Super Momotarō Dentetsu

a.k.a. SUPER桃太郎電鉄

created and published by Hudson Soft in 1989-09-15, running on PC Engine

type: board game
genre: Manga, Humorous
series: Momotetsu
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: shared-screen, single player

languages: jpn

4.5/5

Personal review

Super Momotarou Dentetsu is a mixture of Monopoly, Game of Life and railroad rally through Japan. And it's a really well done game. After a short timespan to learn the basic rules (not easy since it's in Japanese), I got hooked to the concept. At the beginning the players get a destination town they have to reach with their train. The first one who reaches it gets extra money. On the way to the town you land on other fields which could mean bonus money, you have to pay money or get special action cards. The player who has the most money after a fixed set of years (each round is a month) is the winner. All this is presented in cute and colorful graphics with changing seasons and other funny events.