played touhou as a kid?

[SateriCat17]

nice to meet you! hope you have tons of fun revisiting touhou! i personally got into touhou last year, really late 2024 ish i'd say. though i rather dont share my age, it definitely doesnt change the fact that some people are younger then me on this forum, crazily enough i was 14. i started with eosd like everyone! this page definitely saved me from multiple viruses.. nowadays i am trying to beat touhou 06-10 on normal.. even i suck badly though. The one time i beat Touhou was TH09! Which is my second favorite behind TH19, (Split Screened Touhou games are so good..) Well.. if we dont count the .5 entries.. one of them being 14.5 or 15.5? i cant remember.. Meh, who cares? Once again, welcome back!

Why does it seem like everyone (including me) got into Touhou or came back to it in late 2024? Was there some Gensokyo spiritual awakening going on at that time? lol

 

[hisamiyomotsuluvr]

Why does it seem like everyone (including me) got into Touhou or came back to it in late 2024? Was there some Gensokyo spiritual awakening going on at that time? lol

Maybe, cant really tell. I feel like it just had a resurgence during that time.

 

[SateriCat17]

Maybe, cant really tell. I feel like it just had a resurgence during that time.

Well regardless, I know I just got into Touhou entirely on my own. Though it was primarily the music at first (both arrangements and ZUN's music itself). It then spread to me liking some of the character designs and characters themselves and then evolved into me starting to get interested in the lore some as well. Though it took me a while to really get into Touhou's world. It somewhat started after I started playing a couple of the games.

 

[thewindcarriesmeaway]

Well regardless, I know I just got into Touhou entirely on my own. Though it was primarily the music at first (both arrangements and ZUN's music itself). It then spread to me liking some of the character designs and characters themselves and then evolved into me starting to get interested in the lore some as well. Though it took me a while to really get into Touhou's world. It somewhat started after I started playing a couple of the games.

your profile picture is wonderful. thats my background on my lock screen

 

[SateriCat17]

your profile picture is wonderful. thats my background on my lock screen

Why thank you! When I first joined Moriya Shrine, I wanted something with Yukari, Ran and Chen together (as they're all among my favorite Touhou characters) as my pfp, and I came across that artwork and knew it to be perfect. Though I don't know who made it unfortunately.
All of my other main accounts (YouTube, Discord and Planetminecraft, alongside my Google account itself) have pictures of white tigers, so this account is unique with it's pfp.

 

[SoxBox]

hi there forum! this is my first post so its also kind of an introduction thought it could be fun to post on the fourms cuz i'm getting back into things i miss from the early internet!

im sydney! i got really into touhou when i was a kid somewhere between the release of hisoutensoku and TD i cant remember lol i was 9 or 10. was def not on places i should have been on the internet at that age but in retrospect it is so badass i was that age and emulating a PC98 to play the original touhou games.. i wasnt very good at the games mind you but i remember beating mokou and losing my shit. here i am 26 years old revisiting stuff from my childhood and i am ASS!!!!! lmaoo it genuinely feels like im just too old to play them now but i know its just because its been over 10 years since i've ever really seriously thought about touhou. i wanna impress my friends so im on my grind. but i gotta just fight against childhood me being ashamed of adult me playing on easy. 10 year old sydney would have hoped i have beaten everything on lunatic.

lmfaoo im curious if anyone else has a similar history. nice to meet y'all!

Nice to meet you! Welcome to the shrine.

Cool to see someone with a similar backstory to me in getting into Touhou. Being in places no 8–10-year-old should be on the internet and all. Kinda fell out of the series somewhere in middle school but quickly was drawn back in when I introduced it to friends and was pulled back into the world of Gensokyo being asked all sorts of questions about characters. I hope you enjoy your time here. I'd love to see your progress on beating the games. I myself have barely beaten 5 of the mainline games. Side games are my guilty pleasure.