Do you remember what was the first VN/eroge you've played? I was trying to find out the names of some of these pixelated PC-98 ones I've played before and one of them was apparently True Love. It seems to have gotten an official TL in 1998 according to vnd

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Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 00:34:00 No.121734>>121740 >>121743 >>145543 >>145935

Do you remember what was the first VN/eroge you've played? I was trying to find out the names of some of these pixelated PC-98 ones I've played before and one of them was apparently True Love. It seems to have gotten an official TL in 1998 according to vndb. I played it sometime around 2003-2004 I believe. Quite a few ones seem to have gotten official translations back then surprisingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAST_USA There are probably more that I've had the chance of playing before in there as well. Need to check it thoroughly. Yume Miru Kusuri is in there too and it was also important to me in that it was the first 'real' VN I've played/read in its entirety. I remember finding out about it on /v/ around late 2007.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 08:06:43 No.121735

It was Princess Eris (https://vndb.org/v1525). The setting was ok but I never really got into nukige as I prefer VNs with a focus on actual story. I don't mind sex scenes but it usually a bonus in this kind of games. I still read nukige though as I recently finished Bible Black and Discipline (the characters and the stories were actually fine).

And if you want to play old eroge, you can read some of them on this website: https://tss.asenheim.org/

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 18:13:30 No.121736

Phoenix Wright if that counts, otherwise Yume Miru Kusuri was also my first actual VN, followed by F/SN.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 18:26:27 No.121737

I'm not 100% sure, but it probably was Saya no Uta

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 18:31:01 No.121738>>121739

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Babby's first VN.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 18:33:44 No.121739

>>121738
I remember when the sticky was made on /a/.
I immediately downloaded it and then seeded it for years. Never played it.

I played a few other VNs, but not many.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 18:51:17 No.121740

>>121734
It was Clannad. My first eroge was kemono musume no sodatekata because I was going through a late horny phase where I downloaded a bunch of eroge to fap to and that was the first one that worked.
It has an early sex scene that caught me off guard. The experience was so immersive, it made my legs shake, it was thrill the first time.
IxShe Tell is my favorite among all of them.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 19:03:27 No.121741

Probably the OG Fate/Stay Night. Didn't care for it much. Majikoi was the one that actually got me into VNs later.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 19:14:06 No.121742

First one was easily Katawa shoujou but I don't think I even really knew what VNs were back when I played through it. I mostly read it because 4chan made it.
At some point far later I played through rewrite in English and took the dive into reading raw moonrunes with Kami-sama no you na kimi e.
I haven't played a lot but I really should, I semi-recently read through Shoujo to Toshi no Sa, Futamawari and I don't think I ever got hooked this hard on such a simple story. It's really hard to get that high again with VNs, you scratch an itch without realizing it and then you can't help but try to scratch it again while looking through and comparing other games.

Anonymous 03/18/24 (Mon) 21:04:13 No.121743

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>>121734
>eroge
Gal Pani X

Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 00:33:24 No.121744

Moving this to /qa/ by OP's request

Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 01:35:31 No.121747

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By the way, it was always meant for /qa/. I posted it on /jp/ by accident.

Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 03:28:19 No.121748>>121757

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I can't say for sure. I played a few of them around the same time, but my memory is hazy and they kind of blend together. I did play True Love back then, but it wasn't the first (and that's a dating sim really) but I'm really not sure because it was so long ago and I was so young that I can't remember much. It might have been Nocturnal Illusion, but maybe it wasn't. I remember that it took place in a mansion (I think?) and there was some evil woman with glasses. It's so embedded in my psyche that I hate 2D girls with glasses. Well, I mean I don't HATE them but I can't like them.

Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 04:05:04 No.121751

saya no uta because a friend thought it would be funny that it was my first one

Anonymous 03/19/24 (Tue) 11:11:47 No.121757

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>>121748
>I did play True Love back then, but it wasn't the first (and that's a dating sim really)
It's an eroge though. And the distinction between VN and dating sim is a bit dumb to me anyway. Dating sims are pretty much just VNs with a bit of gameplay, like Rance, Monster Girl Quest and Utawarerumono.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 08:16:54 No.145543

>>121734
Might've been Morenatsu

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 09:00:06 No.145552

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not sure about VERY first but the one i bought and played through as i remember was Come See Me Tonight and yeah it was trilling experience in a way

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 10:51:50 No.145572

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It was hanabira in japanese. Frankly I dont remember a thing about it because it was a very long time ago and also I barely understood what was going on. Maybe I could so a nostalgic re-visit?

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 10:56:39 No.145574>>145729 >>145937

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Saya no Uta, which seems to be a lot of people's first VN. It's a pretty good introductory one given it's pretty short.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 12:01:23 No.145619

My first VN was genuinely Katawa Shoujo.
It took me a few tries to learn to be mean sometimes to influence the flow of life and stop getting drunk and dying all the time.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 14:49:10 No.145729>>145937

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>>145574
Saya was my first too. And the shortness is probably what makes it such a common entry VN.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 19:10:50 No.145935

>>121734
It was ONE ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~. Really good, although I did not bother with other endings.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 19:18:40 No.145937

>>145574
>>145729
Has there been any definite info on people's first VN? Seems interesting to quantify what VNs people get into first.

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