Hebereke's Pair Pair Wars
A puzzle game designed by Sunsoft, a well known software publisher from the 1990's. Sunsoft released 2 titles for the Neo-Geo system; Galaxy Fight in 1995 & Waku Waku Seven in 1996. This game was most likely intended to be released around 1996, but was canceled. Gameplay consists of manipulating your on screen character to clear tiles by pairing them up, very similar to memory match type games such as Concentration or Shanghai. The game is themed around Sunsoft's mascot character, Hebereke, who has been featured in many of their other games such as Ufouria for the NES. You can select Hebereke himself, or choose from 7 of his friends from previous adventures.

Pair Pair Wars Flyer!
This game uses impressive CG graphics & character animation!

This game had remained virtually unphotographed for years. Only a small handfull of pics had surfaced and most of them were obstructed and/or of poor quality.The first pic found was severely obstructed with the infamous "ruined by Leon" watermark. This was the ONLY pic we had of the game for many years. Repeated requests to "Leon" to provide the source of the pic went ignored. In August 2005, I finally managed to locate the original source of the pic and so now we have it watermark-free! This just proves that you might as well be helpfull because in the end we will eventually get what we want anyways and those who didn't help will not get recognition.

This is the NES cartridge "Ufouria" featuring Hebereke and friends.

An arcade operator here in the United States had a sample MVS cartridge of this game. Sadly, it was damaged along with alot of other equipment in a severe flood back in 1998. Several years ago we both tried to track down another one from his source but we had no luck. In 2002, another earlier beta version of the game (incomplete with the ending not yet programmed) was allegedly found in Canada. It was never proven. But in February 2003 the arcade promo flyer was discovered! This marks the third proto game flyer to be found! You can see a scan of it provided here.

It is unknown why Sunsoft cancled this game. Perhaps location tests didn't do as well as expected?