Phantasy Star
In computer games, Phantasy Star (Japanese: ファンタシースター) is the most famous role-playing game series for SEGA consoles, and has many incarnations including an online version. Contrary to most other RPGs, it has a futuristic/fantasy setting where the player battles monsters using a variety of guns in addition to the usual staple of melee weapons and magic that are found in similiar games.
The first rendition was for the Sega Master System, or SMS. It featured an amazing (at the time) set of 3D like dungeons which were like mazes, which you traversed in real time in a first person mode. The story is about Alis, a girl who sees her brother killed and sets out to avenge him. The action begins in a futuristic city complex in a three-planet solar system called Algol. After travelling some underground mazes, you get to travel to the other planets and follow your adventure.
There is the option to talk with monsters you encounter --sometimes they are friendly and just leave. It was released in 1986 and was one of the first cartridges to include battery backup. Of the games, Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom is seen to be the low point, with a rather boring play mechanic and little offered in the story other than its multi-generational nature to redeem it.
The Phantasy star series have been released on the Megadrive, Genesis, Dreamcast, GBA, GameCube, Xbox and PC. These include:
- Phantasy Star ( Sega Master System , 1988 )
- Phantasy Star II ( Sega Megadrive, Sega Genesis, PC (RealArcade) 1989 )
- Phantasy Star: Anne's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star: Huey's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star: Kind's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star: Shilka's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991)
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom ( Megadrive, Genesis, 1991 )
- Phantasy Star Adventure ( Japanese Game Gear, 1992 )
- Phantasy Star Gaiden ( Japanese Game Gear, 1992 )
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium ( Megadrive, 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, to be released in North America)
- Phantasy Star Online: Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (Nintendo GameCube only), 2004)
- Phantasy Star Universe
Phantasy Star Generation 1 is an enhanced remake of the original Phantasy Star.
A Taiwanese pirate of Phantasy Star IV called "Wai Xing Zhan Shi" (Wai Hsing Chan Shih) was made for the Famicom. The pirate is incomplete and has many bugs.
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