Machi (video game)

Infobox VG| title = Machi


developer = ChunSoft
publisher = ChunSoft
designer =
engine =
released = PS1: PSP: July 30, 2006
genre = Visual novel
modes = Single player
ratings =
platforms = Sega Saturn
Sony PlayStation
PlayStation Portable
media = 2 × CD-ROM (Sega Saturn)
1 × UMD (PSP)
requirements =
input =

"Machi" (街) (Translated from Japanese as "city or "town" or "street") is an adventure game developed and published by Chunsoft and released exclusively in Japan for the Sega Saturn in 1998. Focusing mostly on storytelling, the game is described by its creators as a "sound novel" that focuses on eight protagonists and their adventures and conflicts in the major metropolitan area of Shibuya. Depending on what decisions the player makes during the course of the game, several different endings, both good and bad, can be reached.

Story

Characters

*Keima Amemiya: a policeman
*Jintaro Umabe: an actor
*Masami Ushio: a gang member
*Yoshiko Hosoi: the female protagonist
*Masashi Shinoda: a student
*Ryuji Takamine: a deserter
*Fumiyasu Ichikawa: an author
*Yohei Tobisawa: a high-school boy
*Atsushi Takamine: a Businessman
*Norio Aoi: a high-school boy
*Isamu Sagiyama: an Assistant Director
*Patrick: a dandy

Releases

This game was remade for the PSP as "Machi: Unmei no Kousaten" "(Town: Intersection of Fate)" and was released July 30, 2006.

Reception

In a March 2006 article of "Famitsu" magazine, one of the largest videogame publications in Japan, "Machi" ranked 5th in a top 100 reader poll of their favorite games of all time. [cite web | author=Collin Campbell | year=2006 | title=Japan Votes On All Time Top 100 | url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2401&Itemid=2 | work= | accessdate=April 18 | accessyear=2008]

Legacy

The Japanese Drama "Invisible Girl Ea" was originally slated to be a storyline for this game or a sequel, but delays in production caused them to turn it into a television miniseries instead.

References

External links

* [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/saturn/data/574226.html Machi at GameFAQs]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/game/saturn/machi Machi at MobyGames]