Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

a.k.a. The Port Pier Serial Murder Case / ポートピア連続殺人事件

published by Enix in 1985-11-29, developed by Chunsoft, running on Nintendo Entertainment System
type: adventure
genre: Manga
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player
languages: jpn

Personal review

The first real adventure game for the NES (or any other console system) is a port from a popular game on Japanese homecomputer systems. Instead of typing in commands they changed the system to feature a command list in the rigt side of the screen which you could choose from. This control method set a standard among Japanese-style console adventure games. The game itself is only mildly interesting though. It doesn't have a save feature, neither via battery backup nor passwords. But that isn't really necessary, because the game is very short. The graphics of the few locations are not very detailed and in parts look like drawn by a six-year old kid. The game sold very well on the NES and paved the way for many successors with similar gameplay, but today the content feels rather shallow. The game didn't age very well.

# 2008-12-22 00:38:57

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display: raster

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Yuji Horii (author)

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