

NEC’s PC-9801 personal computer system dominated the Japanese computer market for much of the 80s and 90s, and the platform soon spawned the nascent market for “dating simulators,” or rather visual novels and eroge, which despite the handicaps of low resolution and as few as 8 colours soon evolved into a vibrant artistic medium.
The Vippers share some of their favourite erotic illustrations of the era below:
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The long history of bishoujo games has been the subject of some Vipper attention recently, and the CG images, as well as the ancient systems and packaging, which emerge are rather interesting, and at times surprisingly good even after the passage of so many years.
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Two very interesting sites looking at the development of eroge in a historical context come to my attention. Firstly, and most strikingly, long time visual novel producer Alicesoft has actually officially authorised the distribution of many of their older titles (1990s) as abandonware; you can find them for direct download or torrent download, collected here. Secondly, there is a compendium of older eroge collected nicely with some CG (see below).
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