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Windows
Microsoft Windows (Windows for short) is a series of Operating systems produced by Microsoft. It is used globally on personal computers and it seems to be the most populist operating system in the world.
There has been many versions of Windows, such as Windows 98 (not to be confused with the PC-98), Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows 7 is their latest edition with Windows 8 in development and will be released in two years.
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was the first Touhou game developed for this platform, which was able to play on the 98, SE, ME, 2000 and the XP. Shuusou Gyoku was technically the first game for this platform, but it wasn't directly created by ZUN. All the games from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Touhou 6) all the way to Ten Desires (Touhou 13) was made entirely for this platform. They are distinguished from "the PC-98 games" (from Touhou 1 to 5) for Team Shanghai Alice having been branched off from Amusement Makers.
Games for this platform
Touhou Project
- 東方紅魔郷 ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Team Shanghai Alice 2002)
- 東方妖々夢 ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (Team Shanghai Alice 2003)
- 東方萃夢想 ~ Immaterial and Missing Power (Team Shanghai Alice/Twilight Frontier 2004)
- 東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night (Team Shanghai Alice 2004)
- 東方花映塚 ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (Team Shanghai Alice 2005)
- 東方文花帖 ~ Shoot the Bullet (Team Shanghai Alice 2005)
- 東方風神録 ~ Mountain of Faith (Team Shanghai Alice 2007)
- 東方緋想天 ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (Team Shanghai Alice/Twilight Frontier 2007)
- 東方地霊殿 ~ Subterranean Animism (Team Shanghai Alice 2008)
- 東方星蓮船 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object (Team Shanghai Alice 2009)
- 東方非想天則 ~ 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え (Team Shanghai Alice/Twilight Frontier 2009)
- ダブルスポイラー ~ 東方文花帖 (Team Shanghai Alice 2010)
- 妖精大戦争 ~ 東方三月精 (Team Shanghai Alice 2010)
- 東方神霊廟 ~ Ten Desires (Team Shanghai Alice 2011)
Other Games
- 秋霜玉 (Amusement Makers 1998-2000)
- トルテ ル マジック (Pietoro/Amusement Makers 2001)
- 稀翁玉 (Amusement Makers 2001)
- 五月雨 (Project Blank(P.N.B)/RebRank/Amusement Maker 2002-2005)
- 黄昏酒場~Uwabami Breakers~ (The Drinking Party 2007)
- 幡紫竜 (Shunsatsu sare do?/Amusement Makers 2008)
- There are many fangames that are made for this platform.
Additional Information
Name and Concept
- "Microsoft Windows" in Japanese is マイクロソフト ウィンドウズ (ro. Maikurosofuto u~indouzu). For "Windows" it is ウィンドウズ (U~indouzu). It is in katakana since it came from America.
- This was a fresh start for ZUN as he never had to use 16-bit color graphics anymore, as he didn't like it, and that he was able to use better graphics and music.
Characters
- Windows characters are seen seperated from the PC-98 characters (Excluding the ones that returned). All of ZUN's print works of the Touhou world include all the characters re/appearing in the Windows series at least once showing that the Windows games have a direct connection to the literature. (The recent characters from Ten Desires have yet to appear but this is presumably only due to the game being recently released as a demo.)
- Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Yuuka are among the few to return to the Windows series.
- The rest of the PC-98 characters do not appear in ZUN's works from EOSD and beyond. It's as if they never existed in the series.
Trivia
- The first game to not have been release for Windows 98 was Immaterial and Missing Power
- The first game able to play on Windows Vista was Undefined Fantastic Object.
- The first game able to play on Windows 7 was Double Spoiler.
- All the games from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil to Phantasmagoria of Flower View are able to play on Windows vista/7, but usually the title screen won't show properly and not show the image of Reimu. To fix this, you need Windows Aero installed and your video card will work the games properly again.
- EoSD is the only game that will stop working when opened and will close again. This sometimes only happens without Aero.
- If using vista or windows 7, all the games from Double Spoiler to Ten Desires will switch off aero and will put it to the theme "Windows 7 basic" or "Windows vista basic". To change back to Aero, close the game. For why it does this is unknown.
- All the games (including Kioh Gyoku, excluding Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Touhou Hisoutensoku and Banshiryuu) uses .wav files for music, which can take a lot of space on the hard drive. Twilight Frontier seems to use .ogg for most of the games they've created, including Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Touhou Hisoutensoku and MegaMari as .ogg doe's save a lot of disk space and still plays high quality music, it can even loop properly. On why ZUN hasn't use .ogg and used .wav instead is unknown.
Fandom
- Among the fan community, the term "the Windows games" refers specifically to the games shown above.