Posts tagged afterschool-boy 
Happy trailers to you! Japanese game trailer roundup!
Yee-haw, we're rounding up some wild game trailers today! Courtesy of an even bigger trailer rodeo over on Dengeki, we've got new videos of some of the most interesting, most anticipated, and most not-in-either-of-those-categories games coming out of Japan. You'll recognize Fist of the North Star a...
More After-school Boy screens to warm your heart
A few more screens of Konami's '50's-themed wandering-around-town adventure, Houkago Shonen, reveal -- well, some more wandering around town. We don't normally go for 'poignant' stuff, but this game looks so sweet that we can't resist being charmed. One commenter last time likened the game to Shenm...
After-School Boy trailer reminds us of our gaming youth
One thing we love about video games is how the same technique can be adapted to completely different uses. Konami's Houkago Shonen (After-school Boy), for example, is presented using prerendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles, and 3D-modeled characters overlaid on top of those backgrounds. Th...
A special after-school game
Konami's Houkago Shounen (After-school Boy) is targeted directly at gamers' sense of nostalgia. The adventure game, set in 1975, casts the player as a young elementary student one month before he moves away, doing the best he can to have as much fun and spend as much time as possible with friends be...
