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Developer: Minato Giken

Publisher: Sega

Hardware: Sega System C2

Dump Status: Dumped

Zunzunkyou no Yabou (ずんずん教の野望) is a shoot em' up where you play as a Jizo statue trying to stop a secret society known as Zunzunkyou, who is trying to take over the world through dancing. This is shown ingame as nearly every enemy you encounter is doing some sort of dance, and even the shadow figures on the title screen are dancing!

The game was made in response to the then-recent sarin attacks from the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Minato Giken was only able to release the game if they made it clear that Sega didn't make the game, and this was only after a lot of controversy over if the game should even be released! They also had to add a disclaimer in the game's attract mode that the game isn't related to any religion.

The game involves going to several parts of the world to stop Zunzunkyou. It starts with a menu to select from 4 branches: Japan, Asia, Europe, and America. Each branch has 3 stages and a boss stage. Every stage has their own set of enemies, and you're locked in an arena to shoot them all down.

Enemies for each stage are very bizarre, as they can be something as mundane as a bunch of businessmen, to things like clowns and pandas, while all of them are dancing! The bosses are as equally bizarre, as the boss of the Asia branch is a chef in a ramen bowl, and the America branch boss is a Captain America lookalike who can shoot letter projectiles that spell out JUSTICE.

After the main 4 branches have been cleared, you move on to the final branch. This last area includes pink doll-like enemies and enemies that look like the Jizo statue you play as, followed up with the final boss, which is Earth with an eye, arms, and legs. Beating this boss won't show the ending, however, as the game will go through another loop where you have to play through all 5 branches again with a much higher difficulty before you can actually see the ending.

Left: BN-1, 2001. Bandai - Of note is that this robot was pitted directly and explicitly against the Sony Aibo. [game.watch.impress.co.jp, robodomo.net]

Right: BN-7, 2002. Bandai - [pc.watch.impress.co.jp, game.watch.impress.co.jp]

Developer: Namco

Publisher: Namco

Hardware: Namco System 10

Dump Status: Undumped

Honne Hakken-Ki (ホンネ発見キ) is a lie detection game where one player will ask a question to the other, while the game will determine if they're lying or not!

The game uses technology called Truster, which can analyze the user's psychological state with only just their voice! This technology was used in many places, such as insurance companies, financial institutions, and psychiatric medical fields!

The game has two modes, Basic Style and Freestyle. In Basic Style, the game will ask the two players about their gender and relationship between them, and from the answers given it'll provide some of the best-fit survey themes for the players. The players then choose from the themes given, then the game will move on to the main part with 7 questions. In Freestyle, you can ask as many questions as you want with an overall time limit, which can be increased if more credits are inserted.

For each response to each question, the game will analyze the player's response and will determine it to fall under 1 out of 10 types of psychological states. After the game has finished, the game will print out the results on a research report. This includes data such as the reliability of the results, advice to the questioner, an overall evaluation, psychological graphs, and comments for each question!

Not only can you just play with another person on the cabinet itself, but you can also choose to play solo and call a phone number to play with someone else over the phone!