JB Harold Returns

[grendelrt]

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News: J.B. Harold returns!
   

August 12, 2006, 04:08 AM
   

by chazumaru, via Althi - [p]

Cellphone games are getting more and more interesting in Japan.Speaking of detective games, another huge surprise was the announcement of a new episode in the J.B. Harold series. With Tantei Saburou and Famicom Detective, J.B. Harold might just be the most popular series of pornfree detective adventure games in Japan. The most famous episode is quite certainly the first one, Murder Club (or Satsujin Club), notable for its brillant PC Engine CD-ROM² conversion, and you might also have heard of Blue Chicago Blues and Manhattan Requiem. These two games had enhanced Laser Disc versions for PC Engine LD-ROM² (hence to be played on the LaserActive), but Blue Chicago Blues was also available on pretty much all the big Japanese CD-based systems of its time.

Now, for the bad news: this new episode titled J.B. Harold Series: Seattle Purple Haze is only available on Japanese cellphones. Althi owns most of the Riverhill Soft licenses and the series is now part of its Mystery Selection i catalog, where the ports of the existing J.B. Harold games have apparently proved profitable enough to deserve the effort of producing a brand new episode for the mobile crowd. Despites being a new episode, it seems this version runs on a mobile version of EGG, the popular and licensed Japanese PC emulation service for Windows. Provided you have a FOMA-compatible cellphone, you can already get J.B. Harold Series: Seattle Purple Haze here for 525 yen.

[Black Tiger]

Cool man. Although, since I've never bothered to play through the Turbo or PCE versions, I probably won't play this one either.

But its still cool to see another former Turbo title reappear on cellphones.

[esteban]

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News: J.B. Harold returns!
   

August 12, 2006, 04:08 AM
   

by chazumaru, via Althi - [p]

Cellphone games are getting more and more interesting in Japan.Speaking of detective games, another huge surprise was the announcement of a new episode in the J.B. Harold series. With Tantei Saburou and Famicom Detective, J.B. Harold might just be the most popular series of pornfree detective adventure games in Japan. The most famous episode is quite certainly the first one, Murder Club (or Satsujin Club), notable for its brillant PC Engine CD-ROM² conversion, and you might also have heard of Blue Chicago Blues and Manhattan Requiem. These two games had enhanced Laser Disc versions for PC Engine LD-ROM² (hence to be played on the LaserActive), but Blue Chicago Blues was also available on pretty much all the big Japanese CD-based systems of its time.

Now, for the bad news: this new episode titled J.B. Harold Series: Seattle Purple Haze is only available on Japanese cellphones. Althi owns most of the Riverhill Soft licenses and the series is now part of its Mystery Selection i catalog, where the ports of the existing J.B. Harold games have apparently proved profitable enough to deserve the effort of producing a brand new episode for the mobile crowd. Despites being a new episode, it seems this version runs on a mobile version of EGG, the popular and licensed Japanese PC emulation service for Windows. Provided you have a FOMA-compatible cellphone, you can already get J.B. Harold Series: Seattle Purple Haze here for 525 yen.

Awesome, I love reading about stuff like this. Thanks for the scoop. I actually wish I could play this (or even better, I wish a proper version was released on a "real" platform).

[ParanoiaDragon]

I've been meaning to pick up Blue Chicago Blues for 3DO, maybe it's about time I did!