What happened to the first 7 Games Hanako games made?

[Ammy]

I did some digging and realized Hanako Games had 7 titles from 2003-2005. The titles being Charm School, Sweet Dreams, Goblin Garden, Classroom Chaos, Shoujo Circus, Pentagrpah, and Summer Schoolgirls.

And I wanted to check into them to see how far this company has truely come, but their website no longer has the links up for these old games, they are not selling them on Iciti.o like the rest like Cute Knight and Fatal Hearts. (Cute Knight and Summer Schoolgirls were developed alongside each other and released very close to the date of each other too going by old logs on their website).

I can find no offical message for these games being removed from their site, or why they might have removed them at all. The Fourms on Hanako games don't really have a section for a question like this and their sub is locked down. So I was hoping someone here might know what happened? (Or maybe I'll get a response from Hanako Games! doubtful but you never know)

[Hanako Games]

The main answer is that they are so old that they a) probably don't run on any modern computers and b) tend to be ugly and not really in keeping with what people would expect.

Many of those are simple Game Maker experiments that have very basic gameplay and possibly no text. Some of those were never for sale at all, they were posted for free and later removed.

As they're not good advertising (being nothing like my current games AND not nice to look at) and I cannot provide any sort of tech support to make them run anymore, it was better to quietly shuffle them out of sight.

Anyone REALLY dedicated can snoop around and manage to find links to purchase the ones that ever were for sale, but that's entirely at your own risk. I can't promise that anything will run and I can't help you if it doesn't.

(The forums does have a section for old games though - http://hanakoforum.nfshost.com/community/viewforum.php?f=5 )

[Ammy]

Thank you so much for providing an answer for this! I figured it was either early liscensing problems for some (Charm School for instance when I went digging into looks like it was published by a second company, least thats what my searches pulled up that had a few places to buy it) and it looked like a very early version of what Magical Diary eventually became. Or it was just too outdated to really properly support anymore.

Glad to know it was the secondary thing of mostly just being too old. I will say I have been LOVING Cute Knight, you can really see the foundations of where the company would eventually go to with titles like Long live the Queen 7 years later.

Of all the old games I think the one I am gonna try to dig out is Summer Schoolgirls since it was developed alongside Cute Knight so I think it should still have a lot of that same foundation. Though Cute Knight for now I am likely gonna get all the endings!

[Krum]

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to ask.

If I were to obtain these old files, would you be against me putting them on archive.org to preserve them? Of course if you plan on selling them or re-making them, I would never want to make you lose a profit.

I ask because I have them all, except "Shoujo Circus" which I could not find.

Thanks!

[Hanako Games]

Originally posted by Krum:

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to ask.

If I were to obtain these old files, would you be against me putting them on archive.org to preserve them? Of course if you plan on selling them or re-making them, I would never want to make you lose a profit.

I ask because I have them all, except "Shoujo Circus" which I could not find.

Thanks!

Hmm. Can you email me about that? (The answer is a vague maybe but I need more information) [e-mail] should reach me.

[GC501]

Originally posted by Hanako Games:

Originally posted by Krum:

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to ask.

If I were to obtain these old files, would you be against me putting them on archive.org to preserve them? Of course if you plan on selling them or re-making them, I would never want to make you lose a profit.

I ask because I have them all, except "Shoujo Circus" which I could not find.

Thanks!

Hmm. Can you email me about that? (The answer is a vague maybe but I need more information) [e-mail] should reach me.

Hi,
My girlfriend used to play Goblin Garden when she was younger, way back in 2005. I really wanted to surprise her with a copy for our anniversary.
I will make sure it runs by myself but I was just wondering if you could maybe direct it to somewhere I could find it or if you have it?
I appreciate you even taking the time to read this.

[Hanako Games]

Originally posted by GC501:

Hi,
My girlfriend used to play Goblin Garden when she was younger, way back in 2005. I really wanted to surprise her with a copy for our anniversary.
I will make sure it runs by myself but I was just wondering if you could maybe direct it to somewhere I could find it or if you have it?
I appreciate you even taking the time to read this.

I just peeked at the old website via archive.org ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070807095156/https://www.hanakogames.com/goblins.shtml ) and the free download version of that particular game appears to still download, though I have NO idea if it runs. (Kind of surprised anyone played that actually!) If that's not what you were looking for, email me so I can give other suggestions off the board.

[Prisoner416]

Honestly, I think the old games should be preserved for the sake of digital history. It's still a shame that Fatal Hearts can't be revisited. One of the first digital games I bought on Manifesto Games, and the g/g romance was just... very well done. The others paths were as well, of course, but I'm biased.

[Hanako Games]

Fatal Hearts is available on Itch (as well as still technically for sale on Big Fish Games and possibly other places I've lost track of).

If it weren't for all the puzzles it would be tempting to make a remastered version for fun, but since each puzzle is unique and based on things I could do with the tool I was using at the time, trying to code a replacement in another engine would be a tall order.

[xdonthave1xx]

I had always wanted to play Shoujo Circus, but never had a website to link from.