This was my first Video Game. When my parents got the NES, it came with the Mario/Duck Hunt combo cartridge. My sisters played that, while I played this. I've always had a strong love for medieval fantasy and this suited me so very well. I still love this game today.
I always thought that old-school games with NPCs should simply be designed so that you _couldn't_ be blocked, like for example make every corridor at least 2 tiles wide and make sure that the movements of the NPCs are restricted so that they cannot end up in the same corridors in the same numbers as the tile width of that corridor. I am not a game programmer by any means, but I highly doubt that those things would be particularly hard to accomplish.
I remember the days when I could play these games straight through with very little sleep...Just nod of for a tic & then resume playing...I had no life in 1992.
@@rheanonjasmyne You must have been very drunk since this game wasn't even released as a cartridge in europe or america.. Only famicom on japanese. lol EDIT: im very sorry i tought i was commenting on another video i was watching.. final fantasy 3. lol
I darn near wanted to cry as I recalled the music themes that were lodged in my brain somewhere in the 1990's. Nostalgia is a weird and powerful thing.
I'm just a few minutes in and already impressed by how far they pushed the NES' limits. Making dynamic interiors inside other interiors and all of that. Whoah. I'm pretty sure the dude behind this was a coding god back then. I also like how they got around the sprite limit by making the forward and backwards movement a single sprite that keeps mirroring so his feet look like they're moving. A masterpiece, if I was older I'd have probably enjoyed this for more than a few years.
Yup. This is a prime example of a game made with passion and skill. The team behind the game was going down and some of them didn't even believe in the project so those who were left did their very best, thinking it would be the last game they will ever make, hence the name. Not only the game turned out amazing, it became a milestone of the video game and redefined the RPG genre as a whole and shaped the J-RPG subgenre to this day. It also saved the team from bankruptcy and was so popular that they went from broke studio to one of the giants of the video game industry. A beautiful story, if I dare say...
@@silvergrove8517 Unfortunately its not even a true story. "Though often attributed to the company allegedly facing bankruptcy, Sakaguchi explained that the game was his personal last-ditch effort in the game industry and that its title, Final Fantasy, stemmed from his feelings at the time; had the game not sold well, he would have quit the business and gone back to university. Despite his explanation, publications have also attributed the name to the company's hopes that the project would solve its financial troubles. In 2015, Sakaguchi explained the name's origin: the team wanted a title that would abbreviate to "FF", which would sound good in Japanese. The name was originally going to be Fighting Fantasy, but due to concerns over trademark conflicts with the roleplaying gamebook series of the same name, they needed to settle for something else. As the word "Final" was a famous word in Japan, Sakaguchi settled on that. According to Sakaguchi, any title that created the "FF" abbreviation would have done. Straight from his own mouth.
Remember back when Nintendo Power put their issue for this game? I still have the world map and strategy guide. They've seen better days, but I have em!
As soon as the opening music started on here it was like an instant timewarp 25 years ago back to my childhood lol ... had a lot of fun playing these first few Final Fantasy games on the NES/SNES
Im 35, just played the game for the first time (i owned a SEGA Mastersystem), i played for 6 days & 4 hours a day to beat this game, and DESTROYED this game with ease. Went Fighter + Fighter + Red Mage + Black Mage. Protips: -You can grind gold & exp vs Orges around the 'Melmond' city area. -Use the Wizard's Heal Staff near the end of your battle to heal your party to save gold instead of using heal potions. -Cast 'Fast' at the START of your battles on each of your Fighter class heroes to do DOUBLE damage EACH strike!
That would also ask the question why they can sail an airship. At least, I've heard there's an airship in the game, I just haven't found it...either way, the setting seems kinda like our own; gross polluted ground, not too much wind, the sea is flooding in the south...and then there's a prophecy. My hypothesis is that the prophecy is this game. And then four commoners will save the world. I believe Final Fantasy is set in the near future. But now, we just need four Warriors of Light...
I picked up a copy of this game from a retro store this week in box with all the full color maps, monster stat sheets, weapons and armor guide, manual and even the hunk of packing foam for $90. Well worth it too, playing the game while cross checking your map and and the monster sheet... it feels like your playing an on screen table top game. Good clean fun. :)
nunavyour biznas I have a small collection of NES games and rarely buy games. Would you recommend this game for my collection? Or do you think there is a better RPG for the NES?
+Cactusman129 Back in those days, this WAS supposed to be their final game, hence the name, because they were going down. They were not expecting this game to become popular so this game save them. So therefore, I am guessing they were not planning to make any kind of sequels until they finally made the right game.
