Ichiban Crush: Yeah, I'd think that King's Knight sucked enough to fail commercially. As for their really early Japanese PC game releases, I can't say how that all went (e.g., The Death Trap, Will, Al ...
That seems to be the legend behind the making of Final Fantasy, but I wonder how much of this is BS. Previously Square had released Tobidase Daisakusen (known in the US as 3-D WorldRunner) which, acco ...