Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri ("Jirou Akagawa's The Sleep of Witches") is a visual novel adventure game with a supernatural murder mystery theme. As with Chunsoft's Sound Novel series, it features a…

4 November 1995

What Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri is

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri is an adventure game developed by Minato Giken and released in 1995. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Satellaview, Super Famicom and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

You work as a ordinary office worker. One day, you get a mysterious call to your office phone. A shaky female voice is on the other side almost whispering "....he...lp...me...murder...". Then the call ends. During the night you have a strange dream, a childhood friend is talking directly to you, lamenting her situation. You wake up an look at the newspaper. There is an article about the same childhood friend missing. In order to help, possibly save, your childhood friend, you set out into a village in the mountains where she has been working as a teacher..

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri launched on 4 November 1995, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby and Screamer.

Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby, Screamer.

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri — frequently asked questions

When did Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri come out?

Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri was released on 4 November 1995 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Satellaview, Super Famicom and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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