I'm playing this but the FF Origins version on PS. Man, graphics sure were updated. Also, even though I have already played most of the main installments, I quickly got into this game. I don't think I could ever imagine how this game hit the 80s, but I am glad it did and I am finally playing after 15 years when I played my first FF game (ff8). And man, I sure needed to buy equipment at the beginning because I lost in the first fight. I am used not to buy anything because I usually don't need it in the most recent FF games.
Where it all started. Love this game. Interesting party selection. I usually go with the fighter, monk, black mage and white mage. I can see where a red mage in the party would give more options.
I picked the original NES game up back in 2001 and it was pretty damn tedious to level up the guys at the beginning of the game. Spent 2 or 3 hours just walking around beating up on light weights until I had decent stats for the dungeons. It's best if you do not give the black belt character any weapons as he does tons more physical damage with just his fists.
I love grinding a bunch and thinking your over level to find out that it is basically a requirement. This game is amazing aside from the bugs. Only flaw from these days was games were new on cartridge and not enough quality testing was done which surprises me coming from Nintendo.
Played this on the NES when it came out, every time before my characters would level up I'd save the game, fight a monster, level up, and look at how many points I got...if I got too few points I'd push the NES reset button and repeat...over and over and over until I got a high result. Made my characters way stronger... 11yr old hacking lol. Bought this on the iPhone a few years ago and the same trick worked on the iPhone as well...had to swipe the game closed and relaunch...over and over and over... :D
*Fun Fact From the Facts Machine* Did you know that this game was named “Final Fantasy” by game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi because if the game was a flop he was prepared to stop designing video games and go back to college to try something else. Facts.
Really? there’s conflicting reports on this, as this was stated by Nobou Uematsu, the games composer. In a later interview with Sakaguchi, he explained he wanted it to be called Fighting Fantasy but couldn’t due to a table top board game taking that name
Outstanding ! I won this game long time ago on the original NES (not emulated). Used 3 fighters and one white wizard. Took forever ! Those random encounters really slug the game down.
Idk why people complain about grinding it is fun. It's where you play the meat of the game. I would rather a game be long as hell and hard to play than easy and short because most of us have beat these games before and I like to implement rules to make it more tough. If the games are easy to begin with you can't even do that.
The music still holds up 36 years later am just playing through the pixel remasters never had these as a kid ff7 was the first time I was introduced to final fantasy was hooked on FF and RPGs after that
The game is sooooo awesome, even for a nostalgia title. I have this on my IPhone and my party consists of a White Mage, Warrior, Black Belt, & Thief. I know I'm lame because I named my white Mage Gandalf, my warrior Aragorn, my black belt Legolas, and my Thief Frodo :)
@@wolker213 If you can’t enjoy the SNES FF games then you’re shallow ….you aren’t a real RPG fan, the NES ones I can get but, 4-6 are amazing games of their own rights so STFU…
Your not the only one. Need to lock yourself in a room with milk and cookies put blankets up like a tent and get a small tv to play it on and don’t forget to turn your phone off!
This was my first NES game ever, to this day I love digging out the box, maps and charts and going through it again, I'm doing it again now, doing much more leveling up than I ever bothered to do as a kid, and not allowing any of my members to die ever so everyone is at the same exp. I'm at Level 18 now and I just barely got the ruby lol
Heh, only after like 10 min I realized the names you put on the party members. I miss games that let you name things like characters or even your saves :(
It should be known that one of the battle themes in FFIV (or FFII to we Americans) sounds similar in places to the original NES FF battle theme. That Nobuo Uematsu sure was a creative genius for putting "leitmotifs" in his FF scores.
I have the NES Mini, and I spent a fair amount of time playing this game. At first, my team was the Fighter, Black Belt, W. Mage and B. Mage, but I started a new file replacing Black Belt with a R. Mage because a guy I talked to on discord told me that Black Belt class gets weaker overtime and their bare fists are stronger than the weapons they can equip as they get stronger. As for Thief, he told me that there's a glitch on their speed stat and their stats are mediocre if I recall his words. So far I'm doing pretty good having strong weapons, armor, and decent Black and White magic.
From the day you make one to the day you complete the game you never, EVER waste any g on a weapon for the Bl. Belt Master. They will always do better damage bare handed.
