Final Fantasy VI Advance IPO Announced

Square Enix Co's Final Fantasy VI Advance for the GameBoy Advance (GBA) will debut on the simExchange on Tuesday, January 23, 2007. It will be categorized under the Role-playing genre and under the DS platform. Shares will open for purchase at 100 DKP (forecasts one million copies sold worldwide over lifetime). The release for this game is scheduled for February 5, 2007 in North America. It was released in Japan on November 30, 2006 and has sold 237,250 copies. The listing was first submitted by Taloncarde. The game's page is found here. The summary of the game is:

Final Fantasy VI Advance is a re-release of the game known as "Final Fantasy III" in North America and "Final Fantasy VI" in Japan, which sold 3.42 million copies. The game was originally released for the Super Nintendo in 1994 and was later re-released for the PlayStation in 1999. This re-release is designed for the GameBoy Advance portable console, but can be played on the Nintendo DS, and includes extra Espers (magical beings that are summoned to assist the player’s characters and teach them magic) and new dungeons. This game was released on November 30, 2006 in Japan.

Final Fantasy VI is a 2D role-playing game of the classic Final Fantasy era. The player travels in a party of four in a zoomed-out overworld and are pulled into a separate battle screen from random encounters. The player enters specific zones from the overworld by walking over a town or into a cave. Combat is menu-based using a pseudo-real time system where characters get a new turn to take action based on their time bar filling up. The player can customize the characters using relics (much like the accessories in later Final Fantasy games) and magacite, which summons Espers. Equipping magacite in battle also trains the character in learning a new spell determined by the particular magacite that is equipped.