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Final Fantasy Explorer's Handbook (NES instruction booklet, North America)

America, Nintendo of. 1990. “Final Fantasy Explorer's Handbook (NES instruction booklet, North America).” Nintendo of America.

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Final Fantasy NES manual
Original
https://archive.org/details/NESManuals
sha256
8487127d096b17e1fb5c4baf959f88ec821a3e7ddb6e7e9007e68051ca587055
Archived
https://archive.org/download/NESManuals/Final%20Fantasy%20(USA).pdf
Accessed
2026-10-20
Licence
none stated (© Square Co., Ltd.; © 1990 Nintendo of America Inc.)
Credit
Square (game) and Nintendo of America (booklet). Scan in the Internet Archive's "NES Manuals" collection, uploaded by job.steinbusch.
Notes
The booklet packed with the NES game (cover code NES-FF-USA), titled "Explorer's Handbook" on its cover; page 1 prints "TM & © Square Co., Ltd. ©1990 Nintendo of America Inc.". Read on the scan "Final Fantasy (USA).pdf" (42 two-page spreads, sha256 8487127d096b17e1fb5c4baf959f88ec821a3e7ddb6e7e9007e68051ca587055): page 19 is on PDF page 11, page 26 on PDF page 15.

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Claims (5)

The NES manual says running depends on agility: "There is no guarantee that your escape will be successful — it depends on your agility level."p. 19, RUNManual
The NES manual says agility sets the order: "Each character's agility, regardless of enemy or ally, dictates the order of execution."p. 26, Battle Techniques, Run as a StrategyManual
The player makes a party of four warriors, choosing each one's occupation from six, in any combination.p. 34, Selecting Your Charactersp. 35, Character OccupationsManual
The four Light Warriors set out to restore the light of four orbs, which governed the elements of earth, fire, water, and wind; Nintendo's Japanese page calls them crystals.p. 13, The Menu ScreenManual
Later in the game each character can change class into an adult form, which can buy some spells and equip some weapons it couldn't before; some classes gain magic this way.p. 75, Class Changep. 75, Class ChangeManual