Gek Siong Low wrote about Final Fantasy VII while its cinematic RPG breakthrough was still recent enough to analyze—and the industry’s next chapter still had to be guessed. The student paper tracks Square’s move to PlayStation, translation, music, and fan rumors, while warning that its contemporary sources sometimes conflict. Game history before the wiki consensus.
Original Stanford paper: https://xenon.stanford.edu/~geksiong/papers/sts145/Squaresoft%20and%20FF7.htm
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Original Stanford paper: https://xenon.stanford.edu/~geksiong/papers/sts145/Squaresoft%20and%20FF7.htm
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-a-2001-stanford-paper-traced-final-fantasy-viis-american-breakthrough/
#ancientweb #finalfantasy #gamehistory #stanford
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