This is Console History, a special sub-series of my more general History Lessons series, covering console role-playing games, action role-playing games, Metroidvanias, and action-adventure games in nominally chronological order starting in the late 1980s. The chronology is garbled in the beginning as the scope of the series expanded, but it gets more organized later on. As always, you may click on images to view larger versions.
The Great Console History Reorganization continues! Last time, I added Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll to the ranks of games I’ve already covered. If I’d had my timeline in order, next would have been Esper Dream, then The Goonies II, Golvellius: Valley of Doom, and Rygar. Since I’ve already written about those, we move now to Ai Senshi Nicol, a sci-fi action-adventure game released by Konami on April 24, 1987 for the Famicom Disk System. Ai Senshi Nicol was only released in Japan, but all of the in-game text is in English, so I was able to play it without needing to track down a fan translation.