Lost in Esteria: A Short History of Falcom's Ys Series

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Nihon Falcom's Homepage
The home of Adol the Red and the land of Ys...along with lots of other great stuff!
Ancient Land of Ys
Home to hardcore fans of the series, it's a forum filled with friendly debates and news on everything Ys.
Hardcore Gaming 101's Ys Overview
Run by hardcore gamer and journalist, Kurt Kalata, he gives an overview on the series filled with a gallery of screenshots and specific information on many of the platform versions covered. An incredible resource on retro-gaming goodness.
RPGFan
A site dedicated to RPGs (focusing primarily on JRPGs) complete with an extensive soundtrack review section filled with plenty of Falcom Sound Team JDK history.
Sega-16
A huge and well organized fan-site dedicated to Sega's old-school classics.
Endless History
A site dedicated to collecting news on the latest games from Nihon Falcom. With as much breaking news as there is reported here, it comes off as a Western outpost for the latest news out of Falcom.
DOSBox
It's DOSBox! Need to play Ys II Special? Here's one way to do it as well as keep your older PC games alive. Awesome! Some technical know-how is needed to tweak it for certain games, but it's constantly updated.

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Brian Shirk

April 02, 2010 16:32

This is one epic post! It was a great read on the entire Ys series. I wasn't even aware that Ys VII was released in Japan. I've only played the Wii VC re-release of Ys Book I & II and PS2 Ys VI, but I'm interested in trying a couple more games, like maybe both versions of IV. I wasn't a huge fan of VI, but the Turbo version of the first two games is excellent.

It's nice to see features like this -- especially when the payoff isn't usually as great as simple lists that most gamers tend to devour. Definitely a great resource for Ys series info.

Alex R. Cronk-Young

April 03, 2010 10:00

WOW! Incredible work, Reggie! I will probably never read it all, but it's nice to know it's out there. If you ever do another exhaustive feature on a series near and dear to my heart, like Suikoden, then I will most likely devour it.