Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku
A Japan-only Go game developed and published by Bullet-Proof Software for the Famicom Disk System. Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku ("Go: 9 Row Grid Boardgame") is a Go video game that was originally released for the…
14 April 1987
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku is a card & board game developed by Bullet-Proof Software, released 14 April 1987 on Family Computer and Family Computer Disk System.
What Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku is
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku is a card & board game game developed by Bullet-Proof Software and released in 1987. It is available on Family Computer and Family Computer Disk System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Japan-only Go game developed and published by Bullet-Proof Software for the Famicom Disk System. Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku ("Go: 9 Row Grid Boardgame") is a Go video game that was originally released for the Famicom Disk System on August 11, 1987 in Japan. It was the first Famicom game developed by Bullet-Proof Software: a development studio operating out of Hawaii that would later be responsible for Nintendo's version of Tetris, among other games. This version of Go is better suited for beginners, as it contains simpler 9x9 grids rather than the regulation 19x19. Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku has a credit for Edge Computing on its title screen; it is assumed some of the game's coding was taken…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
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When did Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku come out?
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku was released on 14 April 1987 for Family Computer and Family Computer Disk System.
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