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Night-life is exciting as always in an Artdink game, where all the lights are on all the time.

>>2646842
The J.B. Harold installments Murder Club and Manhattan Requiem have translations—they're interesting plots with plenty of questions worth asking your suspects. I've been playing the iOS version of the latter (using the rough translation first used in the LaserActive port) recently. You can play the DOS conversion of the former in browser via Internet Archive, and that will keep your saves as well.

I own a CIB PC-98 copy of Tokio, Artdink's O'Neill cylinder city-sim.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEVar8E3Ro

Some of the most detailed handmade graphics for the PC-98.

>>1893534

It's your job as the mayor to regulate internal weather conditions and what time of day you wish to simulate for the residents (I'm presuming the large, translucent colony panes have tinting you can toggle). This makes sense: a Tokyo without any chance to glow all nostalgic and colorful is no Tokyo at all!

There is, in fact, a sequel to the original Tokio. Tokio 2 was Artdink's final game for any Japanese PC, released for PC-98 in late 1995 (they were already releasing games on Windows the same year!). It's apparently based around Tokio gaining full independence from Tokyo, becoming an orbital nation-state and striving for global recognition. So I'd imagine some of the systems are different, though the pixel art (what's available to be seen on Google, at least) isn't as cool-looking. That game, thankfully, made its way to Windows as well, which bodes well if someone does for Artdink what XSEED's done for Falcom (A-Train 9 recently appearing on Steam doesn't count, such is how half-assed the localization has been).