As the pilot of the lone space freighter Asa Dashi, you were taken prisoner by the Funya Chin empire and arbitrarily sentenced to face the challenge of the Shouganai, a deadly game where you must pilot of caterpillar-like vehicle around an arena and grab diamonds. Avoid the patrolling alien drones at all cost, and also avoid land mines as you maneuver your vehicle along the walls of the arena and extend its "tail" to grab the diamonds. Grab all the diamonds in an arena and you then move on to the next (more challenging) arena. Upgrade your vehicle by grabbing special icons, but be careful, as some icons cause negative effects! If you survive all 24 arenas of the Shouganai, the Funya Chin empire may give you back your freedom... Maybe...
| PRODUCT CODE: | 3871 |
| NAME: | Shouganai |
| PLATFORM: | ColecoVision Compatible System with SGM Capability |
| PROGRAMMER: | MSXKun |
| MEDIA: | Cartridge |
| VARIATION: | CollectorVision |
| RELEASE DATE: | 20-- |
| BETA TEST: | Brad Dillon |
| MANUAL: | Luc Miron |
Quote from Luc Miron's TeamPixelboy web site:
My good friend Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez (creator of Princess Quest, Mecha-8 and Mecha-9, and creator of the CoolCV emulator) received some very bad news back in spring 2016: His wife was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer, and she had to give birth to her daughter prematurely so she could receive chemotherapy treatments. When I learned about this, I decided to help Óscar with the medical bills by starting a new budget-priced series of Team Pixelboy games. These games are mostly ColecoVision ports of MSX homebrew games that were submitted to the MSXdev contests in recent years, and there are a few games coded from scratch as well. Some of the money from the sales of these budget games went directly to Óscar.
When I told Armando Pérez Abad about my budget game project, he contacted a few of his friends in the MSX homebrew community on my behalf, one of which was MSXKun who graciously offered to let me publish ports of two of his MSX homebrew games (Cold Blood and Shouganai) to help Óscar. MSXKun himself ported Shouganai to ColecoVision.
