History VideoGame / BokuNoNatsuyasumi

* GottaCatchThemAll: The fourth entry, set a decade later than the other games, adds ''[[Manga/{{Kinnikuman}} kinkeshi]]''-like eraser toys[[note]]Actually, keshigomu are rubber toys - the "gomu" (eraser) part supposedly came from children [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught bringing them to school as erasers]]. However, [[OpenSecret they were banned in a lot of schools anyway]] - something similar happened with UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch devices a time later[[/note]] as optional collectable objects. Much like the series' traditional bug fights, the toys can "fight" on a cardboard box tapped by the children until one of them loses balance.

* EarnYourBadEnding: The "worst" ending can only be triggered by Boku deciding to never venture outside the gates of his aunt and uncle's garden for the entirety of his stay with them. Doing this is entirely counter-intuitive, as even if the player doesn't decides to go into the countryside by themselves, the game quickly gives them plenty of reasons why they should, even if they are entirely optional.

* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: Downplayed. The game has very few musical cues which are only used during some of its more significant events, but for the vast majority of the game, the background "tracks" are the natural sounds of the nature of rural Japan, along with some occasional diegetic music use -- most prominently Boku's older cousin, Moe, practising the clarinet on the pouch on certain evenings.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the Platform/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' for Platform/PlayStation3 in 2007, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the Platform/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts to the original, as all are also set in August 1975 (except ''4'', which is set in August 1985), and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters. In 2021, ''Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation'', a SpiritualSuccessor staring Franchise/CrayonShinChan was released. In 2023 a FanTranslation of the second game was released, allowing players to experience one of the mainline games in English for the first time.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the Platform/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' for Platform/PlayStation3 in 2007, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the Platform/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts, as all are also set in August 1975 (except ''4'', which is set in August 1985), and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters. In 2021, ''Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation'', a SpiritualSuccessor staring Franchise/CrayonShinChan was released. In 2023 a FanTranslation of the second game was released, allowing players to experience one of the mainline games in English for the first time.

''Boku no Natsuyasumi'' (ぼくのなつやすみ, lit. "My Summer Vacation") is... well, perhaps calling it "an AdventureGame with some light {{Life Simulation|Game}} elements" comes the closest to describing it. Billed as a "summer vacation adventure", the game was developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in Japan on June 22, 2000.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts, as all are also set in August 1975 (except ''4'', which is set in August 1985), and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters. In 2021, ''Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation'', a SpiritualSuccessor staring Franchise/CrayonShinChan was released. In 2023 a FanTranslation of the second game was released, allowing players to experience one of the mainline games in English for the first time.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts, as all are also set in August 1975 (except ''4'', which is set in August 1985), and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters. In 2021, ''Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation'', a SpiritualSuccessor staring Franchise/CrayonShinChan was released.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts, as all are also set in August 1975 (except ''4'', which is set in August 1985), and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters.

* PresentTenseNarrative: The story is told from the perspective of an adult Boku who looks back on the events of the game about 25 years later, around the TurnOfTheMillennium. As a result, he will sometimes pause the narrative to explain the context for some of his actions to the player. One of the endings, where Boku grows up to become a famous writer, takes this to its logical conclusion, by implying that the story was one of Boku's novels.

* BugCatching: One of the game's optional side activities, as well as one of its most popular features. It is one of the areas where the developers have really ShownTheirWork, as the game progresses over the month of August, the summer bugs that Boku can catch gradually die out and give way to the autumn bugs in accordance with how it would roughly happen in real life. A few of them, mostly beetles, can be pitted in sumo matches on a makeshift ''dohyō'' ring (usually a tambourine).

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2009. Curiously, these sequels works as {{Alternate Universe}}s of sorts, as all are also set in August 1975, and also starring Boku as the main character, though his aunts and uncles and cousins are portrayed as widely different character in each one. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters.

* PresentTenseNarrative: The story is told from the perspective of an adult Boku who looks back on the events of the game about 25 years later, around the TurnOfTheMillennium. As a result, he will sometimes pause the narrative to explain the context for some of his actions to the player. One of the endings, where Boku grows up to become a famous writer

* PresentTenseNarrative: The story is told from the perspective of an adult Boku who looks back on the events of the game about 25 years later, around the TurnOfTheMillennium. As a result, he will sometimes pause the narrative to explain the context for some of his actions to the player.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Boku's male cousin died 3 years ago in what is heavily implied to be an accident involving the pond behind his aunt and uncle's house, and his death is still very much a spectre that haunts the entire household.

Quite popular in Japan, though never seeing a western release, the game would spawn three sequels, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 2'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2002, ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 3'' UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and ''Boku no Natsuyasumi 4'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2009. The game itself would have an UpdatedReRelease [=PlayStation Portable=] in 2010, featuring updated graphics and several new characters.

''Boku no Natsuyasumi'' (ぼくのなつやすみ, lit. "My Summer Vacation") is... well, perhaps calling it "an AdventureGame with some light {{Life Simulation|Game}} element" comes the closest to describing it. Billed as a "summer vacation adventure", the game was developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in Japan on June 22, 2000.

* EarnYourBadEnding: The worst ending can only be triggered by Boku deciding to never venture outside the gates of his aunt and uncle's garden for the entirety of his stay with them. Doing this is entirely counter-intuitive, as even if the player doesn't decides to go into the countryside by themselves, the game quickly gives them plenty of reasons why they should, even if they are entirely optional.

* PresentTenseNarrative: The story is told from the perspective of an adult Boku who looks back on the events about 25 years later, around the TurnOfTheMillennium. As a result, he will sometimes pause the narrative to explain the context for some of his actions to the player.

''Boku no Natsuyasumi'' (ぼくのなつやすみ, lit. "My Summer Vacation") is... well, perhaps calling it a "{{Life Simulation|Game}} AdventureGame" comes the closest to describing it. Billed as a "summer vacation adventure", the game was developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in Japan on June 22, 2000.