Lunar Threads

Hello,
I've actually been posting a couple of days and I haven't introduced myself. Like most fans I assume I started off playing the Silver Star on Sega CD.

It was my neighbors as a child and ever night during the summer he got it I tried to invite myself to stay over. Lunar was in all aspects my first Rpg. The game never was beaten by me or my friend due to the fact of me moving away. However, I kept wanting to play! It would be almost 2 years before I got a Sega CD and Lunar Eternal Blue. That was quite possibly my best Christmas today...haha. I played that game non-stop until before xmas break was over I had practically beaten the game. I would stay up late and get up early to play EB. I looked up and asked my childhood friend if I could buy or borrow Lunar:tss. To my dismay and disgrace....he had scratched it beyond repair! I tracked down an old copy at a video story and I bought it for 15 USD! I beat that game before summer of that year came around. Eventually, I had read that the next port of Lunar (by Victor Ireland) would more than likely be for the Saturn. The next Christmas I asked for a Saturn, Shortly after King of Working Designs decided to port the game for America on the PSX. oh, how I hated that man. Regardless, Lucky for me I had a brother and he got a PSX the following year! I would go on to buy, play and beat Lunar :sss and Lunar:ebc.

Now, I have finished college and lucky this wonderful site was available that got me hyped up on playing them yet again! Back in 96 and practically through 01 I would search for other fans to discuss the games but I never found anything interesting really.
Thanks for the opportunity to share in your experiences as well and with any hope by the time done beating these games again we will know something of Lunar 3?!

My real name is Steve I'm 24.
Hope you enjoyed my dragon master experience lol!

Welcome to the Lunar Threads..... hope you enjoy your stay here and have fun...

Thank ya

Wafrea wrote:The next Christmas I asked for a Saturn, Shortly after King of Working Designs decided to port the game for America on the PSX. oh, how I hated that man.

Don't hate Vic, hate Sega.

Welcome to the forums.

I remember reading somewhere on the net that someone in charge of Sega Saturn of America at the time forbid most RPGs and games from Japan to be ported to the Saturn. That's no wonder Saturn didn't go very far. That I believe is the reason Lunar didn't make it. which is disappointing because I would've like to try the games on saturn. I still could, but they'd be japanese. And I do have an original copy of Lunar 2 EB for Sega Saturn. Just not the system.

oh, and welcome. I hope you enjoy it here. I liked it here since I joined.

Welcome to the threads! I remember the first time I played Lunar...it was a life changing experience.

I remember reading somewhere on the net that someone in charge of Sega Saturn of America at the time forbid most RPGs and games from Japan to be ported to the Saturn. That's no wonder Saturn didn't go very far. That I believe is the reason Lunar didn't make it. which is disappointing because I would've like to try the games on saturn. I still could, but they'd be japanese. And I do have an original copy of Lunar 2 EB for Sega Saturn. Just not the system.

Sony initially had that policy. But FFVII changed that in a heartbeat. Also, if I remember right, some of the management at Sony early on went to Sega.

GhaleonOne wrote:

I remember reading somewhere on the net that someone in charge of Sega Saturn of America at the time forbid most RPGs and games from Japan to be ported to the Saturn. That's no wonder Saturn didn't go very far. That I believe is the reason Lunar didn't make it. which is disappointing because I would've like to try the games on saturn. I still could, but they'd be japanese. And I do have an original copy of Lunar 2 EB for Sega Saturn. Just not the system.

Sony initially had that policy. But FFVII changed that in a heartbeat. Also, if I remember right, some of the management at Sony early on went to Sega.

Isn't the biggest reason Vic went PSX was because Sega gave them the finger at E3 or something?

phyco126 wrote:Isn't the biggest reason Vic went PSX was because Sega gave them the finger at E3 or something?

That was the alleged reason, yeah.

After playing through the Saturn version of SSS, though, I honestly think that WD had intended to port the PSX version of Lunar from pretty early on--at the very least, since sometime before that whole E3 incident. There are too many differences between the Saturn and PSX versions (additional items, side-quests, etc., not to mention programming issues). KF

Welcome to the forums steve

Kizyr wrote:There are too many differences between the Saturn and PSX versions (additional items, side-quests, etc., not to mention programming issues). KF

Well, that's interesting. Which side-quests weren't present in SSS?

Thanks everybody,

Yeah I remeber something about an E3 event, but I hadn't heard anything about them flipping Vic the middle finger. Well I guess I don't like sega then. Which really doesn't matter considering they don't make consoles anymore

Sorry vic!

Well, he doesn't mean it literally. I don't remember all the details of what happened at E3, but I think it had to do with booth space -- Sega had given WD space in their section for years and then that E3 they withdrew it with little warning, so there was nowhere for WD to set up their booth. I think Sony stepped in and gave them some space, which may have been the deciding factor.

The Sega guy was Bernie Stolar. I don't know if it was so much a firm policy about RPGs (Panzer Dragoon Saga came out, after all) but he was definitely contemptuous of the genre as far as likely success in America.

I don't know how likely it is that WD intended to port the PS games early on; would need to know dates that all that stuff happened. Don't think the PS version is that different from the Saturn MPEG one...? Not counting the bromide locations WD changed.