I do know that Tokimeki Memorialis the first real breakout title, released in 1994. Like many early titles, eventually non-H versions would appear on consoles, and even Anime based on the game would be made. Dokyusei actually had plot and a gaming objective before the sex and nudity came into play.

Games with sex and nudity existed before, but it was just straight porn or “strip poker” type games. I do not know what is considered to be the first “dating sim”, the early H-game Dokyusei (1992) seems as good a candidate as any. In Japan there have been hundreds of these titles.Ī well known sub genre of the Dating Sim is “ Eroge” (Erotic game, aka hentai game, or H-game), and Dating Sims themselves are part of a broader genre known as Visual Novels, which I’ll discuss in a future post. These are just some of the ones known here in the US. The term caught on, because the Ren’ai games released in the early 90’s like Tokimeki Memorial, True Love 95, and a bunch more relationship games seems to have “getting a date” as a major objective. They have Bishoujo games (beautiful girls), and Ren’ai (romance) games, both categories do not necessarily mean “dating” as literally as I took it. My ignorance can be forgiven since all of this happened in Japan, and nowhere else.īefore I go on about the Japanese Dating Sims, I should point out that the Japanese never called them “Dating Sims”. A whole genre of “Dating Sims” had risen and declined in the decade before my game. It wasn’t too long after releasing the first version that I discovered I was wrong.

I knew about games like The Sims that had dating scenarios in them, and I knew about interactive stories, adventure games, and the “choose your own adventure” books, but I figured that my combining all these elements together was an original concept.

When I originally created my Dating Sim, I thought I was being original.

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