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A marketing tape sent to (one assumes) Japanese retailers to showcase a few games in Square's final Super Famicom push before making the leap to PlayStation exclusivity for a few years. This demo reel features Super Mario RPG, Bahamut Lagoon, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, all presented within the visual metaphor of making menu selections in a Final Fantasy game. The overall package really helps you appreciate how Square had come to be such a big player at this point, at least in Japan, and why their defection to Sony's camp was a Top 10 Anime Betrayal. This is a Japanese-language tape. For best results, please turn on YouTube captions and set the language to auto-translate from Japanese. Recorded from a JVC deck via S-video and upscaled via RetroTink 4K. Please feel free to use clips from this video in your own retrospectives (source credit greatly appreciated).