Final Fantasy

A role-playing game released by Square for the Famicom in 1987. Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi with music by Nobuo Uematsu, it is the first entry in the long-running Final Fantasy series.

The game was made by a core team of seven. Its working title, Fighting Fantasy, was changed because of a trademark conflict with an existing gamebook series.

Developer

Square

Publisher

Square, Nintendo (NA)

Players choose classes for four characters at the start and fight turn-based, menu-driven battles, with the party shown on the right side of the screen opposite the enemies.

Platform

Family Computer

CPU

Ricoh RP2A03 (MOS 6502-based) 1.79 MHz

Media

ROM cartridge

Bits (period term)

8-bit

Platform specifications are sourced on the console page.

Japan

18 Dec 1987[1]

Director

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Producer

Masafumi Miyamoto

Designer

Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu, Koichi Ishii

Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

Credits are limited to what the sources state.

• GAME1985

  

  Family Computer

  Super Mario Bros.

  スーパーマリオブラザーズ

  Release

  JP 1985.09.13

  Dev

  Nintendo R&D4

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

• GAME1986

  Family Computer

  Dragon Quest

  ドラゴンクエスト

  Release

  JP 1986.05.27

  Dev

  Chunsoft

  Genre

  RPG / JRPG

• GAME1986

  Famicom Disk System

  Metroid

  メトロイド

  Release

  JP 1986.08.06

  Dev

  Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems

  Genre

  Action-adventure

The original Famicom version shipped 520,000 copies in Japan; as of March 2003, all versions had shipped 1.99 million copies worldwide (English Wikipedia).

Series: Final Fantasy

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