Game Overview
【Title】1999 See, you’ve seen it! End of the century
【Platform】NES (Famicom)
【Genre】tabletop game (backgammon)
【Manufacturer】Coconuts Japan Entertainment Co., Ltd.
【Release Date】1992/9/18
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Story
1995.Pinky the Alien” flies to Earth to warn the world that “Nome aliens” have begun their invasion of the planet.
However, the spaceship runs out of fuel above the Earth and crash-lands at a campsite where four college students are having a good time.
The gnomes are trying to get to Earth, but the shock of the crash renders them incapable of using their scientific powers. But we want to save you at least, so you must gather as much ‘cosmic power’ as you can before 1999.
That was the beginning of the end of the century. ……
Game Reviews
This is Coconuts Japan Entertainment’s follow-up to “Laugh Out Loud! Theater of Love” followed by this board game.
It is a type of board game in which players become the four main characters and advance their frames like a game of life. It can be played with multiple players.
Of course, this is no ordinary life. The gnome aliens who are trying to invade the earth will interfere with the game. There are also action-based mini-games at various locations.
Although it is called backgammon, it does not end when you reach the goal. There is only one map, and when one player reaches the goal, everyone returns to the starting point to go around again. Players collect “cosmic power” through backgammon, and the player who collects the most “cosmic power” in the end wins.
After one lap, six months pass in the game’s time. As time progresses, the invasion of gnome aliens (social advancement) and abnormal weather conditions progress, and the crisis on Earth becomes more serious.
The game starts from the “January 1995” cycle and ends at the end of the “July 1999” cycle. In other words, the game ends after 10 laps.
As the laps progress and the years in the game pass, more and more events with a negative trend will occur. The earth enters an ice age due to desertification and accidents, and the number of “desert” and “glacier” squares increases. In the first two years, there are many squares with positive events related to the occupation, but they quickly decrease when the earth enters desertification in the third year, almost disappear in the ice age after the fourth year, and are all gone in the fifth year.
The background on the map also becomes more and more desolate with each passing cycle.
In addition, the guru of the “Nome-kyo” religion that appears in the game is apparently modeled after Shoko Asahara of the Aum Shinrikyo. At the time this game was released, Aum Shinrikyo had not yet been recognized for its antisocial activities, and it was still a figure that was amused by the public. However, three years after the release of this game, the criminal activities of Aum Shinrikyo, including the Sarin gas attack on the subway, came to light, and now it has become a very unfunny story.
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