Gretchen Leigh

Anyone know if there's a good archive of Japanese PC game manual scans out there? I'm looking for Bokosuka Wars - ideally Sharp X1, but any non-NES platform in a pinch.

i dont have anything super interesting for jared 19 never learned to read so heres some doodles i never posted (on main)

Steel Gun Nyan is an absolutely ridiculous demastered fan port of Namco's 1990 lightgun shooter Steel Gunner; created by a small indie group called Studio Genmaitya for the PC-9801, a Japanese home computer that had absolutely no business running a game like this.

tell me these graphics aren't fucking awesome. the muted palette of the arcade version is swapped for vivid primary colors at a hilariously low resolution, giving it a look not quite like anything i've seen before. it's kind of incredible that even with such a tiny canvas to work with, they recreated a game full of complex mechanical designs in such a way that is surprisingly readable. i think it'd be such a fun exercise to take a detailed game and distill it down to its base visual components.

performance-wise? if it was gonna run like shit anyway, they wouldn't have made it look like ☝️☝️☝️ THAT☝️☝️ and damn if it doesn't actually run amazingly smoothly:

here's a shoddy little side by side between the arcade and PC-9801 versions to see how they solved these visual problems that i can't believe they even tried to tackle. so charming

Well that last part is about to change, because I just paid way too much for a sealed copy (actual copy I bought pictured)