@TheZeldaZone I think you're right that it wasn't a good time for the game, though I think rpgs were actually coming into their hayday at the time, but it was very much an outlier in its genre so it didn't benefit it.

But I do think the marketing failed the game, just not in the sense that it was bad, but that it wasn't very aggressively pursued. I was an avid Nintendo Power reader at the time and I don't recall it getting the kind if long term blitz that most Nintendo published games got. I just don't think noa was very convinced.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if retailers just didn't really want to shelve the giant box tbh.

@TheZeldaZone
Yeah it wasnt bad marketing so much as lack of marketing because Americans didnt care for jrpgs at the time, i dont think it got hardly any tv ads and not even a lot of promo in mags.

The first big JRPG i remember actually getting a heavy add campaign in america was FF 7 or 8.