While working at Square, he met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who asked him if he wanted to compose music for some of his games, which Uematsu agreed to. Before joining Square, he composed music for television commercials. He said it was a way to make some money on the side, while also keeping his part-time job at the music rental shop. Uematsu considered it a side job, and he did not believe it would become any sort of full-time job. When Uematsu was working at a music rental shop in Tokyo, a woman working in the art department for Square, which would later become Square Enix, asked if he would be interested in creating music for some of the titles they were working on, and he agreed.

4 Final Fantasy & Final Fantasy II Original Soundtrack.

Several tracks, especially 'Opening Theme', 'Main Theme' and 'Matoya's Cave', remain popular today, and have been performed numerous times in orchestral concert series, as well as having been published in arranged and compilation albums by Square Enix and outside groups. The music was well received by critics reviewers have praised the quality and power of the original pieces, and reacted favorably to the arranged soundtracks. Final Fantasy & Final Fantasy II Original Soundtrack, another arranged album, this time by Nobuo Uematsu and Tsuyoshi Sekito, was released in 2002 by DigiCube and again in 2004 by Square Enix. Symphonic Suite Final Fantasy, an arranged album of music from the two games by Katsuhisa Hattori and his son Takayuki Hattori was released by DataM in 1989, and re-released by NTT Publishing/Polystar in 1994. II, a compilation of almost all of the music in the games, was released by DataM/Polystar in 1989, and subsequently re-released by NTT Publishing in 1994.Although they were composed separately, music from the two games has only been released together. The music of the video games Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu, who would go on to be the exclusive composer for the next seven Final Fantasy games.

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