Urusei Yatsura Video Games
A 1982 Bandai handheld starts the line; its landmarks are Hudson’s PC Engine CD adventure and Game Arts’ Mega-CD game. Every one of them stayed in Japan.
Takahashi’s first series was a games property from the medium’s early days, and its release map is a tour of Japanese hardware: handheld electronics, home computers, Famicom, PC Engine CD, Game Boy, Mega-CD, Nintendo DS, and then, for two more decades, pachinko. No Urusei Yatsura game has ever been officially released in the West.
THE CENSUS
1982–2005, plus the pachinko tailThe First · 1982
A handheld electronic game from Bandai, released while the TV anime was still young: the franchise’s first step into games.
Lum no Wedding Bell · Famicom, October 23, 1986
Jaleco’s Famicom title, developed by Tose as a conversion of the unrelated arcade game Momoko 120%: a licensed skin over another game’s bones, and honest about neither.
The Computer Years · 1987
Micro Cabin’s Urusei Yatsura for the Fujitsu FM-7 and Koi no Survival Party for MSX: the home-computer stratum of 1980s Japanese licensing.
Stay With You · PC Engine CD, June 29, 1990
Hudson Soft’s CD adventure, rated 25.78 out of 30 by PC Engine Fan magazine; an edition bundled a music CD. The connoisseur’s Urusei Yatsura game.
Miss Tomobiki o Sagase! · Game Boy, July 3, 1992
Yanoman’s handheld entry, arriving a year after the final film.
Dear My Friends · Mega-CD, April 15, 1994
Game Arts on Sega’s CD hardware: an animated adventure built when full-motion anime footage was the format’s promise.
Endless Summer · Nintendo DS, October 20, 2005
Marvelous’s DS revival, twenty-three years after the first game and eighteen after the manga ended.
The Pachinko Tail · 2001–19
CR Urusei Yatsura (2001) through P Urusei Yatsura: Lum’s Love Song (2019): in Japan’s parlors, the franchise never actually stopped.