Timeless Final Fantasy series approaches 13th installment
Among the longest-running and most prolific of all video game dealerships, the Final Fantasy series has distributed in excess of 90 million games all over its twenty-year history. More than one-year bestseller Madden NFL, but the dealership succeeder was born out of adversity.
Though it is hard to consider these days, the original game — and its progressively inaccurate “Final” moniker — was signified as publisher Square’s ultimate effort to avert bankruptcy. Released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, it proved a colossal success in its native Japan. Western audiences wouldn’t receive the game until 1990, and ultimately drove it to sales numbers that topped the two million mark, cementing Square’s future as a key international publisher.
Final Fantasies 2 and 3 did not pass to Western shores at the time of their release, although we did get the fourth game, but called it the second. We then skipped the fifth, but received the sixth, although we called it the third…and if that’s enough to make your head spin, you are not the only one. By the time the seventh game in the series was released, Square had seemingly had enough of all the confusion, and since then Final Fantasy games have had the same names worldwide.
In the fast-moving, hit-driven world of modern video games, franchises that can survive more than a couple of years are considered unusual. The Final Fantasy series, which commonly does not share plots, settings, or even characters between episodes, is doubly so. It’s appeared on almost every gaming platform of any significance (though it shunned the original Xbox) and its several spin-offs have graced genres as diverse as turn-based strategy games, massively-multiplayer online worlds, fighting games, and even an ill-fated CGI movie.
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