

Hyper Bishi Bashi presents you with an entirely different collection of mini games, but in the same manner that Super Bishi Bashi presents itself in regards to whether the mini games are randomly selected or chosen from preference. Choosing Hyper Bishi Bashi provides you with three choices of gameplay in the form of “Hyper Mode”, “Crazy Mode” and “Select Game and Bishi Bashi”. The “Endurance Bishi Bashi Marathon Challenge” presents you with the challenge of attempting to last through as many randomly selected mini games as possible in succession without losing your two lives, while the time trial challenges you to reach the goal of the game within the desired period of time and the “Select Game and Bishi Bashi” which allows you to openly pick any of the mini games of your choice. Choosing Super Bishi Bashi provides you with three choices of gameplay in the form of “Endurance Bishi Bashi Marathon Challenge”, “Time Trial” and “Select Game and Bishi Bashi”. Upon loading you are presented with two options of play: Super Bishi Bashi and Hyper Bishi Bashi.


It all works as the mini games are varyingly based upon retro games from yesteryear. Bishi Bashi was never particularly about the graphics as it has always kept to a simplified graphical style that does not require much polish, which gave Bishi Bashi a charming retro vibe when I originally played the game and it still retains that quality to this very day.

Whereas most of the PS1 games have graphically aged considerably there are some that have held up quite well and fortunately this is one of them. My previous experience of the game meant that I was very happy to see it released as part of the PS One Classics range available across the PS3, PSP and now the PS Vita. Upon its release, Bishi Bashi Special was certainly one of my favourite PS1 games as I spent many an hour playing the mini games in simultaneous multiplayer against my dad as many laughs were had. Bishi Bashi Special is an arcade mini game compilation that was originally released on September 27th 1998 in Japan and finally making it to English localisation in 2000 for PS1.
