{"id":943,"date":"2013-01-28T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:17:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-final-fantasy-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/943\/retro-scan-of-the-week-final-fantasy-tactics","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Final Fantasy Tactics is 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/final_fantasy_tactics_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/final_fantasy_tactics_small.jpg\" alt=\"Final Fantasy Tactics Playstation PS1 PSX Magazine advertisement GamePro May 1998\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;How to Start the Mother of All Wars&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago today, Square released <em>Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em> in North America for the Sony PlayStation.  (It&#8217;s kinda crazy, because I was going to use this scan today anyway, just by chance.)<\/p>\n<p>I remember being excited when this game came out.  I&#8217;m sure I read a glowing review of it in EGM and recommended it to my brother, who promptly bought it and played it on and off for the next two years.  I still have <em>Final Fantasy Tactics&#8217;<\/em> music stuck in my head just from hearing him play the game so much.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a strategic masterpiece, and though I have not played it to completion myself, I appreciate its depth, its music, and I absolutely love its sprite-based graphics and spell effects.  The sprite-based nature of <em>FFT<\/em> alone was something to cheer at a time when most new PSX games were plagued with choppy, low-res polygonal 3D graphics.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, May 1998, p.70-71 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> In your words, what&#8217;s so great about <em>Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How to Start the Mother of All Wars&#8221; Fifteen years ago today, Square released Final Fantasy Tactics in North America for the Sony PlayStation. (It&#8217;s kinda crazy, because I was going to use this scan today anyway, just by chance.) I remember being excited when this game came out. I&#8217;m sure I read a glowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,27,26,9],"tags":[249,83,356,357,205,359,358,60,360],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-249","tag-anniversaries","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-tactics","tag-gamepro","tag-playstation","tag-psx","tag-retro-scan","tag-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}