The Visual Novel Database (rendered as vndb or VNDB) is an online database, wiki and Internet forum for visual novels. As of 2019, the VNDB had catalogued a total of 24,000 visual novels, and its forum had reached 14,300 users. According to Electronic Gaming Monthly, VNDB was responsible for helping bring visual novels to an international audience. The site's mascot is Lasty Farson from Angelic Serenade. VNDB was created in September 2007 by yorhel (real name Yoran Heling). After completing Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, he noticed the absence of a community dedicated to visual novels, or a place to find more of them. yorhel created VNDB over the course of three weeks as a centralised place for people to find and discuss visual novels. One of the oldest games to be documented on the vndb was Lolita Yakyuuken, an eroge released in 1982 for the PC-88, which is also believed to be the first visual novel, however it was later deleted due to a lack of visual novel elements. Within a year, the vndb contained 1,000 visual novels. More information...
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