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Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden

by Tose·published by Bandai

15 February 19898
NES

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Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden is a JRPG that was only released in Japan for the Famicom. The game was released for the 20th anniversary of the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, and features characters and concepts from the many manga series that were being showcased there in the late 80s. You play as Hashimoto, a kid who is a fan of Shōnen Jump. One day, he's whisked away inside a magazine and finds himself in Jump World, where he must stop the many villains from various series trying to conquer it.

Gameplay consists of both real-time action and traditional turn-based battles, and has the typical elements of classic JRPGs: an overworld, towns, recruiting of characters, etc.

These manga series are represented in the game:

  • Astro Kyūdan (”Team Astro”)
  • Captain Tsubasa
  • Cat’s Eye
  • Chichi no Tamashii (”A Father’s Soul”)
  • Circuit no Ōkami (”The Circuit Wolf”)
  • City Hunter
  • Doberman Deka (”The Doberman Cop”)
  • Dr. Slump
  • Dragon Ball
  • Hokuto no Ken (”Fist of the North Star”)
  • Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (”Silver Fang: Shooting Star Gin”)
  • Godsider
  • Harenchi Gakuen (”Shameless School”)
  • High School! Kimengumi
  • Hōchōnin Ajihei (”Ajihei the Cook”)
  • JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken (”Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure”)
  • Kenritsu Umisora Kōkō Yakyūbuin Yamashita Tarō-kun (”Taro Yamashita: Member of the Prefectural High School Baseball Team”)
  • Kick Off
  • Kimagure Orange Road
  • Kinnikuman
  • Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (”Kochikame: Tokyo Beat Cops”)
  • Kōya no Shonen Isamu (”Isamu: Boy of the Wilderness”)
  • Moeru! Onīsan (”The Burning Wild Man”)
  • Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishō (”A Shining Example of a Bully”)
  • Ring ni Kakero (”Put it All in the Ring”)
  • Saint Seiya
  • Sakigake!! Otokojuku (”Charge!! Men’s Private School”)
  • Shape Up Ran
  • The Momotaroh
  • Toilet Hakase (”Professor Toilet”)
  • Tsuide ni Tonchinkan (”Anyway, It Doesn’t Matter”)
  • Wing-Man
  • Yoroshiku Mechadoc

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Bird view / IsometricSide view

Included in

Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer - Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Version

Languages

1 languages, with audio, subtitles and interface
Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
Japanese

Also known as

Famicom Jump: Eiyū RetsudenAlso known as

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Facts

Developer

Tose

Publisher

Bandai

Released

15 February 1989

Series

Famicom Jump

Platforms

NES

Standing

Top 52% by want to play

Tags

Diagonal-down2D scrollingAnime / MangaAction RPGDirect controlFantasyLicensed