Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken

The game involves falling blocks of hands displaying the rock, paper, and scissors signs, which fall three at a time. In a similar manner to Tetris, the player can rotate the blocks to stack them, using pieces…

10 July 1995

What Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken is

Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken is a puzzle game developed by Atelier Double and released in 1995. It was published by Shogakukan Production. It is available on Satellaview and Super Famicom.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game involves falling blocks of hands displaying the rock, paper, and scissors signs, which fall three at a time. In a similar manner to Tetris, the player can rotate the blocks to stack them, using pieces that defeat other pieces (e.g. paper over rock) to eliminate stacks. Doing so adds garbage pieces onto the opponent's screen to make it more difficult for them to eliminate their stacks of blocks. The objective is to fill up the opponent's screen up with blocks so that additional ones can no longer fit. Each character has two special attacks which can be used when large combinations are completed. Once in each round each player can also use a bucket of water that can transform a…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ranma 1/2 series

Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken is the 14th of 16 entries we hold in the Ranma 1/2 series. It arrived a year after Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu-hen. The next entry was Ranma 1/2: Battle Renaissance in 1996.

See all 16 Ranma 1/2 games in release order →

What it launched against

Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken launched on 10 July 1995, within three weeks of Tekken 2, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat and The King of Fighters '95.

Released around the same time: Tekken 2, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, The King of Fighters '95.

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