Final Fantasy
Role-Playing Game, Nintendo Entertainment System
1987 Square
The vast media franchise of video games, spinoffs, films, toys, and merchandise galore that we know as
Final Fantasy began long ago as a desperate last attempt by a failing game company to stay afloat. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the brain behind the series, titled it as such because it was his final attempt to succeed in the gaming industry before giving up altogether. As we all know by now, the game sold well enough to not only keep Mr. Sakaguchi working, but to propel it into becoming one of the best selling game franchises in history.
