Ohotsuku Ni Kiyu Nintendo Famicom NES Japan NTSC-J Game
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Ohotsuku Ni Kiyu is a 1987 Famicom text adventure, Japan-exclusive NTSC-J release, catalog number HSP-07 under the Login Soft label. Nintendo hardware, Yuji Horii design, yellow plastic case complete. This is the version that never left Japan officially, meaning if you wanted to play it at the time, you needed the hardware and the import.
Yuji Horii made this before Dragon Quest defined what Japanese RPGs were going to be for the next decade. Dragon Quest hit Famicom in May 1986. Ohotsuku Ni Kiyu came out the following year, 1987, as a murder mystery set around the Sea of Okhotsk. That context matters: this is Horii mid-run, already trusted enough to work on an original mystery title, not yet the household name the Dragon Quest franchise would make him. The murder mystery genre had traction in Japan at this point. Chunsoft was involved in Dragon Quest's programming side; the adventure game format here reflects a parallel lane in Japanese game design that was popular domestically and almost completely invisible to North American players. That's the gap this cart occupies: a legitimate design credit in Horii's output that the Western market never processed because it never crossed the Pacific.
The murder mystery Horii built before Dragon Quest rewrote his entire career.
The original yellow plastic case is intact, which is the important physical detail. Famicom cases from this period crack, warp, or go missing entirely. Login Soft's catalog items are not easy to find complete. The cartridge itself is HSP-07, a short catalog number that puts it in a boutique production run outside the standard HVC prefix Nintendo used for first-party titles. If you are running a Famicom and want a Horii-adjacent piece from the pre-Dragon Quest-dominance moment, this is a real one. Check the case spine for stress fractures along the hinge seam before committing to display orientation.
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The murder mystery Horii built before Dragon Quest rewrote his entire career.
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This is part of Nintendo's 80s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This ohotsuku ni kiyu nintendo famicom nes japan ntsc-j game originates from the 80s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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