Final Fantasy (NES) Opening + Introduction

[RavingRabbidsball]

What's the theme from 0:37 called?

I've heard it in FF III and IV but I just don't know what it's called

[keithramer123]

What's the song at the very beginning? Is that from ... Runescape?

[CoolerKing37]

@keithramer123 It's the Forest Maze theme from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.

[overkill1340]

Thank you, Square's A Team, for making the masterpiece that would kick off one of the best video game series of all time. Oh... yeah... and thanks for entertaining me as far back as 1990.

[DoubleMGames]

0:14-0:30 is the most soothing song to me to this day i would record it and play it on an endless loop untill i fall to sleep....

[InvernoEstivo]

It... makes me so teary. I don't know, I started with FFVIII eleven years ago, but THIS opening...

[pom0ify]

i love the first final fantasy back on famicom, but it's generally regarded as being an awful game because of it's complexity and how tedious it was to do anything. 2 was a much improved game, yet without any drastic changes since it was also from the NES era

[tomkcheng]

I have heard a dozen versions of this song hundreds of times, and each time takes me back to the day I got this NES game at launch from Target in Waterloo, Iowa. At first I was disappointed that the game came with no black sleeve like most NES games at the time. Once I started playing Final Fantasy games, I would spend the next twenty years of my life wishing I could cross that bridge again for the first time.

[princekoezk]

Old Good Game :) ... i still play this game at SNES

[jackontc]

0:34 my tears wont stop when i hear it...soo....omg cant explain

[SergeantLuke]

I hate this game. It totally ruined the Final Fantasy franchise. The plot, graphics, and gameplay just couldn't live up to the nothing that came before it. Honestly, the FF franchise has sold out. It was SO much better when it didn't exist.

[livekillers]

@SergeantLuke well this the FIRST final fantasy on the entire franchise... now thats what i call success! start small and next thing you know its a multi million dollar game its like a light bulb then hello computers

[SergeantLuke]

@livekillers I'm only joking. This game is awesome. I was making fun of all the classic FF fanboys who love to criticize every new game in the series as "not living up to the ones before it".

[jamesellis33]

ah my first Final fantasy ^^ this breaks back good memories...

[tohopes]

My brother and I used to play this together when we were little.

Funny how they don't mention Uematsu or Sakaguchi in the opening credits!

[SlLENTHlLL]

Wow, this guy was running some really intense and horrible smoothing/antialiasing on the emulator...

[jglsd1]

This is REAL Final Fantasy. Not this teen angst love FMV movie ultra slick graphics, crappy pop music, mainstream, aimed at 13 year old girls, uninspired crap!

[ProbableFiction]

Absolutely epic.

[reddragonlaser]

does anyone reconize the second song is the same as in Final fantasy 4.

[r0bz0rly]

@reddragonlaser that song is in all final fantasies. so is the prelude.

[weglarz]

ArtificialRaven FTW!

[VegasBilgeRat]

I'd have to give full credit to The Legend of Zelda for hooking me into the fantasy genre, but this game cemented it into my psyche. I got about 1/2 way thru this game and FF2 came out for SNES.

FF2 is my favorite console game of all time (yea, i know, i'm old). That game blew me away as a kid. To this day, the music of FF1, 2, and 3 evoke strong nostalgic feelings and warm fuzzies.

LOVE FF !!

[LordClefairy]

Anyone else think the second theme is a bit reminiscent of the end credits theme in A Link to the Past? You know, the one playing while they show images from Hyrule.

[jhonnypaulie]

the opening music gives me the nostalgic shivers!

[1LuiSx77]

xDDD ¿Opening? WTF !!!!!!!!!!

[THEDARKMINK]

Where can i download the original music of final fantasy 2, and 3??

[damonrath]

so much better than the remakes...remember playing this when I was 6

[Duckhawk2]

This... better than the remakes... imho... can we get the sequals on VC please... no... no... DS remakes... just the sequals on the NES... in English if possible... only i wait for this.

[TheQueenLori]

You uploaded up this on MY 22nd Birthday? WOW!

[TheQueenLori]

So THAT'S where Final Fantasy 7 credits got it from! I thought the 7th one was the only one that had this song 0:33.

