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Touhou Fuumaroku — Story of Eastern Wonderland#

• Title: Touhou Fuumaroku — the Story of Eastern Wonderland (東方封魔録 ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland)
• Release Year: 1997
• Release Date: August 15, 1997 (Comiket 52)
• Original Platform: NEC PC-98
• Developer: ZUN Soft
• Publisher: Amusement Makers
• Creator: ZUN (Jun’ya Ota) — Programming, Graphics, Music
• Genre: Vertical scrolling shoot-‘em-up, bullet hell (danmaku)
• Perspective: Top-down vertical scrolling
• Art Style: Anime / Pixel art (16-color)
• Gameplay System: The first danmaku (curtain fire) shooting game in the Touhou series; three selectable attack types (wide/mid/narrow range); features an Extra Stage — the first in the series; bosses have no visible health bars
• Setting: The Hakurei Shrine is overrun by ghosts and youkai — Reimu rides her flying turtle Genjii to seek the source of the invasion
• Themes: Youkai extermination, Shinto mythology, spirits, demons
• Playable Characters: Reimu Hakurei (3 shot types)
• Notable Characters: First appearance of Marisa Kirisame (as Stage 4 boss) and Mima (as final boss)
• Legacy: The first proper danmaku shooter in the Touhou series, establishing the vertical bullet hell format the franchise became famous for; ZUN cited Darius Gaiden and DoDonPachi as influences; sold alongside Touhou 1 at Comiket 52 with ~50 copies sold initially; introduced the Extra Stage concept
• Composer: ZUN
• Sound Chips (PC-98): Yamaha YM2203 (OPN) and YM2608 (OPNA) — dual soundtrack versions; also supports MIDI output (Roland SC-88)
• Music Driver: PMD (Professional Music Driver by M. Kajihara)