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.

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.

Unique amongst all games of the time was the faux 3-D graphics of Phantasy Star's Dungeons, a widely praised technological feature.

In 2003, Phantasy Star received an enhanced makeover, and was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan under the title of ファンタシースター generation: 1 ( Phantasy Star Generation 1 ).

After Sega shelved work on the Phantasy Star IV remake, however, the North American release of the trilogy was canceled.

Originally slated for United States and European release by Conspiracy Games, it was later announced as a part of the Phantasy Star Trilogy, a compilation of the remakes of Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star II, and Phantasy Star IV.

In August 2012, a complete fan translation of Phantasy Star Generation 1 was released for download on the fan site Phantasy Star Cave.

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.

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.

It was followed in 2001 by Phantasy Star Online ver.

In 2002, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II was released for the Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox.

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.

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.

During development, the game was initially known as The Third World and had a vague sci-fi theme, before art director Satoshi Sakai produced a piece of concept art featuring a dragon and the decision was made to link it to the Phantasy Star series.

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.

The series ' primary antagonist, Dark Force, the embodiment of evil, returns in Phantasy Star II as one of the enemies Rolf and his friends must defeat.

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

* In Phantasy Star Universe, Opa-Opa appears in one of the random attacks from the cast SUV " Ascension Gift ".

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 often seen by fans, critics and RPG enthusiasts alike one of the greatest 16 bit role-playing games of all time and one of the best games Sega ever developed.

RPGamer awarded Phantasy Star IV a score of 9 / 10, with the reviewer praising the title as one of the best RPGs they've ever played.

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.

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

* 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.

In this new setting, 1, 000 years after Phantasy Star, Motavia is no longer a desert world, but has been mostly converted into one lush with vegetation and animal life, thanks to a system-wide computer network known as Mother Brain.

Several colony ships fled from the disaster, and one of those ships, the Alisa III, is the setting of Phantasy Star III.

Phantasy Star is also recognized as featuring one of the first female lead characters, Alis Landale, alongside Samus Aran of Metroid.

Phantasy Star II was considered one of the best role-playing games of its time, and is regarded as " a game of many firsts " according to Nintendo Power.

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.