{"id":106,"date":"2008-05-01T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-05-01T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T02:22:14","slug":"rus-mclaughlin-writes-an-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/05\/rus-mclaughlin-writes-an-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rus McLaughlin writes an epic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/retro.ign.com\/articles\/870\/870770p3.html\">IGN Presents: The History of Final Fantasy VII<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The floor caved in when Nintendo announced their freshly re-dubbed N64 would be cartridge-based, not CD-ROM.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s about-face left Square hanging. Their passion project simply would not fit onto a cartridge, and Sakaguchi refused to diminish it. He and Kitase both had long experience chopping game elements to fit Nintendo hardware limitations, but this time they just couldn&#8217;t do it. They took their epic to Sony instead.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Nintendo saw it, that betrayal made Square the enemy. Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi publicly vowed Final Fantasy would never appear on a Nintendo console again. Each company dumped the other&#8217;s stock, burning off all financial ties and severing every connection. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGN Presents: The History of Final Fantasy VII The floor caved in when Nintendo announced their freshly re-dubbed N64 would be cartridge-based, not CD-ROM. Nintendo&#8217;s about-face left Square hanging. Their passion project simply would not fit onto a cartridge, and Sakaguchi refused to diminish it. He and Kitase both had long experience chopping game elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlp","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}