History VideoGame / HarvestMoonOriginalSeries

* PaletteSwap: Whichever girl you marry will always wear the same attire after marriage; a blue dress with a braid. The only differences between them are the hair color.

** The way relationships works differs. You can only really befriend the love interests and there are no heart events (though each girl has one special event once you get her affection to a certain degree).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: It fares well, but sometimes there are just some lines that makes you facepalm. Case in point, when Ellen comes with a dog, she will tell you: "It's name is...you do it."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This game feels quite different from future titles. For one, you can't ship past 6 PM and you can't ship "perishables" (like cakes and flowers). You also don't have a clock on default - instead you need to earn it - and the nights never end; you must go to bed for the next day to occur. The game has endings, twenty in fact.

* FrothyMugsOfWater: Future localizations avoid this but in the original title you don't drink wine, you drink "juice". Eve works at a bar that sells "juice" which you can get drunk on. Ellen's father is the town drunk and he loves "juice". Nina is obviously drunk at more than one festival, even talking about seeing butterflies, but she's only drank the "juice".
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The most obvious being that when you go to bed with most wives their affection goes up. To drive the point home Eve's, who has abandonment issues, goes down each night.

* PinkIsFeminine: Nana sports a pink dress and has pink hair.

''Harvest Moon'' was one of the last games released for the ''[=SNES=]'' so it didn't get much recognition at the time. It was successful enough to have an EvenBetterSequel which spawned an entire franchise, along with some ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' side-games at the time. In 2008 it was added onto the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}'s Virtual Console.

It has a direct sequel in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' and many characters were reused in the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th anniversary title]] ''VideoGam/HarvestMoonMagicalMelody''.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Nina speaks in this manner, for some reason.

It has a direct sequel in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' and many characters were reused in the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th anniversary title]] ''Harvest Moon Magical Melody''.

* {{Tomboy}}: Ann and Ellen.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Nana speaks in this manner, for some reason.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Mary speaks in this manner, for some reason.

* BumblingInventor: Ann. During the day, you can find her working on a device, but other days she just sits with the finished invention beside her. If you talk to her, she will ask you to press the button on it. Saying yes will result in you pressing the button and the machine exploding in your face. Ann will apologize for it and revert to working on it.

* AlwaysNight: When the day has turned into night, it will never turn into dawn. Once you go to bed the next day begins.

* YouTakeNoCandle: Mary speaks in this manner, for some reason.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Maria, one of the available bachelorettes.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: What is traditional for the games; for example, you can leave animals out in a strom at night and they will look freaked out the next day.

* HeroesWantRedheads: If you marry Ann.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Eve dresses in more pink, lighter clothes than the other bachelorettes.

* AllHeroesWantRedheads: If you marry Ann.

* RomancingTheWidow: Not you but Ann's father has a romance with Nina's mother, and if you marry Ann they get married. It goes both ways since they're a widower and a widow.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This game feels quite different from future titles. For one, you can't ship past 6 PM and the night never ends; once it turns 6 PM you must go to sleep to enter the next day. You also don't have a clock on default - instead you need to earn it - and must follow the sun. You can't ship certain stuffs like flowers as well. Pete is unable to faint, he just can't use tools after a while.

** The game has endings, twenty in fact, unlike most other titles.

''Harvest Moon'' is the first title in the ''HarvestMoon'' series, released in 1996 for the ''SuperNintendo''.

''Harvest Moon'' was one of the last games released for the ''[=SNES=]'' so it didn't get much recognition at the time. It was successful enough to have an EvenBetterSequel which spawned an entire franchise, along with some ''GameBoy'' side-games at the time. In 2008 it was added onto the {{Wii}}'s Virtual Console.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This game feels quite different from future titles. For one, you can't ship past 6 PM and the night never ends; once it turns 6 PM you must go to sleep to enter the next day. You also don't have a clock on default - instead you need to earn it - and must follow the sun. You can't ship certain stuffs like flowers as well.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This game feels quite different from future titles. For one, you can't ship past 6 PM and the night never ends; once it turns 6 PM you must go to sleep to enter the next day. You also don't have a clock on default - instead you need to earn it - and must follow the sun.
** The religion also seems much more Christian-like than in future titles, though it's still obviously Pagan. There's mention of Gods besides the Harvest Goddess, which weren't properly implemented until at least ten years later when the Harvest King became a character.

* MagicRealism: It seems like a realistic enough game about a rural town but then you have certain things like the Harvest Goddess and Harvest Sprites.

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* AnachronismStew: This game seems to take place in the early 20th century judging from the fashion and technology, and the fact the sequel game seems to take place in a much more modern time, but you have a rather large color TV in your house.