Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This…
Yeah, its true. They had a phenomenal understanding of color palettes and dithering techniques that other countries just didn’t take advantage of in their games. But also, not a lot of games from other countries were visual novel style games, so they couldn’t take as much advantage of a high resolution trading off the processing power they wanted to have. Wing Commander with PC98 graphics would have been cool, but by the time that could be possible it would have started to look dated.
Yeah, its true. They had a phenomenal understanding of color palettes and dithering techniques that other countries just didn’t take advantage of in their games. But also, not a lot of games from other countries were visual novel style games, so they couldn’t take as much advantage of a high resolution trading off the processing power they wanted to have. Wing Commander with PC98 graphics would have been cool, but by the time that could be possible it would have started to look dated.