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Benkei Gaiden

Set in a sort of old Japan with fantasy overtones, Benkei Gaiden is a standard overhead RPG. Battle scenes are random and turn based (with quite a nice bit of music), and the game relies very heavily on…

22 December 1989

Benkei Gaiden is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Tokyo Design Center, released 22 December 1989 on Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

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What Benkei Gaiden is

Benkei Gaiden is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Tokyo Design Center and released in 1989. It was published by SUNSOFT. It is available on Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in a sort of old Japan with fantasy overtones, Benkei Gaiden is a standard overhead RPG. Battle scenes are random and turn based (with quite a nice bit of music), and the game relies very heavily on Japanese text based menu systems.
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How it plays

Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Benkei Gaiden launched on 22 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.

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When did Benkei Gaiden come out?
Benkei Gaiden was released on 22 December 1989 for Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

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