

Super Jinsei Game is a video game adaptation of Milton Bradley's The Game of Life board game. Takara, the Japanese license holders for the game, commissioned a number of video game adaptations of the Jinsei Game (as the board game is known in Japan). This particular game is the first of three Super Famicom games, and is followed by 1995's Super Jinsei Game 2 and 1996's Super Jinsei Game 3. Geo Factory worked on Super Jinsei Game, but KID would go on to develop its two sequels. Up to four players take turns moving around the board, encountering events that either increase or decrease their current status. They must travel through childhood and various schools before they encounter adult problems like university and finding work. The player who earns the most money at the end is deemed the winner.

Strategy / Quiz/Trivia / Card & Board Game / Fantasy / Historical
Catan, based on the popular board game "Settlers of Catan", is a game of production, trading, and building in which players compete to develop the most successful colony on the island.

Puzzle / Strategy / Turn-based strategy (TBS) / Non-fiction
It's game night and everyone's invited. Play more than 20 classic board, card and party games alone, with friends or via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With familiar favorites like checkers, darts and poker, Clubhouse Games is for everyone and part of the Touch Generations library. Video game newcomers will appreciate the easy-to-use interface. Players can challenge up to seven friends with one game card via Multi-Card Play or DS Download Play. Can't play checkers without shouting "KING ME!" across the table? The in-game (PictoChat-like) feature takes table talk to a new level. There's no need to lug around cards or boards when you want to play a quick game. Clubhouse Games is one-stop gaming that will appeal to everyone's tastes, whether they're in the mood for bowling, backgammon, bridge or billiards.

Role-playing (RPG) / Strategy / Quiz/Trivia
Dragon Quest Wars is a turn-based strategy game played out across a number of quick and challenging rounds. The player will pick four monster playing pieces to battle on their team, with Dragon Quest superstars Slime, Dracky, Hammerhood, Healslime, Chimaera and Golem all available to choose from. Played across a table-top style arena the ultimate aim of the game is to battle and defend against the opposing team to advance to the other side of the arena.

Strategy / Quiz/Trivia / Card & Board Game
Super Jinsei Game 2 is a Miscellaneous game, developed by Kid and published by Takara, which was released in Japan in 1995.

Strategy / Tactical / Quiz/Trivia / Historical
Carcassonne DS is an adaptation of the board game Carcassonne. It includes the river extension and three specific tiles design for Asiatic, Arabic and Nordic environments. A campaign mode gets you through the basic tactics of this game while also providing you with a storyline to follow and specific challenges to overcome. The goal of the game is to build up the biggest empire consisting of cities, roads and control over fields by using pawns to control the tiles you play. The game includes multiplayer options for up to 5 with several cartridges or up to 4 with only one cartridge.

Puzzle / Strategy / Quiz/Trivia / Non-fiction
AI Shogi 3 is a Board game, developed by I4 and published by ASCII Entertainment, which was released only in Japan.

Strategy / Quiz/Trivia / Card & Board Game
Released in 1989 on MSX, by Winky Soft Co., Ltd..

Simulator / Strategy / Quiz/Trivia
The first game in the Bakushou!! Jinsei Gekijoh series and is a four-player NES board game simulation that plays like Milton Bradley's The Game of Life. It was only released in Japan on March 17th 1989. Bakushou!! Jinsei Gekijoh ("Burst of Laughter!! Theater of Life") is the first game in a long-running series developed and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan that allows players to live an entire lifetime, moving through various stages of life and accruing as much wealth as possible. It is based on the Jinsei Game, or The Game of Life as it is known in the west. Up to four human players take turns moving around a board by a number of squares as indicated by dice rolls and make various life decisions, or are passively shown events happening to them, which determine their success. The game was followed by two sequels for the NES and four for the SNES.