What? A billiards themed shmup? It is as weird as it sounds, with you shooting balls which bounce around on the field. How you do this? By blowing up them all, obviously! You are a fairy-shaped antivirus program, who enters a infected computer to get rid of viruses, trojans and other malware. Clearly a nice little gem that deserves playing.
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Has a sequel allowing you to play the opposite faction, with even more diversity in techs and objectives, plus some story branching.
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Some cool guy offered a partial translation patch on /vr/ some time ago, get it if you can. Became freeware after the publisher (sadly) went broke. Epic battles with loads of npc allies and ennemies, very complex and immaginative tech tree, lots of variety in battles. Metajo: Furitsu Metatopology Daigaku Fuzoku Joshi Kōkō SPĪ nice tactical RPG where you lead a squad of psychically-enhanced female warriors from an alternate feudal Japan. Unlike the turn-based battle RPGs you might be accustomed to, combat here is more quasi-real time.Ī time-trial platformer made by Compile, you choose from two characters and must climb to the top before time runs out.Īnother cool shmup, this one has six selectable characters each with his own ship. Hella cool doujin shmup which plays like Raiden, though much faster.Ī horizontal shmup for a change, this one is quite text heavy.Ī strange entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series as it was developed by ASCII and not Atlus. There are seven games released for the PC-98, and with the exception of the last one they have all been fan-translated into english. Nice military-themed shmup with continuous stages.Ī long-running series of turn-based strategy RPGs by TGL. Sounds familiar? That's because E.V.O: Search For Eden on the SNES is actually a sequel to this game. (4.6 Billion Years Story: The Theory of Evolution)Īn awesome RPG where you control a creature which you can evolve, beginning as a fish then taking it over various eras (amphibians, dinosaurs) up to humanity and beyond. There is this nice site dedicated to document the PC-98 games catalog. Even so, there are many hidden gems if you search carefully. Because of its huge popularity, the PC-98 was flooded not only with doujin games, but mainly with eroge games (read: Hentai). Much like its predecessor, the PC-98 was a business-oriented machine, featuring high-resolution kanji support. Reasons for it include a good head-start compared to its rivals and a strong marketing campaign. It single-handedly allowed NEC to utterly dominate the Japanese computer market for almost 20 years (until the advent of IBM PC's), such that even the vastly superior in every way X68000 and FM Towns could not dethrone it. The PC-9801 (also simply called PC-98) is a personal computer made by NEC, and the successor to the PC-88.