8 Video Games That Predicted The Future In Ways You Can't Explain

7. Final Fantasy VIII Somehow Knows All About Online HD Streaming & Youtube

Although many of you will remember a world without Youtube (it only sprang into life in 2005), Square were clearly ahead of the game in regards to the proliferation of streaming services.

Though Final Fantasy VIII released in 1999, Squall can be seen talking about the in-world history of streaming and online broadcasting - something that would manifest most prevalently through Youtube in our world, but also in Japan through IPTV; a cultural phenomenon and still the norm overseas where watching TV on your phone is very easy to do. IPTV has actually been around since 1995, but they wouldn't add live-streaming HD content until 2005, six years after FF VIII first made mention of the idea.

Many handsets released in the region now come equipped with antennas to facilitate this too, once again tying into the idea of online broadcasting being delivered to the masses.