Final Fantasy III is a role-playing game developed by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Released in 1990, it is the sixth installment in the series, misnumbered in the West due to prior unavailability of earlier titles. Players control a party of characters across diverse locations, engage in battles using the active time battle system, and upgrade skills and equipment to enhance their abilities.
The sixth entry in the Final Fantasy series was dubbed Final Fantasy III in the West because three out of the five previous installments of the series had not been released there at the time. Similarly to its predecessors, this is a role-playing game where the player controls a party of characters, travelling between various locales in the world, fighting randomly appearing regular enemies and bosses, and making the characters stronger by improving their skills and getting better equipment for them. The game maintains the ATB (active time battle) system of the two previous installments in the series, spicing traditional turn-based combat engine with a real-time element.