TM Network Live in Power Bowl

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TM Network Live in Power Bowl is a Japanese-only Famicom game featuring then popular J-Pop group TM Network. The story starts on New Year's Eve in the year 1999. Suddenly, nuclear war breaks out and a nuclear blasts sends the player back to December of 1989. Using his musical rock and roll influence, the player must persuade the world to declare global peace so that the nuclear war never happens. Using a graphic adventure-like interface, the player interacts with the J-pop band and many other people including the security guard, the secretary, and normal citizens of Japan.

However, the player has to watch how much information they let out. If he tells the wrong person that he is from 1999, then the game ends with him going to jail and the world is destroyed anyway due to World War III. Japanese literacy is required, as the entire game is in Japanese with only a few words of English spoken. There is a point where the player can get stuck. After talking to the businessman in a normal manner to get in (not saying that he is from 1999), the player has to retrieve a briefcase but it is stuck. Using the phone doesn't work and the player has to get the briefcase befre the businessman wakes up. This point in the game has stumped the most amount of English speaking people. Due to its difficult level, it is recommended that only people whose native language is Japanese play this game.