0:00 "The world is veiled in darkness. The wind stops, the sea is wild, and the earth begins to rot. The people wait, their only hope, a prophecy... 'When the world is in darkness Four Warriors will come...' After a long journey, four young warriors arrive, each holding an ORB." And to think, Square pinned their last hopes on this game.
The name of the game was actually based off of both. It could have been both Sakaguchi's last game and also Squaresoft's last as they were nearing bankruptcy.
That's right. Good compositions sound good with any instruments. Today's game music cameos itself with pretty sounds embellishing mediocre compositions with impressive ambient sounds, but take those sounds away and you are left with sub-par compositions and progressions.
@@Mystwalker That has always been my rule of thumb when I compose melodies - they should sound good on any instrument, including things like the NES sound chip. This means that the core melody in itself is powerful enough, without being dependent on "pretty sounds".
There's a reason the first dialogue box most people will get in the game is "This is Cornelia, the city where dreams are woven." I'm playing the game now for the first time and it has such an inherently nostalgic vibe to it that games seldom capture nowadays. It's so simplistic in its nature in an almost innocent way.
Christmas 1990, I got two games in that years batch of presents. Dr. Mario was one, as a game the whole family could play, and this beautiful gem for me. I played this one like crazy, listening to this soundtrack brings back so many memories.
Got this when I was 6 in aug 1990 on my birthday, not knowing wtf I was doing lol. Wasnt till ff2 (ff4) came out and I beat that I went back and played ff1. First time I played it I think I got lost after I got the boat lol
Thank you so much for your video game soundtracks! Your excellent efforts bring me right back, allowing me to re-live my best memories from the past... well, many years; I often listen to your soundtracks and reflect. Looking forward to relaxing tonight after work and doing just that, in fact; whiskey in one hand, and PS3 controller in the other. Oh, and the bonus with this particular track is, the original FF for the NES is what began my (and many others') love affair with RPGs. I spent wonderful hours and hours playing this game, a welcome distraction after a long day at work. So again, thank you.
Dillon Sheil I've nicknamed that game draggin warrior. Because omg. Literally used my foot on my advantage controller and a paper towel tube for my sword and pretend fought the bad guys to deal with the boredom.
i dont know if this is weird, but im 14 and when i started playing this game, I could even feel the nostalgia of the game itself and i wasnt alive when it came out
1990: Includes 84 page Explorer's Handbook, Game World and Dungeon Maps, plus full color Monster Chart. 2014: Includes subscription form, and 5 page manual!!1 and be grateful you you cheapskate fans, we publishers are so damn generous.
Not the mention the 5 page manual will have a maximum of 2 pages on the actual game (and sometimes none). the rest is full of copy right and system care info.
.. if you're lucky to get the whole game in one go. These days you usually have to buy stuff piecemeal as DLC. That, or you can't win until you literally gamble for loot boxes. That's why just about the only money I've spent on games in the past year was for the SNES classic.
Working on my own 8BIT RPG, so I'm listening to some authentic tunes to help me focus. ;P Thanks for the upload, always a pleasure to hear these mixes.
First game that i ever played, and still today my most beloved game. Damn i miss the older age of Square, where they made amazing RPG's and quality games.
when the original team leaves, you get very different sequels of the same series from the same company. happens very often, sadly. most series were ruined like this.
Thank you for uploading the NES soundtrack all the others were off the remake. I finally decided to start my first Final Fantasy adventure the other day when I found a copy of FF1 on nes for 14$. The gameplay has a certain sort of charm to it, I also love the fact that you get to choose your characters right away. Wish me luck I hope I can finish it :D.
Awesome!! This is one of the games that is responsible for my gaming addiction lol thanks for doing all these cool soundtracks. I work from home so I will be listening to all of them in stereo! Sure beats mono that I heard these in originally!
I've always loved Garland's castle theme. First quest the game sets you on and it just creates such an eerily beautiful tone for the rest of the grand adventure that you are unknowingly about to embark upon. Truly a masterpiece of an RPG.
When you exit the menu screen when flying, the first second or so is without the propeller sound, then it comes in after the screen reaches full color.
