Super Momotaro Dentetsu
スーパー桃太郎電鉄1989Super Momotaro Dentetsu
スーパー桃太郎電鉄A digital board game about travelling Japan and buying property.
Super Momotaro Dentetsu is a digital board game about travelling Japan by rail, ship and plane. Players buy properties, earn money and deal with rival characters. The series began on the Famicom in 1988, and this PC Engine game followed a year later.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 15 September 1989 |
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| DEVELOPER AND PUBLISHER | Hudson Soft |
| LAUNCH PRICE | 5,800 yen |
| SERIES RIGHTS TODAY | Konami, which absorbed Hudson in 2012 |
Players move across a map of Japan and buy properties in each region. Rivals and nuisance characters, including the God of Poverty, can take money or move assets around.
The mechanics are often compared to the board games sugoroku and Monopoly.
There is no story as such. The setting is a comic version of Japan's railways and property business.
Akira Sakuma supervised the series, and Takayuki Doi handled the illustration. Kazuyuki Sekiguchi of Southern All Stars produced the main music.
Total series shipments passed 12 million units by 2011. The series later reached the Game Boy in 1991.
Momotarō Dentetsu 7 sold over 500,000 copies in Japan.
The game started a series that kept appearing on the console into 1991 and beyond. It is one of the PC Engine's long-running Japanese board game franchises.
- The God of Poverty, Binbōgami, is one of the series' best-known rivals.
- A 2004 promotion for the series paired a comedian with a gravure idol.
- The sequel, Super Momotarō Dentetsu II, came to the PC Engine on 20 December 1991.
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