included in the table along with a few Food Fight clones. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Pacific Theater of Operations II | ||
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| Paneltia Story: Köln’s Great Adventure | Paneltia’s main gimmick revolves around constructing the world around you as you explore it. You collect map panels from defeated enemies which can then be placed on a map grid and explored. I don’t know how I’d even go about searching for other RPGs with a similar mechanic to this, lol. | Low priority |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Pappara Paoon | Usually compared to Columns. | Low priority |
| Parodius (Franchise) | Obviously spun off from Gradius and features some characters who are either from or went on to appear in other Konami games. As for similar games, there are a lot of wacky horizontal-scrolling cute-’em-ups out there. I guess singling out ones that use the Gradius power-up system would be a good way to go… Y’know, that or ones featuring lots of giant women. | Medium priority |
| Pastel Muses | Puzzle Bobble on a horizontal playfield. Shot placement also depends on how long the player holds down the fire button. | Medium priority |
(SAMS, Vol. 1) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Phantasm | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Photo Genic | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
(Konami Ant.) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Higemaru (CG, Vol. 3) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Planet Joker | Low priority | |
(Karaoke Discs) | Japan has released a ton of 18+ karaoke discs, but they’re not very well documented. I’ve managed to touch upon quite a few in this table, but I’m still missing information on Videodisc Karaoke and Nikkatsu Roman Karaoke — the latter of which, I think, runs at least 22 volumes. There are also a bunch of Thai karaoke releases that seem like they’re pretty risque though not necessarily fully nude. Definitely a table I’ll have to revisit eventually. | Table created, suitably populated |
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| Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon SuperS: Various Emotion | There are four other Sailor Moon fighting games and one based on its predecessor manga Sailor V. I’m betting there might be a fan game or two out there as well. In terms of theme, there do appear to be some magical girl fighters that could be included as similar games, but I’d probably be casting too wide of a net. Perhaps best to limit it to ones where they’re wearing sailor uniforms…? | Low priority |
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| Princess Quest | ||
| Prisoner of Ice | ||
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The Web | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Pro Yakyuu Team mo Tsukurou! | Another super-deformed baseball franchise on Saturn — the other being the Power Pros games. This one seems to strictly be a management sim though. | Medium priority |
| Psychotron, The | ||
(Arcade Gears) | I swear, the dude who came up with this game must’ve been on an acid trip while watching something made by Hayao Miyzaki or Isao Takahata — the girl character, in particular, reminds me of Anne Shirley from 1979’s Anne of Green Gables television series. Sadly, I don’t think there’s anything else out there like Pu-Li-Ru-La, but I do know of at least one crossover it has with another Taito title. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Pup-Breeder | ||
| Puyo Puyo (Franchise) | The sheer number of Puyo clones out there makes me reluctant to touch this anytime soon. | Low priority |
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
(Sega Ages) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Quake | Low priority | |
Prelude to a Nightmare | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Quarterback Attack | Medium priority | |
| QuoVadis (Franchise) | ||
| R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital | Low priority | |
| 2D fighter featuring stands à la Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Naturally, the most obvious similar game is the 1998 Jojo’s arcade title. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| A game resembling Radiant Silvergun would give the player access to far more than the typical amount of weapons that could be employed at will, but still require that the correct one is used in just the right situation. Must be a vertically scrolling shooter. Frequent boss encounters is a huge plus. | Table created, suitably populated | |
World Tour | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Mainly need to figure out how to parse the many, many Rayman 1 releases. Adventures of Lomax definitely replicates Rayman’s visual style. Rayman Redemption and Rayman 4 You as fan projects. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Surprisingly, I stumbled across a Real Sound fangame, so I figured it would be worth creating a table for it — even if I haven’t thoroughly looked into other similar games yet. And yeah, there definitely should be at least a few adventure games in this mold since video games for the blind are much more prevalent these days. Heck, audiogames.net has a database of their own that I can sort through. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Resident Evil | Low priority | |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
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| Riglordsaga (Franchise) | ||
| Road & Track Presents the Need for Speed | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Road Fighter (Konami Ant.) | Medium priority | |
