Final Fantasy (NES) Opening + Introduction

The opening and introduction text from the Classic, Original Final Fantasy NES game.

I prefer the original FF over the remakes for PS1 and GBA simply because well...I'm old school. To me, graphics aren't as important as a good story, fun gameplay and challenge. The remakes didn't just come with better graphics and remixed music, They changed alot of other things such as the max levels you can reach and also enemy hit points.

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Entertainment

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• final
• fantasy
• nes
• nintendo
• opening
• intro

[Lightness1882]

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

[bbhoodmel]

True,

There story is a real fairy tale.

[CoolerKing37]

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

[skillsurfer22]

@Lightness1882 Thats kuz they suck

[Nightweaver1]

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

[keithramer123]

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

[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.

[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.

[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 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.

[chafenhimer]

@bla287 a lot of people don't like ff7

[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.