PelorieMate (ペロリーメイト) from Phantasy Star I (aka ‘Cola’, aka ‘Perolymate’) is based on the real life Japanese snack bar called “CalorieMate”
Yuji Naka came up with the title “Phantasy Star” based on a song he liked called “Nagisa no Fantasy” by Noriko Sakai.
Shilka’s (Shir’s) name in Japanese is a pun for “who cares?”
Shilka → shiruka → シルカ → 知るか？
In PSII, Nei’s weapons were mistakenly translated as “bars”, confusing everyone who could see they were claws. This is because the translators thought the word for claws (クローkurō) was referring to “crow”, as in “crow bars”.
Newman lifespans are short (only a few years), which is why Nei and Rika age so rapidly in the games.
Lutz is intended to be a non-binary intersex character according to the character’s creator, Phoenix Rie.
In the Japanese version, Raja is more of a “pervy sage” character, touching girls’ butts and drinking lots of alcohol.
Nei was originally intended to have a tail, but that idea had to be scrapped due to hardware limitations
Fal (Rika) only exists because the other game devs told Yoshibon he could not have Nei appear as a character again, so he made the tips black and called her a new name.
