It also makes an appearance in Sega's Phantasy Star Online games, as bonus music for completing a quest themed after the original Nights game.

A minigame version of Nights into Dreams ... is playable utilizing the Nintendo GameCube-to-Game Boy Advance connectivity with Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

* Phantasy Star ( series ), series of RPG games by SEGA

Other Sonic Team Dreamcast titles included ChuChu Rocket !, Samba de Amigo, and Phantasy Star Online.

However, some games such as Everquest, Red Faction, Star Wars: Galaxies, Warcraft 3, Final Fantasy XI, Phantasy Star Online, Guild Wars, Unreal Tournament, Halo: Combat Evolved, Audition, Quake 3: Arena, and Ragnarok Online, are capable of running on 56k dial-up.

* Phantasy Star Online

* Phantasy Star Online

Examples include the 1989 video game Phantasy Star II, the 2007 film Battle for Terra, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, the Imperium of Man in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the 2009 movies Planet 51 and the 2011 movie Mars Needs Moms.

* Phantasy Star — Algol ( Phantasy Star )# Common elements

Phantasy Star was the first game completely translated to the Brazilian Portuguese.

The game was ported a decade later as part of the Phantasy Star Collection, which was released for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 in Japan and for the Game Boy Advance in North America, where critics deemed it as a historically relevant step for its genre.

Phantasy Star is set in Algol, a solar system consisting of three planets.

Phantasy Star uses a first person ( video games ) | first-person viewpoint for battles and dungeon crawler | dungeon exploration.

Phantasy Star was one of the pioneers of the traditional console RPG format, featuring fully traversable overworld maps, complete with interactive towns, and sprawling dungeons.

Yuji Naka programmed Phantasy Star, and Rieko Kodama served as lead designer.

Phantasy Star was first released for the Sega Master System in Japan on December 20, 1987, with localized ports following in the United States in 1988 and Brazil in 1991.

Later, it was released in three compilations for the Sega Saturn and Game Boy Advance, and, most recently, the PlayStation 2 under the name of The Phantasy Star Collection.

Phantasy Star also appears as an unlockable game in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 by beating the first boss on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with two controllers ( Two-player mode has no bosses, so choose one-player ).

However, Phantasy Star 1 was not included in this collection.

In the United States, Phantasy Star sold for the then-high price of $ 69. 99, with some retail outlets such as Toys R Us selling for as much as $ 80. 00.

Although some home computer games had been known to sell for $ 100 or more, such as 1982's Time Zone, Phantasy Star was the most expensive console game ever sold at the time.

Development of Phantasy Star Online began after the completion of Sonic Adventure.

Phantasy Star Online was released bundled with a demo disc for Sonic Adventure 2.

Ōshima gained renown at Sega's Sonic Team for creating characters and playing integral roles in the development of games like Phantasy Star, Sonic CD, Nights into Dreams ..., and Sonic Adventure.

Phantasy Star is widely regarded as one of the benchmark role-playing video games, and has been well received by players since the time of its release and into the present.

Phantasy is an independent record label estalished in London ( United Kingdom ), founded in 2007 by DJ & Producer Erol Alkan.

Phantasy Star Online ( PSO ) is a series of online multiplayer action RPG video games released by Sega.

It is a subset of Sega's Phantasy Star series of games that began in 1987.

Phantasy Star Online 2 was released in Japan for Windows in July 2012, and is due to be released for iOS and Android in late 2012 and for PlayStation Vita in 2013.

In Phantasy Star Online, normal mode is available to play at four different difficulty levels.

It is also used as a time reference on ICQ, and the online role-playing game Phantasy Star Online has used it since its launch on the Dreamcast in 2000 to try to facilitate cross-continent gaming ( as the game allowed Japanese, American and European players to mingle on the same servers ).

Sega's Phantasy Star series is such a notorious offender in this aspect that some fans decided to redo the translation in strict fidelity to the Japanese version, while others tried to figure out an independent timeline for each version.

It is the second installment in Sega's acclaimed Phantasy Star series and serves as a sequel to the original Phantasy Star for the Master System.

Phantasy Star II is set 1000 years after the events of its predecessor and follows the journey of a government agent called Rolf and his friends, who are on a mission to find out why the protector of the planet Mota, Mother Brain, has started malfunctioning.

Gameplay is similar to the original Phantasy Star, the first game in the series.

First is Palm ( formerly " Palma " in the original Phantasy Star ), the home of the government.

Phantasy Star II's top-down style travel is shown as Rolf and Nei move through a town

There are a total of eight playable characters in Phantasy Star II, each with his or her own personality, weapons and abilities ; Rolf uses swords and Rudo uses guns, while Kain is strong against robotic enemies and Hugh is strong against Biomonsters, and the female characters have their own arsenals of such these.

; Rolf: ( Japanese: ユーシス, Yūshisu, Eusis ) Rolf is the primary protagonist of Phantasy Star II, as well as the latest descendant of the main protagonist of the original Phantasy Star, Alis Landale.

He is supposed to be the same Esper who accompanies Alis in Phantasy Star, but due to the English version of Phantasy Star naming the said Esper Noah, this point is lost.

Phantasy Star II is regarded by many as a forerunner for certain aspects of role-playing video games, such as an epic, dramatic, character-driven storyline dealing with serious themes and subject matter, a strategy-based battle system, and the demand for extensive strategy guides for such games ( Phantasy Star II included one with the game itself ).