[Forzatoadv]

Just thinking that this game was called Final Fantasy because Square was ruined, and that they made such a heartfelt intro song like Prologue, it makes me really smile

[bbhoodmel]

True,

There story is a real fairy tale.

[PetrosofSparta]

And so began one of the greatest series of stories ever told, a series that quite frankly every time I hear that Prelude or Prologue theme makes me have a tiny little orgasm.

[MasterofMindSlaves]

Ha, I still Remember the Team that I Used for this Game! Fighter, Thief, White Mage, & Black Mage.

[MegamanNG]

I just chose that combination for my first run of this. I just got Final Fantasy off the Wii VC.

[UnmaskedPyro]

When I first heard that introduciton song after you first beat Garland and save the useless princess, it was one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard, even to this day

It gives me hope

It brings a tear to my eye

[Valierice]

This game, just over 20 years ago shined with its beauty from within.

It doesn't shine much, now. D:

[notyoursavior78]

It's still cool though. Gotta respect the old school.

[roothands]

This is the only FF game I ever played

[Lightness1882]

Really? That's rare, even though this is the first game, 99% of FF players started on a later one.

[roothands]

I was only really into video games as a kid, which was around the time the NES came out (and later I played the Sega Genesis and the N64, but after that my interest in video games kind of petered out). Most people I know started with FF7, and I always meant to get around to playing FF6 but I never have the time.

[Ztinkyy]

@Lightness1882 Then I guess 99% of FF players aren't hardcore enough.  Sux to be you guys!

[EmperorXaozx]

@Lightness1882 Like me,I played a bit of the ff8 demo and moved on to dissidia and crisis core.Even if I did play the origionals I would probably not know where to get the more important items,much less know what they do.

[Zeithri]

@Lightness1882 - I started with FF7, played my way to 4, 5 and 6. But FF1 is the one I truely love the most.

[bla287]

@Lightness1882 Here in Europe the FF series never was a big thing: the first FF released here was VII in 1997.

I never heard much about the series myself and that's why I started with it as late as Jan 2010. Since then I played through the games in that order: I, III, IV (easytype), V, VI, IV (hardtype), VII (not finished yet).

I played all of them in their original versions (via emulation/fan translations)

For some strange reason I'm not enjoying VII as much as everyone else does.

[chafenhimer]

@bla287 a lot of people don't like ff7

[AnnatarYoung]

@bla287 Not sure about the rest of Europe but Final Fantasy is huge here in England. So much so that Nobuo Uematsu's Distant Worlds tour sold out the Royal Albert Hall in a matter of days.

[bla287]

@AnnatarYoung Yeah, things are a bit different nowadays of course: If Wikipedia is right then the first time that Uematsu's music has been performed live outside Japan was even here in Germany at a game music concert (Leipzig 2003).

I was rather thinking about pre-FFVII days. I grew up on the SNES with Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong etc. but I didn't hear about FF until some years ago, neither did any of my friends back then.

[AnnatarYoung]

@bla287 Well it certainly took alot longer to reach us than other titles but mark me, Final Fantasy exploded here with the release of VII and the Final Fantasy series is still massively popular here.

[Nightweaver1]

@Lightness1882 Not me. I started on the ground floor with this one. I was there from the very beginning, back in 1990.

[skillsurfer22]

@Lightness1882 Thats kuz they suck

[wolfschmidt11]

in 2007 final fantasy marks the 20th anniversary,this year,we mark the 22nd anniversary of this brand since it was first released in december 18,1987

[wolfschmidt11]

Nintendo released this game in 1990 since this game was released in december,1987.

[wolfschmidt11]

japan's release: december 18,1987

[wolfschmidt11]

the best video game I always love.

[wolfschmidt11]

programmed by nasir

character design:yoshitaka amano

scenario:kenji terada

production of square a-team.

[pepejlgr1983]

Thank you very much, This was my first rpg game and the best of nes, but this music is really beautifull, the most beautifull of oll rpg games.

[HyperShan3]

If you love RPG games, try Golden Sun on GBA, The music is just as beautiful as the gameplay (in my opinion).

[pepejlgr1983]

Thanks man, I´ll see it.

[lmphk]

Awesome, AR. I wanna play this now.