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It All Started With a Girl and Her Cat
Posted 10-12-2009 at 05:54 PM by LordDon
I can't believe it's been a little over 20 years now since I first played Phantasy Star. My parents had some well-off friends that bought their kids not just the NES but an SMS as well. I remember them breaking out the game saying it cost some ungodly $80.
I can't hear the opening menu song without getting a little misty-eyed. (At 1:04 in the video)
The fact that the protagonist was a female seemed to guarantee the game would be seared into memory as one of my quintessential childhood videogame experiences. Samus had started that ball rolling a few years before.
The mix of Sci-Fi (spaceports, robots, interplanetary travel) with fantasy (swords, dungeons, magic) was mind-bogglingly fresh to my young mind and it still seems a novel mix of the two, even today.
The dungeons are decidedly old-school, shown from a first-person perspective. The feeling of breaking out some graph paper to map my progress brought me back to my childhood and hours spent in Kid Icarus or The Legend of Zelda. The SMS was quite a system for its time and the graphics hold up surprisingly well for its age.
I picked up Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection because it contained all four Phantasy Star games which is more than worth the $30 I paid for the collection.
I never owned the game, only stealing play sessions here and there from my childhood friend, so I was never able to complete it. If I can only stay focused long enough to see it through with the deluge of games coming out.
I can't hear the opening menu song without getting a little misty-eyed. (At 1:04 in the video)
The fact that the protagonist was a female seemed to guarantee the game would be seared into memory as one of my quintessential childhood videogame experiences. Samus had started that ball rolling a few years before.
The mix of Sci-Fi (spaceports, robots, interplanetary travel) with fantasy (swords, dungeons, magic) was mind-bogglingly fresh to my young mind and it still seems a novel mix of the two, even today.
The dungeons are decidedly old-school, shown from a first-person perspective. The feeling of breaking out some graph paper to map my progress brought me back to my childhood and hours spent in Kid Icarus or The Legend of Zelda. The SMS was quite a system for its time and the graphics hold up surprisingly well for its age.
I picked up Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection because it contained all four Phantasy Star games which is more than worth the $30 I paid for the collection.
I never owned the game, only stealing play sessions here and there from my childhood friend, so I was never able to complete it. If I can only stay focused long enough to see it through with the deluge of games coming out.
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Phantasy Star 3 (meant to be the weakest) was my first Phantasy Star. Loved it and somehow played it for what must be the 100-200 hours to unlock every generation and it's ending. Something about the pseudo fantasy / sci-fi setting of Phantasy Star was always far more interesting to me than the straight up knights and magic type fantasy in a lot of JRPGs. Something about these colonies floating in space, systems breaking down, with most of the colonists not even being aware of where they are anymore.. intriguing!
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Posted 10-12-2009 at 06:48 PM by Chris_D
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That's funny because I think that was the first game in the series we picked up after getting a Genesis as well. I've played a bit of the others on emulators but it's nice to finally own all four games from the non-online iterations.
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Posted 10-13-2009 at 07:24 AM by LordDon
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