Naname De Magic!
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Naname de Magic! is a puzzle
Puzzle
A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution...

 arcade game that was only made available in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It plays similar to Hebereke no Popoon
Hebereke no Popoon
is a two player puzzle video game developed and published by Sunsoft. It is based on the Hebereke series. Hebereke means drunk or untrustworthy. Popoon is an onomatopoeia for the sound made by the game pieces when they explode.-Availability:...

. Like Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, the characters are super-deformed (with the first boss looking very similar to Wolfgang Krauser of the Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury
is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo Geo system.Producers Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, who were the producers of the series from Fatal Fury 3 and onward, were the planners of the original Street Fighter...

 series) with an exception of some of the bosses in the final stages. Another reason it links to this Capcom
Capcom
is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...

 game, a special system is activated to defeat an opponent. One would have to stack the element icons diagonally to attack the opponent, unlike to its comparing counterpart.

Availability

The cabinet version is extremely rare. It is still playable through MAME
MAME
MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten...

 and maybe some other emulators.

Characters

Frain: Once a player has inserted their coins for story mode, they have to play as this character. Frain may be trying to find out what's going on. Rei tells Frain that someone took Elena and must bring her back to safety. Like Ryu
Ryu
* Ryū , a school of thought or discipline ., a book by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa* Ryū , a series by Masao Yajima and Akira Oze* Ryu , a common Korean family name...

, he may (or may not) be a lone wolf in the story, due to the same trait of that he carries his satchel everywhere he goes.

All other characters are only playable in versus mode:
  • Dio
  • Datta
  • Sala
  • Elena (as she appears in the tutorial mode)
  • Rei

Legacy

A non-Japanese player wouldn't know how to play the game without viewing the tutorial in attraction mode. This game is extremely rare, if non-existent, outside of Japan.
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