Machi (video game)

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Machi

Developer(s)	ChunSoft
Publisher(s)	ChunSoft
Platform(s)	Sega Saturn Sony PlayStation PlayStation Portable
Release date	PS1: January 22, 1998 PSP: July 30, 2006
Genre(s)	Visual novel
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	2 × CD-ROM (Sega Saturn) 1 × UMD (PSP)

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.

1 Story
- 1.1 Characters
2 Releases
3 Reception
4 Legacy
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Story

[edit] 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

[edit] Releases

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

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] 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.