Pretty good actually! I got a 98% on it. It didn't have graphics, but I implemented an xp system, spells, and shop to buy weapons and spells. It had a lot of rng elements in it to kinda replicate nintendo hard, but not that hard. :) This was all for my last year's comp prog course. Currently in ap comp prog.
i remember as a kid thinking "god i'll never beat this game" ... i was wrong, anything is possible. the most important lesson ive ever learned, buy a game genie
La pedí prestada a un amigo... ni sabía como era un RPG. No sabía equipar las armas... Todo eso lo aprendí con esta, y aprendí lo que era un airship y un redmage. Terminarla fue un placer.
XTamaPotter Si no sabes español no tienes por qué hacer disparates tampoco. No es un delito. Traduciré para ti: I asked a friend for the game... didn`t know what an rpg was. Didn`t know how to equip the weapons... All of that i learned with this game, and also what an airship was, and a redmage. Finishing it was a pleasure.
Nobuo Uematsu >> literally everything on the radio (except when NPR plays live orchestrations of his music from the FF series, which they did a few months ago!)
i'm 40 now and hearing that swamp cave song 11:08 gave me endless anxiety because EVERYTHING poisoned you. The NES was the original Dark Souls and it would hurt you. It hurt me.
Lol I emulated the original NES version, almost unplayable the way it was coded. GBA version was much more forgiving (and the evasion stat actually worked!)
I know the covers to countless US releases had awful Western approximations of the original cover art, but man, there was just something about this cover that got me as a kid. The chipped and notched weapons, the floating palace suspended in the crystal orb...it stole my imagination. And that classic Final Fantasy font with the twin accented "F"'s...nothing will match Amano's art, but as a piece of fantasy art by itself, this cover is still great. And the game is amazing, too.
I remember wanting Super Mario Brothers 3 for Christmas, and instead got this. I could never pass the second boss because I couldn't figure out how to equip items. Now that I'm older I think I can figure it out :P The soundtrack is awesome though :D
That's funny, I think this game is 10x better then SM3 and I think it took me about 5 month's to beat. I missed a lot of school mornings because it kept me up late back then.
This game is from 1987. Final Fantasy celebrated its 25th anniversary with the game ''Theathrythm Final Fantasy'' Anyways, great video and keep up with the good work ;)
What bothers me of the remakes is that themes like the Underwater Shrine were replaced. Not sure why. Also, elves, mermaids, and dwarves were mostly forgotten over sequels. Some races appeared here and there but were never consistent.
I was playing game OSTs in my college dorm and happened to play 17:37 when someone else was walking by. They asked why that was different from the 'real' victory theme and I didn't know how to respond. Turns out they thought the FFVII victory theme was the original melody...
Wiiguy309, I was just wondering, what was your favorite Final Fantasy game? My personal favorite so far is the second one. (Which is the fourth one in Japan) But I will always have a place in my heart for the first and original one. =)
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5:39 Matoya's Cave is one of the best songs on NES I've ever heard.
The composer created a prog rock band called Black Mages and they cover it with guitar!
She shows up in final fantasy 14 and the song plays during her parts...I cried a lil ngl
easily my favorite track in the game by far
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"The world is veiled in
darkness. The wind stops,
the sea is wild,
and the earth begins to rot.
The people wait,
their only hope, a prophecy...
'When the world is in darkness
Four Warriors will come...'
After a long journey, four
young warriors arrive,
each holding an ORB."
And to think, Square pinned their last hopes on this game.
Actually it was supposed to be Sakaguchi's last game before going back to university.
Giordan Diodato nope, it was the last chance of squaresoft to not disband thats why they called it final fantasy
xXDarkMantisXx that's actually a myth.
The name of the game was actually based off of both. It could have been both Sakaguchi's last game and also Squaresoft's last as they were nearing bankruptcy.
In my opinion, it is THE MOST iconic game ever EVER
Nobou Umatsu is a musical genius. Making such amazing music with such simple sounds
Damn right!!!
That's right. Good compositions sound good with any instruments. Today's game music cameos itself with pretty sounds embellishing mediocre compositions with impressive ambient sounds, but take those sounds away and you are left with sub-par compositions and progressions.
@@Mystwalker
That has always been my rule of thumb when I compose melodies - they should sound good on any instrument, including things like the NES sound chip.
This means that the core melody in itself is powerful enough, without being dependent on "pretty sounds".
@@Peter_1986 couldn't agree with you more! That's why I tend to compose with basic MIDI sounds first.
He came up with this in 35 minutes
The memories come back when I listen to this. To be a child in the 80's was great. You could dream.
