Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Coron (PC-88, ©ASCII 1984) — a bird-like hero gathers fruit across a maze of islands, blowing the bridges out from under his pursuers. Grand prize winner of an open contest. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Misty Blue (PC-88SR, ©Enix 1990) — an adventure game set in the Japan of 1990 and depicted exactly as it was, right down to the popular music of that era. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: The Scheme (PC-88SR, ©Bothtec 1988) — an exploration action game with lavish graphics and a score to match, made by a doujin circle with professionals on board. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Bosconian (X68000, ©Dempa Shimbunsha 1988) — the programmer was supposed to be porting something else entirely. Copying the arcade was never going to be enough. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Xanadu Scenario II (PC-88SR, ©Nihon Falcom 1986) — the sequel that will not boot without the original. New maze, new monsters, and a dragon that refused to die. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: First Queen (PC-98M, ©KSK 1988) — a hundred tiny soldiers, each with a mind of its own, clash in real time in the "gocha-kyara" swarm. Box art by Yoshitaka AMANO. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Schwarzschild (PC-88SR, ©Kogado 1988) — a strategy game built as a story, where a small star-nation's young king gathers allies to survive a war engulfing the galaxy. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Elthlead (PC-88, ©NCS 1987) — history gives way to light, dark and dragons on the strategy board, a war sim that slips into fantasy. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Silk Road (X1D, ©Hudson Soft 1983) — the real enemy isn't the Xiongnu but the desert: sandstorms, bolting camels, and the odd stroke of luck, in a quiet, hopeful little sim. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Star Cruiser (PC-88SR, ©Arsys 1988) — fly freely through a solid, full-color universe, then land and walk its towns. A grand space opera that drops you inside an SF movie. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Thunder Force (MZ-1500, ©Tecno Soft 1984) — boot it up and the machine shouts its own name. An overhead shooter where you roam in every direction, charging the enemy base to Rossini's William Tell Overture. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Plazma Line (PC-88, ©Tecno Soft 1984) — when 3D meant wireframe, this space racer put solid, shaded polygons on screen and sent them flying. The PC's first, and it knew it. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Star Fleet (PC-8001mkII, ©Tecno Soft 1983) — take the captain's chair of a familiar-looking starship and cross 3D space by your instruments alone. The human adventure, on cassette tape. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Emmy II (MSX2, ©ASCII 1986) — a girl, named after "emulation," who learns the words you type, forgets old ones, and saves it all to disk, so next time you switch on, she remembers where you left off.

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Artificial Intelligence GILL (PC-6001mkII, ©Ample 1983) — teach a forgetful eight-year-old to speak, one typed word at a time, on a machine its own author cheerfully branded "artificial ignorance." www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

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Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Reviver (PC-88SR, ©Arsys 1987) — an isekai adventure years before the genre had a name, where the townsfolk remember you and brush you off if you keep repeating yourself. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Morita's Battlefield (PC-88, ©Enix 1983) — the Othello champion who won Enix's first contest by teaching a computer to fight back. www.gamepres.org/en/2026/05/3...

Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week : Romancia: Dragon Slayer Jr. (aka "Dragon Slayer III") (Sharp X1, ©Nihon Falcom 1986). 30 minutes. No save. One wrong move = start over! Help us keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #RetroGaming #JRPG #pixelart #gamehistory

Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week: Xanadu (aka “Dragon Slayer II”) (PC-8801mkIISR, ©Nihon Falcom 1985). Action, exploration, and resource management, all centered around conquering a labyrinth! keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #classicgaming #pixelart #jrpg

Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week: Metal Gear (MSX2, ©Konami 1987) Before the legend, there was the mission. The original stealth action game, as KOJIMA intended it. Help us keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #hideokojima #retrogaming #metalgear #konami

Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week: Snatcher (PC-88SR, ©Konami 1988) Hideo KOJIMA's cyberpunk masterpiece that still asks the question: who can you trust Help us keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #hideokojima #konami #retrogaming #pixelart #gaming

Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week: Penguin Adventure (MSX, ©Konami 1986). A charming sequel to Antarctic Adventure pushing MSX1 hardware to its limits! Help us keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #pixelart #classical #konami #gamers

Our weekly game introductions are now on Patreon! If you enjoyed the March episodes, this is your chance to support game preservation and keep the archive alive. New tier available now. www.patreon.com/posts/openin...

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GPS now offers weekly content on our Patreon: every week, we release a video accompanied by a written article exploring a Japanese video game and its history. Access to this content is free, but if you'd like to help to support us, we would also greatly appreciate it. www.patreon.com/cw/gamepres

"It Has To Happen Outside Of Japan" - Game Preservation Society Launches Patreon And Opens US Office Following Government Fund Freeze. (Image: @gamepres) (Repost)

"It Has To Happen Outside Of Japan" - Game Preservation Society Launches Patreon And Opens US Office Following Government Fund Freeze

"We are not leaving Japan, but this work should be allowed within Japan"

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Happy New Year! 2025 was an important year for the GPS, and we once again want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who supported us. We have some big plans for 2026, so stay tuned!

Nous revenons sur les grandes difficultés que rencontre actuellement la Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social, l'association la plus importante pour la préservation du jeu vidéo au Japon... mag.mo5.com/269708/comme...

Comment soutenir nos amis de la Game Preservation Society au Japon

Il y a deux semaines, nous avons relayé sur nos réseaux sociaux un article de Time Extension évoquant les grandes difficultés de la Game Preservation Society, une association (...)

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“Younger people who want to make games should play really old games. They may not have good graphics, but there is something shining within them". (Image: @TAITO) (Repost)

Tomohiro Nishikado On Making 'Space Invaders' And What Makes Games Fun

"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games"

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Japan's Game Preservation Society Is Safe For Now, And It's All Thanks To You. (Image: @gamepresintl)

Japan's Game Preservation Society Is Safe For Now, And It's All Thanks To You

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We've seen your requests for anonymous donations to the GPS and we are thrilled to announce that we now have a donation page! For those who cannot join as a supporting member, please use the link or QR code below to donate directly to the GPS via Stripe: donate.stripe.com/7sI03sb9j3w7...