Dengeki Nurse

It’s Dengeki Nurse , released in 1992 by Cocktail Soft : a wild PC-98 adventure game starring a ragtag group of medical professionals, including the titular Dengeki Nurse, as they fend off the international crime syndicate Black Cross . Hijinks ensue as the game parodies just about anything adjacent to ’90s otaku culture: tokusatsu heroes, sci-fi villains, hospital drama, magical-girl energy, action anime, and bishōjo game tropes. Dengeki Nurse is a time capsule of early-1990s Japanese computer gaming. Mixing point and click adventure scenes, vivid pixel-art characters, FM-synth sound, and bizarre turn-based “Dengeki Combat” encounters into something loud, scrappy, and unmistakably of its era.