Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (1990) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom

Just as you’re about to marry Maia, the mysterious woman you found on the shore, a winged dragon grabs her and disappears. This is the tragic start of what seems like a never-ending journey into a world of…

21 April 1990

What Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom is

Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1990. It was published by Sega Corporation. It is available on Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins in the city-state of Landen just before the marriage of Prince Rhys and the mysterious Lady Maia, who had washed up on the shores two months prior. Just as the vows were to be read, the bride was kidnapped by a flying dragon-like Layan spouting, "Filthy Orakian! Maia will not be yours!" before disappearing with the lovely princess to be. Prince Rhys, beside himself with grief and anger begins to set off with an army to find his bride and to destroy all of the last remaining Layan descendants but is soon stopped by his father, the king, and is told to cool his heels in the dungeon beneath the castle. He is soon let free though by Lena who wishes him well on his journey to…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric 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 III: Generations of Doom is the third of 51 entries we hold in the Phantasy Star series. It arrived a year after Phantasy Star II. The next entry was Phantasy Star II Text Adventures in 1990.

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What it launched against

Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom launched on 21 April 1990, within three weeks of Smash T.V., Gargoyle's Quest and Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi.

Released around the same time: Smash T.V., Gargoyle's Quest, Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi.

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