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| Robo Pit | Seen some comparisons to VO but with a ton of customization. I guess that kinda makes it more like Custom Robo? Also has a sequel. | Medium priority |
| Robotron: 2084 (Arcade’s GH) | Single-screen, top-down, multi-directional shooter with a futuristic robot theme and some trippy screen transitions. A clone would need to satisfy most of these criteria. I’ve already found a few but want to dig a little deeper before posting a table. | High priority |
| Ronde | ||
| Roommate (Franchise) | ||
| Rox | Falling puzzle game where the pieces that drop are dice. MobyGames has a pretty good explanation of the rules here. Anyway, Stakk’M from the Maxi-15 game pack on NES and Mr. Dice on Atari ST exhibit some similarities but neither seem close enough, IMO. | Low priority |
| Sakura Wars (Franchise) | Grid-based TRPG w/ visual novel and dating sim elements accompanied by a steampunk Taisho-era setting featuring mechs… Unsurprisingly, finding something that checks all those boxes has proven impossible. But even limiting it to just the previously mentioned gameplay elements won’t get you much closer to a Sakura Wars clone. The most comparable titles are probably ones like Sparkling Feather, Thousand Arms, or the Growlanser games, but I’m not sure any of them come quite close enough. Input from an RPG aficionado would be greatly appreciated. | Low priority |
(SAMS, Vol. 2) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Samurai Spirits (Franchise) | The easy answer is “2D fighting game w/ bladed weapons combat,” but that’s still probably too broad. Also want to avoid accidentally listing games that take more from Bushido Blade’s gameplay style which is more geared toward striking a fatal blow. I should probably consult w/ people who know fighting games better than me before proceeding. | Medium priority |
| Sankyo Fever (Franchise) | Low priority | |
(Promotional Discs) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Saturn Music School (Franchise) | Educational music software that’s compatible with the Saturn’s MIDI keyboard adapter. The same company that released this also made O.to.i.Re: Dreamcast Sequencer, which can use a MIDI keyboard as well but doesn’t seem to be educational software. I’m not sure whether I want to connect them together or not. | High priority |
| Savaki | ||
Protector Man (Game-Ware, Vol. 3) | A 3D Breakout clone. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Scorcher | ||
| Scud the Disposable Assassin | ||
World by Train: Switzerland Ed. | The first in a series of interactive travel guides produced for the Japanese television show “See the World by Train.” Subsequent volumes were only released on PC, and I’ve documented them all in the table as it currently exists. Similar products like the “Guide to North America’s Tourist Railways and Museums” CD-ROM do seem to exist and should be added at some point. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| While Sega Rally has been cited as a source of inspiration for several subsequent rally titles, many of these tend to push gameplay into a more sim-oriented direction. Personally, I believe a real Sega Rally-type game needs things like in-game music, a countdown timer, checkpoints, and the ability to race an entire field of drivers all at once across multiple stages of a championship. | Table created, suitably populated | |
de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park | Could possibly add some more Tamagotchi games besides the “…de Hakken!!” titles — especially considering that branding really doesn’t mean much in terms of how the games are related to one another. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Sega Saturn Electronic Book Operator | Wonder Library on Mega CD is the obvious Sega-comp. Lotta homebrew ebook readers on other hardware. | Medium priority |
Championship | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Shinkenyuugi | Table created, suitably populated | |
Pretty Fighter (Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Sengoku Blade | The feudal Japan theme makes it comparable to a few of the games in the Aleste series, but I’m not really sure if that’s enough to warrant their inclusion — especially since Blade, unlike Ace, scrolls horizontally and features flying people. It’s not all that special mechanically. You’ve got a main shot, a sub shot (in the form of a familiar) that can be charged for more damage, and a bomb. | Medium priority |
| Senkutsu Katsuryuu Taisen Chaos Seed | ||
| Sentimental Graffiti (Franchise) | ||
| Shadows of the Tusk | ||
| Shellshock | ||
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| Shining (Franchise) | Never played a Shining game and probably never will, so I’m not really sure what makes them stand out compared to other RPGs. Still, Shining Force III is one of the biggest RPGs on the system, so I have to look into this eventually… | Low priority |
| Shinobi Legions | Just gotta be careful not to fall into the Ninja Gaiden trap… | Medium priority |
| Shinouken | ||
| Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru | I don’t think there is anything out there quite like Taromaru. HG101’s article on the game does compare the shooting mechanic to the one in Alisia Dragoon, and that does appear to be somewhat apt. Still, the two are pretty different otherwise. And yeah, the sheer amount of boss fights Taromaru throws at you does feel very reminiscent of a Treasure title, but I can’t exactly point to any single example and say “these two are very similar!” Not sure where to go from here. | Medium priority |
