Games for learning English/Japanese?

[Marcos Moutta]

Hey! I just made an account because I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask this than here. Lurker no more! 

So...
Popeye no Eigo Asobi is a lot of fun, and actually really useful! It helps me with Japanese nouns. Someone made a version of it without Katakana, but it's... pointless? Takes a week MAX to learn katakana. Anyway,that got me thinking - are there more games I can use to learn Japanese? As in, more Famicom (or not!) games with a focus on teaching English that end up working backwards? (or perhaps some crazy bastard made a Japanese learning game that somehow went under my radar?)

...do you know of any? 

[P]

I don't recall any other games that teaches English other than Fukutake StudyBox which requires its own, very rare, tape drive (but is supported by both Mesen and NintendulatorNRS). I don't think that game works in reverse though.

However, 8-bit games in general tends to use kana-only (which is good for beginners that don't know so many kanji yet), and also tends to have simpler, more straight-to-point type of language due to a lack of ROM space. Some later 8-bit games like Just Breed, Chaos World and Radia Senki might not follow these rules (Just Breed actually even uses kanji), but earlier ones are good for people knowing some basic Japanese. Zelda II and all the Dragon Quest games are good for this I think. The Final Fantasy games might be good too.
You probably need to know the basics of Japanese grammar to play any RPG, and some NPCs (like kings, princesses and old sages) uses some archaic Japanese expressions that may trip up beginners, but it's fun to learn these.

[Saab93]

If you have a disk system, it might be good to get some text based-rpg games, like the one i found under games on this forum.

[Saab93]

Some others are Famicom Detective Club and the like, but those are games with loads of Japanese in them, so if you want games with English in them, i think i saw a game that had a 3 cats on it and it was called What's Micheal.

[P]

These games are usually called (graphical) adventure games, not really RPGs, but yeah Tokimeki Highschool is a very short adventure game and uses a simple enough language. I translated the call messages from Japanese and posted them here (inside the spoiler tag near the end of this long post).

Portopia is another very short adventure game.