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Touhou Gensoukyou — Lotus Land Story#

• Title: Touhou Gensoukyou — Lotus Land Story (東方幻想郷 ～ Lotus Land Story)
• Release Year: 1998
• Release Date: August 14, 1998 (Comiket 54)
• 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: Two playable characters with two shot types each; first game to feature the graze counter, focus movement (slow mode via Shift key), bombs that auto-collect items, and a dream-item scoring system; 6 stages with branching difficulty (Easy ends at Stage 5)
• Setting: A tremendous power surge from beneath a mountain lake causes youkai to swarm the Hakurei Shrine — Reimu and Marisa travel through a gateway to the Fantasy World and the mansion Mugenkan
• Themes: Fantasy, dreams, power, youkai, hidden worlds
• Playable Characters: Reimu Hakurei (2 shot types), Marisa Kirisame (2 shot types)
• Notable Characters: First appearance of Yuuka Kazami (final boss)
• Legacy: Introduced many series staples — graze, focus movement, 6-stage structure, and a complex scoring system; first game to use the word “Gensokyo” (幻想郷) in its title; features the legendary track “Bad Apple!!”; sold 200–300 copies; returned to the stage-based bullet hell format after the versus-style Touhou 3
• Composer: ZUN
• Sound Chips (PC-98): Yamaha YM2203 (OPN) and YM2608 (OPNA) — dual soundtrack versions
• Music Driver: PMD (Professional Music Driver by M. Kajihara)