Michael English Daibouken

Michael English Daibouken

Aka: マイケルのイングリッシュ大冒険, Michael English Daibouken
Console: Famicom Disk System
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Scorpion Soft
Publisher(s): Scorpion Soft
Release Date: 1987-06-19
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Type: Puzzle

Michael English Daibouken is an educational game where the character of Michael, an orange cat, teaches kittens the various letters in the English language as well as some English vocabulary. Michael has to catch floating letters in order to spell out English words, while avoiding the incorrect letters. The game has various different backdrops, including space.

The character of Michael comes from the Japanese serial manga strip "What's Michael", created by Makoto Kobayashi which might be considered analogous to Garfield, due to them both being orange cats. It varies between observing goofy pet behavior to more abstract tales of fantasy with anthropomorphized versions of the animal characters.