38 years ago, a game called Final Fantasy was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the first game in a series that continues today. Then programming and coding for the first 3 games was done by Nasir Gebelli. It is rare that Gebelli participates in an interview, and he has been away from the public for a long time.
Still, that didn't stop him from appearing in a Japanese documentary called Legendary Games Chronicle: Final Fantasy, where he talks about his work on the original Final Fantasy games. At one point, he mentions, “I thought it was pretty similar to what I was doing for Apple in the same processor. I already knew almost every machine code for that processor. As for the coding, it was pretty straight forward. There was no learning curve. But I had never seen a role-playing game until Final Fantasy”.
Later in the documentary, Gebelli played the original Famicom version of Final Fantasy 1 which was released in 1987. During his gameplay, he ended up coming across the airship part of the game. During this part he notes that “really, it could look better visually if it was at least, like, 10% slower”.
