Shodan Morita Shougi [JP]
Shodan Morita Shougi [JP]
Shodan Morita Shougi [JP]
Shodan Morita Shougi [JP]

Shodan Morita Shougi [JP]

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Item Description

Before the Super Famicom was a year old, it already had a shogi opponent with a famous name behind it. Shodan Morita Shogi, published by Seta in August 1991, was the first shogi game for the system, and it carries the work of Kazuro Morita, the programmer whose computer shogi had been a fixture on Japanese home computers since the mid-1980s. His Famicom Morita Shogi in 1987 was known as the first Famicom game to use battery-backed saves, and his name on a box signaled a serious thinking engine rather than a casual board game.

Shogi itself is a joy to discover. It shares chess's goal of trapping the opposing king, but captured pieces switch sides and can be dropped back onto the board as your own, and pieces promote as they push into enemy territory. Nothing is ever permanently off the board, so a game that looks settled can flip in a handful of moves.

The title tells you the ambition. Shodan is the first dan rank, and this cartridge made the then-novel offer that beating the computer could earn you recognition of that rank. It was not an easy bargain: the computer was allowed to think at length while the player had just 20 seconds per move, a handicap players complained about loudly enough that Seta's 1995 follow-up, Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shogi 2, was built around fast play.

That makes this the opening chapter of Morita's Super Famicom work and a fascinating piece of early console AI history, a cartridge that dared players to earn a real-world rank against a machine. It is a great find for collectors of Japanese strategy software and a stern, characterful sparring partner for anyone learning the game.

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