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The ''Sailor Moon'' video game series is based on Naoko Takeuchi's manga and anime series of the same name. The series was released in Japan during the height of the media franchise's popularity. By 1998, twenty games were released.〔Grigsby, Mary (1998). "''Sailormoon'': ''Manga (Comics)'' and ''Anime (Cartoon)'' Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States" ''The Journal of Popular Culture'' 32 (1) 59-80 〕 The games released as of 1995, each had sales figures of about 200,000 to 300,000. They have never been released in any other country, with the exception of the ''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon'' game developed by Angel, which was released in France in 1994. Bandai produced a small number of Sailor Moon games, but the majority were handled by a Japanese game company called Angel. Early games were side-scrolling fighters, whereas later games were unique puzzle games, and even later titles were versus fighting game. ''Another Story'' was a role-playing video game. ''Panic in Nakayoshi World'' was also released, an overhead puzzle game featuring characters from various Nakayoshi-printed manga. Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon are playable characters. The games mainly saw release on the Super Famicom, with the first side-scroller being ported to the Mega Drive. A separate arcade side-scrolling fighter was also released. In addition, two side-scrolling adventure games were produced for the Game Boy (''Sailor Moon'' and ''Sailor Moon R''), and a side-scrolling game was also produced for the Game Gear (''Sailor Moon S''). The first versus fighting game from the series was released for the 3DO. However, as the 3DO did not sell well outside of Japan, this game has gone largely unnoticed. Produced by Bandai themselves as opposed to Angel for the other two, this game is considerably different. A final versus fighting game was released for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. The last ''Sailor Moon''-related game to date was released in November 2001 - ''Happy Chibiusa World''. A game was released in the U.S. for the PC. It was a minigame compilation titled ''The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon''. Aside from the theme, the games did nothing to tie in to the series. On July 15, 2010, Bandai Namco Games Europe announced development of a new ''Sailor Moon'' video game for Nintendo DS, ''Sailor Moon: La Luna Splende'', an adventure game featuring environmental puzzles that takes place in Molly/Naru's dreams. ==''Sailor Moon'' (Angel) 1993== ''Sailor Moon'' (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) is a beat 'em up video game developed by Angel in 1993, and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was translated into French in 1994. The Sega Mega Drive version was developed and published by Ma-Ba, although certain elements were recycled from the Super Famicom version. The game is set in the first series of ''Sailor Moon'', and the player takes control of one or two of the five heroines. Each Sailor Soldier has some sequences of blows, three aerial attacks (neutral, moving forward/backward, downward) and a special charge-up projectile. The enemies are mostly the youma of the Dark Kingdom that appeared in the anime, but if more than one of the same kind appears at once, the others are coloured differently (a common device for this genre of games). The Mega Drive version features most of the stages from the SNES version but a few were removed and replaced. Some of the boss battles are different as well, and a new hidden final boss, Queen Metallia is featured when playing on Hard Mode. The Mega Drive counterpart does not contain any of the music from the SNES game, with the exception of the main theme song at the title screen, bosses also has their own song rather than a generic theme for all of them. The game has different endings for each playable character. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Sailor Moon video games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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