Game:

Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 19:50

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This is a digital copy of a VHS video sent to members of the Playstation Underground in mid-1997, around the time of the Final Fantasy VII release. The video is primarily a promotion for Sony, who at the time was still not a dominant console gaming force; the purpose of this video was to promote Squaresoft's PSX games and explain why Square made the jump from Nintendo to Sony. Allegedly, there are not many of these tapes in existence, with only 1500 copies created [citation needed]. I got my copy in 1998 or so, and no, I will not sell it to you. :)

This first portion of the video contains an introductory promotional movie for Squaresoft and Sony, and jumps into an interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi, Producer of the now-legendary game Final Fantasy VII. The interview focuses on the technological capabilities of the Sony Playstation and how the Square team, by then riding an unprecedented wave of popularity, utilized the capabilities to produce a Final Fantasy larger in scope than any of the six that game previously. The interview has English voiceover translation and is liberally cut with game footage.

The middle portion of the video continues the interviews from part one regarding the development of Final Fantasy VII; in this installment, the interviewees include Nobuo Uematsu and other Final Fantasy VII development team members speaking of their roles in the game development and the qualities that made the original Sony Playstation their choice for a development environment. The interviews have English voiceover translation and are liberally cut with game footage.

The final portion of the video switches format to a variety of promotional videos for then-new Squaresoft games for the Playstation (and is, incidentally, the real reason I bought the video in the first place). It includes promotional videos for Final Fantasy Tactics, released in January of 1998, as well as the the late 1997 release Bushido Blade and SaGa Frontier . The video concludes with a string of English television adverts for Final Fantasy VII.

This is a reupload of the original video from our channel, made before the ancient ten-minute limitation on videos was lifted. The video is now recut and the audio channels fixed from the original upload.

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