MightyPinecone: Skimming through this book reminds me of how many good games I have yet to play. Clearly a book for fans, by fans. Cheers!

Hikage1983: Actually plenty jrpgs were released for the good ol MSX and PC88 computers in japan. Ys being just an example and it is documented. Plenty more ofc.

Other omissions include Blaze and Blade. a rather obscure 1999 pc and ps1 jrpg.

I am drunk atm so memory is limited.

Good effort otherwise.

Peace \m/

StingingVelvet: It's daunting, isn't it? Especially if you can tolerate graphics all the way back to the beginning. I don't know if I could do that. I'd say I'm an Ultima 7 and up guy maybe, or something like that. Still a ton of old stuff yet to explore.

I've gotten better at focusing on the actual genres I like lately, which will hopefully help. I used to buy anything that was cheap enough and had nice screenshots. No more, I say!

MightyPinecone: Ok, well it was an idea; I haven't read any explanation for the sparse coverage of JRPGs, but I haven't properly read through the book either.

andysheets1975: I think it was just a case in which opening it up to JRPGs would mean the book would become immensely larger and take that much longer to come out, so they stuck mostly to traditional western CRPGs with a few odd exceptions. JRPGs is really a thing that deserves a huge book all on its own.

Breja: I've got no delusions about about ever playing most of the old games I missed. Especially as time consuming as most RPGs. That would mean missing out on most of the new stuff, and even then I'd likely never play all the old games, there's just so many. I mean, just now I'm about 25 hours into Original Sin, and I feel I barely scratched the surface and the sequel is already out. Before I ever get to that Larian is likely to finish a new game :D

dtgreene: Found the list from a Twitter post, and my one complaint is the complete lack of JRPG representation. JRPGs are CRPGs too! I note that many early JRPGs are integral to the history of CRPGs (in particular, the original Dragon Quest is interesting from a historical perspective, particularly how different it is from the rest of the series), and the best JRPGs are, without question, better than the worst WRPGs (and likely better than the worst WRPGs on the list).

Does the full book cover JRPGs (at least the most notable ones), or is the author one of those who doesn't think JRPGs are real RPGs? (Remember, the term WRPG exists if you want to specifically refer to that type of game.)

Also, does anyone have a link to a list of all the games covered in the book?

(Some other notable JRPGs; Final Fantasy (who originally copied its magic system from Wizardry), SaGa series (a series that does things differently, starting with influence from a non-D&D TRPG, and later evolving into something that straddles the line between JRPG and WRPG), and Undertale (if it counts, it is a rather unique game that has heavy JRPG influence, but does its own thing in many respects).

(I'm just annoyed at the many WRPG elitests out there, who think that WRPGs are the only true CRPGs; sure, WRPGs are great (at least the good ones; I am pretty sure that garbage WRPGs exist, but that can be said of any genre, including JRPGs), but they're not the only style out there.

(There's also issues with the RPGCodex forum not being a nice place, but that's another story, and hopefully not one that affects the content or quality of the book itself.)

CMOT70: If someone wants to do a book about JRPG console games, that would be a great idea and I'd download and read that one as well (it won't be me doing it though, I'm too lazy). But this one was never meant to be that book.

To people asking about a link to the list of games...the book is a small free download. How come you don't just download it and look in the contents? The contents table even has nice convenient hyper links that take you directly to the game page.