I was absolutely heartbroken that Monkey Island 2 was never released on the ST (it did IIRC get an Amiga release).
Hah, that brings back memories.
I was an ST gamer (also my first exposure to PnC adventures), and I experienced no end of disappointment in regards to games that bypassed the format (MI2 and beyond for LucasArts, and I think Sierra abandoned the ST sometime after LSL3 or thereabouts.)
Speaking of which, has anyone here heard of Touch Detective?
I fumbled through the first game in Japanese, back when I imported a
lot of DS games, and subsequently in English, along with sequel. The DS was a great system for Japanese adventures in general.
Hotel Dusk, and it's sequel
Last Window,
Ghost Trick,
Again,
Another Code, Flower Sun Rain, 999, LifeSigns (which was actually
LifeSigns 2, the first never making it out of Japan), and more all made the jump to English. The 3DS saw some adventure love as well
, to a lesser degree
, and also has a bunch of titles worth picking up
.But... I get the feeling my knowledge on British PCs pales in comparison to what LimpingFish knows about Japanese PCs.
Oh, believe me, there's
huge gaping holes in my knowledge base.
I'd recommend getting into the emulation side of things, though. Almost everything is available, and is pretty easy to run. A lot of those emulators happen to be in Japanese, of course (which makes sense), but there's guides and such available.
As a side note, I started a project some time back to capture and upload interesting Japanese PC games to
Youtube (their intro sequences, anyway). Turned out to be a little more awkward than I though, in terms of accurately capturing resolution and palettes (video compression certainly doesn't help), and I never got around to finishing it. I plan on doing it right some day, but I've just now made public everything I managed to get done, if anybody wants to take a look (some cool chiptune music along the way won't hurt either) at how Japan gamed during the '80s and '90s.
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