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By any weird chance, was it the Great Gianna Sisters? It was for the Commodore 64 initially, and had a lot of elements similar to the Mario games; so much so, Nintendo sued them for it. I've only played a fair bit of a fan remake, though, so I have no word on the original one.
That would be European, though.
My other guess is, check out the NEC PC-98(01), or the PC Turbo Grafx 16. It fits the neither description pretty well, and was fairly popular in Japan. The MSX would be my next guess, though those tended towards computers, than consoles.
No, it wasn't. But actually, I just remembered what it was... It's a game called Chip Chan Kick, for the PC-FX, an obscure and unsuccessful Japanese-only console. I suddenly remembered the main characters names again and tried googling that along with different words (They had mistakenly listed it as "Chip Chap Kick", but Google corrected me). So yeah, I found it again! And actually, it was 32-bit. I guess the anime video scenes should have given me a hint towards that...
Edited by Zanreo My favorite failed console tbh

While on a video game exhibition with a lot of playable games, I played a game that I liked, but I can't remember the name of anymore. Also my memory might not be the most reliable, so a lot of them are "might be" and "possibly". It's a Japanese game, made in either late 80's or early 90's, with 16-bit sprites. They only had a Japanese-language version, so it might not have had a western release... I can't remember the console, but it was NOT SNES, and I'm also PRETTY SURE (95%) it wasn't any Sega console.
The main characters were two girls, who were mostly palette swaps with different-colored hair and dresses, I think one of them had brown or green hair and a blue dress, and the other one might have been blonde or with a red dress. At the start of the game, you could choose who to play as, but it made no real difference since their attacks and everything were all the same. The game was called *name of character 1**name of character 2**some other (English) word*, sadly I can't remember any of them, except that the girls had similar names (a few letters difference). Actually, the last word MIGHT have been "beat" or "crush" or "punch" or something like that, but don't trust me on that one. It was a platformer (not sidescroller) where you jump up and down to attack enemies. You could attack by throwing a ball at them, which would stun them so you could jump on them and kill them, I think this ball was some kind of creature since I think it had eyes. I remember one of the enemies being a traffic sign - a lot of the enemies were various strange objects, actually. You could collect candy (?) to fill up health and/or get points. Some levels were bonus levels with no enemies where you tried collecting everything in the time limit. I also think you could pop balloons to get points/powerups/something. If you got hit, your character would start crying, and you lost a life and respawned on the starting point of the level. You had 3 or more lives/hearts for each level. In general, it had a colorful, cute/funny style.
There was also a 2-player mode where each player would control each their character, and trying to beat a stage together, while trying to collect the most points for yourself.
Also, if you waited on the intro screen, you'd see a short animated clip with the main characters, I think one of them had a magical girl transformation or something.
So, anyone know what this might be?
Edited by Zanreo