Tokimeki Memorial

Tokimeki Memorial is a simulation game developed and published by Konami for the PC Engine in 1994. It was then ported to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn under the title Tokimeki Memorial: forever with you. It also recieved a Super Famicom port titled Tokimeki Memorial: Under the Tree of Legends.

Plot
The story concerns a high school freshmen who wants to win the heart of his childhood friend Shiori Fujisaki. He most experience all 3 years of high school in order to attempt this goal and romance Shiori, or one of the other girls attending the school.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This is the game that popularized the idea of the player building stats by doing mundane tasks in order to form connections with other characters. Similar games that used these concepts in the wake of this game's success is Persona 3, 4, and 5 and True Love '95.
 * 2) The artwork is very detailed and pretty looking for a 16-bit game, even in the otherwise technically inferior Super Famicom version. The endings in particular have beautiful looking vertically scrolling close-ups of the girl who you have romanced.
 * 3) There is 12 different girls for the player to potentially end up in a relationship with. Each having tons of unique scenes and personalities.
 * 4) There is lots of hidden content in the game, often having very specific requirements to see. Examples include:
 * 5) *A secret scene with Shiori that can be seen if the protagonist and her have the same birthday.
 * 6) *A sequence where the player fights delinquents in a RPG styled battle akin to Final Fantasy VI.
 * 7) *If the player is a member of the computer club, you can unlock minigames where you play Force Gear and Twinbee.
 * 8) Although the gameplay might look simplistic at glace, trying to gain the affection of a girl can be difficult due to multiple girls having overlapping required stats. If you simply hang out with one girl and ignore another, she will eventually get angry and spread rumors about you, which will decrease your reputation with all the girls you know. In order to avoid this, the player needs to carefully plan out his schedule and decide which girl to hang out with at a given time.

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Reception
The game was a massive hit in it's home country of Japan. The game was virtually unknown elsewhere due to the game never receiving any kind of translation.

In the 2020s, the game gained a minor following in the west when game journalist Tim Rogers made a 6 hour analysis of the game on his Youtube series Action Button.