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• Best Play Pro Yakyuu

  Best Play Pro Yakyuu gives you the manager's seat in a baseball season, with lineups, pitching changes and tactical calls shaping your team's results. Editing players and teams adds another pleasure: building a league of your own and watching your decisions play out.

  Published collection: 6 games

• Derby Stallion

  Derby Stallion puts you in charge of a stud farm, from choosing breeding pairs to training horses and entering races. Prize money feeds back into the farm, while each new generation gives you another chance to refine a bloodline.

  Published collection: 9 games

• Bass Landing

  Bass Landing turns a day on the lake into a fishing simulation built around choosing tackle, placing a cast and working the lure. Free fishing and tournament play give you different reasons to study the water and bring a hooked fish alongside the boat.

  Published collection: 3 games

• Daisenryaku

  Daisenryaku is a military strategy franchise about coordinating units, producing reinforcements and controlling a battlefield map. Its branches explore different eras and rules, with both turn-based and real-time entries asking you to think beyond a single exchange of fire.

  Published collection: 10 games

• Carom Shot

  Carom Shot puts billiards on a virtual table, where aiming the cue and reading the next ball's path drive the action. Its small PlayStation series presents the table in 3D and gives players room to think through each shot.

  Published collection: 2 games

• Armored Core

  Armored Core is FromSoftware’s mech-action series about assembling a fighting machine and taking on mercenary missions. Changing weapons, legs and other parts changes how you move and fight, making a return to the garage part of solving a difficult battle.

  Published collection: 20 games

• AI Shougi

  AI Shougi offers a computer opponent for a quiet game of Japanese chess. You read threats, protect your king and look for the move that turns the position around. Across its console and computer releases, adjustable opponents and edition-specific practice tools give you different ways to work on your play.

  Published collection: 4 games

• Chou Aniki

  Chou Aniki is best known for shooters where flying muscles and bodybuilding jokes turn every stage into a strange spectacle. Beneath the absurd imagery, you still need to watch enemy movement and find a route through incoming fire.

  Published collection: 4 games

• 19XX

  Capcom’s 194X aerial shooters send you into scrolling battlefields filled with enemy planes and warships. Dodge incoming fire and collect weapon upgrades as formations close in. Each entry adds its own twist, from evasive loops to charged shots.

  Published collection: 8 games