Ganbare Goemon series

Ganbare Goemon series

"Ganbare Goemon" (known as "Legend of the Mystical Ninja" in North America and Europe), is a prolific video game series produced by Konami.

These games revolve around the main character Goemon, and his exploits. As the name suggests, his character was loosely based on Ishikawa Goemon, the noble thief of Japanese folklore. While the early games of this title emphasized Goemon as a noble thief, he eventually becomes more of a standard video game hero character. His appearance trademarks would be his blue bushy hair and weapon of choice, the Kiseru. The universe of these games is of a cartoony, mystical Feudal Japan, where every bit of folklore and legend about Japan are true. Although the series has its roots in action adventure, the "Ganbare Goemon" series features games from a diverse set of genres including RPG, puzzle game, and board game. "Ganbare Goemon" has proven to be widely popular in Japan, as along with its long video game series (which continue to this day), a wide series of merchandise, and several anime and manga series have been created based on it.

While the series has been popular in Japan, overseas it is a much unknown franchise, with only four games released (three of them released for the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 consoles, and a Game Boy release).

Principal characters

;: She's the best friend to the Goemon in the future. She wields the same weapons as Ebisumaru and possibly is his daughter.
*The Feudal Lord of Edo and Princess Yuki: The Rulers of Edo. Despite this, they do little that inspires leadership. More often than not, they too are preyed on by evil doers, as described in the manual for Mystical Ninja starring Goemon 2: They are born to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

;nihongo|*Goemon Impact|ゴエモンインパクト: A giant clockwork robot made by Monoshirii. With a frightful motif modeled after Goemon himself, it was built to help Goemon take on Giant foes, but more often than not, he acts as a famous movie star in various parts of the world, and even has a planet named after himself. He shares Goemon's strong sense of justice, and enjoys fighting for the team. He also has a love of dancing, particularly disco.;nihongo|*Miss Impact|ミスインパクト: A female counterpart to Goemon Impact. Was created by the Wise Man as a counterpart to Goemon Impact, and is modeled after Omitsu. Omitsu refuses to notice the similarities... Goemon Impact fell in love with her at first sight and planned to ask her out. However, since Miss Impact has not been seen since "Goemon's Great Adventure" it is unknown how their relationship worked out.

Anime television series

List of games by platform

Arcade

*1986: Mr. Goemon

NES

*1986: "Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu" (re-released on Game Boy Advance in 2004 under the Famicom Mini label)
*1989: "Ganbare Goemon 2"
*1990: ""
*1992: ""

MSX

*1987: "Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu"

NES

*1991: "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja" ("Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki" in Japan)
*1993: ""
*1994: ""
*1995: ""
*1996: "Soreyuke Ebisumaru! Karakuri Meiro - Kieta Goemon no Nazo!!" ("puzzle game" starring Ebisumaru)

PlayStation

*1997: ""
*1999: ""
*2002: ""
*2001: "" (a futuristic spin-off of the series)

Game Boy

*1991: ""
**This game appeared in English on the European Game Boy Color compilation "Konami GB Collection Vol.3", where it was titled "Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon"
*1997: "Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon" ("Ganbare Goemon: Kurofune Tou no Nazo" in Japan)

Game Boy Color

*1999: ""
*1999: ""
*2000: ""

Game Boy Advance

*2001: "" (a futuristic spin-off of the series)
*2005: "" (port of the first two Super NES games with extra mini-games):This game is a port of the first two Super Famicom games, Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuuhutsu Emaki and Ganbare Goemon: Kiteretsu Shogun Magginessu.:Differences in Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuuhutsu Emaki include::* You can play with Ebismaru alternating with Goemon.:* This is a single player game (the cooperative 2-player mode from the original version was removed in this version).:* You can now save your game instead of using the long passwords from the original version (in the Japanese version of this game, you can save your game using hiragana characters, and in the English version, using various non-letter and non-number symbols found on the keyboard).

Nintendo 64

*1997: "Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon" ("Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori" in Japan)
*1999: "Goemon's Great Adventure" ("Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon 2" in Europe; "Ganbare Goemon: Derodero Douchu Obake Tenkomori" in Japan)
*1999: "Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku" ("Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveller-like game featuring elements from collectible card games")

PlayStation 2

*2000: "" (a more serious spin-off of the series; the now defunct Working Designs attempted to release this game in America as "Mystical Ninja Goemon", but Sony would not approve the title.)

Nintendo DS

*2005: ""

Other appearances

*Goemon appears as a playable character in the Konami crossovers "Wai Wai World" and "Wai Wai World 2" for the Famicom, in the original MSX "Parodius", in the Super Famicom version of "Gokujō Parodius! ~Kako no Eikō o Motomete~" and in "Konami Krazy Racers" for the Game Boy Advance, the latter being the latest game released in America in which a "Ganbare Goemon" character makes an appearance.
*Ebisumaru is the second player in the Super Famicom version of "Gokujō Parodius! ~Kako no Eikō o Motomete~" and is a secret character in "Konami Krazy Racers".
*Impact makes an appearance as one of the bosses of "Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius".
*Goemon, Yae, and Sasuke appear as cards in "Yu-Gi-Oh". Other robots made by Wise Old Man also appear as cards, all are named Sasuke Samurai and are numbered.
*Seppukumaru and his Egg-like Henchmen "Tsujigiri" from Ganbare Goemon 4 for the super Famicom make appearances as the main villains in the Ganbare Goemon Anime series.
*Goemon and Ebisumaru made short cameo appearances in the Twinbee OVA, Twinbee Paradise, as judges in a female beauty contest when Pastel (Twinbee) accidentally eats some shrinking cookies.
*In the Sega CD title "Snatcher" the bartender is dressed up as Goemon.
*In the Nintendo DS game, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008, a character that remarkably looks like Goemon appears under a different alias "Goe Goe The Gallant Ninja".

External links

* [http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/goegoe/ Official Konami of Japan Ganbare Goemon site]
*moby game|id=-group/ganbare-goemon-series|name="Ganbare Goemon" series
* [http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/goemon/goemon.htm Mystical Ninja/Ganbare Goemon] Hardcore Gaming 101's page for Ganbare Goemon series
* [http://goemon.wikia.com/ Mystical Ninja Wikipedia]


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