Phantasy Star 1 is the single most important game for my personal life. It changed who I am and the path I followed in life. It’s a grand statement, I know, but it’s also true. And playing Phantasy Star IV was a complete delight, what a great game! Thanks for the great article, Peter, even if it makes me a little sad…

I’m in love with this game! <3
Not only Link’s Awakening was my all time favorite Zelda game (until Breath of the Wild came along), the art style is amazing! It looks like Nintendo made the whole game using stop-motion with little toys!

“This does not bother Japanese people... We’re just happy if people learn more about Japanese culture”. This! Contact with other cultures is always good. The history of humanity is an history of cultural amalgamation. There is no “pure” culture, as every single culture is the result of many different cultures…

I still feel dismayed about Telltale’s end

Nah, PS1 games would look a lot worse than this. Nice experiment, though

“NES game cartridge prices are starting to come down considerably, which is an indication that the market is moving past NES nostalgia”... OR, it may be a direct result of the mini NES Classic AND the NES games on Switch online service itself.

Came here to say that, not disappointed that someone already pointed it out. Master System design was amazing!

Video is one of the worst ways of learning how to play a boardgame. Nothing beats a good manual and the ocasional search for clarification on erratas or FAQs (and BoardGameGeek helps a lot). Most manuals of the relevant boardgames nowadays are pretty great, making external resources unnecessary.

This game literally changed my life. It was my first RPG, I was 10 y.o. Before playing it, I liked video games, alright, but not *that* much. Phantasy Star was different from the other games I played before, it had something more. It was released here in Brazil translated in Portuguese by TecToy, something previously…

I agree. If first playing Phantasy Star IV, I could see some use in having more hints about the combat combos, but everything else is quite well balanced. It wouldn’t benefit from the Ages tweaks as much, I believe.

It’s 100% possible. I played the original back in the day, it was my first RPG and completely different from every other game I played before. My father was also hooked by Phantasy Star, and we used to compete to see who would beat the game first - so sometimes we traded hints and sometimes we hid important…

“Doomfist is a Nigerian *man*, Pharah is an Egyptian *woman*, and Lucio is a Brazilian *DJ*”...

Oh DJs, you marvelous sexless bunch!

I was about to comment that same thing. Nintendo built a whole console (more if you consider the handhelds) around the “second screen” concept and it doesn’t get one single mention?

And what exactly would be a “Master Drive” system?

What the world need is a nonprofit whose whole point is to provide legal support for legal battles agains corporate bullying.

Don’t, please don’t! We already lost Bioware and CD Projekt Red as great RPGs developers because they were trying to please the market and “widen their fanbase” by diluting the RPG content into something more palatable for the masses. We can’t lose Obsidian too.

I’m sure that was their plan all along, having all of their teams working on a single console.

That’s quite reasonabe

That’s awful news :(
I really like Telltale games, even before they stablished the “Walking Dead Formula”, their Sam & Max and Monkey Island revivals were very nice, also their Back to the Future. And after the Walking Dead, every single game they released were a hit for me. Wolf Among Us is still one of my favourite…

Way too expensive and very few games for it’s asking price.

It’ll be a nice example for two things:
- How awful was the game design of those early 3D games, when the designers were still trying to understand how gameplay would work with the use of polygons in the place of pixels and their fixed camera.
- How 3D…