Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present the first English webpage dedicated to the original Ningyou Tsukai. (Well, nearly; the MobyGames entry I submitted parallely got approved a few hours before I uploaded the page here.)
Ningyou Tsukai is the game on which Metal & Lace is based, but the two games are quite different. In Metal & Lace, you buy armors, upgrade them, pick one to use in the fight. Every hit will cause lasting damage that has to be repaired afterwards. In Ningyou Tsukai, you do nothing of these things. You just fight till your opponents have shed all of their clothes. This aspect is present in both games.
While I was working on the Ningyou Tsukai page, I made some related blog entries which contain some images and details I haven't posted elsewhere.
I have also added a page for Forest, the developer and publisher of Ningyou Tsukai. It contains box shots of the five games Forest produced, you can click on the thumbs for double size, still rather small, but that's how you find them on Japanese websites. I might add pages for some of them in the future, especially Blade of the Darkness looks interesting.
After a long pause I've started working more intensely on Download Central again. In the past few days I uploaded a dozen games, about half of them for DOS and the other half for Windows 9x. Four of them are from and Germany. I especially recommend Hidden Fields, a Qix clone by Lomax with impressive and uncommon graphics.
This is not exactly new, but I forgot to mention it before: On October 26, I gave the Return to DOS a new design, based on the Arachne manual pages. Of course I checked all the links, and expanded some sections as well.