Hebereke series

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Top: Sukezaemon, Oh-Chan. Bottom: Jennifer, Heberke.

Advertising flyer for the cancelled Hebereke's Pair Pair Wars.

The Hebereke series is a video game franchise developed by Japanese company Sunsoft which first began the series on 20 September 1991 with the game titled Hebereke for the Nintendo Famicom, and in 1992 released on the Nintendo Entertainment System only in the UK and Australia under the moniker Ufouria: The Saga altering many of the characters in the process. 'Hebereke' is one of the characters and the Japanese name is colloquial and roughly translates to 'drunk' or 'untrustworthy'.

When sequels were released each almost every title was a different genre, much like the Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun series, Dizzy series and Mario series and can be more considered spin-off games.

1 Spin-offs
- 1.1 Titles
2 Original soundtrack
3 Characters
- 3.1 Major characters
- 3.2 Minor characters
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Spin-offs

Developer Sunsoft used the characters and world feature in Hebereke in a series of other games for Super Famicom (Super NES), Sega Saturn, PlayStation, coin operated arcades and more recently mobile phones [1][2]. Almost all of Sunsofts games that feature the Hebereke characters were used in titles that were very different from each other.

[edit] Titles

Hebereke (Nintendo Famicom) (1991)
Hebereke no Popoon (Arcade) (1994)
Hebereke's Popoitto (PlayStation) (1996)

Hebereke Station Popoitto (Value 1500) (2001)

Hebereke's Popoitto (1996) (Europe)

Hebereke Station Popoitto (SunKore Best) (1999)

Hashire Hebereke (Super NES) (1994)
Hebereke no Oishii Puzzle (Super NES) (1994)
Sugoi Hebereke (Super NES) (1994)
Hebereke no Popuun (Super NES) (1993)
Popitto Hebereke (Super NES) (1995)

Hebereke's Popoitto (1995) (Europe)

Popoitto Hebereke (Sega Saturn) (1995) ¹

Note 1: Different to the SNES game despite a similar title.

A game was developed to be released on PlayStation and Arcade in 1996 titled Hebereke's Pair Pair Wars but was never fully completed. Arcade cabinets have been found that have unfinished versions of the game. Unfortunately most of these have been destroyed in accidents.

Hebereke makes a cameo appearance in Sunsoft's Mega Drive port of Lemmings, appearing in level 18 of the "Sunsoft" setting - SUNSOFT Special.

[edit] Original soundtrack

Takusan Hebereke album cover

A soundtrack was released that features the music from the various Hebereke games. The album was titled Takusan Hebereke and was composed by Naoki Kodaka, Phaseout & MuteC, Masashi Kageyama and arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto. It was published by DATAM Polystar and released on the 25 June 1994.

[edit] Characters

The series sports bright characters and graphics that are typically Japanese in design, done in the style of Bomberman, Kirby and particularly Hello Kitty. The series involves primarily a cast of four main characters and a set of minor characters (many unnamed).