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Originally posted by SCDawg:
There are then, and this might be a foolish question, but other games that have been translated out there that are not in print? Is there a list somewhere of those games?
*sigh*
First of all, we talked here about "Itsuka no sora", a game from Will's Sweet Basil label. This game has not yet been localized to the english language and no company has ever announced to have the faintest intention to do that. So, I talked about getting my hands on a copy of the japanese version.
I don't know of an official list of out-of-print titles that have been localized to the english language, but I can give you a few titles right out of my memory, if that helps you anything:
First of all, there are the two titles that almost everybody wants to have:
- True Love (Parsley)
- Gin Iro (NekoNeko)
If you see ever a chance to get a copy of them yourself, don't think twice or it'll be gone!
GinIro has a horrible translation, but after getting used to it, the story compensates you abundant for your patience with this flaw.
Of course, the original (DOS-)versions of the three JAST-games
- Three Sister's Story
- Season of the Sakura
- Runaway City
are also out of print, but the games themselves are available again in the JAST-Memorial collection.
The same goes for the original (Win95-)version of "Nocturnal Illusion": This first version was butchered. The game is now available in a re-completed version as a part of the "Milky House Memorial Collection".
Just last year, one of C's-ware's games went out of print: "Love Potion". Different opinions about this game exist: There are people who like it (especially because the cross-connection to the EVE series) and there are people who hate it.
Also there were the two parts of "Immoral Study". They weren't really great, especially compared to todays standards, so having missed them is not a big loss IMHO. But at least, they had a few animations.
Older OOP-games that I certainly wouldn't recommend are:
- Ring Out (ZyX)
- Paradise Heighs (Otaku)
- Return to Paradise Heighs (Otaku)
- Time Stripper Mako-chan (Otaku)
Okay, Mako-chan might be at least a funny SciFi-Comedy. However I would recommend to avoid all the others that I mentioned here like the plague.