They are called Magical Chase and Cotton. Like Touhou that has Marisa, a witch riding a broomstick, so these games also have a witch as the main character and riding a broomstick. As with Touhou, they are scrolling shooting games. Whereas Touhou though is seen from "above" the character and top of the screen is the "forward" direction, in these games they have a side view of the character and the top of the screen is "up" and the right side of the screen is "forward" (like Gradius). However there are 2 exceptions. 2 of the Cotton games are actually 3d. One for Sega Genesis (into the screen is "forward" and you have a view from behind the character), and one for the Dreamcast (like the Genesis one in terms of point of view, but you control weapon aim, not character position, a.k.a. rail shooter, and also better quality graphics).
Here they are listed.
Cotton games (in order of release):
Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams
(Arcade Sega System 16B, PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 as a Super CD-ROM game, Sharp X68000, Playstation 1, NeoGeo Pocked Color)
Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%
(Super Famicom)
Cotton 100%
(Playstation 1)
PS1 port of Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%
Panorama Cotton
(Sega MegaDrive/Genisis)
3D game
Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams
(Arcade Sega ST-V, Sega Saturn)
Cotton Boomerang
(Arcade Sega ST-V, Sega Saturn)
Rainbow Cotton
(Dreamcast)
3D rail game
Unrelated to the Cotton games is the similar game called Magical Chase. It also is only a single game, not a series.
Magical Chase
(PC-Engine/Turbografx-16, Gameboy Color, Windows PCs?)
While Wikipedia says a Windows version exists, I can find no other information on such Windows version ever existing at all on any other website, and DEFINITELY no downloads for such, not even on torrent websites.
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