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I don't think that i ever play this game (well, language barrier), but plot concept with this students clubs thousand years feud is just hillarious :D

U anjin from Shogun😁

Old fashion way is the best way. I have spoken 😅

"uncommon but not in high demand" is almost my entire video game collection 😆

Is this some kind of meta joke? NO, its metajo! That was forced as hell, I apologize.

This game seems like a fever dream

Very cool video. I have always admired these old types of PC games. Something about their simplicity and genuine craftsmanship is just simply endearing.

It's crazy how many games for Japanese PC there are, that would be classics if the west had access back then. Japanese exclusive games from consoles weren't half as obscure as those. It's a piece of gaming history completely alien to western audiences

Listening PCM samples on SSG doesn't surprise me at all, YM2203 and YM2608 (Mono and Stereo soundboard Yamaha FM Chips) have an internal YM2149F for SSG, this is the chip Wich most MSX Computers used (it's a clone of a General Instrument called AY-Something wich it's the MSX Standard PSG), in MSX there is several examples of PCM over PSG, maybe the most famous one is the Aleste 2 voices, and you can see this even in european MSX1 tapes like "oh shit!", this can be done by an undocumented way of using channel's parameters. Greetings from Spain

Hey Basement Brothers, gotta ask, do you know if a fan remake for say an RPG Maker engine was ever done, in japanese or not, so that it would be easier to consume this game for modern PCs for example? Because I think this game deserves that, it has an RPG Maker smell to it and overall I'd really recommend the game to people and play it myself where it would be of great help if that news exists for it!

I just love this channel. Proud Patron 🥳

Played the game(the Trad. Chinese localized version on MS-DOS, named "Q女天使學園") 20+ years ago, never beat it because too hard for me(also, not fan of this style of battle screen representation :\). But this game did gave me heavy impressions because of the story and artwork design.

I'm really confused why Sponsorblock is saying 2-3 seconds of the installation process is a sponsor and skips those few seconds, weird. Did someone hate those floppy drive noises and flag that?

There are bishoujo games on the PC-98 that aren't eroge lol

10:30 Is that Japanese “Pulp Fiction” John Travolta on the far left?!?!? (sorry, I know how this worked in this era of Japanese gaming with pixelated likenesses of people in games, and you pointing out the likenesses yourself, but just wanted in on the action…. thank you for y’all’s videos. Allows me to geek out too.)

whoa isekai rpg in pc 98

9:06 bros face on the left reminds me of Orson Welles Paul Masson drunk outtakes.

Great video! As a big fan of Snatcher and Policenauts, I greatly appreciate these. Also, regarding your comments on translating or dubbing the game, the Playstation version got an English translation patch, made by the guys from JunkerHQ. The voices are, ofcourse, still Japanese, but it is now subtitled and all other text is translated.

PC gaming in the 90’s, spend more time installing the game than actually playing it.

maybe.... langrisser got inspired by this

sometime in the middle of the video i paused it and went online looking for soundtrack rips to download, each and every one of them was recorded with a low pass filter in hoot every. damn. time.

a game I'd play if the English patch was complete... and I could handle PC-98 emulation

The Astronomi club sounds amazing! I'd love to get into PC-88/98 more but I find the whole harddrive stuff, a bit intimidating.

I love your channel

Cannot swim, can confirm it takes forever for me to cross water. At least I'm not a vampire! Great vid, cool game.

When I played Tales of Phantasia as a kid, I thought to myself "oh, it's like an rpg where the random encounters are a fighting game!!". Obviously that has never quite been true, but the series has moved even further away from that idea. I guess I've just been looking in the wrong place this whole time.

Despite having never heard of this, I’m even more interested in seeing the sequel! Seems like it’d make for a really interesting vid.

Keep up the good work! These are the kind of games I would love to play, but I know I would never have the time or will to do what it takes to play them.

What if Fire Emblem but oops, all schoolgirls! God I love Japan.

3:24 Jack Nicholson?!?!?

0:34 Hayao Miyazaki?!?!?

Such a cool weird title that wasn't on my radar til now. One of the things I love most about PC-88/98 is how many odd yet wonderful titles there were, it's astonishing there isn't a huge amount of coverage overall aside from the more flashy titles. Yet another reason why this is such a special channel. Love seeing the portions which show the physical set up, from the box art/manual/inserts to actually running it on the original hardware. Brings it even closer to that great feel like being back around release and a buddy showing off the new game they got.

This is my favorite gaming youtube channel ever and i have been watching youtube since launch.

More SRPG goodness! Great video, thanks!

The world may sound crazy but from this video seems like its basically a high fantasy setting with a japanese highchool theme. Everything starts making more sense when you swich terms like "club" and "club president" with stuff like "kingdom" and "kings" Even the whole thing with schoolgirls being used as sacrificial war paws makes more sense when you notice they are basically medieval soldiers being sent to war to die

2d Unholy war, nice.

You boys be metatopological down there!

That disk installation music is killer. Thanks for that!

I noticed it said 天文部 on the battle screen and thought is that a high school girls' astronomy club going to war with other high school girls' clubs and then you explained that is precisely what is happening. Seems like a fun game with a very strange premise. I dig the Kansai dialect too.

WOW! I'm very impressed.

The "Stage Start" sound clip that plays at the beginning is so cute.

Do you understand Japanese? Wow. 15:50 nice easter

La mejor manera de finalizar el día del padre. Gracias basement brothers.

Your "in jokes" with Beavs & Butthead never fail to get me a cuckle!

Honestly love seeing videos about doujin games for the fact that the devs put so much passion into what they created and since games like these aren't very known outside of Japan it's a really fascinating look at the interests of their subculture at the time.

Played this multiple times, first time the Korean DOS version for IBM-compat PCs, and later PC-98. Absolutely bizarre and wonderful. It does have a few weird quirks that might put off some; but if you're playing, have everyone learn Swimming and other terrain-movement skills first. Makes your life much easier.

It's definitely a shame they didn't make more games of this caliber.

Hopefully EGG picks it up someday. Thanks for the video.

4:37 - Just another reminder how important software preservation is. No storage medium lasts forever.

I once had a dream to learn Japanese. But my mind isn't what it used to be and it feels like maybe I never will now. But these videos almost make me feel like I did! And I can enjoy all the obscure delights that come with it! Thanks 🙏