Beyond the Scanlines Presents A Few Accessible EGGCONSOLE Games

There is a universe of Japanese home computer games that are largely unknown in Western territories, especially the US which never got a local MSX machine. Some of these games can be played officially with emulation via Project EGG, and some of those are even available on Switch as part of EGGCONSOLE. But the problem remains, most of them are in Japanese, a difficult language to pick up if you didn’t grow up with it. Well the Youtube channel Beyond the Scanlines has selected a few of them that are playable without any Japanese language knowledge (14 minutes). Guardic is a strategic exploratory shooter from Compile that’s both an interesting game in its own right and the predecessor of the NES classic The Guardian Legend (Guardic Gaiden on Famicom). Hydlide is a game that’s available on NES and is pretty infamous there, but it does play a bit better in its original version. Slipheed is a classic shooter with 3D graphics that still hold up pretty well today. The Scheme is a platform…