“JS: You started with a PC-98, but in 1996 it was on the way out, being replaced by Windows computers in Japan. Why start on PC-98? ZUN: The simple fact is that I didn’t think games would run on Windows. I honestly didn’t really consider Windows computers when I made the first Touhou games. Windows didn’t have things like DirectX back then.152 I just didn’t see it as a platform for game development. Certainly the games that I knew, and the games that I was interested in, had all been done on different systems. Some people owned a computer, like a PC-98 or an X68000, exclusively for games. So the concept of using Windows for games was one that I never really considered.”