Ludography
EMIT Vol. 1 cover

1994 · Koei · Adventure · Visual novel

EMIT Vol. 1

The first part in a series of adventure games developed under Koei's "English Dream" label, a collection of games used to help teach the English language.

Released
25 March 1994
Platforms
3DO Interactive MultiplayerFM TownsPC-9800 SeriesSNESSega SaturnWindowsmacOS
Genres
AdventureVisual novel
Developers
Koei
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Science fictionEducational
Country
Japan
Languages
English, Japanese

About

Emit (エミット, Emitto) is an adventure sound novel video game developed and published by Koei. It was designed to teach Japanese students more about English, and played the audio CD back at particular times using a peripheral called Voicer-kun, an IR emitter that could command the CD to change tracks and play them. It is the first visual novel in the "English Dream" series, the only other being an unconnected novel named Dark Hunter.

The game was originally released in 1994 and divided into 3 volumes: Lost in Time (時の迷子, Toki no maigo), Desperate Journey (命がけの旅, Inochigake no tabi) and Farewell to Me (私にさよならを, Watashi ni sayonara o). The scenario writing for all 3 volumes was done by Akagawa Jirou. The plot is about another world connected to ours where people age in reverse.

›Story

On October 5, 1994, a seventeen year old high school student named Yuri meets a polite yet mysterious elderly gentleman at the crosswalk. Although puzzled by his questions, she answers them honestly to the best of her ability. As Yuri walks across the street, she hears the man mutter the word "Emit" to her. Yuri thinks nothing of the conversation until an oddly familiar yet attractive young man approaches her a month later on the street.

Keywords

  • interactive movie
  • time travel
  • female protagonist
  • trilogy
  • alternate dimensions
  • voiced narration

Media

EMIT Vol. 1 screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored both Volume 2 and Volume 3 of the Sega Saturn version of the game a 23 out of 40 each.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
macOS25 March 1994Japan
FM Towns25 March 1994Japan
Windows25 March 1994Japan
PC-9800 Series30 September 1994Japan
SNES25 March 1995Japan
Sega Saturn25 March 1995Japan
3DO Interactive Multiplayer14 April 1995Japan

Editions and related releases

Included in
EMIT: Value Pack

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