Phantasy Star (series)
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Phantasy Star (Japanese: ファンタシースター) is a RPG video game series by Sega. It started as a traditional single player game series, but has progressed into an MMORPG series. Unlike many other console role-playing games, it has a science fantasy setting where the player battles monsters using a variety of guns in addition to the staple of melee weapons and magic that are found in other RPGs.
[edit] History
The original Phantasy Star was released for the Sega Master System in Japan on December 20, 1987. It was one of the first cartridges to include battery backed RAM for saving game positions. The game featured 3D maze-like dungeons, which players traversed in a first-person mode. Phantasy Star, along with Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, distinguished itself as a pioneer of what came to be defined console role-playing.
The series is noteworthy in that all of its games take place in the same universe, as opposed to many RPG series such as Final Fantasy, wherein successive game settings are unrelated, or, at most, superficially related. Each major Phantasy Star game adds onto the series' overall story, culminating in Phantasy Star IV which ties all of the series' plot elements together into a final, epic conclusion.
Both Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe are their own series based on the original Phantasy Star games. They continue the theme of a persistent game universe, but are set in different planetary systems than the original games.
[edit] Games
- Phantasy Star (Sega Master System, 1987/Sega Mega Drive, 1992)
- Phantasy Star II (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (RealArcade) 1989).
- Phantasy Star II: Shilka's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Amia's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Huey's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Eusis's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Nei's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Rudger's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Kinds's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star II: Anne's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1991)
- Phantasy Star Adventure (Japanese Game Gear, 1992)
- Phantasy Star Gaiden (Japanese Game Gear, 1992)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1994)
- Phantasy Star Collection (Japanese Sega Saturn, 1998).
- Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast, PC, 2001)
- Phantasy Star Online ver.2 (Dreamcast, 2002)
- Phantasy Star Collection (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
- Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II (GameCube, Xbox, 2002)
- Phantasy Star Generation 1 (PlayStation 2, 2003 Japan)
- Phantasy Star Online: Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (Nintendo GameCube only), 2004)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus (Nintendo GameCube, 2004)
- Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (PC only), 2004
- Phantasy Star Generation 2 (PlayStation 2, 2005, released only in Japan)
- Phantasy Star Universe (PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360) 2006 (Japan & North America)
- Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360) 2007
- Phantasy Star Complete Collection (PlayStation 2) 2008 (Japan only)
- Phantasy Star Portable (PlayStation Portable) 2008
Phantasy Star Generation 1 is a remake of the original Phantasy Star.
Phantasy Star Generation 2 is a remake of the original Phantasy Star II.
Ambition of the Illuminus is the expansion pack for Phantasy Star Universe.
[edit] External links
- Phantasy Star Cave Complete Phantasy Star fan site with guides and a wide community.
- The Phantasy Star Pages Comprehensive Phantasy Star page.
- Interview with Rieko Kodama, Creator of Phantasy Stars I, II, and IV
- PSO Planet — News site
- History of the Phantasy Star series Sega-16's complete retrospective on the series.
- Phantasy Star series Manuals
- History of Phantasy Star
- Phantasy Star Wiki A fledgling Wiki project chronicling all things Phantasy Star — from the original series to the newly-released Phantasy Star Universe.
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