Kaiji Video Games - Hidden Gems and Shovelware

A look into the 3 games based on Kaiji Ultimate Survivor (Kaiji Gambling Apocalypse) that were made for consoles.
A VR Experience recreating Kaiji's Brave Man Road, A collection of minigames for the DS adapting the first season of the anime and unique take on the Restricted Rock Paper Scissors game on the PS1 which puts you in the hot seat as one of the other people who are trying to get out of debt on the ship Espoir. With branching storylines and side minigames it was a surprise hit from an unknown developer.
Amongst the shovelware, I was able to find a little known hidden gem on the Playstation 1 which was real fun to experience.
If you have suggestions for other games I should check out/cover, feel free to leave a comment.
Continuing my struggle with the CZcams Game's list, none of the games I covered are a part of it. The only Kaiji game available is a mobile one...
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:17 Kaiji VR (Kaiji Steel Beam Crossing of Despair)
8:09 Music (Hideki Taniuchi)
9:05 Kaiji DS (Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Death or Survival)
21:38 Kaiji PS1 (Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji)
35:58 Outro
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Kaiji Pachislot - 17 Steps Mahjong Scenes (Mizukkuro):
• Kaiji - 17 Steps (All ...
Kaiji VR Playhthrough (QuietPlayArchive):
• Kaiji VR Playthrough (...
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Overworked Salaryman's video covering the Kaiji DS game (If you want more insight into the actual story of the DS game by someone who actaully speaks Japanese):
• Japan's Other Worst Ga...
Sonickrazy's stream of the PS1 Kaiji Game (He plays through some of the game and translates some of the dialogue as he goes along):
• Tobaku Mokushiroku Kai...
Japanese articles about the Taito games:
k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda...
k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda...
k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda...
www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/arti...
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The 2 articles below I wanted to mention as they were helpful in getting some info for this video however the website they're hosted on automatically collects data without asking which besides violating European privacy laws, I personally don't find ethical so proceed at your own discretion.
Article about the PS1 Kaiji game (NOTE: The site automatically collects cookies without permission)
/ gambling-apocalypse-ka...
Article about the Taito mobile games (NOTE: The site automatically collects cookies without permission)
/ the-seemingly-lost-gam...
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[@luisenriquecendejassosa6805]

How come there are 3 games, 3 live-action films, a recent expo in Japan, arcade adaptations, etc., but no season 3 like wtf?

[@TephraDan]

fr how did Tonegawa spin off get an anime before season 3

[@timegear6322]

If the golf spin new manga gets an anime before s3 I will cry ​@@TephraDan

[@wackaholic3689]

Cool video. More people need to watch kaiji lol

[@TephraDan]

Definitely deserves a lot more love

[@BupiDoodles]

HOLY CRAP a kaiji fan making a video essay about the games. this is exactly what i needed. THANK YOU. ive always been curious about them.

[@Datenshidelenfer]

I always forget Kaiji started in 96

[@grisha92]

Great video! PS1 game looks very cool. Maybe someday we will see the fan-translation...

[@TephraDan]

Thanks! I really hope it does happen one day, it deserves one

[@ThatOneLegendEmerald]

I think this is the first time I've seen a video with such few views (at the current time it's 749) and be pretty good

[@pigeoncat3786]

great video! kaiji has so much cursed merch and tie-ins lol so I'm glad to see someone covering the games!

[@Endercloud125]

the window cleaning punishment made me laugh 😭very good video dude!!!

[@olliebats]

Awesome video!! Kaiji series has so much weird content and media attached to it with so little English coverage. I tried playing the DS game through an emulator years ago and got frustrated at all the shovelware DS gimmicks that were difficult to recreate on a computer, never even finished it lol

[@TephraDan]

Yeah that one was not fun, but at least not missing out on much

[@DrMedicsGameSurgery]

great viceo

[@EscarBOOM]

Hell golf game when

[@cccddd9069]

thank you for playing these games so i didnt have to...

[@TephraDan]

Glad to have been of service lol

[@MARIORPG23]

What was the ost at 1546?

[@TephraDan]

“Wish” from the Kaiji Anime OST