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Post by starscream on Feb 26, 2019 12:34:48 GMT -5
These are all beautiful. There’s also a hentai game for the msx called Girl Control. I've actually bid on that game a few times on eBay, but surprisingly, it's pretty highly in demand! Was never able to win it. Sad, as the art's really nice, and it looks to be a fairly decent shmup, hentai or no. I mean, they... probably are. '80s and early '90s Japanese hentai was definitely rather loli-heavy, especially on the microcomputers at the time -- they could get away with a lot more in computer games due to a general lack of regulation, particularly on the PC-88 and PC-98 (you didn't see as much of that on the MSX due to its more commercialized nature). -Tom PC-98 is probably the platform with the most Hentai ratio, but it still seems often overrated, the games library is still kinda even. There's about 2000 porn titles, the whole library should be about 3500-4000 commerical releases.
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Post by psygnosis8 on Feb 26, 2019 13:11:46 GMT -5
I've actually bid on that game a few times on eBay, but surprisingly, it's pretty highly in demand! Was never able to win it. Sad, as the art's really nice, and it looks to be a fairly decent shmup, hentai or no. I mean, they... probably are. '80s and early '90s Japanese hentai was definitely rather loli-heavy, especially on the microcomputers at the time -- they could get away with a lot more in computer games due to a general lack of regulation, particularly on the PC-88 and PC-98 (you didn't see as much of that on the MSX due to its more commercialized nature). -Tom PC-98 is probably the platform with the most Hentai ratio, but it still seems often overrated, the games library is still kinda even. There's about 2000 porn titles, the whole library should be about 3500-4000 commerical releases. The only game I’ve seen that is cool for a non-Japanese person to play is Rusty, so I feel it’s overrated as well. I know there’s some shooters though. Is there anything else worth playing other than doki doki ganbare super rape party nurse?
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Post by wyrdwad on Feb 26, 2019 13:21:10 GMT -5
I'll find out soon enough, as I've got a PC-98 waiting for me when I move to Japan next week (purchased for me and restored/refurbished as a gift by my friend Michelle). She's an avid PC-98 enthusiast, and says there are quite a wealth of great games to play on the system. And indeed, Falcom games were plentiful for the PC-98, all three Rune Worth titles came out on it with the third being a PC-98 exclusive (only the first Rune Worth came out on MSX, and is one of my favorite action RPGs for the system), basically the whole 4th Unit series came out for it (Data West's flagship sci-fi franchise, which was sometimes hentai and sometimes not), there's apparently a great version of E.V.O. on it, I believe a nice version of Lagoon (or was that X68000?), and a lot of random action RPGs that aren't particularly well-known but look to be pretty awesome.
I'm looking forward to playing around with it eventually, though I'll need to get settled in Japan first. But who knows? Maybe I'll start building a PC-98 collection to rival my MSX collection! (Probably not, though; my MSX collection has gotten quite massive at this point, and it would take a LOT of time and money to duplicate that with any other system.)
-Tom
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Post by psygnosis8 on Feb 26, 2019 13:50:17 GMT -5
Let us know if you discover any gems. Lagoon is definitely in the x68k. Don’t know about pc-98, though.
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Post by mainpatr on Feb 26, 2019 14:26:00 GMT -5
Briganty for PC98 is really good. Hentai beat-em up with RPG and platforming elements. To stay on topic, to Briganty developers also made Harlem Blade(fantasy RPG,actually Harem Blade)
Then you have Throw Lance:Incite Steb Shooter. Huh???!??!?!?!?!
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Post by psygnosis8 on Feb 26, 2019 14:59:21 GMT -5
Jack Nicklaus’ Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf.
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Post by starscream on Feb 26, 2019 15:03:22 GMT -5
Just to clarify, by "overrated" I meant the ratio of Hentai games. Other than Hentai, I have the impression that the PC-98 is mostly associated with Touhou in the west. And that's a doujin series. The regular commerical library doesn't have the action titles of the X68K, or the arcade ports of the Towns. There are no Konami exclusives like Space Manbow on MSX or whatever. Outside of Doujin, most of the accessible games for non-Japanese people are probaby puzzle ports, e.g Pipe Dream, Hatris or Migrain (aka Mindbender). I tend to think those like rather nice because of their high-res artwork compared to the western originals.
