I'm curious as to how many people have played original Japanese bishojo games. In the early times you had to buy Japanese version of Windows OS (Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000P) so that the Japanese text can be displayed properly. Win xp can be configured to display Japanese so that solves one headach.
Of course it would really help if you can understand Japanese too. ^_^'
Also, name titles that you thought were really well done story-wise as well as anything that you thought worthwhile to get that game and how did you managed to obtain games from Japan. In my case I bought some through internet, some I bought when I went to Japan and some through friends.