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Igo Meikan for the Nintendo Famicom is a collection of Go games played by Japanese professional players from the 1988/1989 title matches of the big tournaments along with a handful of miscellaneous games. All matches are listed below with time stamps. Game footage was captured from a front-loading NES.

Igo Meikan was followed up by Igo Shinan and its four sequels, largely following the same setup. These titles all have a mode for autoplaying matches (seen in this video), a mode where moves are played at the press of a button, a mode where the player can guess the next move from multiple choices, and finally a mode where the player can guess the next move freely.

Legend has it that if you watch this entire video you will grow one stone stronger! Results may vary.

(Black v White)

13th Kisei
0:00:10 A1: Kobayashi Koichi v Takemiya Masaki
0:10:09 A2: Takemiya Masaki v Kobayashi Koichi
0:19:40 A3: Kobayashi Koichi v Takemiya Masaki
0:28:07 A4: Takemiya Masaki v Kobayashi Koichi
0:38:10 A5: Kobayashi Koichi v Takemiya Masaki

13th Meijin
0:48:40 B1: Kato Masao v Kobayashi Koichi
0:55:50 B2: Kobayashi Koichi v Kato Masao
1:03:20 B3: Kato Masao v Kobayashi Koichi
1:15:44 B4: Kobayashi Koichi v Kato Masao
1:23:35 B5: Kato Masao v Kobayashi Koichi

43rd Honinbo
1:32:21 C1: Takemiya Masaki v Otake Hideo
1:39:52 C2: Otake Hideo v Takemiya Masaki
1:45:26 C3: Takemiya Masaki v Otake Hideo
1:54:51 C4: Otake Hideo v Takemiya Masaki
2:05:04 C5: Takemiya Masaki v Otake Hideo
2:11:57 C6: Otake Hideo v Takemiya Masaki
2:19:09 C7: Takemiya Masaki v Otake Hideo

26th Judan
2:27:18 D1: Cho Chikun v Kato Masao
2:38:14 D2: Kato Masao v Cho Chikun
2:47:05 D3: Cho Chikun v Kato Masao
2:54:51 D4: Kato Masao v Cho Chikun
3:05:51 D5: Kato Masao v Cho Chikun

14th Tengen
3:15:30 E1: Sonoda Yuichi v Cho Chikun
3:25:51 E2: Cho Chikun v Sonoda Yuichi
3:33:16 E3: Sonoda Yuichi v Cho Chikun
3:38:58 E4: Cho Chikun v Sonoda Yuichi
3:47:45 E5: Sonoda Yuichi v Cho Chikun

36th Oza
3:54:30 F1: Takemiya Masaki v Kato Masao
4:05:57 F2: Kato Masao v Takemiya Masaki
4:16:15 F3: Takemiya Masaki v Kato Masao

13th Gosei
4:23:01 G1: Kobayashi Koichi v Kato Masao
4:30:45 G2: Kato Masao v Kobayashi Koichi
4:39:47 G3: Kobayashi Koichi v Kato Masao

Miscellaneous
4:47:45 H1: Yasuda Yasutoshi v Ishida Yoshio
5:00:46 H2: Rin Kaiho v O Rissei
5:14:10 H3: Chin Kaei v Kobayashi Koichi
5:26:20 H4: Otake Hideo v Komatsu Hideki
5:38:19 H5: Hashimoto Utaro v Magari Reiki
5:44:21 H6: Nakano Hironari v Hotta Seiji
5:52:42 H7: Abe Yoshiteru v Rin Kaiho