is a Super Famicom

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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 video game that was released in 1995 to an exclusively Japan

Japan

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ese market. A translation patch was released in 2004 that rendered this video game into English.

Summary

Simulating Japanese survival war games, players must survive an assault from the bad guys. The closest equivalent that North American culture has to this game is paintball

Paintball

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. Each character is assigned a Japanese code name

Code name

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 and a main weapon

Weapon

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 by the player himself. Players can only move up to a certain amount of squares per turn and can only be hit a certain number of times before being killed. The game itself is divided into 24 different missions. Victory conditions vary from mission to mission, and may be anything from "kill the leader" to "free the prisoner and return to the escape point."

Unlike a medieval strategy game, rushing at an opponent with nothing but a knife

Knife

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 is the way to get killed. Medium and long-range weapons are the speciality of the game. Battles can take place anywhere from desert island

Desert island

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s to office buildings or shopping mall

Shopping mall

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s. All the opponents are seen wearing helmets that resemble those of legendary Star Wars

Star Wars

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villain Darth Vader

Darth Vader

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