---
title: Yosaku also known as Kikori no Yosaku
years:
- '1981'
params:
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1981'
  - label: companies
    value: Epoch
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: cartridge
  - label: systems
    value: Epoch Cassette Vision
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 player
  screenshots:
  - title: let's start a game
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: beware of the snakes and bird eggs
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: let's cut the first tree
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: jump over or kill the wild pigs
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: you can also kill the snakes with your axe
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: first tree is down
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: avoid all the baddies
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: you can jump to avoid snakes
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: second tree is down too
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: kill the pig !
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: arghhh! a pig killed you
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: you're dead
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: Box inlay
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: box - back
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: box - back
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: detail
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: cartridge
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: cartridge (later version)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: documentation
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: documentation (verso)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: cartridge & doc
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  machines:
  - /museum/epoch-cassette-vision
  company: /companies/epoch
  oc_id: 660
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221208084245/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=660
    date: '2022-12-08'
---

Yosaku was the first cartridge available for the Epoch Cassette Vision system.

It's a very original (and immoral) game where the player must cut down two trees with his axe, while avoiding all sort of hazard like wild pigs, agressives birds (launching eggs), snakes and falling branches.

There are several options proposed like "time attack" variations.

The gameplay seems surprisingly ok for such a limited system with blocky graphics.

Yosaku is in fact an adaptation from an obscure japanese arcade game from SNK, named also Yosaku and released in 1979. It is said to be the first videogame from SNK.