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Occasionally, remakes will leave you scratching your head, wondering why anyone bothered to bring an old title back from the dead. With the Famicom Detective Club games making their way to the Nintendo Switch, we have a legitimate slice of gaming history being restored.
Originally released in 1988 and 1989 on the Famicom Disc System, which had retail availability for just four years, the games simply haven’t been played by many people, least of all in the West. If there is ever a case to be made for remaking games and bringing them a modern audience, this is it.
Did You Find The Easter Egg Hidden In Famicom Detective Club?
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We hope you ve been enjoying Famicom Detective Club as much as we did, and if you ve finished both games or if you re at least halfway through both of them then there s a neat little Easter Egg that you might have already found yourself.
In The Missing Heir, you re given a speed dial number to reach the office of Kanda Law Firm by the butler, Zenzou. Dialing 16 will get you through to the assistant, who will usually tell you that Kanda, the lawyer, is out.
In The Girl Who Stands Behind, you find out the number of Bar Sambora late in the plot, and you can call 007-1234 to talk to the bartender there.
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Howdunnit Updated on 15 May 2021
This week saw the re-release of a real Nintendo curio. The Famicon Detective Club games initially seem to have come from a parallel universe - Nintendo games, but also visual novels? The re-releases of the first two adventures have been lovingly handled, with beautifully updated graphics and plenty of quality-of-life changes, although be warned that they remain wilful and rather odd. To help make sense of where these games came from, though, we ve decided to dig into the history of this fascinating series.
When you think about Nintendo in the 80s, what comes to mind? Super Mario Bros? Duck Hunt and the glorious NES Zapper? Absolute domination of the home console market? All valid answers, but even for Nintendo s most dedicated, Famicom Detective Club probably isn t topping your list. Released for the Famicom Disk System in 1988, these game brought us two classic murder mystery visual novels, something we ve not