User blog comment:The Joker~/Is The Elder Scrolls series overrated?/@comment-669073-20120917031721/@comment-669073-20120917225025

Square wasn't going bankrupt. FF was based on Dragon Quest, Zelda & Ultima, It was created by Hironobu Sakaguchi. "the game was [my] last-ditch effort in the game industry and that its title, Final Fantasy, stemmed from [my] feelings at the time; had the game not sold well, [I] would have quit the business and gone back to university."

- Hironobu Sakaguchi