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Phantasy Star IV | E1: Love and Friendship Around the Stars [Development History]
Description
Hello and welcome to the first episode of our eighth season! We're covering Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium for the next 25-to-70 weeks. On this two-parter of an intro episode, we're peeling the skin off the Fake Net, buying children a $212 videogame, charging more money for more megabits, realizing the Mega Drive was online in 1990, de-making to the NES, creating a million ports, overthinking world details, not just plagiarizing Dragon Quest, building love and friendship around the stars, making something no one else was making, loving Star Wars, having snacks with the staff, and wondering if we believe game localization's most powerful ego weirdo. The current millennium ends on December 31st 3000.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:54 What Is This Podcast
00:03:34 Release Information
00:10:52 Ports
00:19:54 Playing Phantasy Star IV in 2025
00:24:55 Development History / Interviews
01:06:42 Real Net
01:13:56 Outro
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