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Darlun's Rambling Trip (System Sacom, Mac/Windows, 1996)

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Running High

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Although best known for their adventure games, System Sacom occasionally dabbled in other genres. Running High is an on-foot racer, where athletes in super-powered mech suits run around tight windy tracks in the distant future of 2014. You hold down the X button to run, and maintaining speed for enough time will build up a meter that you can use for a quick boost or vault over a nearby racer if your meter’s full (though you can also hit them with a standard punch, Road Rash-style).

'Jennifer Capriati Tennis'

[GEN] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1992]

"Jennifer Maria Capriati (born March 29, 1976) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she won three singles Grand Slam titles and was the gold medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Capriati set a number of youngest-ever records at the start of her career. She made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 13 years, 11 months, reaching the final of the hard-court tournament in Boca Raton, Florida. She reached the semifinals of the French Open in her debut and later became the youngest-ever player to reach the top 10, at age 14 years, 235 days, in October of that year. Following a first-round loss at the 1993 US Open, she took a 14-month break from competitive pro tennis. Her personal struggles during this time (including arrests for shoplifting and possession of marijuana) were well documented by the press. In 1998, Capriati won her first major-level singles match in five years at Wimbledon. During the next two years, she slowly returned to championship form, winning her first title in six years in Strasbourg in 1999 and regaining a top-20 ranking. At the 2001 Australian Open, the reinvigorated Capriati became the lowest seed ever to win the championship when she defeated Martina Hingis in straight sets for her first Grand Slam championship. She also won the French Open that year, claiming the WTA No. 1 ranking in October. After successfully defending her Australian Open title in 2002, she became a top-10 mainstay until injuries derailed her career in 2004. She won 14 professional singles tournaments during her career, along with one women's doubles championship." ~Wikipedia

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Western aficionados of System Sacom must be having the time of their lives. Not a month ago, a most unexpected English translation for 'Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi' was made available by EsperKnight and SnowyAria. Just today, the same hacker and fan translator duo released a patch for another of the studio's most talked about FMV adventures of the 32-Bit era, 'R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital'. Remarkably, both these games were released in Japan in 1997, alongside a third one, 'Nessa No Hoshi', whose soundtrack I wrote about a few weeks ago here on Eastern Mind. Perhaps an English patch for this science-fiction adventure may not be altogether unimaginable?

While it is true that interactive movie experiences have come a long way since the late '90s, this title in particular may be worth a look due to some of its more original elements; its sensory system in particular, whereby the different playable characters in the story are allowed to use all their senses in order to analyse different objects or situations, helping the player make the best judgement on how to proceed. I need to highlight that its story is quite lacking in what pertains both originality and credibility, riddled as it is with inexplicable character motivations and even the odd, vaguely insulting plot twist.

When I purchased my copy of the game the seller was kind enough to throw in the Softbank guidebook. Sure enough, after sorting through a few drawers, I was able to discover it. What better way to celebrate the revival of this somewhat problematic soft horror classic, soon to be twenty-five years old, than to have a look at these rather competent character designs by Takashi Ono?