Bakushou! Star Monomane Shitennou

is a Famicom life simulation game that portrays the life of a rock star. The object is to earn popularity while performing concerts and appeasing senior citizens by performing gigs at the nursing home. Otherwise, they will criticize the player's music styles without an end. After gaining the respect of the elderly, the mad faces eventually turn into frowns (and eventually smiles). Television appearances come in the form of celebrity competitions, talent shows, and even televised concerts. The eventual goal is to convert all stadiums and concert venues to the player's colors.

This game can be considered a combination of "Monopoly" and "American Idol". Up to four players can play and players can mix their music styles that include Elvis Presley, traditional Japanese music, and Michael Jackson. In addition to popularity meters for the players' bands, music styles have their own popularity meters. Smiles with the player's colors determine which music styles are best liked by the player's fans. This determine what music styles to play and which ones to avoid in certain concert venues.

In the talent contest, the show is like a tournament where four people compete in a semi-final format. After the judges give their score, the two players with the lowest score are eliminated. The players with the highest score end up competing in a final round where the highest scoring player is the winner and receives popularity points. During the actual performance, the player must choose his or her musical style(s) and must improvise the lyrics. During a televised concert, the game proceeds like in a normal concert. The only difference is that an increased number of popularity points are rewarded for a successful concert. Celebrity challenges are like miniature games like sumo wrestling, leap frog and one-on-one soccer.

When the player draws a certain combination on the dice, they must go to a nursing home and impress a grandmother with their musical styles. If the player can impress the grandmother with his or her music, then the player's band is accepted more by the elderly people. All the text in the game is in Japanese and Japanese literacy is strongly recommended to play this game. Other combinations of the letter and number dice can create or ruin a band's popularity along with other side effects. The dice combination "A-1" is the best combination and it causes a rapid rise in popularity, which means more fans show up to the lucky band's concerts.

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