Engacho! for WonderSwan
Engacho! for WonderSwan is a 1999 WS game by Nihon Application.
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About the game
Engacho! is based on a popular Japanese children game.
A little boy named Sunzuki wants to prove to his angry father that he is not a coward and can stand up against the terrible monsters of the Oops Five group. Those five guys are extremely ugly and can contaminate him with an awful disease the moment they touch him. Suzuki has to run away before they can catch up.
Enter a room with the Oops Five monsters and move in different directions, while trying to avoid collision. The catch is that each monster has its own movement style. One of them will always imitate Sunzuki and move into the same direction as he; another will, on the contrary, move into the opposite direction, etc. By planning ahead, the player must make moves correctly and make it to the exit before Oops Five gets the boy.
There are different modes in the game, such as training, in which the player faces just one monster of the player's choice and get used to its patterns; puzzle mode, which takes the player through a series of rooms with different shapes and monsters; and battle mode, in which the player is thrown into large rooms where all Oops Five members roam freely. Gameplay is turn-based.
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Facts
- Platforms
- WS
- First released
- 1999-10-28
- Developers
- Nihon Application
- Publishers
- Nihon Application
- Genres
- Puzzle, Top-down, Anime / Manga, Direct control
Covers and screenshots
Box, manual and cartridge scans
Screenshots
Title screen (WS) Intro (WS) The character design here is really not for everyone's taste... (WS) Main menu. (WS) Uh-oh, so many holes... (WS) Sunzuki is reading a newspaper (WS) Meet the handsome Oops Five group! (WS) Beginning your training (WS) No, this is not Basho's haiku... (WS) Yuck! That's an ARMPIT! (WS) Gotcha! (WS) Your father has his own ideas about spiritual education (WS) Starting a level... (WS) So many of them at once... (WS) Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful (WS) So, how do I outsmart this one? (WS) You are contaminated (WS)
Releases
| Platform | Released | Regions | Publishers |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS | 1999-10-28 | world | Nihon Application |
Barcodes
- 4996121004026
Where this comes from
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- MobyGames · MobyGames API terms · retrieved 2026-11-10
- Wikipedia game list · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-10
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