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.
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DeveloperPax Softnica
PublisherNintendo, St. GIGA
ReleasedSeptember 29, 1996
StatusReleased
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About This Game
BS Shin Onigashima tells the complete story of two orphaned children who discover that nothing about their origins was ordinary. Raised by an elderly couple in the remote mountain village of Nagakushi, they live quietly until an evil dragon strikes the western capital and sends its oni — soul-devouring monsters — outward across the land. The couple's souls are taken. The children, eight years old and still alive, decide to go after them. Over four chapters broadcast via Nintendo's Satellaview service, their journey takes them through a Japan populated by demons and human antagonists, each step closing the distance to the dragon and to the truth of who they actually are. The game draws on Japanese folklore — the peach-boy legend of Momotaro prominent among its touchstones — while remixing those mythic elements into something less straightforward. The secret of the children's origins drives every chapter forward, revealed only in the final confrontation with the dragon that set the whole story in motion.