March 25th, 2024 (Monday)

I'm almost four months late, but happy New Year! Did you know that Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons had several mobile phone games? Here's one of them.

Bokujou Monogatari iMode was released on April 21st, 2003 for several NTT DoCoMo cell phone models. Players had to pay a 315¥ monthly fee and have an iMode internet service subscription to access the game.

Image sources: Ocdp and Episteme at Wikimedia Commons

The game was created by Square Enix. Archives of their old website doesn't display every screenshot, but an old Harvest Moon fansite saved a bunch of them.

Presumed title screen

Animals

Cutscene

Farming

Jeff

Snow

Tools

The game had crops, animals, fishing, festivals, and cutscenes. Most of the stuff in nearly every Harvest Moon game. It has the same graphics as the GBC games and probably played similarly to them too.

Bokujou Monogatari completely ceased operation on May 12th, 2005. Since the game required a subscription, it is now completely inaccessible.

Sorry if you were expecting me to write a lot more, it's kind of hard to when the topic is an unplayable Harvest Moon cell phone game in Japanese.

Sources:

• Beeb100/Harvest Moon Zone
• Bokumono's old topics page (Japanese)
• Square Enix's old website (Japanese)