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 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.

For example, the Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst online video game uses Blowfish in ECB mode.

Phantasy Star II instead uses a top-down perspective for exploration and a third-person view in battles.

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.

The first issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, published May 1989, listed Phantasy Star as the # 2 game in its " Top Ten Games " list ( behind only Blaster Master for the NES ), describing it as a " new breed of adventure game that could set the standard for future RPG titles.

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 the first 16-bit role-playing game released in the west ( it was released months before the original 8-bit Final Fantasy for the NES ) and it was the first video game to use a 6 mega-bit cartridge.

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

In 1935 Gogarty published his first prose work, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street ( subtitled " A Phantasy in Fact "), a semi-fictional novel-memoir that tells, in reverse chronological order, the story of Gogarty's Dublin through a series of interconnected anecdotes and lively characters sketches.

Since the first installment in 1987, Espers have been a recurring group in Sega's Phantasy Star series ; Part 1, 2 and 4 all featured important, sometimes playable Esper characters ; the most notable being the character Lutz.

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.

* Phantasy Star ( video game ), the first in the Phantasy Star series

* Oliver St. John Gogarty publishes his first prose work, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact.

However, Portuguese audiences would have to wait for a 2004 fan translation, as End of the Millennium became the first Phantasy Star title not to be officially translated to Portuguese by Tec Toy.

The Sega Ages project planned a remake of this game for the PlayStation 2 console, having revamped the first two games: Phantasy Star Generation 1 and Phantasy Star Generation 2.

The Maze War style view was first adopted by Moria in 1975, an early RPG on the PLATO network, and further popularized by Ultima and Wizardry, eventually appearing in bitmapped form in games like Dungeon Master, Phantasy Star, Eye of the Beholder and countless others.

* Sega releases Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System, the first in the company's most successful series of role-playing video games.

* December 20, Sega releases Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System, it was one of the first RPGs to have a Sci-Fi / Fantasy setting and also the first to bear a female protagonist.

While a student at Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois in the mid-1980s, a chance introduction to acid house pioneer DJ Pierre gave the then 15-year-old Stallings his break, and under the patronage and guidance of Pierre, he released his first single, " Phantasy Girl ," in 1987.

Phantasy Star III appears at first to take place in a medieval fantasy setting, in contrast to the science-fiction settings of previous games.

Frank Bridge won second prize in the first competition with his Phantasy for String Quartet.

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.

Boys ' Life in 1988 predicted that Phantasy Star as well as The Legend of Zelda games may represent the future of home video games, combining the qualities of both arcade and computer games.

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

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.

* Hideaki Kobayashi ( born 1973 ), video game composer, writer of the music in Phantasy Star Online

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 ).

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* CAST ( race ), a race of androids in the Phantasy Star series of video games

Hoverboards have made appearances in other video games, including Conker's Bad Fur Day, EyeToy: Antigrav, Hoverboard ASDF, Jak II, Jak 3, Jazz Jackrabbit, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Kid Chameleon, the Mega Man series, Phantasy Star Universe, Ratchet and Clank, Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, Smallworlds, Streak: Hoverboard Racing, The Urbz: Sims in the City ( DS and GBA versions ), There, Trick Style, Wariness, Inc .: Mega Microgames!

* Seth ( Phantasy Star IV ), fictional character from the video game Phantasy Star IV

The video game Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II had a duping glitch, which was activated by talking repeatedly with a walking NPC and a merchant.

In the finale of the music video for Dark Legacy, Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka are shown playing on stage at the historic Phantasy Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio.

Since its release Phantasy Star IV has been subject to very positive critical acclaim and is viewed today as one of the greatest role-playing video games of all time.

Phantasy Star IV is an archetypal role-playing video game in the spirit of the series, featuring the staples of exploration, NPC interaction, and turn-based combat.

In their list of the 25 greatest video game consoles of all time ( a list where the Sega Genesis was ranked fifth ), multimedia website IGN listed Phantasy Star IV as one of the 5 definitive titles for the system.

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