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 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:14 pm
Quote: The first Touhou game was a Breakout/Arcanoid clone for a Japanese computer called the PC-98. The first 5 games were made by a different company (that is to say, not ZUN's company), and are not vital to play since only 3 characters from them have appeared in the Windows games and ZUN seems to disregard them unless referencing the events from them is unavoidable. Did I make any big errors? I would like to know what needs fixing.
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:24 pm
Only 3?
There's been 4, who did you forget about?
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:26 pm
4, huh? To be honest, I didn't read all of the List of Touhou Project characters on Wikipedia. ^^'
I remembered Reimu, Marisa, and Alice. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:44 pm
Yuka Kazami.
HOW COULD YOU FORGET MY OWN MOTHER? D:
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:17 am
Because no one plays the Phantasmagoria games because they don't give you ego points if you beat them on TEH LUNATIC MODE.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:41 am
Moon Rabbit Reisen Quote: The first Touhou game was a Breakout/Arcanoid clone for a Japanese computer called the PC-98. The first 5 games were made by a different company (that is to say, not ZUN's company), and are not vital to play since only 3 characters from them have appeared in the Windows games and ZUN seems to disregard them unless referencing the events from them is unavoidable. Did I make any big errors? I would like to know what needs fixing. Well, to be honest, ZUN was part of that company (Amusement Makers). He was in charge of the game music (hell, that's how his real name is known - the credits of those games listed him as "Jun'ya Ota"). Plus I don't see why they wouldn't be vital to play. Any events happened there are still canon; a couple of references to those plots are made in the Windows games, as well. Oh, and the PC-98 characters that later reappeared in the Windows games are 4, not 3: Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Yuka.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:19 am
I think you should mention that they were made by Amusement Makers, a doujin game company that ZUN used to belong to when he was in college.
I wouldn't call them "Not vital"...
Rather, over time they've become more and more irrelevant. They're canonical, sure, but only 4 characters have managed to become more relevant in the fandom... Precisely the 4 characters that have made the jump from PC-98 to Windows.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:31 pm
T-T My poor Mima-sama.
Also, the PC-98 games are still epic, at least. Not exactly vital, but it would definitely enhance a fan's experience (and give them know-it-all bragging points) if they took the time to play them and read the stories.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:20 pm
And translate... Unless there's an English patch out there for them...
I could have sworn one of the PC-98 characters made a return in UFO...
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:11 pm
Translating a PC-98 game isn't exactly the most simple of tasks. Considering that the emulators don't even have the Japanese language packs by default is a bit disconcerting...
I am sad that ZUN himself kind of looks on the PC-98 games as a black history.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:34 pm
GregW17 And translate... Unless there's an English patch out there for them... I could have sworn one of the PC-98 characters made a return in UFO... No, but one of them very strongly resembles a PC-98 character.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:18 pm
Get TNote, it displays the Japanese text automatically.
You can also read the translated story scripts on the Touhou Wiki. I WAS working on translating the Endings, but someone took all the endings off the Touhou Endings Wiki, so I lost my source material.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:14 pm
Meiling the Mighty GregW17 And translate... Unless there's an English patch out there for them... I could have sworn one of the PC-98 characters made a return in UFO... No, but one of them very strongly resembles a PC-98 character. Oh? Which one?
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:01 pm
MidBossVyers Meiling the Mighty GregW17 And translate... Unless there's an English patch out there for them... I could have sworn one of the PC-98 characters made a return in UFO... No, but one of them very strongly resembles a PC-98 character. Oh? Which one? Captain Murasa.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:05 pm
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