Category: Anime
Subcategory: Magazines
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Publisher: Hirameki International
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Description: AnimePlay is a trademark used to refer to the visual novel games distributed by Hirameki International and a (discontinued) magazine profiling these games. AnimePlay DVDs are the only English-language visual novels that are playable on standard DVD players; they can also be played on PCs with DVD-ROM drives or video game consoles that can play DVDs like the PlayStation 2 or Xbox. The restrictions of the DVD format mean that these games are missing many features present in most visual novels such as separate volume controls for music and voices; controlling the speed at which text is played; and ability to save the game at any point. AnimePlay was also a quarterly magazine published by Hirameki International. It featured a thin print edition, with the majority of its material on an interactive DVD. The magazine mostly reviewed the AnimePlay DVD releases, but anime and manga as well. The magazine published its first issue in July 2003. It was announced shortly after the opening of the Hirameki Community Site that Hirameki will no longer publish AnimePlay Magazine, choosing instead to focus on releasing PC titles.

Entered by: missy   On: May 16, 2008
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