Anime Play is a trademark used to refer to the visual novel games distributed by Hirameki International and a (discontinued) magazine profiling these games.
Anime Play DVDs are the only English-language visual novels that are playable on standard DVD players; they can also be played on PCs with DVD-ROM drives or video game consoles that can play DVDs like the PlayStation 2 or Xbox. The restrictions of the DVD format mean that these games are missing many features present in most visual novels such as separate volume controls for music and voices; controlling the speed at which text is played; and ability to save the game at any point.
The following games have been released in Anime Play format:
I can't be held responsible
for all the mistakes my parents made
'cause it's their generation
that has left us a nation
of waste and complacenece and apathy
I can't expect to follow the example of struggle my parents gave
as they took to the street
with no mind for defeat
and condition to speak no to obey
Time goes by
and I've become
? than I could ever dream
than I could ever know
I could have done
You can tell me bedtime stories and they all end well
But I'm looking on the outside and it is clear that there is more to tell
You can tell me bedime stories but they don't include suffering, injustice
that you can't explain and must dilute
And I am listening to what she said
Time goes by
and I've become
? than I could ever dream
than I had ever know
I could have done
Time goes by (If I could tell you everytime I felt myself go along)
and I've become (to the fashioning of self that's sold to the weakest and the dumb, it'd be)
More than I could ever think
than I could ever dream