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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released June 1983
The first in a series of murder mystery games by Taito penned by and named for Japanese mystery writer Misa Yamamura. The game was released only in Japan for the Nintendo Famicom on December 11, 1987.
Shin Onigashima is a two disk adventure game released on the Famicom Disk System. Despite being first-party software, it was never released outside of Japan.
A graphic adventure/RPG for the Famicom Disk System developed by Square. The goal is to track down Cleopatra's cursed treasure while saving the main character's archeologist father.
A sci-fi horror adventure game developed by Enix.
The first installment in the long-running Tantei Jinguuji Saburo (Jake Hunter) series about the mystery behind the death of a young woman whose corpse was discovered in Shinjuku Central Park.
Sanma no Meitantei is a Japan-only text adventure mystery game produced by Namco for the Famicom. It features popular Japanese comedian Sanma Akashiya.
An early 1987 cyberpunk adventure game created by Jiro Ishii, who later went on to direct 428: Shibuya Scramble in 2008 and Time Travelers in 2012.
A Japan-only Sega Master System text adventure game featuring Sherlock Holmes.
An adventure game based on an anime film of the same name, published for the Famicom by Kemco.
A Famicom sci-fi adventure game developed by Squaresoft and released in 1986.
Known outside of Japan as "Takeshi's Challenge", this game is an unconventional action-adventure platformer created by famous Japanese comedian Beat Takeshi. Along with its open world exploration and mature themes, the game is known for its unorthodox game progression (where the game can easily be made unwinnable).
A sci-fi adventure game for the Famicom Disk System developed by SunSoft.
This adventure game has the player searching ancient Mayan temples for a lost professor and his team.
Originally released in 1986, J.B. Harold: Murder Club is the first entry in the long-running noir adventure game series.
Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.
Will: The Death Trap II is a video game developed and published by Squaresoft in 1985, for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1 computers. Developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the game was a technical milestone for its real-time animated cutscenes, rendered using animated bitmap graphics, as well as its soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii in 1985 about a young man trying to find the sister of his girlfriend.
Dating simulation game released by Enix in 1985. Considered somewhat revolutionary for its time, this game helped lay the foundations for the dating sim genre.
An adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom set in the Mayan city of Palenque.
An adventure game in which, as Sir Cucumber, you must rescue Princess Tomato.
Golgo 13: Ōkami no Su, also known as Golgo 13: Wolf Schanze ("Golgo 13: Wolf's Lair"), is adventure game, developed Pony Canyon and released in 1984.
An adventure game written and designed by Yuji Horii, developed by Login Software and published by ASCII in 1984.
An adventure game based off the anime and manga franchise of the same name published by Enix in 1984.
An early Japanese adventure game developed by Humming Bird Soft which has the player searching for a magical spring in order to cure Princess Rom of her sickness.
Golgo 13: Moretti Ichizoku Zansatsu Jiken (Golgo 13: Moretti Family Murders) is an adventure game developed by Pony Canyon and released in 1983.
An early sci-fi Japanese adventure game developed and published by T&E Soft in 1983, about the adventures of Star Arthur on his quest to obtain the legendary energy sword and stop the Jyamil empire from terrorizing the galaxy.
One of Koei's first games, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku (団地妻の誘惑, "Housewife Temptation") was an early adventure RPG with adult content and dating sim elements.
The sequel to Micro Cabin's Mystery House released for Japanese computers in 1982.
The first Japanese developed graphical adventure game created by Micro Cabin in 1982. Although it features the same name, it is otherwise unrelated to On-Line Systems' game.
A Japanese text adventure created by Hideki Akiyama and Suguho Takahashi. The title was released in ASCII's 1982 issue of "Yearly Ah-SKI!" and is considered to be the very first Japanese developed adventure game.
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