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Video Game History Hour

Episode 152: Japanese Mobile Game Preservation

Video Game History Hour · March 18, 2026

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It's Before Crisis, Final Fantasy VII. That's probably, I would say it is the most ambitious feature phone game ever created. I would say that not many people would debate me on that

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... games that have kind of set up trends for later or a part of something bigger later on. I'm curious what some examples are of that. - I would say the biggest example of that and one that we could probably do an entire episode on. It's Before Crisis, Final Fantasy VII. That's probably, I would say it is the most ambitious feature phone game ever created. I would say that not many people would debate me on that everything that it was made for, it was only made for a feature phone. And it's fascinating that Square Enix decided to choose a flip phone for the first ever prequel, ...

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