Dead of the Brain (PC-98 Paradise) Classic horror adventure on the TurboGrafX, MSX, X68000, FM Towns 

GREAT SCOTT! (That's heavy, Doc!)

At least the zombie apocalypse was already happening because the villains stole Doc's research to cause it a month ago, so it wasn't entirely their fault.

Main villain(s) are blonde researchers disguised as cops, original concept for Resident Evil involved the characters being cyborgs, ‘battle system’ involves sweeping a cursor over zombies with a time limit in place (which is how you fight in RE Gaiden,) and Cathy seems to be a mix of Rebecca Chambers and Claire Redfield. I wonder if the RE team played through or heard of this when they were figuring out how to design their game?

They didn’t it already happed a month before did you not pay attention

​@@krazykuz13cmc Yeah, the reason that they didn't know about it is because Goul threatened the news media to prevent them from spreading word about the zombie apocalypse .

Or at night, for that matter.

Now I'm interested in Italian horror!! Thanks for sharing :)

[EDIT] OK. I did not know that the currently available English patch for the PC-98 Dead of the Brain was unpopular, and I personally have not played through all of it, so let me be diplomatic and start again here: I am anxiously looking forward to any upcoming announcements on any new language patches for Dead of the Brain on any platforms. The more fan translations there are, the better, and I am sure that the upcoming translations will be an improvement. I kind of wish now that I had waited to make a video about this game so that I could plug the new translations in the video. Thanks to you and David for your work.

@@BasementBrothers Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

@jackdbs Although I'm sure your translations will be better, I really feel the need to say a couple things: The person who made the old DoTB1 translation may have been an unpopular character and I don't know the history behind him at all, but I want to be fair and make sure not to unnecessarily malign him either. I did notice some liberties he took in his translation, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad IMO. That is exactly what pros do, in fact, when localizing games. The original Japanese story in this game is kind of weird and I can see places where it could be made more coherent with some changes. I know fans generally don't like it when things are changed but, sometimes, it is for the best, in my (probably unpopular) opinion. Also, the statement that it is "machine translated" is a bit unfair and misleading because even if it was originally machine translated, it has clearly been cleaned up into a funny and easily readable script. (Naming the cat "Schrodinger" instead of "Kitty"? Awesome!) It is not raw machine translated text, and clearly more work was put into it than what one would expect from a cheap "machine translated" patch. From taking a look around at what people have said about the translator, I get the feeling that perhaps one, or maybe two people said that this guy's translations are inaccurate, machine-translated, and bad and it then became the gospel truth on the Internet. Seems maybe a bit unfair from my outsider's perspective, but I apologize if I am way off base here. Even if all of that is 100% accurate about his translations, he still deserves credit for hacking the code and bothering to release the patch at all. I have seen far FAR worse fan translations on these old Japan PC's that are hardly even readable. The currently available DoTB1 translation may be even among the better patches I have seen on the PC-98, IMO. All that being said, once again I have only played all the way through the Japanese version of the game and have not read the entirety of the English patch. Again, though, I am very glad you guys are making new patches cause I'm sure they will be even better, and more choice is always a good thing. It will also, of course, be amazing to have the game available in English finally on the PCE, and even the X68000 and FM Towns!

@@BasementBrothers @jackdbs I find it's interesting to compare two different translations of the same source material - a couple of Haruki Murakami's works have had separate (and very seemingly different) translations published by two different professional translators. I had also heard that the original PC-98 translation was "machine translated", and agree with you - that even if it was, it was edited sufficiently to become internally-consistent and have a proper flow, even if I wasn't a fan of some of the stylistic choices made. As you say, there are "translations" which take even more liberties (I'm looking at you, Working Designs !). I'm not saying that my stylistic choices will be well-liked... I tried to stick to the original script (which had its own issues and inconsistencies). My co-translator (who is native Japanese) had a few choice words to say about the quality of it... I hope people will enjoy my translation though. I think I will put up a quick Twitter rant about machine translation though, because I think peoples' opinions are way too polarized on it, and need to understand it a bit better. Brief summary: Humans can be bad translators too. And editors are needed just as much as - and are every bit as important as - the translators.

Yeah. I probably won't ever mention it again. Folks can look it up!

It one of my favorite in PC98 era,because of the gritty violence horror and some nuditty back then(young me just clicked everything because i couldn't understand it langauge back then) Really wishes they kept this kind of anime style to these day in this kind of game

Yeah he probably wasn't okay. Daijobu desu-ka? No mate

I guess in some zombie stories they might be able to answer lol

I thought I did!

It was super subtle, but he kinda did! The whole storm and electricity sounds haha

Subtle best 👌

I need to see a anime version of jeffrey combs from that movie

The cat also feels like there's some Pet Semetary in there, especially considering the explicit Stephen King call-out.

PC-98 nostalgia seems to have reached a peak now in Japan. A few months ago NEC also did a marketing campaign for one of their new laptops which featured a short manga about the PC-98.

Yeah, very true. I had to wonder if the writers were just "taking the piss" when they got to that sushi line. Hard for me to tell what was the true intention though.That part played weirdly serious to me.

I had a feeling there would have been a twist like that when there was an option to shoot doc. Is it revealed in the game like a gut-punch?

Yep. That one isn't considered part of the "Nightmare Collection" though.

@@BasementBrothers I see. Thanks for replying. I don't own a PC-98 but that Dracula game I actually do own. I saw it somewhere for cheap and thought it looked cool to have as I have a bit of a Dracula/Vampire collection as a hobby. So when I saw the artwork in this game the artwork on the back of the Dracula box came immediately to mind for me, so I had to ask. That's cool it's the same company.

North would be wrong though, since it's ノーズ in Japanese, not ノース. I can see why someone would just look at the Japanese name though and say, "Fuck it, North is a good enough English version of that weird name."