Twenty years ago today, a little game popped up in North American stores. I'm sure nobody took notice.
Regardless of where you stand on the game now, who can forget the hype coming from the magazines?
The shots fired
That stunning first commercial
The even more stunning commercial for the demo (with free copy of Tobal No 1)
And the inevitable heartbreak when you lost that beloved party member
And even if you've soured on it, it's hard to deny the impact it made, with the genre both seeing a major breakthrough in the west and many imitators following in its wake. Or in how the following it created was big enough to warrant SquareEnix frequently returning to it over the years.
The movie!
The anime!
The spinoffs!
The remake
The Rereleases!
While I know the original release was early on this year, today marks the anniversary of when a big chunk of us would have first been able to really encounter this game. Personally, I remember the playground hype for this game when it was coming out, with us all being captured by that all FMV commercial and what it meant for the game. One of my friends even swore up and down that it would be "better than Zelda." Whether he was right or not, this game was legendary among my friends when it came out and we would talk about it for years to come, with us all pouring through the game to try and find new things about it.
Regardless of where you stand on the game now, who can forget the hype coming from the magazines?
The shots fired
That stunning first commercial
The even more stunning commercial for the demo (with free copy of Tobal No 1)
And the inevitable heartbreak when you lost that beloved party member
And even if you've soured on it, it's hard to deny the impact it made, with the genre both seeing a major breakthrough in the west and many imitators following in its wake. Or in how the following it created was big enough to warrant SquareEnix frequently returning to it over the years.
The movie!
The anime!
The spinoffs!
The remake
The Rereleases!
While I know the original release was early on this year, today marks the anniversary of when a big chunk of us would have first been able to really encounter this game. Personally, I remember the playground hype for this game when it was coming out, with us all being captured by that all FMV commercial and what it meant for the game. One of my friends even swore up and down that it would be "better than Zelda." Whether he was right or not, this game was legendary among my friends when it came out and we would talk about it for years to come, with us all pouring through the game to try and find new things about it.