

Released in June 1985, Tenshitachi no Gogo (Afternoon of Angels) this was one of the first adult dating sims, an adventure game set in a Japanese high school. The goal is to seduce the star girl of the tennis club, Yumiko Shiraishi. To do this, the player needs to go around talking with her friends and possibly getting intimate with them as well.

Simulator / Adventure / Visual Novel / Romance
Dating simulation game released by Enix in 1985. Considered somewhat revolutionary for its time, this game helped lay the foundations for the dating sim genre.

Point-and-click / Simulator / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Doukyuu-sei is a 1992 erotic dating sim (the first of its kind) where the player can meet 14 girls to have a romantic relationship with. The player takes the role of a high-school student (default name Takurou) in a Japanese town; his parents have just moved into a large mansion in a good district. The boy has to go to the new school, but his mind is preoccupied with one subject only: pretty girls. Instead of studying hard, Takurou decides to explore the city and to find out more about its female inhabitants.

Simulator / Quiz/Trivia / Adventure / Erotic / Romance
One of Kōei's first video games, Night Life (1982) was the first Japanese commercial erotic game to hit the market, featuring a series of sexually explicit images, and marketed as a tool to help couples enhance their sex life. An intercourse simulator and part of Kōei's Strawberry Porno series, Night Life is considered to be a precursor for the Bishōjo game genre. In-game, the player has a limited set of options, including determining the date of a woman's period, a choice of sex positions and the option of how much time to allocate to each one. The intercourse is then displayed on the screen through the 'Let's Fuck' option, and is non-interactive.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Comedy / Drama
- A relaxing high school rom-com visual novel with a mythological twist. - Romance four descendants of ancient Japanese folk heroes. - Track down a mysterious phantom thief masquerading as yourself, all the while learning about each girl. - Enjoy a variety of references to stories of old. - A story-packed game with four routes to choose from, each with its own unique twists.

Simulator / Adventure / Visual Novel / Erotic / Romance
The sequel to the dating sim that rocked the world (maybe) in 1992! Doukyuusei 2 is a 1995 classic erotic love adventure, a genre that is also referred to as "dating simulations". It has a new location and new protagonist. The aim of the game is the same as the original.

Point-and-click / Adventure / Visual Novel / Drama / Mystery
A man's corpse is discovered near a sea wharf in Tokyo Bay. While the police investigates, a 2nd and 3rd murder occurs one after another. You begin your investigating with Shunsuke Saruwatari, a detective from the Kushiro station, and seek the truth to discover the criminal's motivation. An examination of the relation between the victims exposes a important details from the past.

Point-and-click / Simulator / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
The game begins with your character, whose family has just moved to the area, entering his new school for the first time. After class, you accidentally run into a conservative-looking girl wearing glasses. She introduces herself as Mizuho, but you can't help but notice her striking resemblance to your dream pop idol, Miho Nakayama. You pick up a good-luck charm Mizuho dropped to give back to her, then make a startling revelation - your photographer brother took a picture of Miho carrying the exact same charm! You go to the music room to confront her with this evidence - and this is where the true challenge of the game begins.

Role-playing (RPG) / Visual Novel / Action / Fantasy
Dragon Knight III is an eroge role-playing video game released on many Japanese PCs in 1991. It is part of the Dragon Knight series of games created by Japanese game developer ELF, who originally released the game for the NEC PC-9801 computer in 1991, followed by ports for the Sharp X68000 and PC Engine CD platforms. The game is a sequel of Dragon Knight and Dragon Knight II. Its gameplay system is different from that of previous installments of the Dragon Knight series, resembling this of the early Final Fantasy (even more in the PC version) series instead of first-person-view dungeon crawler, and enabling the player to explore the entire world of the game. Some of the characters were renamed in the English and German localized Knights of Xentar release, including the protagonist Takeru's name changed to Desmond.