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Igo Meikan

Igo Meikan ("Go Directory") is a go game for the Famicom released by Hect, a developer that specialized in board game to video game adaptations. It is primarily focused on teaching the player to play go like…

10 January 1990

Igo Meikan is a video game, released 10 January 1990 on Family Computer.

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What Igo Meikan is

Igo Meikan was released in 1990. It is available on Family Computer only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Igo Meikan ("Go Directory") is a go game for the Famicom released by Hect, a developer that specialized in board game to video game adaptations. It is primarily focused on teaching the player to play go like the pros, with the meikan (or directory) in this case being a list of techniques and tactics. As with all versions of go, the goal is to surround the opposing player's pieces, thereby capturing them and removing them from the board. The winner is whoever has the most pieces on the board left when both players have stopped taking turns (usually because there's no more legal moves).
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What it launched against

Igo Meikan launched on 10 January 1990, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, River City Ransom, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, River City Ransom, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream.

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When did Igo Meikan come out?
Igo Meikan was released on 10 January 1990 for Family Computer.