Picture it. 1998. The whole world's riding high on Squaresoft's '97 bestseller, Final Fantasy 7. Suddenly, the West is interested in JRPGs to a degree that had seemed impossible just a few short months ago. The gaming world wants - no, needs - to know what Square has cooking for Final Fantasy 8.
A gaming magazine has got the scoop. PlayStation Power attempted to get concrete information out of Hironobu Sakaguchi, or maybe they were just reporting on somebody else's effort, I'm not really sure, but anyway, he was too tight-lipped. "Wait a little longer," he said. I've got a playground full of fifth-grade colleagues who view me as their portal into the future, and right now, they're counting on me for all things FF8. Good thing I've got this mag in my knapsack.
ResetEra's petetnt snagged a screenshot of the esteemed magazine's June 1998 issue, which was also its twenty-seventh total, in case you're counting. Naturally, it's led to all manner of quirky replies, including one from yours truly, because long before I started penning news articles about internet forum community discourse, I proudly participated in internet forum community discourse.
First, the image:
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