Pirate Ship Higemaru

Pirate Ship Higemaru is a maze/puzzle game with similar gameplay to Sega's Pengo, but the enemies are pirates, not penguins.

Not saying that there couldn't be penguin pirates, there just aren't any in this particular game.

Lowercase Letters


Curiously, there's a full set of lowercase characters in the game's font that are never used. All part of Tokuro Fujiwara's tradition of including lowercase characters and not using them.

Most Arcade games at this time never bothered with lowercase letters, so it's odd that they're taking up Graphics ROM space, especially when they're not used.

Posts


Two posts or masts that would have appeared as obstacles.

The only solid objects on each stage in the final game are destructible; presumably these were not.

Sun
An earlier sun graphic is in the ROM. It has a reflective shine that was removed from the final graphic. Like what happened to the real sun, remember?