

An Arcade quiz/dating game developed by Capcom that was later ported to the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
In the small Nijiirochō in the Pacific Ocean, a crystal seal was scattered. Without this crystal, a devil would be revived and destroy the world. Smashed into seven crystals, they somehow ended up with seven girls living in Nijiirochō. In order to reclaim the power of the crystal, the girls and "heart ties" are needed. The devil will be completely revived in six months. To save the world from ruin, a "player" that lives in Nijiirochō was chosen by Pixy for the task.

Simulator / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Romance
A visual novel released in 1999.

Simulator / Adventure / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
Evergreen Avenue is a Visual Novel released on PlayStation in 2001. Choosing either a male (Catan) or female (Ira) character, you must help each of the seven spirits learn the ways of human life by scheduling sessions with them each week and playing mini-games to determine your effectiveness. Events will pop up from time to time, where you have personal conversations with the various spirits or with your rival. At the end of each month, you are graded in comparison with your rival, and you must sufficiently educate the spirits by the time six months have passed.

Quiz/Trivia / Visual Novel / Romance
Tokimeki no Houkago is a spin-off game of the original Tokimeki Memorial. It was released for PlayStation on July 16, 1998 (was labeled by PSOne Books on September 18, 2003) and the PlayStation Network on February 24, 2010 in Japan.

Simulator / Strategy / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Romance
Elan is a strategy visual novel, developed and published by Visco, which was released in Japan in 1999.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
First BL game released in Japan for consumer consoles. Tells the tale of a group of boys with the ability to speak to spirits and harness their powers.

Role-playing (RPG) / Strategy / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
A strategy game and a visual novel with RPG elements developped by Gimmick House.

Shooter / Adventure / Visual Novel / Action / Science fiction
Policenauts is an interactive movie/graphic novel/adventure game with a hard science fiction storyline, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and published by Konami. It was initially released for the PC-9821 computer platform in 1994, followed by remade versions for the 3DO in 1995, and the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996. The game has never been officially released outside Japan, despite plans for an English localization of the Saturn version. On August 24, 2009 (in honor of the 46th birthday of the game designer, Hideo Kojima), an unofficial English translation patch was released onto the internet. The game is set in a primarily first person perspective and uses a point-and-click interface: the player can move the cursor and have the protagonist (Jonathan Ingram) analyze objects around his environment or talk to other characters in the game. Like in Snatcher, the game features shooting segments where the player must defend their character from incoming enemies. The player can use the shooting trainer at the police department to test their reflex and accuracy. There are numerous puzzles in the game, including an event where the player must dismantle a bomb by following their partner's instructions. The console versions of the game all include support for their respective mouse peripherals. The Saturn version features light gun support for the shooting segments. The game was notable for being an early example of extensive voice recording in video games. It also featured a theme revolving around space exploration and occasional full-motion video cut scenes. The gameplay was largely similar to Snatcher, but with the addition of a point-and-click interface and some first-person shooter segments. Policenauts also introduced summary screens, which act to refresh the player's memory of the plot upon reloading a save, an element Kojima would later use in Metal Gear Solid. The PlayStation version of Policenauts could also read the memory card and give some easter egg dialogues if a save file of Konami's dating sim Tokimeki Memorial is present, a technique Kojima would also later use in Metal Gear Solid.

Kaze no Oka Kouen Nite is a first person adventure game in which the player takes the role of a young student that arrives at a town and begins the class in fall in a new high school when he will find 4 girls, that one of them can be the love of his live. The gameplay is about choosing at some times of the game between different answers that will lead that girl story in a way or another. The game let the player choose which girl story he wants to play (there are 4 possible ones, one for each main girl character) and the events and situations will be different in each girl story, but all the girls will appear in the other stories.