Between NES game soundtracks and Nick Jr. alone, we 80's kids were set. 😁🙃🧝🏻♀️🗡️🧙♂️⚡🧚🏻♀️✨🧜♀️🔮🐉🔥🥷⚔️
Tengo ilusiones, necesito ayuda.
Y sigan conocien la aloe debera.
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There's a reason the first dialogue box most people will get in the game is "This is Cornelia, the city where dreams are woven." I'm playing the game now for the first time and it has such an inherently nostalgic vibe to it that games seldom capture nowadays. It's so simplistic in its nature in an almost innocent way.
1990 if you were in the US for this game.
Christmas 1990, I got two games in that years batch of presents. Dr. Mario was one, as a game the whole family could play, and this beautiful gem for me. I played this one like crazy, listening to this soundtrack brings back so many memories.
8:42 - Ship - what a masterpiece in an adventure game! I still play it on the piano to this day.
I still remember the feeling of how this first game opened my eyed to RPGs. Golden age of gaming, right there.
The Undersea Shrine and the Chaos Temple themes give me chills every time I hear them, no matter what version of the song it is.
If I ever get to heaven, I hope God plays the Final Fantasy intro theme. Gives me chills every time.
i was only 9 when i started playing this game, now im 30, brings back memories from my childhood..
Got this when I was 6 in aug 1990 on my birthday, not knowing wtf I was doing lol. Wasnt till ff2 (ff4) came out and I beat that I went back and played ff1. First time I played it I think I got lost after I got the boat lol
Played and completed this recently for the first time. The music gives it such a charm!
Floating Castle has always, and still does, creep me out. It's such a stark contrast from everything else in the game both visually and musically.
Hands down, my favourite 8 bit soundtrack of all time.
Thank you so much for your video game soundtracks! Your excellent efforts bring me right back, allowing me to re-live my best memories from the past... well, many years; I often listen to your soundtracks and reflect. Looking forward to relaxing tonight after work and doing just that, in fact; whiskey in one hand, and PS3 controller in the other.
Oh, and the bonus with this particular track is, the original FF for the NES is what began my (and many others') love affair with RPGs. I spent wonderful hours and hours playing this game, a welcome distraction after a long day at work. So again, thank you.
3:39 the original grinding music
titleistman_77 Dragon Warrior came first :P
oh is that wat grindr is? a final fantasy app?
Yeah, I still have and play the game on the original nes
It reminds me of the morning more than just a lot of pain, suffering, slain bl. Mages and cheering.
Dillon Sheil I've nicknamed that game draggin warrior. Because omg.
Literally used my foot on my advantage controller and a paper towel tube for my sword and pretend fought the bad guys to deal with the boredom.
i dont know if this is weird, but im 14 and when i started playing this game, I could even feel the nostalgia of the game itself and i wasnt alive when it came out
I can't thank you enough for uploading these. They are so great no matter the activity I am partaking in. It's wonderful.
1990: Includes 84 page Explorer's Handbook, Game World and Dungeon Maps, plus full color Monster Chart.
2014: Includes subscription form, and 5 page manual!!1 and be grateful you you cheapskate fans, we publishers are so damn generous.
+Xavieros Falsename saves the environment
Ahahahahah XD
Not the mention the 5 page manual will have a maximum of 2 pages on the actual game (and sometimes none). the rest is full of copy right and system care info.
.. if you're lucky to get the whole game in one go. These days you usually have to buy stuff piecemeal as DLC. That, or you can't win until you literally gamble for loot boxes. That's why just about the only money I've spent on games in the past year was for the SNES classic.
Man, i love you for uploading this. May God bless you forever !!
Thanks for putting this together and in HQ audio!
My absolute favorite 💓 of all time..it started it all and I'm greatful
That it did. ⚔️⚡🔥🤙
Thank you for uploading!!! Most nostalgic game for me. I just started whistling a song, and it brought me here....
never thought i would hear this music again. thx! town was my favorite. conveyed such a longing. this was a great game system with great games.
Man, you are the best NES games soundtrack central wiki, absolutely love your work, thanks a lot
Plus how come i did not find this channel until today
I'm at the earth cave rn and the games music is what is motivating me to power thru the frustrations haha
I like this soundtrack a lot ! Good job, your videos are an inspiration for me. You are a good guy's
Thank you for making this soundtrack, I really appreciate what you did. :)
Working on my own 8BIT RPG, so I'm listening to some authentic tunes to help me focus. ;P
Thanks for the upload, always a pleasure to hear these mixes.
