NEC PC-98 Games

This is a list of all those games on this website for which I could verify the existence of a PC98 version. I have split it into Japanese and foreign games. Most of the games here will run on a PC-9801, some of the latest games may require a PC-9821.

There is a list for PC-88 games as well, but info about that platform is much harder to get.

Graphic Modes

There are three basic types of PC-98 computers:

• The early ones (8086 CPU), the original PC-9801 and PC-9801E/F/M: 640×400 or 640×200, eight digital colors.
• The standard ones (CPU ranging form 286 to 486SX): 640×400 or 640×200, 16 analog colors from a palette of 4096.
• The advanced ones, PC-9801BA and PC-9821: 640×480, 256 colors out of 16 million.

For games, only the first two are relevant. Up to about 1990, a lot of games used the 8-color modes, the first two Dragon Knight games for example. Some designers actually managed to dither pastels out of this palette!

The PC-98 models had no native 320×200 resolution. When it was used (for ports of IBM PC games and occasionally for arcade conversions), it was a horizontally pixel-doubled 640×200 mode.

Japanese Games

Foreign Games

For the RPG series like The Bard's Tale or Wizardry I have only listed the first game so as not to make the list too long. Ultima is a special case, because Ultima 2 was separately ported by Thinking Rabbit (published by Starcraft) several years before the start of the full series by Pony Canyon.

Links

• PC98 Images
• Tokugawa Corp.
• PC98 game database (Japanese)
• PC-98 Gamepics
• Giochi Hentai
• Super Moon PC-9801 Games

Emulators

• A thread about PC-98 emulators
• Zophar's Domain: PC-98 Emulators
• Japanese Computer Emulation Centre: PC98 emulators