Daisakusen | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Shockwave Assault | ||
| Shutokou Battle (Franchise) | Maybe just keep clones to Japanese highway racing games of the era. | Medium priority |
| Shutsudou! Mini-skirt Police | ||
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| SimCity 2000 | Maxis pioneered the whole city-building simulation genre through the SimCity franchise. One could liken any number of games to it, but it would probably be best to keep things limited to generic modern city builders à la Cities: Skylines. | Low priority |
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| A zoo simulator (duh). This is a fairly expansive simulation subgenre, so to keep things under control, I think it’s best to limit entries to zoo simulators that use sprites and are presented from an isometric perspective. | Table created, suitably populated | |
(SAMS, Vol. 2) | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Arcade’s GH) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Skeleton Warriors | ||
| Sky Jaguar (Konami Ant.) | Medium priority | |
Featuring Magic & Kareem | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Slayers (Franchise) | ||
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| Sol Divide | Horizontal flying guy shooter w/ RPG elements and ugly digitized sprites. I don’t think anyone ever replicated that formula, lol. | Low priority |
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| Söldnerschild | ||
| Solo Crisis | Solo Crisis was pieced together from the remains of a cancelled ActRaiser remake, so that’s at least one connection I can draw. As for clones, I’ve yet to find any other god games that use the top/bottom world mechanic. | Low priority |
| Sonic Council | Low priority | |
| Sonic Wings Special | There’s a new Sonic Wings game coming, so it’s at least worth mapping out the franchise, if nothing else. SW/AF was pretty popular, so I figure there has to be at least a few similar games too, right…? Probably no other dolphin pilots though! | Medium priority |
Hedgehog | Table created, suitably populated | |
(CG, Vol. 3) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Sorvice | ||
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| Sound Novel Machi | Spike/Chunsoft made quite a few games like this. There’s also a successor of sorts that came out in the 2010s, IIRC. Should be pretty easy to do. | High priority |
Tsukuru 2 System) | There’s a couple of these… | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Sound Qube | An audio puzzle game where you use sonar to correctly identify, group, and eliminate similar pieces of a floating space cube. As far as I can tell, nothing has ever come close to approximating Sound Qube’s gameplay. | Low priority |
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| Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels | ||
| Space Invaders | ||
| Spartan X (Irem AC) | The first beat-’em-up, so it’s relatively simplistic. Clones should have no lateral movement and no platforming. Maybe keep it to just martial arts-themed ones. | Medium priority |
| Spot Goes to Hollywood | Isometric mascot platformer with shooting and puzzle elements. I guess you could compare it to something like SteamGear Mash, but I feel like that one leans more heavily on shooting than platforming. Might be worth exploring other games featuring recognizable advertising mascots to find one that sorta looks and plays like this one. | Low priority |
(Franchise) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| StarFighter 3000 | Medium priority | |
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| SteamGear Mash | ||
| Steep Slope Sliders | Low priority | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Strahl: The Seven Hidden Lights | Closest thing is probably Time Gal or Space Ace, but it’s much more serious than either of those. Not exactly great fits for points of comparison. | Low priority |
| Street Fighter (Franchise) | This’ll take a while… | Low priority |
| Street Racer [Extra] | A goofy kart racer with combat more akin to something like Road Rash than Mario Kart. | Low priority |
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| Obvious point of comparison is probably Capcom’s 194X series of games. Strikers series dials up the absurdity by introducing future tech and aliens into the WWII setting. I’ve been able to find at least a few other shmups that kinda fit this mold. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Suchie-Pai (Franchise) | ||
| Suiko Enbu | Fighting game based on the Chinese novel Water Margin. Japan seems to love that tale almost as much as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more similarly-themed fighters. | Low priority |
| Suikoden | I know next to nothing about this franchise other than the fact that it’s based on Water Margin, but the recent remaster or whatever it is probably means I should get around to it. | Medium priority |
| Super Breakout (Arcade’s GH) | ||
| Super Cobra (Konami Ant.) | Scramble with a helicopter, Super Cobra is a horizontal shooter with a standard forward shot, a secondary shot for ground targets, and a constantly depleting fuel gauge. Meet those criteria and you’ve got yourself a Super Cobra clone… | Medium priority |
| Super Real Mahjong (Franchise) | ||
| Super Robot Wars (Franchise) | Medium priority | |
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| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Sword & Sorcery | ||
