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Post by Ex on Jul 1, 2019 22:54:49 GMT -5
Just stumbled across this: tss.asenheim.org/It's a site that lets you play a lot of '90s visual novels right in your browser. I tested it, did work. Most of these are ecchi/hentai stuff, but at least you know it exists now. |
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Post by toei on Jul 2, 2019 2:00:33 GMT -5
I don't know what it is about PC-98 illustrations that makes them look so good to me, even now. I honestly wish there was more non-hentai stuff - I'm not against sex in videogames on principle, but hentai games tend to have really dumb stories, and VNs are all story. But I'll check it out, maybe.
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Post by Ex on Jul 2, 2019 9:31:38 GMT -5
I don't know what it is about PC-98 illustrations that makes them look so good to me, even now. I honestly wish there was more non-hentai stuff I'm with you on the PC-98 look. Those Japanese artists of the '90s were gods of pixel art. Unbelievable what they could accomplish with 16 colors, dithering, and pseudo-high res mode. I mean stuff like this: But yeah, the ecchi/hentai slant is par for the course. It was like that was expected back then as a default. Sex sells I guess? The real shame though is 99% of this stuff will never be translated into English. |
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Post by toei on Jul 2, 2019 11:16:36 GMT -5
Japanese PC gaming probably peaked with the MSX commercially, so I guess by the early '90s it needed a niche. Hence the hentai, which consoles couldn't do.
But yeah, those are some great pictures. Even the dithering looks great.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 2, 2019 16:43:17 GMT -5
Neat. If there are some great non-h ones worth playing, I'd like to hear some recs.
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 2, 2019 17:57:43 GMT -5
I do not see myself actually ever playing old VN's like these, but heck yeah that is some SSS level pixel art and graphics that I love to appreciate. They don't make anime girls and mechanical parts like they used to.
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