' A paper by Susan Isaacs ( 1952 ) on " The nature and function of Phantasy "... has been generally accepted by the Klein group in London as a fundamental statement of their position '.

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 ).

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.

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.

" Sega Pro magazine gave the original Phantasy Star a 90 % score, while RPGamer has given it a perfect score of 10 out of 10 in 2007.

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.

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 ).

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.

Since its release Phantasy Star II has been the subject of universal acclaim from critics, fans and RPG enthusiasts alike.

Rolf has never been given an official surname in any Phantasy Star II related media, although fans often refer to him as " Rolf Landale " because of his connection to Alis.

Phantasy Star II has made a number of " Greatest Games of all Time " lists: it was number 97 on EGM's list of The 200 Greatest Games of Their Time, and in August 2005 it was inducted into GameSpot's Greatest Games of All Time list.

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

Haré + Guu opens with a pregnant Weda leaving her home in the city ... then flashes forward to the present where Hare starts off playing a Phantasy Star knockoff, and is a typical boy living in the jungle with his lazy mother who has him go fetch bananas for her.

* Phantasy Star IV has a remix of " Pao-Pao " playing when a group of dancing girls come on a stage in the Hunters Guild in Aiedo.

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 has a number of features new to the series, including a more-streamlined battle system, an addition of many manga-style panel illustrations that accompany the narrative, an expanded script, and a much reduced difficulty curve compared to the previous entries in the series.

The story begins on the planet Motavia, which has gone through dramatic climate changes since the end of Phantasy Star II.

He has a moderately-large pool of techniques, allowing him to deal great damage with spells, a trait he shares with previous Phantasy Star protagonists.

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

* Court Lane Music has recorded a CD of her string chamber music .. Works include the Phantasy Quartet, Sonata for Violin and Cello, String Trio No. 1, The Fall of the Leaf, Duo for Viola and Piano, and the String Quintet.

* Nikkei News reports that the video game Phantasy Star Online ( for Dreamcast ) has had 300, 000 worldwide users login already by midyear.

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 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.

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 ).

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

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

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.

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

A Nintendo GameCube and Xbox version titled Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II was released in 2002.

An upgraded version of the Nintendo Gamecube version titled Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus was released for the Nintendo GameCube on November 27, 2003 in Japan and on September 15, 2004 in North America.

A Microsoft Windows version of the game titled Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst was released on July 15, 2004 in Japan, June 23, 2005 in North America and Europe.

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.

A remake, named Phantasy Star Generation 2, was released in Japan for the PlayStation 2 in 2005 as a part of Sega Ages.

A limited edition Phantasy Star Online 4x Memory Card was also released in Japan to coincide with the games release.

The game was ported as part of the Phantasy Star Collection for the Sega Saturn, released only in Japan.

However, the Sega Ages website confirmed that a port of Phantasy Star Collection for the PlayStation 2 featuring all four of the original games would be released, leaving the previously announced remake in development limbo.

Although the Master System is easily capable of displaying more complex first-person scenes than those found in Ultima IV ( see Phantasy Star ), this version's dungeons are viewed from a top-down perspective, much like those of Ultima VI, which was released the same year.

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.