Super Genjin / Super Bonk Review - Super Famicom/Nintendo（スーパー原人　スーパーファミコン）

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welcome to Saki Endo's Rubbish Heap, a game review channel focusing on retro games but some modern stuff and mostly games from Japan. The Rubbish Heap crew will tell you how accessible the games are to non Japanese speakers and for those learning the language the difficulty level.

[episode 019] Super Genjin / Super Bonk - Super Famicom/Nintendo（スーパー原人）

Right out of the gate, some people called this game Chou Genjin or even Chou Super Genjin as the game is very clearly written with the kanji "Chou" meaning ultra or super, but the manual refers to it as Super Genjin....Difficult huh! Instead I stuck with Super Genjin as that's the subtitle on the box written in kana.

Ok....Super Genjin, featuring the mascot you may know as Bonk as he was called outside of Japan makes his debut on the Super Famicom console (known as the Super Nintendo in the west) as Hudson Soft began to pull away from their own platform. Does it make the leap successfully, or bonk its head on the way down.

I play through to the end beating the game to give you the low down on whether this is a good Genjin/Bonk game, and whether the Japanese edition which is cheaper is worth tracking down and playing for non-Japanese speakers.

I also looks into what determines the line between good and great games on my rating scheme.

[translation notes]

None for this game.

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Games featured: Super Genjin - Developed by Red and published by Hudson Soft on 1994-07-22 (July 22nd 1994) in Japan. Recorded on a real Super Famicom hardware, unfortunately with smoothing accidentally enabled on my scaler and therefore captured gameplay, sorry about that.

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