Konami's Japanese classic finally gets its fan translation
Konami's Tokimemki Memorial is another classic as influential as the likes of Metal Gear and Castlevania, and it's finally playable in English thanks to fans
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Konami's Tokimemki Memorial is another classic as influential as the likes of Metal Gear and Castlevania, and it's finally playable in English thanks to fans
It's hard to overstate the influence Tokimeki Memorial had on the dating sims and visual novels that followed. Konami's 1994 visual novel took the social simulation mechanics of games like Princess Maker and applied them to high school, with the protagonist as a student who has to balance brutal amounts of study and exercise with an overactive social life. Notably, Tokimeki Memorial writer Koji Igarashi was assisted in making the high school dating experience more authentic by his then-girlfriend—another Konami employee who was working on Castlevania: Rond...
Few games are iconic within the dating simulation genre as Tokimeki Memorial, despite the fact that it was never officially localized in English.