With 400, 000 copies sold, Final Fantasy spawned multiple sequels over the years and became Square's main franchise.

Final Fantasy Chronicles is a compilation of Square's role-playing video games Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger, released for the North American Sony PlayStation on June 29, 2001.

Despite the self-described " disastrous " interview with composer Nobuo Uematsu and sound programmer Minoru Akao, in which he claimed to only want the job as a " stepping stone " in his career and admitted that he had never played many of Square's biggest games, such as the Final Fantasy series, Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April 1992.

The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, though most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.

is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Square's ( now Square Enix's ) role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII and several of its sequels and spin-offs.

That year saw the release of Square's Parasite Eve, which combined elements from Resident Evil with the RPG gameplay of Final Fantasy.

Global popularity of video game music would begin to surge with Square's 1990s successes, particularly with Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII by Nobuo Uematsu and with Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Chrono Cross by Yasunori Mitsuda.

The following year, Square's popular role-playing video game, Final Fantasy VII, included a snowboarding minigame that was later released as an indepdendent snowboarding game, Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding, for mobile phones.

Another example of an omake in popular culture is related to Square's Final Fantasy IX.

Tajiri was also influenced by Square's Game Boy game The Final Fantasy Legend, noting in an interview that the game gave him the idea that more than just action games could be developed for the handheld.

He started off debugging Final Fantasy IV and creating sound effects for Romancing SaGa, as there were not enough game projects in development to open up new jobs for Square's new hires, but Kikuta was soon given game soundtracks to compose.

is an optional player character in Square's ( now Square Enix ) 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII.

is a fictional character in Square's ( now Square Enix ) role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII.

Afterward, Matsueda created 25 pieces of background music for Square's PlayOnline viewer used for Final Fantasy XI and Tetra Master.

In 2000, the Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide was published by BradyGames, but much of the information was contained on Square's PlayOnline website.

The 32-bit era saw many influential tactical RPGs, such as Konami's 1996 Vandal Hearts series, which feature branching storylines that can be altered by the player's dialogue choices that lead to different endings, as well as Sega's 1997 Shining Force 3, SCEI's Arc the Lad Collection ( 1996 – 1999 ), and Square's 1997 Final Fantasy Tactics and 1999 Front Mission 3.

This graphical method is not only suited to racing games ; it is also used extensively for the overworld sections of role-playing games such as Square's popular 1994 game Final Fantasy VI.

This game started Square's popular and long-running Final Fantasy series.

* December 18, Square's Hironobu Sakaguchi releases Final Fantasy for the Famicom in Japan.

The game's music staff consisted of Nobuo Uematsu, famous for his involvement in the Square's Final Fantasy series, and Kenji Ito.

He later went on to serve more as an executive producer of the series, as well as many of Square's other games, including Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve and Kingdom Hearts.

This distinguished the series from most of Square's titles.

Holzer has compiled a series of statements and aphorisms (" truisms ") and has publicised them in a variety of ways: listed on street posters, in telephone booths, and even, in 1982, on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards.

series, Namco's Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square's Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza and Sam and others in cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road.

The move to real-time combat began with the release of Square's ( now Square Enix's ) Final Fantasy IV, the first game to use the Active Time Battle system ; this was quickly followed by truly real-time role-playing games such as the Mana series, Soul Blazer and Ultima VII.

It was completed in 1906 and the Paola Park Square's Victorian-style gazebo is from 1913.

A plan was approved in March 2005 that allowed the Town Square's area to be doubled.

In 1994, after threatening to quit to Square's vice president, Hironobu Sakaguchi, he was assigned to compose the soundtrack to Chrono Trigger.

In 1987, Square's 3-D WorldRunner was an early stereoscopic 3-D shooter played from a third-person perspective, followed later that year by its sequel JJ, and the following year by Space Harrier 3-D which used the SegaScope 3-D shutter glasses.

Another proposal was to build a ring road which would have required destroying many of Pioneer Square's buildings.

In North America, Vagrant Story was released as part of Square's " Summer of Adventure " that lasted from May to September 2000.

It was also featured in a 1983 Life magazine photograph feature, as well as a 1987 animated film as Kenmore Square's " neon god ".

Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford.

This was a natural role for the Square as Lower Manhattan below 14th Street, which forms Union Square's southern border, briefly became a " frozen zone ," with no non-emergency vehicles allowed and pedestrians sometimes stopped and asked why they were venturing south by police and national guardsmen.

The Square's tradition as a meeting place in times of upheaval was also a factor.

On September 4, 2008, the English language version was released in Japan as, as part of Square's Ultimate Hits lineup.

In 1965, Benjamin Thompson and Associates renovated the lower floor of the Clock Tower, keeping the existing architectural elements, for a Design Research store .. Design Research was since purchased by Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn, while the lower floors of the Clock Tower are now home to Ghirardelli Square's main chocolate shop.

Worth noting is that this was Square's final game for a Nintendo console, released a scant two weeks before they announced their departure from Nintendo, until the release of Chocobo Land: A Game of Dice for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, in Japan.

The Farragut Memorial ( 1881 ), which was first erected at Fifth Avenue and 26th Street and moved to the Square's northern end in 1935, was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens ( sculpture ) and architect Stanford White ( base ).

His personal life was largely kept hidden from viewers, although he would occasionally reminisce about his and Albert Square's history, mainly with other characters supposedly born in the area, such as Ethel Skinner ( Gretchen Franklin ), Lou Beale ( Anna Wing ) and later Benny Bloom ( Arnold Yarrow ).

The field at the Merdeka Square's immediate vicinity was officially renamed ' Dataran Merdeka ' on 1 January 1990 in conjunction of Visit Malaysia Year 1990.

Many of Albert Square's residents initially rejected him when they found out that he was HIV positive.