
Yet with games that have been out for as long as the original Final Fantasy titles, they exist in the unique position of being remastered, reported, and remade for the everstretching future of hardware to come. With any remake there are always a number of elements that are changed between titles. It has become the software of Theseus if you remake a game so many times, does the original game still remain?

Yet as the Pixel Remaster makes the 15th iteration of the title over 34 years it brings to question how much has changed and how much has stayed the same.


In each of these remasters, adjustments big and small were made to align the original game’s values with the contemporary state of the franchise and to update the games for modern technology. Later, it would be remastered for the Wonderswan in 2000, then for the Playstation in 2002, the Gameboy Advance in 2004, the Playstation Portable in 2007, and countless others until the most recent Pixel Remasters on PC and mobile phones. All versions of Final Fantasy sold a combined total of two million copies worldwide by March 2003.The first Final Fantasy was released in 1987 as an early contributor to the budding JRPG genre of the time. Praise focused on the game's graphics, while criticism targeted the time spent wandering in search of random battle encounters to raise the player's experience level. The game received generally positive reviews, and it is regarded as one of the most influential and successful role-playing games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, playing a major role in popularizing the genre. Together, they quest to defeat these evil forces, restore light to the orbs, and save their world. The story follows four youths called the Light Warriors, who each carry one of their world's four elemental orbs which have been darkened by the four Elemental Fiends. In 2009, it was released for the Wii via the Wii Virtual Console service. It was later released on the Game Boy Advance as part of a compilation called Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls. Originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Final Fantasy was remade for the MSX2 and WonderSwan Color. It is the first game in Square's Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy ( ファイナルファンタジー, Final Fantasy ?) is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and first published in Japan by Square (now Square Enix) in 1987 for the Famicom.
