Episode 144 – Final Fantasy Tactics (1998)

Episode 144 – Final Fantasy Tactics (1998)
This week in Your Parents Basement, we are vanquishing evil nobles, evil clergymen, and evil demons! From 1998, we’re playing Final Fantasy Tactics by Square for the Playstation.
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TIMESTAMPS
- 0:00 – Intro, which is the main theme from the game.
- 42:15 – Emails! And followed by New News.
- 58:15 – Ask the Sweet Boys. What about masks though?
- 1:02:00 – Snifferoo. We are playing a long, long, looonnngggg teased game, finally!
NOTES
- Screen Rant has a cool article on 15 little known facts about Final Fantasy Tactics. You can read it here!
- The lead graphic for our Facebook ad comes from this entry on the Final Fantasy wiki.
Vidya Game News – January 29, 2016
Hey, it’s some news!
– Marc Deschamps had a fun review, with pictures, of his time spent at a museum with a NES exhibit.
– It was all around the Internet this week, but the original story seems to be from a Huffington Post site: Michael Jackson did portions of the soundtrack for Sonic 3. Read more here by Todd Van Luling.
– PAX South is in San Antonio from today to Sunday. You know, in case you’re in the area. For more info, visit the event’s website.
– From mbgreen78 at DeviantART, it’s video game dioramas! Check them out here.
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY…
– The most significant game released was Phantasy Star Online in 2001 for the Dreamcast. It was pretty much the first online console game that had a significant impact, and it makes plenty of “best of all-time” lists as a result.
– Depending on what source you look at, Final Fantasy Tactics came out today or yesterday in 1998. It was a cult classic for plenty of years, thanks to its awesome storyline and neat, turn-based strategy gameplay. Nowadays, it has been re-released for several different (mostly Sony) platforms, and it’s still worth checking out. (And by the way, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is out this week for the Wii U Virtual Console, per Gamasutra.)
Video game history information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.