Famicom Mukashi Hanashi Series

We recently came across the Famicom Mukashi Hanashi Series (or Famicom tales of old times Series) for the little known Famicom Disk System. Some beautiful sound and graphics give plenty of encouragement to scholars of Japanese to persure them further with the simpler Hiragana script. Being big Monkey men we couldn't resist Saiyuki. Based on the Chinese classic A Journey to the West, here we join Monkey on his first five chapters travelling to India. The usual suspects of the priest, Pigsy and Sandy all pop up and both text and graphics are used to depict the action as players use basic commands to progress such as talk, take or look. Learning a little each day (and its often a little in the case of Pigsy and Monkey.) Lovingly drawn with soothing chip tunes.
Here is the fine advert for it that aired in Japan:



We excitedly await the next installment in the series in Shin Onigashima arriving. Only twenty odd years too late....