I suppose that most of the non-hentai library is also made up of visual novels. There are quite a number of RPGs and Strategy games. There are relatively few Action or even Sports games.
On Topic, an awful name for a game in my opinion is "One", especially when you release that on a platform which people often write as "Playstation One".
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Post by wyrdwad on Feb 26, 2019 22:47:14 GMT -5
Actually, back on topic from me as well -- and with a firm "sorry, not sorry" to my former employer -- I'm very much NOT fond of "Corpse Party The Anthology: Sachiko's Game of Love -Hysteric Birthday 2U-" as the title of the (surprisingly canonical) Corpse Party romantic comedy spin-off game. Yes, I know it's supposed to be a goofy name for a goofy game, and I'm even OK with each individual part of it (the "hysteric birthday" part makes sense in the context of the game itself)... but that "2U" is incredibly confusing, especially considering how prominent it is in the game's Japanese logo. When people see "2U," their initial reaction is to assume it's the second Corpse Party game... but it's not. It's actually the third, following Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. And is followed by Corpse Party: Blood Drive and... Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient.
...So, yeah. The third game in the series is known as Corpse Party 2U, and the fifth game in the series is known as Corpse Party 2. How's THAT for confusing?
I guess come to think of it, the first Corpse Party game has a confusing title history as well. When it was first remade for Windows in 2008, it was called "Corpse Party: BloodCovered." But then when it was remade again for PSP in 2011, it was called "Corpse Party: BloodCovered: ...Repeated Fear." Which is not only TWO SUBTITLES, but the second one has random ellipses preceding it, and also is about as Engrish as they come.
At XSEED, we smartly killed ALL the subtitles and just called the game "Corpse Party" here. And similarly, we renamed Corpse Party 2U "Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash" for its upcoming Western release on Steam and GOG. Which is STILL not a name I like (I strongly lobbied to just call it "Corpse Party: Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday"), but at least it lost the confusing 2U.
Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient is still keeping the 2 for its upcoming Western release, but at least that one is justifiable, as the first four Corpse Party games tell a complete story, while Dead Patient sort of starts a whole new story. So I'm not as likely to call that one an awful name, especially with the "Dead Patient" part having such a nice ring to it and summing up the game's plot rather nicely.
But still... the Corpse Party series has a real penchant for overly convoluted names, I'd say!
-Tom
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Post by kingmike on Feb 27, 2019 16:54:53 GMT -5
EVO for PC-98 was a turn-based RPG that was fan-translated a few years ago. Lagoon was originally on the X68000. Funny watching this GDQ run of the SNES game a few years ago. Poking fun at how the story was about muddy water at Lagoon Castle, and HOW VERY CLEARLY that was evident from all the water tiles in the game. JUST LOOK how muddy they were. I've forgotten why it was that I for some reason bought a CIB SFC copy after already having the SNES cart. (at the very least, it answered one question I had about another game: an RPG called Indra no Hikari for Famicom. Some NPC in the game tells me their phone number. I thought it was some kind of numerical word-pun (I forget what they call those in Japanese) so I replaced it with a "Jenny" reference. From that Lagoon box, I realized it was of Kemco Japan's ACTUAL phone numbers. ... I stand by my decision (I don't think it was THAT out of place compared to a few other things in the game). )
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Post by Woody Alien on Mar 4, 2019 8:56:36 GMT -5
You're probably thinking about goroawase numbers (as if Japanese language wasn't complicated enough).
To go back to the topic, there's a game on Steam named "SWR JST DX Selective Memory Erase Effect". No wonder that it hasn't had any success, it's pretty much impossible to keep that name in mind or search it.
The weird title is probably due to the fact that it is a faux-Japanese game, but if you're not a famous developer it's better to keep the titles short and to the point, or nobody would remember them. I had to copypaste it since I couldn't be bothered to remember it!
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