

Tokimeki Memorial is a dating sim by Konami and the first game in the Tokimeki Memorial series. The first game in the series is particularly notable for its "bomb" feature, where neglected, infrequently-dated girls would eventually become angry and gossip to their friends, severely reducing love meters across the board. In the middle of the game, when the number of known girls was high, these "bombs" became the primary concern of the player, forcing careful planning and strategies like round-robin dating. Although the feature was still present in the later games, it was considerably reduced in importance and the difficulty in avoiding it. In 1996, it was ported to the Super Famicom as Tokimeki Memorial: Densetsu no Ki no Shita de, and although drastically reduced in graphic and sound quality (the only voice clips were available during loading), included an exclusive CD with a radio drama and new arrangement of the ending theme, "Futari no Toki", this time sung by the majority of the girls, instead of just Shiori Fujisaki (the heroine of the first game).

Simulator / Visual Novel / Romance
In Tokimeki Memorial 2, male players make their way through three years of high school, while trying to attract a female character from a pool of dateable characters. With 13 different girls to pursue, each with their own unique likes, dislikes, and characteristics, there's hours of dating fun to be had. Will you be able to win the affection of the girl of your dreams in this short time?

Simulator / Visual Novel / Romance
The protagonist sets up his school's festival with the help of his classmates. He's able to get closer to them, and will obtain eventually a love ending (if it's with a girl) or a friendship ending (if it's with a boy).

Getter Love!! is a dating sim in which a high school student and his friends compete to see who will get a girlfriend first. Because of that, and unlike other dating sim games, players have to compete against up to three human or CPU-controlled opponents to win the heart of the girl, or girls, they set their sights on.

Magical Date is a skill game and dating sim published by Taito in 1996 for arcade and PlayStation. In this game, the player picks one of three possible girls to date and then starts off in a square as in a board game, proceeding to other squares which have different mini games. At junction points the player is asked questions about their date and has to pick the correct answer, or she will become upset. Released in October 1996 in Japan only. The subtitle of this game translates from Japanese as 'Cruel Heartthrob Tactics'.

Simulator / Visual Novel / Romance
Nurse Story features a dating adventure set in a metropolitan hospital where the player's character arrives in the first of december as a patient.

Released in 1996 on PlayStation, by Headroom.

Point-and-click / Simulator / Visual Novel / Business / Romance
A spin-off of the main story, the game takes place in an alternative world and follows the adventures of the player as an original character loosely based on the series’ protagonist Kraft Lawrence. A novice merchant seeking to expand his business, he signs a contract for ownership of a horse-drawn cart, which comes with some very unusual conditions. Accordingly, the player is tasked with the job of delivering Holo, a girl with the ears and tail of a wolf, to her hometown whose location she has forgotten.

Point-and-click / Simulator / Strategy / Comedy / Drama
Kakyuusei is a 1996 PC-98 adventure dating sim where the protagonist must date (obviously) a girl or two or a dozen. It was ported to many platforms and has never been localized into any other language besides Japanese officially (only fan translations into Korean and Simplified Chinese). It’s a spin-off of the Doukyuusei titles also made by ELF.