
Phantasy Star IV dev interviews surface after 30 years
Hacker News·1mo·speckx
A translator has published original Japanese interviews with the Phantasy Star IV development team from 1993, offering rare insight into how a small team built a complex RPG on Genesis hardware. For makers interested in retro game design and creative constraints, these firsthand accounts are a direct historical record.
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