One thing I have always loved to do in my spare time was to play video games, and I have always wanted to incorporate that into my Chinese studies. Unfortunately, the vast majority of games (especially the ones I like) are generally only in Japanese. But! After a ton of searching I finally found two games that I like translated (kind of) into Chinese!
First is Harvest Moon (GBA):
Though, they still retain some of the Japanese from the original 
Second is Final Fantasy VI (aka Final Fantasy III):
But, again, they still retail a lot of the Japanese.. in menus and in battles, but the dialogue is in Chinese..
If only I could find my old favorites like Chrono Trigger, EarthBound, or heck, even a Mario game! I’ll have to keep trying the stores, but generally they just sell the Japanese or American imported versions.
En Route To Fluency 
8 responses to “Chinese Video Games”
I saw Chrono Trigger for PC (in an emulator) in Chinese. I think the website that linked to it was called ‘extreme mandarin’. With a bit of googling you should be able to find it.
That’s a great tip, thanks! I did manage to find it. He also had some other interesting games linked there, a great resource, thank you!
Duuude! Where did you find FFVI in Mandarin? I would love to play that (along w/ many other square games…) in Chinese. Time for some googling…
Shoot me your email (zhongruige at gmail dot com) and I’ll send a zip file over of some of the games I got. Unfortunately they are so ridiculously hard to find. I almost thought I found Chrono Trigger once but was sorely disappointed!
I remember about Chrono Trigger.. what was wrong with it? Back in the day I got it (as indicated in my comment) from here: http://extrememandarin.blogspot.com/2009/03/playing-games-in-chinese-good-way-to.html
Back then my Chinese wasn’t good enough to enjoy playing it, but it certainly looked like Chrono Trigger and Chinese 🙂
Could I get that zip file as well? 😀
Sure! Same as above–shoot me an email and I’ll send it along too!
I wish I had gotten the Chrono Trigger one! It was that article that prompted me to try and find it, but to no avail!
ooh, I see what’s going on, the website is down.
Well, today is your lucky day, I still had a copy: http://ge.tt/2F5TGWl
🙂
Wow! Thanks!!!
I’m not going to get much done this weekend…