u/takema69

Hi it only been few hours since I uploaded my photos (https://www.reddit.com/r/Tokyo/s/jHoVmIUarP) here but when I was looking at Google maps for more clues to see wat this thing really is, I literally found a hidden street view that nobody seen before? How come nobody noticed?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YRqK8CVZZagSphBBA

Anyway, this may be a stupid post for most of u guys but it's a big news to us akiba fans I guess.

The last photo is wat I took next to the toilet

Apparently some people claim there's an office next to this thing as u can see it's connected from toilet to those windows.

By the shape of the toilet, yes before the toilet existed, people could enter with the stairs.

Sorry for bad English I'm Japanese

It's really fun when this place is in some anime scenes

EDIT: GUYS I FOUND A STREETVIEW OF IT! WTF

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YRqK8CVZZagSphBBA

Bought my 3rd 98 off mercari auction again, very happy that it came with a keyboard, mouse, printer and a massive 17inch nec 98 monitor that works perfect!

Seller said he removed the hdd cuz he doesn't want me to see his personal information, bruh he must have been playing hentai on this lol that's why he shy

I put in a msdos6.2 bootdisk for testing but the screen doesn't change and doesn't boot. Is it because of no hdd? pc98 doesn't need hdd to boot right?

I heard many people didn't have hdd like in the 80s and so they just put the game disk in and boot the game. Am I right about this?

Sorry it been only like 2 months since I got into computer stuffs so still ain't got much knowledge.

Bought it on mercari auction happy it came with a perfect condition clean keyboard not sunburnt not yellow at all.

It boots on basic86 2.0 but doesn't get to the prompt so gotta work on that.

Damn this looks sick and retro asf. Especially the monochrome screen

Also my 9821v20 has arrived so gonna post it now

The 86 soundboard I bought for 37000yen just arrived and boom my setup is finally completed

I always wanted to play touhou on real pc98 it was my dream

Touhou is turning 30 this November

With the game on screen becoming 30y old

And god dam the sound quality of this fm sound it's goood

I'm Japanese so maybe my English gonna be bad but uh so I bought this perfect condition almost new clean pc9821v16 off mercari and it said it got fm soundboard installed in it so I was excited to play touhou on this thing which was actually my dream goal all the time so and uh btw I didn't have knowledge in pc stuffs actually so it took me some time learning all these stuffs from zero like floppies, cd-r, hdd, cpu, file formats like fat and nfts and many commands and stuffs at 17y man it was such an adventure of frustration and fun at the same time oh I just became 18 now I don't have to lie about my age..Anyways! I've been trying to play touhou and it does successfully install load and launch but no matter how hard I try everything the sound is just blank and silent.

The seller did say pc98 msdos games works perfect on this. He was seems to be launching from win98se. I installed a English ibm atpc version of a usb storage expansion driver without knowing anything about old pcs so my pc didn't boot anymore (cuz pc98 is only compatible with japanese pc98 stuffs) so I did so many research and manage to install win2k from my own cd that I burnt (I tried installing win3.1 and win95 with cd but didn't work) and it was fun but realized that this is using winnt and not msdos. So I bought a msdos6.2 installation disk (I tried making a bootdisk but couldn't) from my broke ass McDonald's minimum wage while begging for cash on streets, now installed and built a fresh new dos machine but still no sound. I tried everything like slowing the cpu down thinking maybe 166mhz is too fast for touhou which was not the point cuz I realized at the command prompt it said sound not installed. I was like wtf bruh I risked my life buying this pc98 with fm sound installed, I thought I formatted my thing and fixed everything! So I decided to open the case and see wats goin on (I don't know wat I'm lookin at but ain't there supposed to be a Yamaha ym2608 sound thing?) I don't see the supposed fm sound thing anywhere.

So it seems to be that this seller's fm soundboard is only for windows and a pc98 fm 86 soundboard is not the same at all apparently

I know u guys would may be laughing reading this like lookin at a rookie kid but yeah I am that so um

Was the seller playin with me or Im the stoobid here

Either way I need a 86 soundboard but they're all stupidly pricy holy cow man

Maaan like I was so excited installing touhou on this thing but the sad truth came and damn maan God really doesn't want us to achieve our dreams that easily.

Sorry for bad English I'm Japanese touhou fan

So I was searching touhou lost media scrolling through old chat websites then found these very very old fanarts

The first art with 2 of em aura farming https://web.archive.org/web/20030410212017/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/top.html said Aug24, 2002 only 4month after eosd release

Did I accidentally found the most oldest fanart of touhou or is there a older one? Plz let me know

Here's the sauce of all the other old images I found (past to future sort(same order as above))

https://web.archive.org/web/20021005080926/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

https://web.archive.org/web/20021129153633/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

https://web.archive.org/web/20030205063901/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

https://web.archive.org/web/20030404063318/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

Yes these are all from the same artist apparently he is the one who made the oldest known doujinshi of touhou actually. Really interesting seeing time capsules like these.

It was super cool to see a shrine right next to the school

Like imagine saying to ur friend, ay meet up when class is over aight? And u pull up with ur bike at the shrine, play a little, chitchat a bit then maybe smoke a bit

Would have been such great memories for these kids which this closed about 40y ago in the 80s if I remember correctly

Man I love the circuler shaped windows it got that retro future era vibe from 40s to 60s

Sorry for bad English I'm jap

They not really abandoned cuz they kinda clean but they seem to not appear on maps so it's technically left behind from humans

Was creepy