Kamen Rider Agito & Kuuga Wild Battle [仮面ライダーアギト&クウガ ワイルドバトル] is a 2001 game for the Sega Pico developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai. It is based on the Kamen Rider superhero license property which started in the 1970s.
To keep it brief, the Sega Pico is less a console and more a children’s toy. Imagine the guts of a Sega Genesis / Mega Drive (minus the FM) stuffed into a colorful laptop / digital storybook for pre-school age children. For the Sega Pico, Kamen Rider is surprisingly involved and game-like compared to most of the educational software the system was built for. It features a basic 1-on-1 fighting game, a racing game, and a lightgun style shooting game.
On the audio hardware side, the Pico contains the Sega Master System’s SN76489 (3 square waves, 1 noise channel) and a sample channel used mostly for voice clips. Unfortunately we don’t have information on the composer / arranger for the Pico version, but some of the tracks are based on the original Kamen Rider music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi. It’s an unexpectedly cool soundtrack for an obscure system even by VGM standards, and we hope you enjoy it!
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