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Phantasy Star (Japanese: ファンタシースター) is the most famous RPG series by Sega. It has experienced numbers of incarnations, including an low version. Contrary to virtually all more RPGs, it has the futuristic/fantasy setting around which the streaming video player battles monsters applying a kind of guns additionally to the common staple of scrimmage weapons & magic that come encountered in similar games.

History
A 1st Phantasy Star was for the Sega Master System. It was foremost freed inside Japan on December 20, 1987, and was one of a foremost cartridges to include battery backed RAM for saving game positions. A game featured an amazing (at a period) placed of 3D maze-like dungeons which smart shoppers traversed straightaway around the number one human mode.

A Phantasy Star series is noteworthy therein everthing of the games happen in the equivalent universe, when opposed to numbers of RPG series like Final Fantasy (where apiece serial game requires place within an completely different replacement universe). To each one major Phantasy Star game adds a bit supplementary to the series' overall story, culminating around Phantasy Star IV which ties 100% of the series' plot elements together into the final, larger-than-life guide.

A Phantasy Star Online games are their have sub-series. It prove my point a theme of the lasting game-universe, however these are a different 1 than the original games.

Games
Phantasy Star series games develop been freed on the Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and PC. These include:

Phantasy Star (Sega Master System, 1987/Sega Mega Drive, 1992) Phantasy Star II (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (RealArcade) 1989). ''Phantasy Star: Anne's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991) Phantasy Star: Huey's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991) Phantasy Star: Kind's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991) Phantasy Star: Shilka's Adventure (Sega Meganet modem, 1991) Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1991) Phantasy Star Adventure (Japanese Game Gear, 1992) Phantasy Star Gaiden (Japanese Game Devices, 1992) Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive/Genesis, 1994) Phantasy Star Collection (Japanese Sega Saturn, 1998). Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast, PC, 2001) Phantasy Star Online ver.2 (Dreamcast, 2002) Phantasy Star Collection (Game Boy Advance, 2002) Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II (GameCube, Xbox, 2002) Phantasy Star Generation 1 (PlayStation 2, 2003 Japan, soon around North America) Phantasy Star Online: Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (Nintendo GameCube only), 2004) Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus (Nintendo Gamecube, 2004) Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (PC only), 2004 Phantasy Star Universe (PC, Playstation 2) -- Due December 2005 in Japan, February 2006 in North America

Phantasy Star Generation One occurs as remake of the original Phantasy Star.

Phantasy Star Generation Two occurs as remake of the original Phantasy Star II.

The Taiwanese pirate of Phantasy Star IV called Wai Xing Zhan Shi (Wai Hsing Chan Shih'') was wreak the Famicom. A pirate is uncomplete & has numbers of bugs.

Fictional universe
Algol planetary system

A Algol planetary body is the setting of the series. It hwhen quatern planets - Palma, Motavia, Dezoris & Rykros - too as numerous orbital space stations. A planet list come every now and again spelled other than from either game to game.

Palma/Parma
Palma occurs as green planet, & apparently a original homeworld of the Palmans, Algol's virtually all far flung mintage. Palma is the center of the Algol formulas's government until AW 1284, while a space satellite Gaira malfunctions & stimulates a planet's destruction.

Motavia/Motabia/Mota
Motavithe was originally a godforsaken planet, however it was radically transformed by extensive forestation & irrigation. Within Phantasy Star II, the planet is green & a lake is abundant thanks to the Mother Brain and the Climatrol Center, but it comes back to its previous desiccated state in the quaternary game.

Motavia is inhabited by forearm Motavians, owl-rather intelligent mechanical man by owning blue feathers, besides when refugees from either Palma

Dezoris/Dezolis/Dezo
Dezoris is an ice planet populated by green-skinned intelligent android & yellow, talking Musk Cats. Because of the planet's coarse environment & unsafe native animals, super couple Palmans & Motavians survive on a planet; these are for this cause that the Espers survive on this text in the hidden Esper Mansion.

Rykros/Ryucross
Rykros occurs as mysterious planet in an extremely longer orbit, such that it exclusively approaches a more planets it used to be that each G years. It could single become seen by shopping through the Aeroprism, & its accurate location is unknown to any dwelling existence.

StarTrek.com
Official Site. Includes news, interviews, cast biographies, episode guides, and other information.

About.com - Star Trek Fans
Includes articles and forums from About.com.

Double Trouble with Tribbles
A comparison of screen shots from "Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS) and "Trials and Tribble-ations" (DS9) from the perspective of a special effects artist.

Star Trek UK
Featuring news about the series and the movies, media, interviews, links, and a forum.

Section31.com
Includes news, forums, cast and character biographies, episode guides for all the series, fan fiction, and information about Trek technology.

The Star Trek Annotated Timeline and Reference Table
Downloadable reference that attempts to fix dates for the licensed novels, comics, and short stories in the context of the television episodes and films. [PDF]

The Star Trek Continuum
Image galleries, fan art, and episode guides.

Star Trek: Random Sector
Includes series information, random facts, character biographies, episode guides, and a forum.

Star Trek Soundtracks
Detailed information on movie and television soundtrack releases.

Star Trek: The Experience
Official site for Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. Includes news, interviews, construction reports, and a behind-the-scenes tour.






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