Touhou Project/History

This is a complete timeline of the Touhou Project series of shooting games.

1980s

 * 1981: ZUN and two friends found Amusement Software.
 * 1986: Touhou Reiiden: Highly Responsive to Prayers is released on the Famicom Disk System, PC-98, and MS-DOS.
 * 1988: Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story and Touhou 5: Mystic Square are released. Due to poor sales management at Amusement Software, Amusement Software files for bankruptcy and is shut down. Many fans presumed that the Touhou Project would be dead.
 * 1989: Drillimation Studios receives a letter from an 11-year-old boy asking them to make another Touhou game. As a result, Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil begins development. The rights to the series were transferred to Drillimation Studios.

1990s

 * 1990: Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was originally going to be released in August 1990, but technical issues causes the game to be delayed.
 * 1991: Drillimation Studios staff members contact Namco to release Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in the arcades, making it the first Touhou game to be released in the arcades.
 * 1992: Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is released in the arcades. The game becomes a smash hit and is ported to the Super Nintendo/Famicom, MS-DOS, Genesis, PC Engine, and Neo Geo.