Phantasy Star II Text Adventures
A series of 8 text-based games released exclusively in Japan for the Sega Game Toshokan download service. Each title revolves around one character, telling the backstories of every party member available to…
Phantasy Star II Text Adventures is an adventure developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 31 December 1990 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Phantasy Star II Text Adventures is
Phantasy Star II Text Adventures is an adventure game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1990. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Phantasy Star II Text Adventures were a series of eight text adventure video games available to users of Sega Game Toshokan, a modem for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan, and later released as part of a compilation on Mega CD. Each of the games takes place shortly before Phantasy Star II, documenting the backgrounds of its characters, and explaining what brings them to the town Paseo where they eventually team up to investigate the pervasive troubles of the Algol Solar System.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Phantasy Star series
Phantasy Star II Text Adventures is the fourth of 51 entries we hold in the Phantasy Star series. It arrived 8 months after Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom. The next entry was Phantasy Star Adventure in 1992.
What it launched against
Phantasy Star II Text Adventures launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, The Amazing Spider-Man.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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