1995 · Puzzle · Strategy

21 Emon

NEC exclusive

Naturally a manga/TV anime tie-in, 21 Emon is one of those Japanese style board games that have never really made a big impact in the west. Four players (any combination of human and computer) take it in turns to roll dice and move around the isometric board, landing on various event squares. The ultimate aim is to build as many hotels as you can and make more loot than your opponents.

Released: 16 January 1995
Platforms: TurboGrafx-16
Genres: Puzzle Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: Auditory
Country: Japan

About

21 Emon (Japanese: 21エモン, Hepburn: Nijūichi Emon), also known as 21 Emon: The 21st Century Kid, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1968 to 1969. An anime film adaptation, animated by Shin-Ei Animation premiered in 1981.

A 39-episode anime television series was broadcast on TV Asahi from May 1991 to March 1992. A second anime film premiered in March 1992. Set in a futuristic world, the series follows a boy named 21 Emon, heir to a long dynasty of hotel owners, whose ancestor goes back to the Edo Period.

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Story

Having to struggle with keeping up their family hotel business at 21 Emon is trying his hardest to help out his family as the new heir, although his dream is not being in the hotel business his whole life but exploring the space as a space pilot.