Momotaro Dentetsu, the long-running board game-style video game based on the Momotaro folklore with trains and entrepreneurs, is finally coming to an end, after its long run of 27 years, series creator Akira Sakuma tweeted.
Sakuma originally worked on Momotaro Dentetsu for Hudson, and it was basically like Mario Party before Mario Partya popular multiplayer game that mixed elements of Sugoroku and Monopoly, and took entrepreneur players across Japan on trains, powered by dice rolls. The first game was on the Famicom back in 1988, and since then, it has had multiple titles per generation.
While Momotaro Dentetsu has enjoyed a long run of friends gathering together, finding joy in rolling the perfect numbers, and crying after losing all your money to the Binbogami (God of Poverty), it appears to have reached its final stop, as Sakuma tweeted: I havent had any contact from Konami whatsoever. This situation has been going on for a very long time. With that, I will officially end Momotaro Dentetsu. It has all been crushed by Konamis Ishikawa.
His wife, Mariko Sakuma, who also works on the games tweeted: They told us that wed get a response in May, so we gave them the weekend, and ended up waiting until June 2nd. But we still havent seen any contact. I wonder what happened with Konamis Mr. Ishikawa.
