The first game, Lunar: The Silver Star, was released in 1992 by Game Arts, creators of Silpheed. It was translated by Working Designs and released into the US in 1993.

Lunar became the most popular RPG for Sega CD, albeit one of the few released for this long dead system. It's safe to say that even with the successful Phantasy Star series, Lunar was the best RPG on any Sega 16-bit platform.

In 1995 the second game, Lunar: Eternal Blue was released in the US. There were many differences, both good and bad, between the games. (For more info see this page's "Comparison" section.)

The second Lunar easily topped the first, and is now probably the best RPG on any Sega platform to date. Working Designs "really [tried] hard to give the American gamer the same experience the Japanese gamer had when playing the original game,"

However, there were some translation flaws: typos. In both games, there were instances where "its" was spelled wrong, and others where apostrophes were forgotten. There were also additions which were obviously not originally in the Japanese text. (For more info see this page's "Americanization" section.)

For information about the series continuing on newer systems this year, check out the Director's Cut news.