| T&E Golf Games | There’s a lot of stuff that uses this engine. As for defining features that can be used to find similar titles, I’d say look for golf games that utilize digitized sprites and have caddies or other golfers pop up on screen to comment on your shots. | Medium priority |
| Tactical Fighter | ||
| Tactics Formula | ||
| Tadaima Wakusei Kaitakuchuu! | ||
Plus S.C.I. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Taiyou no Shinden: Asteka II (Falcom Classics II) | ||
| Taklamakan: Tonkou Denki | Low priority | |
Ball in Giddy Labyrinth | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Disc Magazine) | This was ASCII’s Saturn disc magazine that was bundled with the print magazine of the same name. ASCII also ran several other print and disc mags under the Tech moniker, including sister publication Tech PlayStation. | Table created, suitably populated |
| Techno Motor | There’s a ton of music creation software for game consoles out there. | Medium priority |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Tenant Wars | Mall Madness meets Monopoly in video game form. | Low priority |
| Tenchi Muyou (Franchise) | ||
Sekiheki no Tatakai | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Tengai Makyou: Daiyon no Mokushiroku | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Terra Phantastica | ||
| Tetris (Franchise) | There’s not enough time left before the heat death of the universe to document every Tetris clone in existence. | — |
Arcana Senki | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Theme Park | ||
| Thor: Chronicles of the Elemental King | ||
| Those Who Hunt Elves (Franchise) | ||
| Three Dirty Dwarves | Comical beat-’em-up that allows for a single player to switch between three characters on the fly. Haven’t found anything like it yet. | Low priority |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Tilk: Aoi Umi kara Kita Shoujo | I’ve seen Tilk compared to the Wonder Project J games, but it doesn’t seem to play anything like them. In terms of the art style though, I can definitely see it. Hell, they appear so similar that it’s hard to imagine one didn’t influence the creators of the other. It might be worth scanning through JP Wikipedia or googling both titles in Japanese to see what folks on the other side of the Pacific have to say. | Low priority |
| Time Bokan Series Bokan to Ippatsu! Doronboo Kanpekiban | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Time Pilot (Konami Ant.) | Another time travel-themed shmup à la Gekirindan. This one is multidirectional though. Seeing as how I kept the Gekirindan table to vertically scrolling time travel shooters, I should probably be looking for multidirectional time travel shooters here. | Medium priority |
| Time Commando | ||
| Tokimeki Mahjong (Franchise) | ||
| Tokimeki Memorial (Franchise) | Low priority | |
JSWAT | An underwhelming police-themed boomer shooter with a stiflingly claustrophobic field of view, J-SWAT is probably more notable for being one of the few examples of Japan’s take on the genre than anything else. Regardless, it feels like there should be something reminiscent of it — I just haven’t invested much time in sniffing it out. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Tokyo Shadow | ||
| Tomb Raider | I mainly want games that look and play similar to the first three Tomb Raider titles. I’ve already ID’d a few. Mapping out the TR franchise itself will be annoying though. It’s pretty big… | Medium priority |
| Touge (Franchise) | Probably best to keep clones to mountain racing games of the same era. | Medium priority |
| Toushinden (Franchise) | I could probably copy over most of the Last Bronx table w/ a few alterations. | Medium priority |
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| Transport Tycoon | ||
| Trash It | ||
| True Pinball | True Pinball is one of several pinball games DICE developed before they became known for Battlefield. I’ve already got their stuff mapped out, but I’m not sure whether to include some of the later games that were marketed as sequels but developed by other companies. | High priority |
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| Tssuukai!! Slot Shooting | An beach/ocean-themed puzzle shooter w/ a slot machine mechanic. Not exactly comparable to TSS since destroying puzzle pieces feeds them into the slot machine rather than being an attack. | Low priority |
| Tunnel B1 | ||
| Defining characteristic of these games is probably the bell power-up system. Might wanna look for other cute-’em-ups with something similar. Punching ships probably started with this series too. There are a few things on itch.io that kinda fit the bill. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Ultraman (Franchise) | ||
| Universal Nuts | ||
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
Hyper Science Adventure, The | Table created, seeking to expand | |
(SAMS, Vol. 1) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Vandal Hearts | ||
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
(Franchise) | Police-themed light gun shooter. The defining feature here is the zooming camera and reticules that materialize over targets that are about to fire upon the player. | Table created, suitably populated |
(Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Cameraman Simulation | Table created, suitably populated | |
Sega Saturn | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Virtuacall S | ||
| Virtual Hydlide | ||
| A fairly poor speedboat racing sim with a lot of customization options. Surprisingly, there’s like five or six games in this franchise, lol. | Table created, suitably populated | |
