Phantasy Star (Japanese: ファンタシースター) is the most famous RPG series by Sega. It has had many incarnations, including an online version. Contrary to most other RPGs, it has a futuristic/fantasy setting where the player battles monsters using a variety of guns in addition to the usual staple of melee weapons and magic that are found in similar games.
History
The first
Phantasy Star was for the
Sega Master System. It was first released in
Japan on
December 20,
1987, and was one of the first cartridges to include battery backed
RAM for
saving game positions. The game featured an amazing (at the time) set of
3D maze-like dungeons which you traversed in real time in a first person mode.
Phantasy Star, along with
Dragon Quest (1986) and
Final Fantasy, distinguished itself as a pioneer of what came to be defined
console role-playing.
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