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Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School

1987 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6960387 ↗
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Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School is a 1987 adventure game developed by Square and Nintendo R&D1, and published by Nintendo exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System. The game was released on December 1, 1987, and is one of the first dating sim video games. It was designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, who also created the Final Fantasy series, and Yoshio Sakamoto, who co-created Metroid. The music for the game was composed by Nobuo Uematsu and Toshiaki Imai. Pop idol Miho Nakayama contributed her name and likeness and voice-acted tie-in segments that could be accessed by calling toll-free phone numbers revealed during the progress of gameplay.

Gameplay

The game's protagonist enters Tokimeki High School and runs into a girl wearing glasses who looks identical to Miho Nakayama. Though the game is a standard text command-style adventure game similar to the later Famicom Detective Club series, in important scenes, the player is required to select a facial expression in addition to a verbal response. The four expressions (straight face, laughter, sadness, anger) must match the content of the response being given, and any incorrect responses immediately lead to the "game over" screen. This increased the game's difficulty considerably in comparison to other text adventure games where there were fewer incorrect choices. Some scenes specifically require that the dialogue not match with the expression.

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“Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School” enters the record as 1987 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nakayama, Miho and Tokimeki can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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