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'''''Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka''''' (大河内源五郎一家, lit. "Ōkōchi Gengorō Family" or "Gengoichi Shimoda") is an unreleased Nintendo 64 simulation game. During the N64 era, there was no information about this game being featured in magazines or other media, but it became generally known on April 12, 2007, when Game Tanteidan, a used retro game store in Nihonbashi, Osaka, introduced a prototype ROM of the game on its blog. <ref>[http://gametanteidan.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-18.html 大河内源五郎一家 - ゲーム探偵団Blog] Retrieved Apr 22, 2023</ref>.

==Overview==
The game is set in [[wikipedia:Showa era|Showa-era]] [[wikipedia:Japan|Japan]], and the main character is Kokuzō Ōkōchi, the eldest son of a family in the fifth grade, along with his father (he is presumably Gengorō), mother, sister, baby (gender unknown), grandmother, grandfather, and Dan-chan, a relative who is staying with them, for a total of eight members. 

The game consists of 12 scenarios. After a diary-style introduction by the protagonist, the game begins in the living room. The player controls the protagonist to increase or decrease the emotional parameters of the three family members. A monologue outlining the results of this process is given, and the scenario ends with the four family members discussing the day's events in the living room. The events that occur in the game are extremely absurd and chaotic. In the scenario of making curry and rice for dinner, detergent, rats, and dynamite are thrown into the pot, resulting in food poisoning as a result of eating the finished curry, and in the scenario of going shopping for a TV and a tombstone, suddenly a mother and sister kill each other over one man using a fire extinguisher and a kitchen knife<ref>幻の未発売ゲームを追え！ ISBN 978-4-1986-4380-5 Retrieved Apr 22, 2023</ref>.

Although the publisher of the game is unknown, as for the developer, Hiroshi Ogino, the main programmer of the racing game Gale Racer released for the Sega Saturn, mentioned that the development team for Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka is almost identical to that of Gale Racer, and therefore the developer is likely to be System Sacom, which developed the same game<ref>[https://twitter.com/honda_ken/status/1559439918967160832?s=20 A tweet by Hiroshi Ogino in reference to game development team] Retrieved Apr 22, 2023</ref>.

==Availability==
[[Has brief:: As of 2023, the game has not surfaced online.]] In addition, the [[wikipedia:ROM image|ROM]] is likely still in the possession of Game Tanteidan today.

==Notes==
* Ogino also testified that Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka is a game for the [[wikipedia:64DD|64DD]], an add-on for the [[wikipedia:Nintendo 64|N64]] which read games off of magnetic disks rather than [[wikipedia:ROM image|ROM]] cartridges.<ref>[https://twitter.com/honda_ken/status/1559431766825242624?s=20 A tweet by Hiroshi Ogino testifying that Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka was a game for 64DD]</ref> However, the ROM format currently found is a standard N64 cartridge rather than a 64DD disk. It is believed that the platform was changed to the 64DD during the development of this game, but this is not clear.
* The title is a reference to the 1974 Japanese comedy TV series ''Terauchi Kantarō Ikka'' (寺内貫太郎一家).

==Gallery==
===Video===
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Okochi proto ROM.jpg|Prototype ROM.
Okochi1.jpg|Diary-style introduction by the protagonist.
Okochi2.jpg
Okochi3.jpg
Okochi4.jpg|Family faints after eating curry rice.
Okochi5.jpg
Okochi6.jpg
Okochi7.jpg
Okochi8.jpg|A scene of mother and sister fighting.
Okochi9.jpg|Father trying to throw dynamite into a pot.
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==References==
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[[Category:Lost video games]]
[[Category:Completely lost media]]