Thanks for the download link!! Works perfectly!
thank you for posting this
If you are one of the few that anwsered the Nintendo Power challenge and finished the game with 4 white mages say it loud & proud! I DID
I DID
That’s crazy! Lol,, Nice work!
How could the NES produce so many classic soundtracks?! It is truly amazing.
ugh thank u
you have no idea how happy i am hearing this in stereo sound
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Home sweet Home! ❤️🔥☀️
Gurgu Volcano is one of my absolute favs!
manly tears came out from my eyes on the temple of fiends part... damn ninjas and their onions
First game that i ever played, and still today my most beloved game.
Damn i miss the older age of Square, where they made amazing RPG's and quality games.
At least they will be revisiting the glory days in Stranger of Paradise!
@@tylerwilkinson804 mhe, im one of those that don't like the newest games, so it's going to be a skip
when the original team leaves, you get very different sequels of the same series from the same company.
happens very often, sadly. most series were ruined like this.
I love you for this. Thanks for bringing these gems back!
Thank you for uploading the NES soundtrack all the others were off the remake. I finally decided to start my first Final Fantasy adventure the other day when I found a copy of FF1 on nes for 14$. The gameplay has a certain sort of charm to it, I also love the fact that you get to choose your characters right away. Wish me luck I hope I can finish it :D.
I'm curious. did you finish it?
Awesome!! This is one of the games that is responsible for my gaming addiction lol thanks for doing all these cool soundtracks. I work from home so I will be listening to all of them in stereo! Sure beats mono that I heard these in originally!
The game that introduced me to JRPGs. Such nostalgia.
That prelude might be the greatest video game song of all time.
Cornelia Castle is my favorite of all this game's music. It's quite lovely.
Final Fantasy will NEVER end
Thanks for the download, this really brings back memories!
One of my favorite games thank you
It is the best Final Fantasy and Nintendo NES soundtrack, I subscribe to this channel.
22:34
Garland without grinding.
I was stupid.
warMECH*
Gas dragons
5:39 Suddenly, bad memories of my solo white mage run come back.
I've always loved Garland's castle theme. First quest the game sets you on and it just creates such an eerily beautiful tone for the rest of the grand adventure that you are unknowingly about to embark upon.
Truly a masterpiece of an RPG.
Had to come back to this after playing Stranger of Paradise. Naoshi Mizuta and the others did a fine job.
I've always had a soft spot for the Sailing theme.
Every time I listen to this I want to play the game, there are only a few soundtracks that can do that to me. Special game
Ending music was epic too!!
Excellent Soundtrack!
Wow, I've never heard 12:45 without the chopping sound of the airship blades before.
Yeah... feels like something's missing at the beginning.
When you exit the menu screen when flying, the first second or so is without the propeller sound, then it comes in after the screen reaches full color.
So many memories.
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FROM 12:06 to 12:42 ........... will forever be my fav FF1 melody!
Very good work, thank you.
This is the game that made me realize i was going to love RPG games forever
So nice to hear this again :)
Working on a RPG-style game in my Programming class with influences from Zelda and this game. This will definitely keep me inspired!
+RetroTechnoid How'd your RPG turn out?
Pretty good actually! I got a 98% on it. It didn't have graphics, but I implemented an xp system, spells, and shop to buy weapons and spells. It had a lot of rng elements in it to kinda replicate nintendo hard, but not that hard. :) This was all for my last year's comp prog course. Currently in ap comp prog.
Where it all began
Memories of childhood :)
1:30 oh man we are going on to adventure once more!
i remember as a kid thinking "god i'll never beat this game" ... i was wrong, anything is possible. the most important lesson ive ever learned, buy a game genie
Ha
i remember the death music more than i'd like to admit.
Nothing wrong with that, the game wasn't exactly easy.
La pedí prestada a un amigo... ni sabía como era un RPG. No sabía equipar las armas... Todo eso lo aprendí con esta, y aprendí lo que era un airship y un redmage. Terminarla fue un placer.
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XTamaPotter
Si no sabes español no tienes por qué hacer disparates tampoco. No es un delito. Traduciré para ti:
I asked a friend for the game... didn`t know what an rpg was. Didn`t know how to equip the weapons... All of that i learned with this game, and also what an airship was, and a redmage. Finishing it was a pleasure.
jhrcronos Este chico aparentemente doesnt entender la diferencia entre la traducción del lenguaje, y el amor de final fantasy .
