Shogi no Hoshi

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Shogi no Hoshi
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Home Data
RELEASED:         1991
TYPE:             Tile game
LANGUAGE:         Japanese

PREMISE:          A juvenile-oriented shogi videogame.  For those who are
                  not familiar with the game, shogi is the Oriental version
                  of chess and plays very much the same, except that
                  captured pieced can be "recruited" into your ranks and
                  put pack into play anywhere on the board.

IMPRESSIONS:      The graphics and animation are hideous, especially by the
                  high Japanese anime standards that we've come to expect,
                  and what story exists is one of the stupidest I've ever
                  seen in a computer game.  This makes Cosmic Spacehead
                  look like Phantasy Star.  Avoid.

VARIATIONS:       Henrik Sankala says that this can be translated as Star
                  of Shogi, which appears to fit the context of the game's
                  premise.  Commonly known on the boards as Shougino.

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