Nippon Safes Inc – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Nippon Safes Inc. – Final rating

On August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch What were my expectations when I started playing this? Well, maybe more safes… Honestly, my familiarity with the game only goes as far as remembering to have seen some screenshots in a magazine some time in 1992. I guess it was a review, but I can’t recall […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Get smart (Won)

On July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch I ended the previous post on a slightly slow-moving note, if I can call it that. For the umpteenth time, I needed to find 100 yen for a metro ticket. While I didn’t flag that post as a request for assistance, I nevertheless found myself unable to […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – The Adventures of Mister Bean

On July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Torch After tackling the problems of Doug Nuts (the smart) and Donna Fatale (the sexy), time has now come to meet Dino Fagioli. Yes, the stupid. And boy is he ever! But more on that later. Dino’s chapter doesn’t start outside the prison like Doug and Donna’s, but rather […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Imperial makeover

On July 13, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch In my last post, I managed to get sort of stuck. I imagine I could’ve brute forced my way through, but there’s only so many times one has the patience to try every action on every screen. Luckily commenter Vetinari came to my rescue with some much […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Been there, Donna that (Request for assistance)

On July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch The perceptive reader will know that in my previous post, I finished Doug’s chapter. It ended with him being knocked out by a mysterious stranger as soon as he’d escaped with the Jade Buddha he was assigned to steal from the Saku-Rambo monastery. This means that it’s […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Back with a wrench-ance

On June 16, 2019June 16, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Torch Doug Nuts here again. Being a genius, I usually like to get by in the world using my brains. This time, however, my legs have done most of the job Last time I left off trying to figure out how to win the grand opening competition at the […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – A Tale of Two City Names

On June 4, 2019June 5, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch The name’s Nuts, Doug Nuts. I’m an electronics genius with a mission. And that mission is… what was it again? Oh yeah, to steal a jade Buddha from a safe in the “Saku-Rambo” Monastery. Only problem is, I have no idea where to find the monastery. It’s […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Three’s company

On May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Torch In my previous post time we took a gander at the manual and discussed the history of the developers, but not much was said about the game itself, so let’s get cracking (literally) on that. I start off as Doug Nuts. (So no quiz-based character selection as of […]

Game 108: Nippon Safes, Inc. – Introduction

On May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch Doesn’t look very safe to me Two years after my first ever playthrough for The Adventure Gamer, I’m finally up for another. Quite the gap, but – surprise! – we’re still doing games from 1992! We sure are taking our time here, or perhaps 1992 was just […]