The Lunar Gallery
Two stories, told for thirty years: every Lunar, in order.
Lunar is the smallest major RPG series of its era: two adventures, The Silver Star (1992) and Eternal Blue (1994), a pair of school stories, and three decades of remakes that carried those two tales from Mega-CD to the present day. Two thirds of everything below is a new telling of one of those two journeys, which is not a weakness in the series. It is the series: a story its makers and its players refused to let go of.
Covers shown are the North American releases; where no verified cover exists in the archive, the entry stands in text, as the record allows.
THE TWO STORIES
Mega-CD · 1992 to 1994
Lunar: The Silver Star
Mega-CD / Sega CD · June 26, 1992 (JP) · December 1993 (NA). Game Arts and Studio Alex build the CD-ROM RPG around animation and voice; it becomes the best-selling Mega-CD game in Japan.
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Mega-CD / Sega CD · December 22, 1994 (JP) · September 1995 (NA). A thousand years on: Hiro, Lucia, and a goddess who must decide what humanity is for. The Mega-CD original carried some sixty animated sequences.
The shape of the series
Everything after 1994 is a retelling, a side story, or a rescue. Lunar's canon is two quests and a school; its history is what the industry did to keep them playable.
THE REMAKES
Saturn · PlayStation · 1996 to 2000
Silver Star Story Complete
Saturn 1996 (JP) · PlayStation 1998 (JP) / May 1999 (NA). A ground-up remake: fifty minutes of Gonzo animation, a rewritten Ghaleon, and the Working Designs collector's edition that defined deluxe in the West.
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
Saturn July 23, 1998 (JP) · PlayStation 1999 (JP) / December 2000 (NA). The remake trims the original's sixty-odd sequences to about thirty-five longer ones, redraws every monster, and reaches North America in a box with a pendant, standees, and a cloth map.
Silver Star Story (Saturn)
The remake began in Japan on Saturn, October 25, 1996: quarter-screen movies until the July 1997 MPEG edition used Sega's video card to play them full-screen. Neither Saturn version left Japan.
THE SIDE STORIES AND THE LONG ROAD
Game Gear to PSP · 1996 to 2010Lunar: Walking School
Game Gear · January 12, 1996 (JP only). A gentle gaiden at the magic school of Ien: three students, no world to save. The only Lunar born on a handheld, and the seed of Magic School Lunar!
Magic School Lunar!
Saturn · November 1997 (JP only). Walking School expanded into a full Saturn RPG, with animated sequences and a short anime film made alongside it. The school branch of the family, and the one the West never got in any form.
Lunar Legend
Game Boy Advance · April 2002 (JP) · December 2002 (NA). The Silver Star retold on a cartridge: no animation, a card-collecting side game, and the first Lunar published in the West by someone other than Working Designs (Ubisoft).
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
PSP · 2009 (JP) · March 2, 2010 (NA). A third telling of Alex's story with redrawn art, a new prologue for the Four Heroes, and a new English cast. Xseed carried it west for GungHo.
Lunar: Dragon Song
Nintendo DS · August 2005 (JP, as Lunar Genesis) · September 2005 (NA). The series' only new chapter: a prequel set a thousand years before Alex, and the most argued-about game in the family.
Lunar Remastered Collection
April 18, 2025. Both PlayStation remakes return together (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Steam) with a new English dub, widescreen and Classic modes, and new Kubooka cover art on the physical edition.