Still listening to this in late 2020
Game, Soundtrack, 💙🤩🤘
Nobuo Uematsu >> literally everything on the radio (except when NPR plays live orchestrations of his music from the FF series, which they did a few months ago!)
I wish iTunes would break the international barrier so I could get some Black Mages legitimately.
yes! and the sky is also blue!
best soundtrack in videogame history forever
Nothing beats the intro for FF1.
awesome!! great memories!!! keep with the good work..
also go for the double dragon and dragon warrior OSTS :D or megamans!
i'm 40 now and hearing that swamp cave song 11:08 gave me endless anxiety because EVERYTHING poisoned you. The NES was the original Dark Souls and it would hurt you.
It hurt me.
Lol I emulated the original NES version, almost unplayable the way it was coded. GBA version was much more forgiving (and the evasion stat actually worked!)
@@ironbirdshredder77 I just finished my emulated playthrough as well, it was wild cause of all the broken shit.
the amount of poison in the first half of this game was insane, especially because you don't have a very viable way to deal with it
@@Mazarakian Original Blighttown lol
I know the covers to countless US releases had awful Western approximations of the original cover art, but man, there was just something about this cover that got me as a kid. The chipped and notched weapons, the floating palace suspended in the crystal orb...it stole my imagination. And that classic Final Fantasy font with the twin accented "F"'s...nothing will match Amano's art, but as a piece of fantasy art by itself, this cover is still great.
And the game is amazing, too.
Can you do Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei I and II for NES?
22:34 Totally reminds me of Nier music or something.
When you’re 12 in 2020 watching this, having actually played
Stick with the classics. More enjoyable
Hail and well met!
4 x Red Mages, good times.
I love your avatar. "Oh man. You are getting me sooo angry."
I love Red Mages, it's so fun how they are basically a combination of a decent Fighter, White Mage and Black Mage.
i never realized how much gurgu's volcano sounds so much like the robocop theme song..
I remember wanting Super Mario Brothers 3 for Christmas, and instead got this. I could never pass the second boss because I couldn't figure out how to equip items. Now that I'm older I think I can figure it out :P The soundtrack is awesome though :D
That's funny, I think this game is 10x better then SM3 and I think it took me about 5 month's to beat. I missed a lot of school mornings because it kept me up late back then.
This game is from 1987. Final Fantasy celebrated its 25th anniversary with the game ''Theathrythm Final Fantasy''
Anyways, great video and keep up with the good work ;)
thank you
I, love it ( NES ) ❤️
This soundtrack sounds really good on 1.5 too :D
Totally love this nes version of opening theme! Could you also do stereo soundtracks from FF2?
This is very first Final Fantasy thanks to Square save this game but now never going stop anytime soon.
Is this missing the 2000 years in the past theme for Temple of Chaos? It is similar but in a different key.
It's misnamed as the Undersea Shrine. In reality, the Undersea Shrine uses the same music as the Temple of Chaos.
still listening in 2022
What bothers me of the remakes is that themes like the Underwater Shrine were replaced. Not sure why. Also, elves, mermaids, and dwarves were mostly forgotten over sequels. Some races appeared here and there but were never consistent.
I love these 8 bit versions but have they ever been remastered orchestrally?
*Plays Victory Theme*
I was playing game OSTs in my college dorm and happened to play 17:37 when someone else was walking by. They asked why that was different from the 'real' victory theme and I didn't know how to respond. Turns out they thought the FFVII victory theme was the original melody...
That's like people saying "I know that guy he's from Fortnite!"
Orchestra, synth, organ, console... It's not important the instrument. It's ever fantastic
that battle theme doe like doe
just like dragon quest, the famicom version was 1986 but the america version was 1989
Back when poison was BRUTAL.
This and crystalis. Unforgiving poison.
拆成雙聲道，變得好好聽喔～
Wiiguy309, I was just wondering, what was your favorite Final Fantasy game? My personal favorite so far is the second one. (Which is the fourth one in Japan) But I will always have a place in my heart for the first and original one. =)
I haven't played a single Final Fantasy game, so, none :P
Wow really?! Holy crap. What kind of games are you into?
+WiiGuys 8BitStereo Higly recommend FFVII (the original)
you mean IV? That one is awful
Giordan Diodato youre joking right? iv was good