Harvest Moon (牧場物語 Bokujō Monogatari?) is a virtual role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Pack-In-Video (now Marvelous AQL), first released in Japan in 1996, and 1997 in North America. This is the first game in the long-running series of the same name. A PAL version was released by Nintendo in early 1998 for Western Europe and Oceania, with language localizations for Germany and France.