源平討魔伝 “Genpei Toumaden” [The Genji & The Heike Clans Defeat Demon Story] is an old NAMCO Beat/Slash-’em-Up Action Platformer in the Japanese Arcades from 1986 running on “NAMCO System 86″ Arcade Software. The Game’s story is an elaborated and exaggerated adaptation of 平家物語 “Heike Monogatari”, or “The Tale of the Heike”, which is a historical account of the struggle between two clans, the Minamoto and Taira clans in 12th Century medieval Japan in what became known as the “Genpei War”. The game itself was technologically ahead of its time–both looking and sounding like an early SEGA Genesis game such as “Altered Beast”. Storyline-wise, the game took a large twist on the historical account through role-reversal. Making 平景清 “Kagekiyo-no-Taira” (the main protagonist throughout the video) into the Hero, while 武蔵坊弁慶 “Saito Musashibo Benkei”, 源義経 “Minamoto-no-Yoshitsune”, and his older brother (as well as the game’s final boss), 源頼朝 “Minamoto-no-Yoritomo”. Bad guys are good, and good are bad.
The promotional trailer gives a brief introduction of Kagekiyo. Dying from a series of arrows during the Battle of Dan-no-ura, Kagekiyo is ressurected from the Underworld by Emperor Enma and Old Lady Andaba and ordered to both avenge himself and save the world by slaying Yoritomo and liberating ancient Japan from his evil grasp.
The footage itself has seen alot of “action”. It was recorded with the cinematography abilities of an old “Godzilla” flick, and was later copied to “NAMCO Museum Vol. 4″ as a special “Bonus, Alternate Game Introduction” by holding down L1+L2+R1+R2 when you boot the game up.
The original 5 Namco Museums for PSX were the best ones in my opinion because they went into the most depth and gave you a virtual museum to walk around in. This copy however was recorded from a partially scratched Disc. I may remaster it later–I’m very lucky to own the original five games seeing as they are quite rare nowadays.
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@SaitohYatate
you …
@SaitohYatate
you are hilarious
Don’t forget the …
Don’t forget the Famicom RPG version of this game.
Still would make …
Still would make for a good movie >:3
Wrong on both …
Wrong on both counts.
This is a promotional trailer for Genpei Toumaden, an Arcade Game released by NAMCO (creators of Pac-Man, Klonoa, Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc.) in the late 80′s.
The game was ported to home console on the TurboGraphx-16 (Called “PC-Engine” in Japan). The American port of this version was known as “Samurai Ghost” and the sequel, “Samurai Ghost 2″. Which you can download on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console.
The game was also on PSX in “Namco Museum Vol. 4″ in America.
Looks like it would …
Looks like it would have made a of a movie!
o.O All that special effects in one commercial?
And the game came out on nintendo, talk about marketing…!
O.O
This has to be one …
This has to be one the most bizzare trailers I have ever seen…
Go To DMC! Go To …
Go To DMC! Go To DMC!
クラウザーさん！クラウザー …
クラウザーさん！クラウザーさんじゃないですか！！
lol!! Specially …
lol!! Specially with “black metal” by Venom. Its hilarious.
Is that come from …
Is that come from 765?
Namco Museum Vol 4 …
Namco Museum Vol 4
my fav game Pac-land
The video is on the …
The video is on the US version of the Namco Museum Volume 4, too. Just press L1 and L2 during the Namco introduction.
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! …
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow mega Black …
Wow mega Black metal, try turning down the wolume and play some black metal in the background insted, then you got yourselve a black metal music vidio.
Wow, looks like …
Wow, looks like something that Quentin Tarantino might have cooked up. Cool!
if they only had …
if they only had the movie in america. btw, this isn’t the first movie based on a namco game. 2 years after Genpei Tourmaden, Namco made a movie based on Mirai Ninja (a.k.a. Cyber Ninja)