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A few better things from the 1994 software catalog I’ve been mining... It was a good time to be Square, with FFIII, Secret of Mana, and Breath of Fire hitting in rapid succession. And Nintendo was steadily extending the life of the good ol’ Game Boy with the Super Game Boy that let you play on your TV with added color via a SNES adapter, and some surprisingly slick releases like Donkey Kong ‘94.
Found another Squaresoft newsletter, this one from 1994 featuring... a Capcom game. Apparently Capcom wasn’t too sure about this whole JRPGs in the US thing yet, but hot off the success of FF2(FFIV), Square took the plunge to localize and release Breath of Fire, albeit with painfully Westernized box art.
Other snippets from this issue: Final Fantasy III, finally settled as being a localization of FFVI, was about to roll out and already accumulating superlative-laden reviews. Square’s new US studio, which would go on to produce Secret of Evermore, had just been founded and still thought they were going to get to localize FFV (as FF Extreme) and Seiken Densetsu 3 (as Secret of Mana 2) - neither of which actually happened of course. And Square promises more direct connection with its fans on AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy! Yup kids, that was the public-facing internet in 1994, though the web was just about to gear up properly...
