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Final Fantasy development timeline
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March 12, 1987FFI
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Final Fantasy I released on:
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December 18, 1987
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FFII1988
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Akitoshi Kawazu, battle designer for FFI-II,->->Saga
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goes to work on SaGa series of games, withSeries
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FFI-VI character/UI artist Kazuko Shibuya->
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Final Fantasy II released on:
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December 17, 1988->
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FFIII1989
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Square Soft, Inc opens in North America
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for English localizations of Square games.->
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Final Fantasy III released on:1990
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April 27, 1990->
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FFIV
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1991
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Final Fantasy IV released on:
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July 19, 1991FFV->
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Koichi Ishii, director for FFI-III, goes to work->->->Mana
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on the Mana series of games. Before returningSeries1992
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to FF for Final Fantasy XI->->
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Final Fantasy V released on:
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December 6, 1992->->
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Series creator Hironobu SakagushiFFVI1993
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steps into writer/producer role,->->
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 leaves directing duties for FFVI-X
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to Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito->->
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Final Fantasy VI released on:->1994
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February 4, 1994->->
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FFVII
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Akihiko Matsui, battle designer on FFIV, FFV->->
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and Romansing SaGa 2, with Takashi Tokita,
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designer on FFI-IV, go to make Chrono Trigger->->->Chrono
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Trigger1995
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Square USA, Inc opens in LA and Honolulu->->
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to help produce prerendered graphics.
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Members of Ogre Battle dev studio Quest->->Former
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join Square.Quest->
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team1996
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Final Fantasy VII released on:->->
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January 31, 1997FFVIII1997
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Final
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Fantasy->
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Tactics
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Square Pictures opens in Honolulu, Hawaii->Hawaii->->
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to produce FFIX and the Spirits Within movie.studio1998
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Square Europe, Ltd opens in London, UK
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for European localizations of Square games.->->Parasite
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FFIXEve
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Final Fantasy VIII released on:->->
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February 12, 19991999
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FFX->->
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Chrono
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Inspired by MMO's Sakaguchi saw in the->Cross
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USA, Square's Chrono Cross team is tasked->
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with making FFXI Online->->->FFXI
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Vagrant2000
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Story
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Final Fantasy IX released on:->
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July 19, 2000
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Hiroyuki Ito, FFIX director, designer of ATB->->
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system, together with Yasumi Matsuno and other ->->FFXII
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former Quest employees, and later on SaGa->2001
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director Kawazu, start on FFXII
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Final Fantasy X released on:->
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June 19, 2001Spirits
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->Within
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Final Fantasy XI released on:
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May 16, 2002->
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Dev studio Quest is bought by Square.->
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Square and Dragon Quest studio EnixFFX-2->
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merge, forming Square EnixRise
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->of the