0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - 16 Tales

                            

16 Tales is the first in a series of games developed and published by Lightspan Partnership the first game in the series was released on the Playstation in 1996 the game is best classed as a educational game/visual novel the game consists of four 15 minute videos detailing various cultures, stories and lore.

Educational videos only so no Gameplay other than sitting on your bottom and watching.

One of the four tales in volume 1 of the 16 tales series is called The Tale of Urashima Taro (had to do some research here), Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese otogi banashi (fairy tale) about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to the Ryūgū-jō (Dragon Palace) under the sea. He stays there for three days and, upon his return to his village, finds himself 300 years in the future.

It is based on a legend of Urashima no ko recorded in the various documents dating to the 8th century or earlier, such as the accounts of him found in the Nihon Shoki and the Fudoki for Tango Province, and the poem in the anthology Man'yōshū

Reviews are hard to find for this game user rating on GameFAQs is sitting at 3.5/5 with only the one user review.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific but from a podcast I listen too I have heard they have a huge stock of older games.

So lets get down to business we may as well start with Gamedude the sites does not even have the game listed in it’s Playstation 1 section likewise eStarland.com and Retrogames.co.uk and even Amazon don’t have a copy of this title either used or new.

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P J Gibbon