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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Nintendo Power has called Phantasy Star II, along with Phantasy Star IV, one of the greatest role-playing games of all time.

The series can be thought of as Sega's main venture into the RPG genre, along with the other fantasy-RPG series, Phantasy Star.

Nintendo Power has also labelled the title, along with Phantasy Star II, as one of the greatest RPGs of all time.

Sega currently has no plans to publish this or any of the other Phantasy Star remakes outside of Japan, and with Sega of Japan having seemingly abandoned their plans for a Phantasy Star IV remake in favor of a compilation featuring the original iterations of Phantasy Star I-IV, it would seem likely that this game will remain a Japanese exclusive.

An important innovation in Phantasy Star that would later become common in console role-playing games was the use of pre-defined player characters with their own backstories, in contrast to computer role-playing games such as the Wizardry and Gold Box games where the player's avatars ( such as knights, clerics, or thieves ) were simply blank slates.

In 2011 Phantasy entered partnership with French electronic music label Because Music.

* Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Premium Arrange ( 2004 ) – with many others

She began with an Atari, primarily the game Combat, but as technology progressed, The Legend of Zelda and Phantasy Star became two of her favorite games.

The PSO series began with the release of Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast in 2000.

Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, a port of the Xbox version of Episode I & II with the addition of a new Episode IV, was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004 through digital distribution.

The PSO games differ from earlier Phantasy Star titles by offering a real-time – rather than turn-based – approach to combat, seamlessly integrating this with exploration and plot developments.

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

One of Sega's requirements for this, however, was that the Game Genie wouldn't work with games that have a save feature, such as the Phantasy Star or Shining Force series.

Other early video games known to make use of cut scenes as an extensive and integral part of the game include Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken in 1983 ; Valis in 1986 ; Phantasy Star, Maniac Mansion and La Abadía del Crimen in 1987 ; Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter, Star Cruiser and Ninja Gaiden in 1988 ; and Prince of Persia and Zero Wing in 1989, with the poor translation in Zero Wings opening cutscene giving rise to the ( in ) famous Internet meme " All your base are belong to us " in the 2000s.

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.

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 ).

Nintendo Powers staff has praised the game, saying that Phantasy Star " was the first RPG to break out of the Dragon Quest / Dungeons & Dragons mold of generic Arthurian fantasy by introducing sci-fi elements.

Phantasy Star II was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon, issue # 160, by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

Some examples are Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest, Metroid, Mega Man, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Phantasy Star, Megami Tensei, Ninja Gaiden, and Bomberman.

Battles work very similarly to those of Dragon Quest, Mother, and the fellow Sega RPG series Phantasy Star, in that they are first person and the player is placed in a position where the hero and team mates would be.

The company had a part based in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of some of the later Dreamcast games in Europe in fall 2001 and early 2002, including Headhunter, Shenmue II, Virtua Tennis 2, Floigan Bros, Rez, Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern, Phantasy Star Online version 2, NBA 2K2, Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles, Conflict Zone, Cannon Spike and Razor Freestyle Scooter.

" He suggested that, if " NEC can handle the mammoth translating job, Ziria could be the game hit of 1991 " unless, " of course, Nintendo counters with Zelda III or Dragon Warrior III, and Sega with Phantasy Star III.

Nintendo Power's staff has praised the original games, saying that Phantasy Star " was the first RPG to break out of the Dragon Quest / Dungeons & Dragons mold of generic Arthurian fantasy by introducing sci-fi elements.

Phantasy Star Online in particular is recognized as one of the most " revolutionary new games " of the past decade, for its impact in taking " consoles online " and defining " small-scale multiplayer RPGs ," paving the way for larger-scale MMORPG efforts such as Final Fantasy XI, setting the template for small-scale online RPGs such as Capcom's Monster Hunter series and some of the later Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games, and giving rise to " an entire pantheon of multiplayer dungeon crawlers that continue to dominate the Japanese sales charts.