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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 204. Chapters: Final Fantasy VII, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Paranoia (role-playing game), Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, StarCraft, Advanced Squad Leader, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, A Game of Thrones (card game), Traveller (role-playing game), Ral Partha Enterprises, Knights of the Dinner Table, Risk (game), Bang!, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Warhammer 40,000, Axis & Allies, HeroClix, Tomb Raider (1996 video game), SimCity, Pirates Constructible Strategy Game, Shadowrun, 7th Sea (collectible card game), Pool of Radiance, Forgotten Realms, Crimson Skies, Vs. System, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, BattleTech, Munchkin (card game), GURPS, World of Darkness, Mage: The Ascension, Monster Manual, Baldur's Gate, Rise and Decline of the Third Reich, Wing Commander (franchise). Excerpt: Final Fantasy VII Fainaru Fantaji Sebun) is a role-playing video game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation, in 1998 for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and in 2009 on the PlayStation Network. The game is the first in the series to use 3D computer graphics, featuring fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds, and was the first game in the main series to be released in Europe. Final Fantasy VII follows protagonist Cloud Strife, who initially joins the eco-terrorist rebel organization AVALANCHE to stop the world-controlling megacorporation Shinra, who are draining the life of the planet for use as an energy source. As the story progresses, Cloud and his allies become involved in a larger world-threatening conflict, facing off against Sephiroth, the game's main antagonist. Development of Final Fantasy VII began in 1994. The game was originally intended for release on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but was moved to the Nintendo 64. However, since the Nintendo 64's cartridges lacked the required storage capacity, Square decided to release the game for the CD-ROM based PlayStation instead. The game was designed and produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, with direction by Yoshinori Kitase. The music was composed by Final Fantasy veteran Nobuo Uematsu, while the series' long-time character designer, Yoshitaka Amano, was replaced by Tetsuya Nomura. Helped by a large pre-release promotional campaign, Final Fantasy VII became an immediate critical and commercial success. It has continued to sell solidly-10 million copies were sold by May 2010, making it the best-selling title in the series. Final Fantasy VII was praised for its graphics, gameplay, music and story. Criticism pertained to its English localization. It has retrospectively been acknowledged as the game that popularized the Japanese role-playi