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2020 · Nintendo Entertainment System · Visual Novel

About this game

An edited fan translation of the Nintendo Family Computer game Idol Hakkenden. This game seeks to re-translate the game as it may have been translated by people like Ted Woolsey did in the late 80's and early 90's, with less emphasis on accuracy and more on localization.

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.