Genpei Touma Den (or "The Genji and Heike Tale of the Demon's Demise") is an RPG/board game hybrid style game for the NES/Famicom, developed and published by Namco in 1988. It was originally packaged with a real board
game, and you could play this video game on multi-player as part of the real board game. You can also play a one player mode which is a pretty fun and lightly challenging experience, and you don't need the physical board game for that at all. I thought it was fun because there's a time limit that makes the game suspenseful, but it's pretty easy once you know what to do.
Apparently this game wasn't very well received in its day because it is based on an action style arcade game with beautiful graphics that people thought was fun. When they heard the NES version was a board game, they were upset. Your character (Kagekiyo) is pretty cool looking in the arcade, and in the NES version if you look at the status screen image you'll see him how he should be. Well, he kind of looks like he's in the band Kiss actually, but I still think he looks cool. He is based on a real samurai from over 800 years
ago. The character was popular enough to be used in numerous cameos since then.