Moujiya (Game)

Moujiya

GAME » on December 1995

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A Japanese falling-block tile-matching puzzle game similar to Puyo Puyo, involving yen coins that combine into larger denominations.

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Moujiya, also know as Ryougae Puzzle Game Moujiya (or "Currency Exchange Puzzle Game Moujiya") and sometimes known as Moudjiya, Moujya, or Mouja, is a falling-block tile-matching puzzle game developed by Digital Pad (Company) and published by Fujitsu Personal Computer Systems for Windows PCs in Japan on December 1995, with a Windows PC and Macintosh re-release in 1997.

A puzzle game similar to the Puyo Puyo (Franchise) series, Moujiya has players manipulating two-block pieces of Japanese yen coins down the 6×12 playfield in order to combine multiple coins of the same denomination, exchanging them for coins of a higher denomination, with the objective being to exchange them to a ¥1,000 banknote that is removed from the board. This style of currency-exchanging game was later used in the 1997 game Money Idol Exchanger.

The original game used a hand-drawn shonen anime style with a story involving the young protagonist Koichi Kaneda, a poor student who enters a tournament to win the inheritance of the late Money God Zenigami Kyoshiro. The game also features voice acting by some well-known VAs, such as Megumi Ogata (Person).

The game later received an arcade conversion by Etona (Company) (along with Racdym, AM Factory (Company), and Witch) in 1996, changing some of its gameplay while replacing the original's art style with a more cutesy anime style involving cartoon cats. This version later received home releases by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Sega Saturn (on December 20, 1996) and the Sony PlayStation on January 10, 1997 (the latter of which had a budget re-release by Hector Playing Interface as Ryougae Puzzle Moujiya on September 14, 1999). Like the original, all of these versions were only released in Japan.

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