PC-98



The PC-9800 (usually shortened to PC-98) is a personal computer series made by NEC, and the successor to the PC-88.

Its hardware was quite similar to IBM's PC, and MS-DOS was the most popular OS for it. However, it was different enough for its programs to not be compatible. Its support for kana and kanji text, a strong marketing campaign, and a head start made it the dominant machine in the Japanese computer market for a whole decade, even against the vastly superior X68000 and FM Towns. It started to face serious competition when other PCs finally got Japanese text support, and was finally dethroned with the launch of Windows 95, which had equally good support on any machine.

Much like its predecessor, the PC-98 was a business-oriented machine. Because of its huge popularity, it was flooded not only with doujin games, but tons of erotic games. There are many hidden gems there if you search carefully.