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Secret of Evermore is an action role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released by Square in North America on October 1, 1995. February 1996, saw its release in the PAL territories of Europe and Australia. A Japanese release was planned to follow the North American release by a few months but was ultimately cancelled. With special guest music reviewer Lauren the Flut...

Jeff and Russ finish their discussion of the Final Fantasy series...for now. Because we all know that fantasy will never end.

The Final Fantasy Legend, known in Japan as Makai Toushi Sa·Ga, is a video game released for the Game Boy in December 1989 by Square Co. It is the first game in the SaGa series and the first role-playing video game for the system. Square translated the game into English for worldwide release and renamed it, linking it with the Final Fantasy series to improve marketing. With special guest music rev...

Jeff and Russ continue their discussion of the Final Fantasy series, game by game. In this episode, they discuss the best games in the series, because they happened to be released all in a row.

Chrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Jeff and Russ talk about the Final Fantasy series as a whole in this 3 part series of Side Quest. They will briefly break down each and every game in the series. These games will be reviewed in full as episodes of Home on the RNG....eventually.

Since Russ won't play Shining Force II, Jeff is reviewing it on his own. Also, since Russ isn't in this episode, and we don't want to deprive you of your regularly schedule Russ, there will be another episode of Side Quest next week.

Arcana is a 1992 role-playing video game for the SNES by HAL Laboratory.

Before they get much further into this series, Jeff and Russ talk about their top 5 jRPGs of all time. It'll be interesting to see if this changes over the course of this show.

Breath of Fire is a role-playing video game series developed by Capcom. It originated on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993.

Jeff and Russ visit a game from Jeff's childhood, featuring a boy, his alien blob, and so many jellybeans.

Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention is a 1992 fantasy turn-based tactics role-playing video game for the Mega Drive/Genesis console.

Jeff and Russ discuss one of the strangest jRPG series they've ever encountered, and how much they enjoy it. This is a series overview, individual games from the series will be reviewed (much much) later on.

Dragon Quest, titled Dragon Warrior when initially localized to North America, is the first role-playing video game (RPG) in the Dragon Quest media franchise. It was developed by Chunsoft for the Family Computer and published by Enix in Japan in 1986 as Dragon Quest and by Nintendo in 1989 in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Jeff and Russ decide to play something a little different, as they take on the NES port of Maniac Mansion, the famous LucasArts adventure game by Ron Gilbert.

Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, known as Estpolis Denki in Japan, is a role-playing video game developed by Neverland and published by Taito in 1993, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Great Greed, known in Japan as Bitamīna Oukoku Monogatari, is an environmentally-themed role-playing video game for the Nintendo Game Boy released by Namco in 1992.

Welcome to Home on the RNG. We are your primary hosts, Jeff and Russ. And we just wanted to briefly introduce ourselves, and the format of our show. We hope you enjoy listening to it half as much as we enjoyed making it.