Got a bit further along:
Also today in town I found this for a couple of quid. Of course, given my recent gift, I had to buy it.
I have no idea what game this is, but that's definitely Ebisumaru from Mystical Ninja, so a-buy it I did.
This is the title screen:
It's a sort-of puzzle game, similar to Chu Chu Rocket. Ebisumaru prances around a stage, apparently drunk or high or something, and lands on tiles that force him to move in that direction. The whole thing is done in an isometric grid so it can be pretty fiddly, and quite hard in places. Ebisumaru is a bit weird and given that this is the Japanese version it hasn't been censored or toned down for a 90s Western audience. I'm pretty sure at one point while celebrating our completing of a level he mooned me.
There's also a really long introduction, which makes absolutely no sense to me. It's a bit meta - Ebisumaru gets a SNES game and goes into hibernation and plays it for days, eating nothing but bowls of some kind of food. When he finally does leave his house, he gets angry and swears revenge (I think). There's a full map screen too between levels although nothing except from the levels appears to be interactive and you automatically start the level as soon as you reach it on the map.
Yep, that about sums up my feelings on the matter.
so hopefully the nostalgia factor is enough to keep you entertained 