I was very little when I played this game on the nes. I first watched my older brother play it and then I tried it. The enemys are pretty hard to grind from the gecko
As a young child that didn't know how RPG worked (and not knowing much English), I used to pick four fighters and go straight to Garland without buying anything, hope that I would survive with some luck and at 18:31, I thought that I had beaten the game and that was the end credits, and the gameplay after that was just post-end game content. "Why make the game more complicated than it needs to be?", I thought. But I also thought the battles was a bit boring because I couldn't fight control the characters, only tell them what to do and just stand there and take it while the enemies attack. Since I didn't know better, I just picked "Fight" until all the enemies were dead and hoping that I wouldn't die before I reached Garland.
Why have we modern gamers grown apart from classical 8 bit games like this one? Sure there was no blood and guts and age ratings for that matter, but we flocked to the classical 8 bit games anyway! No other game that I know of as of late can top the bridge scene!
If you want to play this on ps1 is awesome but it requires lots and lots of grinding in order to advance levels and get access to new weapons, spells, etc but it is worth it, it is so much fun, much better than the NES version.
I think that all of the the final fantasy video games and computer games would be really really super fun to play if they didn't have all of these continuing non stop battles :-)
Wizardry Ultima Dragon Quest are what influenced this game. Hard to believe with all those mixed together made the best rpg for its time that is till part 3 came out on the nes real ground breaking.
The Pokemon idea was stolen from Final Fantasy. Pokemon is a copy from some some old japanese RGP-games. The most of them gives only in japan. in this time we play japan-rpg as import or as us-version. in europe we dont have the most of them. the first final fantasy-parts we know it only as us-import or japan-import. When we play the us Final Fantasy 3 then we play the japan Final Fantasy 6. It was the time bevore the internet. lol
Final Fantasy(1987) Part 1. The Adventure Begins Plot: Viki And The Dino Explorers venture into the land to rescue Princess Skya who was kidnapped by D-Structs in the Shrine and get the Elemental Crystals That are called Fire, Water, Wind, And Earth(The Crystals Look Like The Element Crystals Dash has) but Viki Asks Lucas For Assistance to get the Magic Elemental Crystals That are Guarded by the Organization Masks. To Be Continued for The Second Part....... Characters: Dino Explorers: Viki/Pink Fighter Gigglebug/Orange Monk Tomo/Blue Master Lola/Purple Ninja Dash & Click/Black Mage & White Mage Rex/Red Mage Ping/Green Thief Bibi Lucas Allies: Skya Milady Enemies: D-Structs Organization Masks: Gargan Demons: Imp Wolf Ogre Pirate Arachnid Odd Eye Sahagin Creep Grey Wolf Shadow Spider Scum Red Bone Zombie Ghoul Bone Muck Crawler Scorpion Gargoyle Grey Imp Geist Werewolf Wizard Cobra Regions: Cornelia
This Is The 1st Game To Have Some Parts. Part 1. The Adventure Begins Part 2. Get The Crystals Part 3. Defeat The Organization Masks Part 4. The Final Battle Next Generation Game..... Final Fantasy II New Characters: Qumi Tribes: Juga Yusi Shumadan New Support Partners: Angel Dust New Allies: Vulk Charlie Magne Lunk Alastor
Next Generation Games: Final Fantasy II(7 Parts) Final Fantasy III(7 Parts) Final Fantasy IV(9 Parts Final Fantasy V(7 Parts) Final Fantasy VI(7 Parts) Final Fantasy VII(4 Parts) Final Fantasy VIII(4 Parts) Final Fantasy IX(5 Parts) Final Fantasy X(13 Parts)
There's always a chance that it will be done. After all, there are longplays of the same game done on different systems. It just takes someone willing to do them.
5) The music. This is 8-bit music in all its glory. I especially love the temple of fiends theme. 6) Younguns are so spoiled with story, yes later games had better stories, however, you got to take into account limited cartridge space for the NES. This was as good as you're going to get for such limitations. 7) Future RPG's modeled themselves after Final Fantasy. And there's a reason behind it. You ever played Kingdom Hearts? 'Nuff said. Continue on for more reasons.
Tbh the story still could have been less basic and cliche but at the very least it does what it does well? i think growing up with later games or media you see stories like FF as the most barebones basic European medieval fantasy story about Fighting Evil and other vague things
Clearly, you've never played later Final Fantasy games. They are all about story. BTW, Kingdom Hearts is filled with Final Fantasy VII characters. Because Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts are owned by the same company: Square Enix.
um does no one know that the masamune used as an item will quicken your character and in some of the games(ff 1 cartridges on nes) actually it quickens your whole party ??
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