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28-526: AliceSoft ( アリスソフト , ArisuSofuto ) (sometimes Alice Soft ) was established in 1989, as an eroge developer and publisher for the computer market, first for the PC-88 and PC-98 , and later for PCs running Microsoft Windows platforms. Its first titles were Rance and Intruder, released simultaneously in July 1989. It has continued to release several titles each year, though not always exclusively adult-oriented. It

56-406: A visual novel and releasing their first successful game, Shizuku , a horror story starring a rapist high school student, with very highly reviewed writing and music. Their next game, Kizuato , was almost as dark. However, in 1997, they released To Heart , a sweetly sentimental story of high school love that became one of the most famous and trendsetting eroge ever. To Heart 's music

84-512: A 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU , 1 MB of RAM , and lacks a hard drive . The final model was released in 1993 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU, 4 MB of RAM, and optional 80 MB SCSI hard drive. RAM in these systems is expandable to 12 MB, though most games and applications do not require more than 2 MB. The X68000 has graphics hardware similar to arcade video games of the late-1980s, with custom coprocessors supporting scrolling, tiled backgrounds, and large numbers of sprites . Sound

112-635: A X68000 user restricts themselves to use only filenames according to the 8.3 characters scheme of DOS, using only Latin upper case characters, then a disk written on the X68000 is fully compatible with other Japanese standard platforms like e.g. the NEC PC-9800 , the Fujitsu FMR and FM Towns computers. The Japanese standard disk format used by the X68000 is: 77 tracks, 2 heads, 8 sectors, 1024 bytes per sector, 360 rpm (1232 KiB). Many add-on cards were released for

140-448: A cable-ready television ( NTSC-J standard) with composite video input. It was a high quality monitor for playing JAMMA -compatible arcade boards due to its analog RGB input and support for all three horizontal scanning rates used with arcade games. Early machines use the rare Shugart Associates System Interface (SASI) for the hard disk interface; later versions adopted the industry-standard Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). Per

168-499: A mouse port built into either side. The front of the computer has a headphone jack, volume control, joystick, keyboard and mouse ports. The top has a retractable carrying handle only on non-Compact models, a reset button, and a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button. The rear has a variety of ports, including stereoscopic output for 3D goggles, FDD and HDD expansion ports, and I/O board expansion slots. The monitor supports horizontal scanning rates of 15, 24, and 31 kHz and functions as

196-475: A new brand under them, which became Key . In 1999, Key released Kanon . It contains only about seven brief erotic scenes in a sentimental story the size of a long novel (an all-ages version was also released afterward), but the enthusiasm of the response was unprecedented, and Kanon sold over 300,000 copies. In 2002 a 13-episode anime series was produced, as well as another 24-episode anime series in 2006. According to Satoshi Todome's A History of Eroge , Kanon

224-503: A port to consoles or handheld devices where pornographic content is not allowed, which either remove or censor the sex scenes entirely. Eroge is most often a visual novel or dating sim . However, there are also many other gameplay genres represented within eroge , such as role-playing games , mahjong games , or puzzle games . Some eroge , such as those made by Illusion Soft , are just simulations of sex, with no "conventional" gameplay included. X68000 The initial model has

252-520: Is a brand name owned by ChampionSoft Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社チャンピオンソフト , Kabushiki-gaisha Chanpion Sofuto ) , a company founded in March 1983. Series Games Eroge An eroge ( エロゲ or エロゲー , erogē ; pronounced [e̞ɾó̞ɡe̞(ː)] ), also called an H-game , is a Japanese genre of erotic video game . The term encompasses a wide variety of Japanese games containing erotic content across multiple genres. The first eroge were created in

280-525: Is no set definition for the gameplay of eroge , except that they all include explicit erotic or sexual content depending on the game. Like other pornographic media in Japan, erotic scenes feature censorship of genitalia , only becoming uncensored if the game is licensed and released outside Japan, unless produced illegally by dōjin (usually with a construction kit like NScripter or RPG Maker ). Additionally, some games may receive an "all-ages" version, such as

308-523: Is still the standard for modern eroge and is referred to as a "baptism" for young otaku in Japan. Although many eroge still market themselves primarily on sex, eroge that focus on story are now a major established part of Japanese otaku culture. Voice actors who have voiced for eroge have often been credited under a pseudonym. As the visual novel standard was adopted, the erotic parts in eroge began to become less and less apparent. Many eroge become more story-oriented than sex-oriented, making story

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336-547: Is supplied through multiple sound chips supporting 8 channels of FM synthesis and one channel of adaptive differential pulse-code modulation audio, which are mixed down to 2 analog stereo channels via a DAC chip. As such, video gaming was a major use of the X68000. The X68k runs an operating system called Human68k which was developed for Sharp by Hudson Soft . An MS-DOS -workalike, Human68k features English -based commands very similar to those in MS-DOS ; executable files have

364-622: The FM-8 in the end of 1981 , and he considered Yakyūken was the origin of adult games. Some writers say that Yakyūken produced for Sharp MZ computers by Hudson Soft is the first Japanese adult game. Other now-famous Japanese companies such as Enix , Square and Nihon Falcom also released erotic adult games for the PC-8801 computer in the early 1980s before they became mainstream. Early eroge usually had simple stories, some even involving anal sex , which often led to widespread condemnation from

