Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen
Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen is an Adventure game, developed by Pax Softonica and published by Nintendo, which was released in Japan in 1997.
It is a port of BS Shin Onigashima, a four-part broadcast game released for the Satellaview (a Super Famicom peripheral). This game (Zenpen) is composed of the first two episodes of BS Shin Oni Gashima.
Heisei Shin Onigashima was first released as a Nintendo Power downloadable game, then later released in two parts as cartridges (Zenpen, Kouhen), much like the original Famicom Disk System version was also divided in two parts.
The game was later released for the Wii Virtual Console, in two parts, and for the Wii U Virtual Console (a single release, Zengohen)
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DeveloperPax Softonica
PublisherNintendo
ReleasedDecember 1, 1997
StatusReleased
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About This Game
An elderly couple in the mountain village of Nagakushi received two infants — a boy and a girl — as foretold in a dream, raising them as their own. When the children were eight, an evil dragon appeared in the western capital and began converting humans into oni: soul-devouring ogres that spread outward from the city. The oni reached Nagakushi and stripped the souls from the elderly couple before the children could intervene. Unharmed but effectively orphaned, the two set out from the village to save the only parents they had ever known. Part 1 of the adventure follows their journey as it begins — from the mountain village, through the first obstacles, toward a dragon whose power they do not yet fully understand.