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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. Preceded by Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star became one of the first noteworthy console role-playing games in existence.

The Phantasy Star series is noteworthy in that all of the games take place in the same universe, as opposed to many RPG series such as Final Fantasy
(where each successive game takes place in an entirely different alternate universe). Each major Phantasy Star game adds a bit more to the series' overall story, culminating in Phantasy Star IV which ties all of the series' plot elements together into a final, epic conclusion.

The Phantasy Star Online games are their own sub-series. They continue the theme of a persistent game-universe, but it is a different one than the original games.

Phantasy Star series games have been released on the Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and PC. These include:

Phantasy Star (Sega Master System
, 1987/Sega Mega Drive, 1992)
Phantasy Star II (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC
(RealArcade) 1989).
Phantasy Star: Anne's Adventure (Sega Meganet
modem, 1991)
Phantasy Star: Huey's Adventure (Sega Meganet
modem, 1991)
Phantasy Star: Kind's Adventure (Sega Meganet
modem, 1991)
Phantasy Star: Shilka's Adventure (Sega Meganet
modem, 1991)
Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1991)
Phantasy Star Adventure (Japanese Game Gear
, 1992)
Phantasy Star Gaiden (Japanese Game Gear, 1992)
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1994)
Phantasy Star Collection (Japanese Sega Saturn
, 1998).
Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast
, PC
, 2001)
Phantasy Star Online ver.2 (Dreamcast
, 2002)
Phantasy Star Collection (Game Boy Advance
, 2002)
Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II (GameCube
, Xbox
, 2002)
Phantasy Star Generation 1 (PlayStation 2
, 2003 Japan, soon in North America)
Phantasy Star Online: Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (Nintendo GameCube
only), 2004)
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus (Nintendo Gamecube, 2004)
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (PC
only), 2004
Phantasy Star Universe (PC
, PlayStation 2
) -- TBD 2006 (Japan & North America)

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