BS Shin Onigashima: Dai-1-wa

BS Shin Onigashima: Dai-1-wa

Released1996
The first episode of BS Shin Onigashima. BS Shin Onigashima is a Downloadable 4-part Soundlink game for the Satellaview that was broadcast in at least 2 distinct runs between September 29, 1996 and January 31, 1996. The game was popular and won its December 1997 rebroadcast through the votes of players in the Third Player's Choice competition. The game came in second (in terms of votes) to BS SimCity: Machi Tsukuri Taikai and so it was broadcast second as a 4-day broadcast. BS Shin Onigashima was a remake sequel to the earlier Shin Onigashima, a game that was released for the Famicom Disk System in September of 1987. The major difference between the two games relate to the SoundLink elements that were introduced for the Satellaview broadcasts. BS Shin Onigashima was later re-made in December 1997 as the commercial release, Heisei Shin Onigashima, for the Nintendo Power system. This was later followed-up by the May 1998 Super Famicom cartridge release of the same name.

Details

DeveloperPax Softnica
PublisherNintendo, St. GIGA
ReleasedSeptember 29, 1996
StatusReleased
GenresAdventure
ThemesFantasyMysteryDrama
PlatformsSAT Satellaview
ModesSingle player

About This Game

In the remote mountain village of Nagakushi, an elderly couple has raised two children — a boy and a girl — since infancy. The couple had always been childless until one night a prophetic dream led them to abandoned infants, and they took the pair in as their own. Eight years pass without anything unusual. Then the western capital suffers a catastrophe: an evil dragon appears and begins converting the city's people into oni, soul-devouring monsters that spread outward from the capital. They reach Nagakushi. The elderly couple's souls are taken. The two children, left unharmed, are now alone. Rather than flee, they make the decision that shapes everything that follows: they will pursue the dragon, recover the stolen souls, and bring the couple home. The first chapter of BS Shin Onigashima sends them into a world they have never left their village to see — already full of dangers neither is prepared for.