Saturday, January 15, 2011

Gekisha Boy + Rainbow Islands

Remember how I mentioned "two other recent acquisitions" at the end of my last post? Those of you who checked out my Flickr photostream know those pick-ups weren't Famicom games; rather, they were PC Engine games. (Yeah, I know, what a shocker!)

Specifically, they were Irem's Gekisha Boy (aka Photograph Boy) and NEC Avenue's Rainbow Islands.

Here's a photo of the latter game's cover art:


And here's a photo of the former's cover art:


Two more photos of Gekisha Boy--one of which features the super-cool PC Engine CoreGrafx II system--can be found on my Flickr phtostream (if you're interested in such things).

9 comments:

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Photograph Boy? Umm...what IS it?

Bryan Ochalla said...

Oh, I'm sorry, Justin, I probably should have explained that, right? Well, it's a side-scrolling game in which you're tasked with taking photos of anything and everything crazy (ex: flashers, people slipping on banana peels, planes crashing, etc.).

Here's a video (narrated by a stoner, I think) of the game in action, in case you're interested -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bE8YE-M2jg

Bryan Ochalla said...

BTW, watching that video taught me something about the game that I never knew before: You can "shoot" the obstacles in your way to make life a bit easier for yourself. Doh!

Zigfried said...

Excellent acquisitions! They're both very interesting games and not the kind of thing that you'll commonly find elsewhere.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Thanks, Zigfried! I'm especially happy with Rainbow Islands :)

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Wow. He really sounds like he has the IQ of a fruit basket. But what a cool game! I'd love to play it!!!

Bryan Ochalla said...

Emulators are your friend, Justin. Also, there's an English patch for this game, too -- http://www.romhacking.net/trans/507/

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Nice. I fee like I saw this game a while back somewhere...was it here? Have you posted videos of this game before?

Bryan Ochalla said...

I seem to remember at least mentioning it here in the past. Maybe I linked to a gameplay video at that time?