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Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, known as Phantasy Star: Sennenki no Owari ni (ファンタシースター 千年紀の終りに) in Japan, is an entry in the Phantasy Star series. Phantasy Star IV marks the end of the "classic" Phantasy Star series, and was the last to be released for the Sega Mega Drive. In the US and Japan, it was overshadowed and outsold by the SNES exclusive Final Fantasy VI.
The series would continue after a six year gap with Phantasy Star Online for the Sega Dreamcast.
Contents
History
Development
Plans were put in place to include pseudo-3D stages like in the original Phantasy Star but the idea was scrapped during development.
A Sega Mega-CD version was announced, but was not released.
Production credits
- Original Story Plan: T.Yoshida
- Script: A.Nishiyama
- Sound Direction: I.Takeuchi
- Battle-System Plan: K.Tsugawa
- Battle Program: Y.Endou
- Battle Program Assist: M.Hunabashi
- Monster Graphic Design: K.Tsugawa, T.Yoshida, A.Nishiyama, T.Mori
- Battle B-G Design: R.Kodama, K.Tsugawa
- System Plan: A.Nishiyama
- System Program: D.Yamamoto
- System Program Assist: M.Shibata
- Field Graphic Design: R.Kodama
- Character Design: T.Yoshida
- Mechanic Design: K.Tsugawa, A.Nishiyama
- Map Design: T.Yoshida, A.Nishiyama, K.Tsugawa, T.Mori
- Object Design: A.Nishiyama, K.Tsugawa, T.Yoshida, R.Kodama
- Font Design: A.Nishiyama
- Visual Event Plan: T.Yoshida
- Papet Event Plan: A.Nishiyama
- Event Program: D.Yamamoto
- Event Program Assist: M.Shibata
- Visual Event Graphic: T.Yoshida, R.Kodama, K.Tsugawa, T.Mori
- Music Compose: I.Takeuchi, M.Nakagaki
- Sound Program: I.Takeuchi, Y.Kashima
- Sound Effect: I.Takeuchi, M.Nakagaki
- Special Thanks: M.Kanari, K.Hayashida, T.Uwabo, Y.Takeuchi, A.Nakamura, K.Morita, T.Ogawa, S.Sannabe, H.Tanaka, T.Takezaki, Y.Nagumo, A.Aizawa, Y.Sakuta, T.Nakamura, T.Narita, S.Kawahira, K.Ono, T.Oohara, K.Shirahata, Y.Okadaya, T.Itou, A.Yamazaki, T.Kuroda, J.Kakuta
- Direction: R.Kodama, T.Yoshida
- Created by: Team PSIV
- Presented by: Sega
- Directors: Rieko Kodama, Tohru Yoshida, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
- Planners: Kazuyoshi Tsugawa, Akinori Nishiyama
- Programmers: Yoshiaki Endo, Daisuke Yamamoto, Masatoshi Shibata, Makoto Funabashi
- Producer: Jerry Markota
- Product Manager: Jaime Wojick
- Coodinator: Masanobu Tsukamoto
- Text Translation: Shippy Ohka
- Text Editors: Jerry Markota, David Forster, David Wood
- Assistant Lead Testers: David Wood, Gregg Vogt
- Testers: Crisi Albertson, Janine Cook, John Amirkhan, Derek Carmichael, Arnold Feener, Todd Pifer, Stanley Weaver, Mike Callahan, Ed Chennault, Randy Kreidt, Rachael Bristol, Peter Clark, Mark Griffin, Michael Wu
- Manual: Wendy Dinsmore
- Special Thanks: Clint Dyer, John Sauer, Rick Raymo
Digital manuals
Steam manual
Magazine articles
Promotional material
JP TV Advert
Print advert in Game Players (US) #0802: "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (1995-0x-xx)
also published in:
also published in:
- Sega Visions (US) #23: "February/March 1995" (199x-xx-xx)[9]
- GamePro (US) #68: "March 1995" (1995-xx-xx)[10]
- Sega Visions (US) #24: "May 1995" (1995-xx-xx)[11]
Artwork
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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| Based on 32 reviews | |
| Mega Drive, US |
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 Cover
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 Cart  Manual |
| Mega Drive, EU |
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 Cover
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 Cart  Manual |
| Mega Drive, JP |
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 Cover
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   Cart  Manual  Map |
| Mega Drive, KR |
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 Cover
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 Cart |
Virtual Console version
External links
- Phantasy Star IV section at Phantasy Star Cave
- Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium on Steam
References
- ↑ File:GamePlayers US 0802.pdf, page 11
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/07.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-05 23:01)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_ps4/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-08-03 03:56)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/lKuYbTg2KNxhISx3_pUAzqHsn47_fgCO (Wayback Machine: 2010-11-22 22:50)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/phantasy_star_iv (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-25 04:25)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 https://steamdb.info/app/211205/ (Wayback Machine: 2017-05-23 21:21)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 http://steamdb.info/app/211205/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 19:37)
- ↑ File:Psiv md us manual.pdf, page 42
- ↑ Sega Visions, "February/March 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 67
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 63
- ↑ Sega Visions, "May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 35
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 File:CDConsoles FR 11.pdf, page 142 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 174
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1994" (JP; 1993-12-08), page 25
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 72
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 35
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 4, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 166
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 3, Issue 4: April 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 18
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 38
- ↑ GamePro, "February 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 118
- ↑ Gamers, "Dezember 1995" (DE; 1995-11-08), page 48
- ↑ Hippon Super, "February 1994" (JP; 1994-01-06), page 42
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Diciembre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 89
- ↑ Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 2000-12-07), page 207
- ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1995" (FR; 1995-1x-xx), page 70
- ↑ MAN!AC, "02/96" (DE; 1996-01-10), page 69
- ↑ Mega Play, "February/March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 48
- ↑ Next Generation, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-21), page 97
- ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, December 09, 1995" (UK; 1995-12-09), page 1
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "Februar 1996" (DE; 1996-01-10), page 14
- ↑ Sega Power, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-10-19), page 51
- ↑ Sega Pro, "Easter 1995" (UK; 1995-03-23), page 40
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-11-24), page 91
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 84
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Diciembre 1995" (ES; 1995-1x-xx), page 44
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 20
- ↑ Video Games, "6/95" (DE; 1995-05-17), page 96
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