Bishi Bashi

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Bishi Bashi (ﾋﾞｼﾊﾞｼ) is a series of Konami arcade games and Sony PlayStation games. All games in the series comprise playing through a wide variety of competitive minigames against other players. The arcade games support 1 to 6 players^[1] and the PlayStation game allows 1 to 8 players; the game will provide computer opponents if there are not enough players.

1 Arcade games
2 PlayStation games
3 Examples of minigames
4 References

[edit] Arcade games

The arcade games released so far include^[2]:

Bishi Bashi Championship Mini Game Senshuken in 1996
Super Bishi Bashi Champ^[1] and Handle Champ in 1998
Hyper Bishi Bashi, Gachaga Champ and Step Champ in 1999
Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ^[3] and Anime Champ in 2000
Salaryman Champ in 2001
Great Bishi Bashi Champ in 2002

The arcade game controls are very simple; each player has a red, blue and green button, positioned left, right and centre respectively. Each minigame explains its controls before play commences.

[edit] PlayStation games

Some of the minigames from the arcade games have also been ported to the Sony PlayStation and released under the name Bishi Bashi Special (ビシバシスペシャル)^[4]

Bishi Bashi Special was released in 1998 in Japan and released in Europe in 2000^[5]^[6]
Bishi Bashi Special 2 was released in 1999 in Japan only^[7]
Bishi Bashi Special 3 was released in 2000 in Japan only^[8]

Unlike the arcade game, the ported minigames do not always use the red, green and blue buttons of the PlayStation joypad; "button bashing" minigames allow the player to use the analog sticks or the shoulder buttons as well as the regular buttons.

[edit] Examples of minigames

Hyper pie throwing: A bride, with the groom holding her train, must run from the altar of a church down the aisle to where the wedding guests are seated. The faster the player mashes two of the game buttons, the faster the bride runs. Once she reaches the front row, the player presses and holds the third game button, which allows them to pick an angle for the pie's trajectory. Letting go of the button unleashes the pie, which flies several rows back and hits one of the wedding guests. All wedding guests, except the pied victim, stand and applaud. The game is judged on how many rows the pie flew, and the winner is whoever threw their pie the furthest.

Shake the can into outer space!: Players mash all the game buttons to shake a soft drink can. After a fixed period of time, all cans are placed on Space Shuttle launchpads, and launched into space with their pent-up fizz. The winner is whoever's can flies the furthest from Earth. If the player is particularly good, their can will be powerful enough to slam into the moon.