392-580: The extension .X . Versions of the OS prior to 2.0 have command line output only for common utilities like "format" and "switch", while later versions included forms-based versions of these utilities. At least three major versions of the OS were released, with several updates in between. Early models have a GUI called "VS" or "Visual Shell"; later ones were originally packaged with SX-WINDOW . A third GUI called Ko-Window exists with an interface similar to Motif . These GUI shells can be booted from floppy disk or

420-450: The 1980s, and many well-known companies in the Japanese gaming industry originally produced and distributed them. Some eroge are primarily focused on erotic content, while others, such as Key 's Kanon , only contain occasional scenes in an otherwise non-erotic work. Games in the latter category are often re-released with sexual content removed for general audiences. Throughout its history,

448-490: The Japanese media. In some of the early erotic games, the erotic content is meaningfully integrated into a thoughtful and mature storytelling, though others often used it as a flimsy excuse for pornography. Erotic games made the PC-8801 popular, but customers quickly became tired of paying 8800 yen ($ 85) for such simple games. Soon, new genres were invented: ASCII's Chaos Angels , a role-playing -based eroge , inspired Dragon Knight by Elf and Rance by AliceSoft . In

476-409: The compact models, two 3.5-inch floppy drives, and a very distinctive case design of two connected towers , divided by a retractable carrying handle. This system was also one of the first with a software-controlled power switch; pressing it signals the system's software to save and shut down. The screen fades to black and the sound fades to silence before the system turns off. The system's keyboard has

504-590: The early 1990s eroge games became much more common. Most eroge games, a fairly large library, found its way on the PC-9801 platform. FM Towns also received many games, more so than the X68000 or MS-DOS , whilst the MSX platform (which had many eroge games in the 1980s) was nearing the end of its lifetime. Eroge was much less common on consoles – only NEC 's PC Engine series had officially licensed adult games, and from

532-518: The erotic title, Seduction of the Condominium Wife ( 団地妻の誘惑 , Danchi Zuma no Yūwaku ) , which was an early role-playing adventure game with color graphics, owing to the eight-color palette of the PC-8001 computer. It became a hit, helping Koei become a major software company. In another opinion, Yuji Horii recalled in 1986 that he saw a demonstration of a Yakyūken -like game running on

560-410: The first 8 without the use of a special driver, therefore files and folders that are named the same when viewed through a 8.3 filename but different when viewed through a 18.3 filename will be considered the same. Human68K is case sensitive and allows lower case and Shift JIS encoded Kanji characters in filenames, both of which cause serious problems when a DOS system tries to read such a directory. If

588-456: The genre has faced controversy for its use of explicit sexual content, and as a result has been banned from several console platforms. Eroge is a portmanteau of "erotic game" ( エロチックゲーム , erochikku gēmu ) . Such games are also referred to as an "H-game" ( Hゲーム ) . Eroge is a Japanese erotic video game . The earliest known commercial erotic computer game is PSK's Lolita Yakyūken , released in 1982 . That same year, Koei released

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616-498: The hardware's capability, formatted SASI drives can be 10, 20 or 40 MB in size and can be logically partitioned as well. Human68K does not support the VFAT long filenames standard of modern Windows systems, but it supports 18.3 character filenames instead of the 8.3 character filenames allowed in the FAT filesystem . By default, Human68K will not consider any additional characters beyond

644-405: The main focus for many modern eroge . More and more people who used to reject such type of games began to become more open-minded, realizing that eroge are not just about sex anymore. A lot of story-focused eroge tend to have only a few erotic scenes. Another subgenre is called "nukige" ( 抜きゲー , Nukigē ) , in which sexual gratification of the player is the main focus of the game. There

672-461: The mid-90s, Sega 's Saturn . Both Nintendo and Sony disallowed adult video games on their consoles. Games also started to appear on Windows as it grew in popularity. There were also some titles on the arcades , such as the Gals Panic series. In 1992, Elf released Dōkyūsei . In it, before any eroticism, the user has to first win the affection of one of a number of female characters, making

700-469: The story into an interactive romance novel . Thus, the love simulation genre was invented. Soon afterwards, the video game Otogirisou on the Super Famicom attracted the attention of many Japanese gamers. Otogirisou was a standard adventure game but had multiple endings. This concept was called a "sound novel". In 1996, the new software developer and publisher Leaf expanded on this idea, calling it

728-493: The system's hard drive. Most games also boot and run from floppy disk; some are hard disk installable and others require hard disk installation. Since the system's release, software such as Human68k itself, console, SX-Window C compiler suites, and BIOS ROMs have been released as public domain software and are freely available for download. Other operating systems available include OS-9 and NetBSD for X68030. The X68000 has two soft-eject 5.25-inch floppy drives, or in

756-400: The system, including networking (Neptune-X), SCSI, memory upgrades, CPU enhancements (JUPITER-X 68040/060 accelerator), and MIDI I/O boards. The system has two joystick ports, both 9-pin male and supporting Atari standard joysticks and MSX controllers. Capcom produced a converter that was originally sold packaged with the X68000 version of Street Fighter II that allowed users to plug in

784-412: Was so popular it was added to karaoke machines throughout Japan—a first for eroge . In response to increasing pressure from Japanese lobby groups , in mid-1996 Sega of Japan announced that they would no longer permit Sega Saturn games to include nudity. After a similar game by Tactics , One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e , became a hit in 1998, Visual Arts scouted main creative staff of One to form

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