Ah, the joy of "The mythological name has this pronunciation, the English Alphabet version has this other pronunciation, but the kana reads this, completely different pronunciation" lol. You can really see how the plot points of this had influence on later works, there's bits of Grandia in here among other things.

Too bad there is no English patch for other versions. This seems like a very interesting game.

If you ever need me... just blow me!

I came here watching this masterpiece after playing Xanadu Next ... that era is sure this game is top tier... suddenly fall in love with all Falcom's games...have same feeling playing Dark Souls series...will buy more game from Falcom eventually...thank you for making such a great games... really enjoyed it ❤❤❤

I'm messing around with a PC-9821 Nr15 and Nr150 right now. Given the issues with battery seeping corrosive masterial inside, there is a good deal of "tinkering" to donto get these things running again. That said, its cool when they do boot

bloodshot eyes?!?!?!?!

9:07 lmao

I've seen Persimmon fruit in some local supermarkets, but I've never had one.

12:50 Ah yes, remember the days when even getting PCs to scroll the screen halfway decently was a challenge? It's kind of amazing how far games have come.

i love your vids but i am playing thru this game right now and am at the mountain goddess part and dont want it spoiled for me, so ill just like your vid and comeback to finish it later.. but keep on doing your amazing videos!!

hopefully setting those game @ 4:01 to 16bit or if still wont work try 8 bit in compatibility tab setting per game this happened to me in Virtua fighter 1? or 2? and Fatal Fury 3 and other games

32:30 "Zoomed them in." yeah I guess you could describe it like that with the platform having a larger overall pixel scale heh, personally I'd say they used a smaller window on MSX2 simply because it has a lower pixel resolution than a PC-88. Regardless an odd porting route compared to other MSX2 ports, still it's interesting to see what 320x120 range graphics would have looked like if it had been a standard screen mode for PCs.

"But it's not like they lost a bow or anything, right?" 🤣. I played this on snes, didn't think it was very good, precisely because it was too easy, but hey, it got translated. I gave it a spin and messed up my save file, in the end I never completed it. I'm glad to see the ending, though that seems kinda disappointing.

Wonderful, thanks for the video, I will try to play via emulation, I guess trying to get the hardware would be difficult though 🤝

I’m absolutely fascinated with FM Towns.

I'm fixing my CD-ROM2 on my PC Engine Briefcase and I literally said, 'Wow !' when I saw you slot it in the top of your PC-88

Hey what is the name/model number of that keyboard emulator that you use on some of the videos? I recently picked up a 8801FA and a 9821As and I would like to find an emulator to use for games without solid controller support. I have been searching but I have only found info on the controllers with keyboard emulator built in - I havent found anything on the adapter box you use.

@9:02 this is why I always appreciated the use of the L button in MMBN and MMSF, it's rare to get lost in either series.

Wish jp remake this old stuff, seems like lot of potential

I absolutely love this series, I was a tg16 kid in the US (a relative rarity back then) and have thus always been fascinated with nec and their other systems I missed out on. Thanks for what ya do brother.

Today I found out that many, MANY PC-88 games have been ported to the switch in the US e-shop through something called EGGCONSOLE.

My only familiarity was Super Famicom one. This should be interesting

Love the artwork. Thanks for revealing this gem.

Khosraw, naw that’s my boy Coleslaw

Some RPG recruitment center somewhere: Recruiter: Why do you want to join our party? A: I want to saaaaave the world! 2: The big bad killed my father and I want revenge. Saoshyant: Some guy stole my bow. Everybody: (looks at Saoshyant) <_< Saoshyant: It was a _really nice bow!_

What's the name of that controller adapter you're using?

Nice Frampton Comes Alive Wayne’s World reference. That part always kills me.

i miss real RPGs and real gaming so much.

Good Video

God I wanna learn Japanese to play these games (these, in this case, meaning untranslated games)

I played the PCE port as well, and have been interested in playing the FM Towns one as that seems to be agreed by a number of fans to be the best, but I gave up for a while because the emulator has an audio desync issue I couldn't figure out how to fix. Really should get around to that at some point. Also, I continue to be baffled at why KZbinrs keep using "we" for their videos; this is hardly a community effort, so sticking to singular first-person makes the most sense.

I miss the "you boys be quiet down there"- intro. Excellent video in any case

whatever this is i want more of it. i love this style

Great going man. Is there any translation patch for the famicom version? I'd love to give this one a run

just play it with the fucking keyboard

Being a fan of PC adventure games i was surprised when Snatcher released for the Sega CD, and from Konami of all companies. At the time in the US, graphic adventures weren't nearly as popular as they were in Japan on consoles. Didn't hurt that i was also a fan of Blade Runner, so this game was definitely checking all the boxes for me. Shame it would be stolen from me and with the prices people are asking these days, i never was able to get a copy again.

This is probably the most impressive pc-88 game so far. Lots of sprite animation, smooth four-way scrolling, not a lot of loading, you'd almost think it was a pc-98 game.

I'm still waiting for the english patch of this game for pc engine!

This is one game I look forward to play! Its japanese doesn't look very difficult, although some kanji are hard to read sometimes...

Funny how the demon lord is named "Ostracon" yet has no shell-themed appendiges or armour. Nor is he exiled, funny that.

Man the character designs in this game are fresh as hell

Been playing it alot this weekend. As always Ys has the best action rpg fun of any series. I really love the two hero connected skills. I rarely will ever praise Ys for a story to begin because I love the combat so much my forst playthrough I pretty much always skip things so I can start fighting a picking up materials. Something so nostalgic about Ys I will always love no matter what.

I think the female protagonist was named after Tam Lin, a Scottish fairy tale about a human warrior who grew up in the fairy realm after being kidnapped as a boy by the Queen of Faeries.

The cutscenes in the 88 version are gorgeous, would love to play it but can't speak a lick of Japanese. Hopefully there's be a way some day.

With this story about sound test and separate ost disk, just a reminder that if game had awesome soundtrack you could not just go to KZbin to listen to it. Only now i get the idea of a lot of late 80s games having funky sound test menus with character art or animations, it's a audio player and visualiser. Would be cool if some modern games added feature like that

This is the first time I actually skipped the spoiler part, because I had the SNES version on my list of games I want to play for a while now. Didn't know it originated on the PC-88.

I've been binging on this content lately, since it's been helping tame my resident anxiety goblin. Thank you for what you do!

21:17 Cracked me up. Top notch content.

I appreciate you being willing to tackle classic RPGs. I know what a huge time investment it is. You know I love your work, please keep it up!

If it was not for your videos, I wouldnt have bought so many PC-88 releases on Switch (through EGG Console). Just last week, they released Xak II, which I bought instantly after loving the first one so much. Without PC-88 Paradise, I wouldnt even know what Xak was. So now I'm really hoping we can also get the original Emerald Dragon on Switch too! Thanks for the great vid once again!