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(CG, Vol. 3) | Capcom’s first video game. Often compared to Xevious, but it doesn’t really play much like that game. Some influence on later Capcom shooters but not to any real significant extent. There does exist an aborted sequel which is playable. | Table created, seeking to expand |
| Wachenröder | An isometric strategy RPG with a run-down steampunk motif. Preliminary searches haven’t turned up anything similar. | Low priority |
| Waku Waku 7 | ||
| Wangan Dead Heat | Low priority | |
| Table created, suitably populated | ||
| Wara² Wars: Gekitou! Daigundan Battle | ||
| Warcraft II: The Dark Saga | Low priority | |
| Table created, seeking to expand | ||
| Whizz | ||
| Willy Wombat | ||
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| Wipeout (Franchise) | Antigrav racers have kinda become their own genre at this point, so coming up with a criteria to narrow things down would be good. I guess you definitely want to differentiate between those that take after F-Zero and those that are more like Wipeout. Not sure what else… Maybe keep it limited to lo-poly ones…? | Medium priority |
| Wizardry (Franchise) | ||
| Wizard’s Harmony (Franchise) | ||
Battlefield (Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Arcade Gears) | Table created, suitably populated | |
| World Heroes Perfect | ||
| SOA’s flagship baseball franchise spanning multiple Sega consoles, the Saturn incarnations of WSB are pretty much reskins of SOJ’s Greatest Nine. For comparable titles, I’m keeping it to sim-oriented 3D baseball games of the era that have either an MLB and/or MLBPA license. | Table created, suitably populated | |
| Worms | Turn-based artillery game featuring cute mascot characters. | Medium priority |
Virtual Shock (Franchise) | Table created, suitably populated | |
(Arcade Gears) | Table created, suitably populated | |
Konya wa 12-kaisen, The | Table created, suitably populated | |
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| Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Franchise) | Low priority | |
| Ys (Franchise) | Remakes of first two Ys games, which are both top-down, fantasy-themed action RPGs featuring bump combat. I’ve already identified more than a dozen similar games, but I still need to explore a few more search avenues and parse the Dragon Slayer games. | High priority |
Chants Love at the Bound of This World | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| Z lacks base building and resource management. Instead, the player needs to capture sectors with preexisting structures that pump out units at set intervals. Destroying your opponent’s fort or all their forces results in victory. My experience with the real-time strategy genre is mostly limited to the Command & Conquer, Age of Empires, and Total War franchises, so I’ll have to do some digging to find out if any other RTS games work like this. | Table created, seeking to expand | |
| Zanma Chou Ougi Valhollian | ||
| Zap! Snowboarding Trix (Franchise) | Low priority | |
The Final Conflict | Table created, seeking to expand | |
Doozy-J Type-R | Table created, seeking to expand | |
(Irem AC) | Table created, seeking to expand | |
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| Zork (Franchise) |
Outstanding Issues
- Footnotes for confirmed influences should probably be added at some point.
- At least some titles listed as spiritual sequels should probably be reclassified as spinoffs.
Furthermore, those spinoffs that do not carry the name of the franchise that spawned them might best be color coded in orange to better convey the connection.(Tried to implement, too confusing.)Spinoffs that do carry the franchise name might best be reclassified as “genre spinoffs” and left color coded in red. This distinction might be pedantic though. I dunno…(Same as above.)- For the sake of simplicity, older Japanese mobile releases are currently listed as J2ME. While most of these games are indeed Java, many are actually proprietary variants like BREW or DoJa. This is something I’d like to correct in the future.
- I’ve not differentiated between MSX and MSX2 releases. To be fair, few English language resources bother to do so, but I’d still like to rectify this at some point.
- Ditto for the FM Towns and FM Towns Marty.
- And also between any version of Macintosh or Windows. At the very least, I’d like to designate older Windows games as WIN1/2/3/9x and older Macintosh games as MAC-C (Macintosh Classic) to better set them apart from modern ports.
- Related to the last point, I have some of these PC ports listed by the software they’re using to make them playable on modern hardware (e.g. DOSBox, ScummVM, etc.). This probably isn’t ideal, and it’s been inconsistently applied.
- I’m also still deliberating whether or not LCD/LED/VFD games and consoles (ex: Tiger Electronics products) should be added.
- I’m thinking of going back and adding at least some collections/compilations that I previously omitted. Usually these contained games within a franchise but lacked games that appeared on Saturn.
- Adding fan ports and fan remakes of predecessors and sequels might be worth doing too.
- OG Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation is now officially supported on Windows, so I’ll have to get around to updating some entries once it becomes more clear what games will be available.
- Might want to add limited editions (genteiban), limited first editions (shokai genteiban), and premium versions for Saturn releases
- I’ve had to use Archive.today in lieu of Archive.org for certain entries (mostly auction pages). Recent developments necessitate finding a way to transfer some of those over to another archival project.