Idol Hakken-den
Idol Hakken-den is a Japan-exclusive text adventure video game developed by Natsume and published by Towa Chiki in 1989 for the Family Computer. Erika, an aspiring musician and pop idol, must foil a plot that…
Idol Hakken-den is an adventure developed by Natsume Co., Ltd., released 14 September 1989 on Family Computer.
What Idol Hakken-den is
Idol Hakken-den is an adventure game developed by Natsume Co., Ltd. and released in 1989. It was published by Towa Chiki. It is available on Family Computer only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Idol Hakken-den is a Japan-exclusive text adventure video game developed by Natsume and published by Towa Chiki in 1989 for the Family Computer. Erika, an aspiring musician and pop idol, must foil a plot that could ruin her music career. As a Japanese adventure game, players must select through menus of dialogue in order to determine her future. Friends (and sometimes rivals) of Erika give her advice on what to do next. There are six songs in the game; all of them belonging to the J-pop genre. Erika must master them all in order to become the greatest idol in all of Japan. Lyrics are not sung by a voice actor; they are shown on the bottom of the screen instead.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Idol Hakken-den launched on 14 September 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales, SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.
Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.
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