is the longest swan song of all time. It was never meant to last, but now, more than two decades later, it remains the most recognizable name in role-playing games. More of an idea than a true series, it has evolved into something that a young would never recognize and almost single-handedly turned a small, struggling company into an international powerhouse. In the twenty years since it first arrived on Japanese Famicom systems, it's never once relied on nostalgia or conceded to rest on its laurels. Every new game has continued to press forward, and that's precisely what makes it one of the most interesting stories in game history.
joined Square right out of college. At only 21 years old, he started his journey to bring the software company into the world of computer games. You could scarcely pick a more exciting time to be a gamer, as the Nintendo Famicom was giving birth to a new console market, and a generation of 8-bit computers explored new kinds of games never possible in the arcades. Western genres like adventure games and RPGs were creeping onto the Japanese systems, and pretty soon, they'd eclipse the arcade shooters of old.
joined Square right out of college. At only 21 years old, he started his journey to bring the software company into the world of computer games. You could scarcely pick a more exciting time to be a gamer, as the Nintendo Famicom was giving birth to a new console market, and a generation of 8-bit computers explored new kinds of games never possible in the arcades. Western genres like adventure games and RPGs were creeping onto the Japanese systems, and pretty soon, they'd eclipse the arcade shooters of old.