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How did you get into Touhou?
Goomba98:
We haven't had one of these in quite a while, so why not make a new thread?
For me, I was a fan of the Ricochet series of Breakout-style games a long time ago. On the forums for that game, there was someone who was advertising his Super Mario World hack. That let me know about SMW Central. From there, I learned about the LPer raocow. He played a lot of SMW hacks, but also a lot of Touhou fangames. It was then when I found out about Touhou. (That last part happened in 2010, but the erst of the dates are really fuzzy.)
Mikuru:
I attend retro gaming conventions once or twice a year, and often find a fighting game I haven't heard of before and have a bit of mindless fun being very bad at it. On one such occasion, I looked the game up on YouTube afterwards to watch some better-quality gameplay, and the "recommended to watch next" videos included the Touhou fighters. I fell madly in love with The Ground's Color is Yellow, looked up other Touhou music, and watched a few gameplay videos. My immediate reaction was "I'll never be able to do that", and it was a long time afterwards that I decided to give them a try :)
BernkastelWitch:
For me it was when I started to see videos of EoSD break out around the place so I decided to check it myself. Took years later to download the games due to me having a horrible computer at the time that couldn't even handle flash games, let alone a simple Bullet Hell shooter. I was looking at everything from the games and the fandom until then. Once I got a good computer I found and got a good amount of games and has been hooked ever since.
MANoBadAssGar Jr.:
It was 2 years ago, virtual trumpet orchestra party at the local mayoral election, they told me it's a "Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life".
I looked it up on internet but it bought me to e-h*. It changes my life, i've been "Phantom Ensemble" whore ever since.
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WishMakers:
After grade 8 ended for me, I was looking for something to fill a void. While I was wading through endless waves of memes, I soon came upon UN Owen. I thought it was funny and the song itself was pretty good. Once I learned it was from a thing called Touhou, I suddenly had a very famous video in my recommendations, and that was Touhou 10 Ultra Extra clear. I took one look at it and thought "that's absolutely insane". I eventually found a copy of EoSD floating around (and subsequently buying it off of Amazon) and I started playing. My first run on Normal was one when I didn't know what a focus button was and I had no idea Icicle Fall had a safespot. I bombspammed my way through Rumia and then died to Cirno (it took 3 continues to beat her at first). Pretty soon after, I found Raak1010's videos on Lunatic clears of several Touhou games, and I started to play more. After 4 years of playing Touhou, I've gotten 1cc's on Normal of most Touhou games (Windows and PC-98), 2 Extra clears, and am working on EoSD 1cc Hard. Coming full circle to the game I started with.