Princess Peach Toadstool is a fictional character in Nintendo's Mario franchise, created by Shigeru Miyamoto and introduced in the 1985 original Super Mario Bros. installment. She is the princess and ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, where she resides in her castle along with Toads.
Dating sims, or romance simulation games, are video game subgenre of simulation games with romantic elements.
Tokimeki Memorial is a dating simulation series by Konami. It consists of six main games in addition to many spin-offs. The games are notable in the dating sim genre for being highly nonlinear. Their nickname amongst their fans is the contraction TokiMemo.
A bishōjo game or gal game, is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls". These games are a subgenre of dating sims targeted towards a heterosexual male audience.
Comic Party, sometimes abbreviated to ComiPa, is a dating sim video game by the Japanese game studio Leaf. It was first released on May 28, 1999 for Windows with adult content, but re-released with it removed for the Dreamcast, Windows, and PSP. The main focus of the game is the creation of various dōjinshi by the player's character, during which there are varied opportunities to interact with a cast of girls.
JAST USA is a publisher of English-language versions of Japanese video games, specifically bishōjo games, dating sims, visual novels and Japanese RPGs. It was founded in 1996, and their first game releases were Sakura Soft's Season of the Sakura and JAST's Three Sisters' Story. It has had several brands: Peach Princess, G-Collections, and JAST Densetsu.
The Nintendo Comics System was a series of comic books published by Valiant Comics in 1990 and 1991. It was part of a licensing deal with Nintendo, featuring characters from their video games and the cartoons based on them.
Super Princess Peach is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was released in Japan in October 2005, and worldwide the following year until New Super Mario Bros. was released. Super Princess Peach is the second game to feature Princess Peach as the only main playable character after the game Princess Toadstool's Castle Run released in 1990 on the Nelsonic Game Watch.
Tokimeki Memorial 2 is a dating sim developed and published by Konami and the second game in the Tokimeki Memorial series.
Miho Yamada is a Japanese voice actress and narrator who was formerly part of Arts Vision. She is currently affiliated with Crazy Box.
Mitsumete Knight is a dating sim and role-playing game developed by Konami and Red Company and published by Konami. It was released in 1998 for the PlayStation. The characters of the game were designed by Hideyuki Takenami who had previously taken part in designs for Sakura Wars, and specifically, enemy designs for Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die. The game itself was modified from Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You, with improvements including an expanded area to display backgrounds and larger characters. However, the gameplay between the two series varies in many areas.
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side is a dating sim video game targeted towards women and girls released by Konami for the PlayStation 2 game console on June 20, 2002. It was also re-released with enhancements for the Nintendo DS as Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love on February 15, 2007. It has two sequels: Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss and Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story. The original game also received a version for mobile phones in 2010. Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side is part of the Tokimeki Memorial series, which originated in 1994 as a male-oriented dating sim.
Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School is a 1987 dating sim developed by Square and Nintendo R&D1, and published by Nintendo exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System. The game was released on December 1, 1987. It was one of the first dating sim games. It was designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, who also created the Final Fantasy series, and Yoshio Sakamoto, who co-created Metroid. The music for the game was composed by Nobuo Uematsu and Toshiaki Imai.
Tokimeki Memorial is a dating sim video game developed and published by Konami. The first game in the Tokimeki Memorial series, it was first released for the PC Engine's Super CD-ROM² System on May 27, 1994. It was directed by Yoshiaki Nagata, with Koji Igarashi working on scenario writing. It later received numerous ports to the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Super Famicom, Game Boy Color, PlayStation Portable, and mobile platforms.
Tokimeki Memorial 3: Yakusoku no Ano Basho de is a dating sim developed and published by Konami and the third game in the Tokimeki Memorial series.
A dialogue tree, or conversation tree, is a gameplay mechanic that is used throughout many adventure games and role-playing video games. When interacting with a non-player character, the player is given a choice of what to say and makes subsequent choices until the conversation ends. Certain video game genres, such as visual novels and dating sims, revolve almost entirely around these character interactions and branching dialogues.
Social simulation games are a subgenre of life simulation game that explore social interactions between multiple artificial lives. The most famous examples from this genre are The Sims and the Animal Crossing series.
Princess Daisy is a fictional character in the Mario series of video games, who first appeared in 1989's Super Mario Land. Daisy is known as the cousin of Princess Peach as stated in the Prima guides for Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart Wii. She is also the princess and ruler of the four Sarasaland kingdoms, who is kidnapped by the alien Tatanga. Since her appearance in Mario Tennis, she has become a staple playable character in the Mario spin-off games, in which she is often paired up with Princess Peach. She is known to have competitive spirit and is often depicted as a tomboy. It is often speculated that she is Luigi's love interest. This supposed love interest would become the plot of the 1993 live-action film, in which strangely enough, Luigi is the lead character saving Daisy from President/King Koopa, instead of his older brother, Mario, who serves as more of a sidekick in-film and is typically the lead in-game character. Her official description for Mario Party 4 states that she and Luigi have a rumored love interest, more so from Luigi; but Waluigi likes her too, which she does not appreciate. Daisy appears as a protagonist in the 1993 film Super Mario Bros., portrayed by Samantha Mathis. She was created by Shigeru Miyamoto's mentor Gunpei Yokoi.
Tokimeki is the romanization of the Japanese term ときめき which can mean excitement or heartbeat. It can refer to:
Akari Uchida is a video game producer. He was the former head of Love Plus Production, a video game develop team under Konami, best known as the producer of LovePlus series, a dating sim video game series that player can dating with 3 different high school girls. He joined Konami in 1993 and left in March 2015 and will join another Japan video game company, Yuke's officially in October 2015; additionally he will lead a new game development team—Uchida Lab, named by his name. He has received the nickname "father in law"(お義父さん) by LovePlus fans.
