Banushi ('owner,' referring to a racehorse owner) offers a horse-racing management simulation: buying and breeding horses, training them, choosing jockeys, and competing in races to build a profitable stable. It's a very particular subgenre of the Japanese market, where horse-race betting has a strong popular culture.
For those unfamiliar with that Japanese turf culture, the game's systems may feel dry, but for its original audience it offered an honest management simulation, with the numerical depth typical of the genre.
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