Harvest Moon (video game)

Harvest Moon
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Amccus
Publisher(s)	JP: Pack-In-Video NA: Natsume Inc. EU: Nintendo
Director(s)	Setsuko Miyakoshi Ken Takahashi
Producer(s)	Yasuhiro Wada
Artist(s)	Kenji Koyama
Composer(s)	Tsuyoshi Tanaka
Series	Story of Seasons
Platform(s)	SNES
Release	JP: August 9, 1996 NA: June 17, 1997 EU: January 29, 1998
Genre(s)	Farm simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Harvest Moon, known in Japan as Farm Story (牧場物語, Bokujō Monogatari), is a farm simulation role-playing video game developed by Amccus for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game first was released in Japan by Pack-In-Video in 1996, in North America by Natsume Inc. in 1997, and in Europe by Nintendo in 1998. The European version shipped with language localizations for Germany and France. It is the first game in the long-running Story of Seasons video game series, previously known as the Harvest Moon series in western territories. The game has been re-released on the Satellaview, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch.^[1]