The grand finale of Season One is here! Our coverage of the 1995-1997 “Generation Gap” ends with a blowout review of (nearly) every (English-language print) review of Final Fantasy VII that we could find.

Starting with a quick look back at the first year of FunFactor, and discussion of what’s coming next, we then re-looked at the magazine we debuted the podcast with nearly a year ago, PSM No. 1. 

We then went on to review, well, all of these reviews:

PSM 1: https://archive.org/details/PSM_Issue_001_September_1997/mode/2up
Ultra Game Players 102: https://archive.org/details/Ultra_Gameplayers_102_October_1997_U/page/n83/mode/2up 

The Duelist 21: https://archive.org/details/duelist-21/page/n105/mode/1up

The Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 1: https://archive.org/details/Official_US_PlayStation_Magazine_Volume_1_Issue_1_1997-10_Ziff_Davis_US/page/n85/mode/2up

EGM 99: https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902

NEXT Generation 34: 
https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_34/page/n53/mode/2up

GameFan Vol. 5, Issue 9: https://archive.org/details/GamefanVolume5Issue09September1997/page/n3/mode/2up

GamePro 46: https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_099_October_1997/page/n49/mode/2up

EDGE 049: https://archive.org/details/Edge_Gaming/Edge%20Gaming%20vMagazine%20051/page/n65/mode/1up 

Game Informer 53: https://archive.org/details/game-informer-issue-53-september-1997

Campus Life Magazine (partial text archive): https://cmnexus.org/magazines/Campus_Life/issues

As always, we streamed this recording session live to FunFactor ULTRA members–so if you’d like to get in on the fun, just sign up at https://funfactorpod.com/! See you on the Discord, and you’ll see us when we next go live! 

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Sources include the Video Game History Foundation, the Internet Archive, Retromags.com, our original research, and our personal magazine collections. The FunFactor theme, and all other original songs, are composed and performed by Millennium Falck. Check out his work at millenniumfalck.com!