Alis is a young girl whose brother Nero was brutally killed by a mysterious man known as Lassic. Nero's last words were: "Sister, find a warrior named Odin, he can help you to defeat Lassic!" Now Alis' dangerous adventure begins. Her first task is to find Odin. Then, with help and support from her friends, Alis will have to stop the evil Lassic and save the world...

This game is the very first installment in the long-lived Phantasy Star series. It is a futuristic RPG that uses a turn-based combat system (viewed from first-person perspective). An unusual feature of this game is that some locations are also viewed from first-person perspective. You can explore those locations by moving forward or backward, and the environments are in pseudo-3D.

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Alternate Titles

"梦幻之星" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"ファンタシースター復刻版" -- Japanese Title (Megadrive)
"PS" -- Common Abbreviation
"Phantasy Star: Fukkokuban" -- Megadrive Title
"ファンタシースター" -- Japanese Spelling

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform
	Phantasy Star - Sega Master System	SEGA Master System
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User Reviews

Talking cats, swords and spaceships mark the dawn of a great genre	Unicorn B. Lynx (60371)
Unique & convincing game world with some "1st in the series" shortcomings.	happy-porcupine (1463)
The Greatest 8-Bit RPG Ever Created.	Guy Chapman (1722)
A good old-school RPG.	GrahfZilla (14)
The Game the started it all.	MasterMegid (858)

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The Press Says

RPGamer	Jun 08, 2000	10 out of 10	100
Shin Force	Jan 10, 2007	9.1 out of 10	91
Objectif-SEGA	Dec 20, 2007	9 out of 10	90
VideoGame	Oct, 1991	9 out of 10	90
Retrogaming.it	Jan 22, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Defunct Games	May 12, 2007	85 out of 100	85
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Mar, 1989	75 out of 100	75

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Do any ROMS exist for this version?	4	beetle120 (1997) Mar 20, 2008

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Trivia

Phantasy Star is one of many games that break the so called fourth wall.

In Sopia, the player finds a girl named Miki who asks: "Do you like Sega games?". If the player answers yes, she'll say "Of course! Sega games are best". If the player answers no, she says "I can't believe it. If you don't like the game,....why have you played so far!?!".

The same question in the Brazilian version has Sega replaced by Tec Toy.

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This entry was contributed by Игги Друге (31894) and Unicorn B. Lynx

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