Game Identification

[satoshi_matrix]

For those who know japanese fluently (I'm lookin at you Manuel ) could you please translate some of my Famicom game titles into English equalients (or at least as close as you can)? Here they are:

Famicom Jump! Eiyuu Retsuden
Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu
Gegege no Kitarou Youkai Dai Makyou
Getsufuu Maden
Hissatsu Doujou Yaburi
Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsu ni Shoyu
Ikki
Matendouji Crystal Palace
Takahashi Meijin no Bug-tte Honey
Walkuere no Bouken Tokino Kogi Densetsu
Youkai Douchuuki



thanks!

[manuel]

Some of those seem a bit hard to translate, but I'll try anyway.

Famicom Jump! Eiyuu Retsuden
-> Eiyuu = hero; retsuden = series of biographies
I don't know how to get that into a good English title.

Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu
-> Ganbare Goemon = Do your best, Goemon!
    Karakuri = mechanism, trick, deception, intrigue
    douchuu = along the way
This is a very weird title. I'd need to know the contents of the game to judge what title would be best, as karakuri has a lot of fine nuances between its different meanings.

Gegege no Kitarou Youkai Dai Makyou
->Gegege no Kitarou = it's a manga from 1959 about ghosts
    youkai = ghost
    dai = big
    makyou = world of demons; a place of vice; ...

Getsufuu Maden
-> The Evil Legend of Moonwind? (weird title again...)

Hissatsu Doujou Yaburi
-> Certain kill. Escape from the Dojo

Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsu ni Shoyu
-> Series of murders in Hokkaido: To disappear in Ohotsk
(the last word isn't read "shoyu", but "kiyu" as much as I found out)

Ikki
Not sure... that seems to be a Name.

Matendouji Crystal Palace
-> Skyscraping Boy: Crystal Palace

Takahashi Meijin no Bug-tte Honey
-> Master Takahashi's Honey the Bug

Walkuere no Bouken Tokino Kagi (not "kogi"!) Densetsu
Valkyrie's Adventure: The Legend of the Key of Time

Youkai Douchuuki
-> Ghosts' Travel Journal

[satoshi_matrix]

ありがとう manuel-san!

[manuel]

No problem.

Game titles are among the toughest things to translate properly...

[kite200]

manuel  comes to the rescue

[MarioMan1983]

Here's a couple stumpers:
They aren't mine, I just found these around the net and couldnt figure out what they were.

[133MHz]

The middle one looks like a SMB2j cart.

[kite200]

they're all pirates and the third is half chinese (WTF?) the first one says

bananan oo ko no daibouken

or

prince bananan's great adventure?

[JC]

Looks like Banana Prince, SMB2j and that cool Kunio game with where you race, then beat the shit out of each other, then climb a pole.

[satoshi_matrix]

manuel (or anyone else) I've got a few more game names I'd like translated please and thank you...

Chuuka Taisen

Gegege no Kitarou - I know I asked about this one already, but I'm a little confused. From what I know of Japanese, "no" is a possessive word ('s in english) and Kitarou is a boy's name (I'm assuming the lead character) but what does gegege mean?

Reigen Doushi

Son Son (I'm assuming this is a name?)

[satoshi_matrix]

Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu

How do I write this out in Katakana/Heragana?

[UglyJoe]

Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu

How do I write this out in Katakana/Heragana?

ワルキューレのぼうけん: ときのかぎでんせつ

(with kanji it's ワルキューレの冒険 時の鍵伝説)

[satoshi_matrix]

Thanks ugly. some more for those japanese inclided 

Meaning of:

Gegege no Kitarou
Ryou Maboroshi Doushi (also could someone right it out in hiragana? bablefish doesnt support romanji)
Nazo no Kabe
The subtitle of Famicom detective club - Kieta Koukeisha (Kouhen)


many thanks all of you. you guys are truly awesome.

[kite200]

Reigen Doushi:　れいげんどうし

The Heartless Companion

Chuuka Taisen:　ちゅうか対戦

Middle Kingdom War

OR

Midsummer War


Ryou Maboroshi Doushi:

りょうまぼろしどうし

I have no clue how to translate this, I mean it could be

The Skill of the Companion Illusion

or something like that but who knows you didn't show me the kanji


Nazo no Kabe means Mystery of the Wall

謎の壁

or in hiragana

なぞのかべ

Gegege no Kitarou just means

Kitarou's Gegege　

ゲゲゲのきたろう

WTF a gegege is I dont know but it's not a word.

Kieta Koukeisha　（きえた後継者） means "The Dissapearing Succsessor"


EDIT: WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THIS FORUM NOT ACCEPTING JAPANESE CHARACTERS INPUTTED ON A MAC, JESUS CHRIST DO I HAVE TO USE WINDOWS >,<

[UglyJoe]

Gegege no Kitarou

That's a long-running manga/anime.  Gegege is more than likely some Japanese onomatopoeia.  For what it's worth, AniDB lists synonyms for the anime as "Cackling Kitarou" and "Spooky Kitarou".