Tenshitachi no Gogo was a popular early dating simulation released by JAST, for the 16-bit NEC PC-9801 computer in June 1985.

Tenshitachi no gogo foreshadows modern dating sims. It is an adventure game

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 set in a Japanese high school. The goal is to seduce the star girl of the tennis club, Yumiko Shiraishi. To do this, the player needs to go around talking with her friends and possibly getting intimate with them as well. Its artwork is recognizably modern anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

-style, though only in 8 colors. Like most bishōjo game

Bishojo game

A , or , is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive anime-style girls". These games are a sub-genre of dating sims targeted towards a male audience....

s in the 1980s, it had pornographic content

Eroge

An or Ero-ga is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. Eroge originated from galge, but unlike galge, they feature erotic/pornographic content.-History:...

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