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| ***//Final Crisis: Terrestrial Defense Police//** | ***//Final Crisis: Terrestrial Defense Police//** | ||
| * sharc: On its own merits this is a somewhat standard horizontal shooter for its time. However, the PC88 really struggles with fair, playable shooters in general and fast-moving sprites, smooth scrolling and layers of parallax in particular; it's quite a feat to wrangle the hardware for all that in one game. Despite different team names, this is the work of the same doujin circle that did MELTDOWN and ReFight, though this is probably the most polished and professional of their games. Unsurprisingly, it's also the only one with a retail release. | * sharc: On its own merits this is a somewhat standard horizontal shooter for its time. However, the PC88 really struggles with fair, playable shooters in general and fast-moving sprites, smooth scrolling and layers of parallax in particular; it's quite a feat to wrangle the hardware for all that in one game. Despite different team names, this is the work of the same doujin circle that did MELTDOWN and ReFight, though this is probably the most polished and professional of their games. Unsurprisingly, it's also the only one with a retail release. | ||
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| ***//RELICS//** | ***//RELICS//** | ||
| * sharc: A truly unusual adventure game that throws you into an alien world with no information, with success depending as much on observing and understanding the world around you as it does on exploring, fighting or solving puzzles. As a disembodied spirit, you first need to possess bodies for basic physical tasks like opening doors or picking up items. Noting details about your enemies, like which of the first area's soldiers outranks the others, is crucial.\\ Obtuse in every sense, especially some of the puzzles you have to solve, but as an interesting touch all the dialogue is in some form of English. While this was intended to obfuscate even basic communication, for native speakers it makes the game more or less entirely accessible. | * sharc: A truly unusual adventure game that throws you into an alien world with no information, with success depending as much on observing and understanding the world around you as it does on exploring, fighting or solving puzzles. As a disembodied spirit, you first need to possess bodies for basic physical tasks like opening doors or picking up items. Noting details about your enemies, like which of the first area's soldiers outranks the others, is crucial.\\ Obtuse in every sense, especially some of the puzzles you have to solve, but as an interesting touch all the dialogue is in some form of English. While this was intended to obfuscate even basic communication, for native speakers it makes the game more or less entirely accessible. | ||
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| * [[hardware:pc88#Emulation]] information in the hardware section. | * [[hardware:pc88#Emulation]] information in the hardware section. | ||
| * [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/JPNcomputers/Japanesecomputers4.htm|Japanese Computers]] - Recommendations for Japanese PCs on HG101. | * [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/JPNcomputers/Japanesecomputers4.htm|Japanese Computers]] - Recommendations for Japanese PCs on HG101. | ||
| - | * [[http://refugee2005.sakura.ne.jp/index.html|PC88 Game Library]] - Entirely in Japanese, but offers almost certainly the best-documented list of 88 software anywhere online. Provides screenshots and brief details for most entries. | + | * [[http://refugee2005.sakura.ne.jp/index.html|PC88 Game Library]] - Database of PC88 games with release info and screenshots. Entirely in Japanese. |
| + | * [[http://www.pc98.org/|PC98 Images]] - Database of PC98 games that also hosts disk images. | ||
| * [[http://vuj.dip.jp/~mkato/|JE1VUJ Homepage]] - Also in Japanese but provides detailed technical information and hardware specs for most models of PC88 and PC98. | * [[http://vuj.dip.jp/~mkato/|JE1VUJ Homepage]] - Also in Japanese but provides detailed technical information and hardware specs for most models of PC88 and PC98. | ||