Darkmage
Oh Lord, don't get me started on the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series. I love them. The only reason I haven't been playing them more is because my TV is failing and my screen is distorting as well as the vertical hold is shot. Hello Best Buy. :/ Yeah, Tarot plays a major role in that series. The Goetia does too. Two topics near and dear to my heart.
There was a Japanese game called Texthoth Ludo that used Tarot cards. The game even originally came with a deck. I found a copy, sans deck, years ago. Thing is, I don't speak Japanese so I've had to figure out what little I know via trial and error. It came out in 98? or thereabouts for the Sega Saturn. I can play imports on my unit so when I stumbled across this, I had to get it. I found instructions online ages ago but failed to mirror the site, so now they've been lost. *headdesk* I'd love to score the cards that came with it but I don't feel like paying Ebay's scalpers. :/
There was also an old NES game called Taboo. It was published by Rare waaay back in 1988. You can find it as a ROM for an emulator easily enough. I actually have the cartridge itself. It's not bad, you enter your question and it generates a ten card Celtic Cross reading with your 'lucky numbers' at the end. Some of the images used for the cards came from the Thoth deck, others are original. It's an interesting toy, if nothing else, esp. since it comes from the days before automated online readings became common.
Bust A Move 4 on the Sega Dreamcast has a Tarot reading program hidden in it. Well, it's not really an Easter egg as such--it's opened once you beat the game. 'Love' is the only topic selectable and it generates a six-card reading. That wasn't something I was expecting to find there.
There are several Japanese Tarot games available for various systems from the SNES and beyond. But I don't speak Japanese so I don't understand what they're trying to tell me. :/
If I think of anything else I'll post it. I'm a vg collector so I've got tons of stuff and haven't played some of my titles in ages.
There was a Japanese game called Texthoth Ludo that used Tarot cards. The game even originally came with a deck. I found a copy, sans deck, years ago. Thing is, I don't speak Japanese so I've had to figure out what little I know via trial and error. It came out in 98? or thereabouts for the Sega Saturn. I can play imports on my unit so when I stumbled across this, I had to get it. I found instructions online ages ago but failed to mirror the site, so now they've been lost. *headdesk* I'd love to score the cards that came with it but I don't feel like paying Ebay's scalpers. :/
There was also an old NES game called Taboo. It was published by Rare waaay back in 1988. You can find it as a ROM for an emulator easily enough. I actually have the cartridge itself. It's not bad, you enter your question and it generates a ten card Celtic Cross reading with your 'lucky numbers' at the end. Some of the images used for the cards came from the Thoth deck, others are original. It's an interesting toy, if nothing else, esp. since it comes from the days before automated online readings became common.
Bust A Move 4 on the Sega Dreamcast has a Tarot reading program hidden in it. Well, it's not really an Easter egg as such--it's opened once you beat the game. 'Love' is the only topic selectable and it generates a six-card reading. That wasn't something I was expecting to find there.
There are several Japanese Tarot games available for various systems from the SNES and beyond. But I don't speak Japanese so I don't understand what they're trying to tell me. :/
If I think of anything else I'll post it. I'm a vg collector so I've got tons of stuff and haven't played some of my titles in ages.