so reading this article
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=135708&page=1#
i actually remembered how i played my first Final fantasy game , and how was the experience moving on, this isn't a review thread, just how exactly it started, so share your own story, here is mine.
you see . i was a multiconsole owner from the start, i always wanted to own all the consoles 
, so i actually had an Atari a Magnavox Odyssey (the VERY first one, was my dads) , and a FAMICOM NOT an NES , the red and white one you see.
So back then i actually thought it was a different console from my friend's NES , hey i was a kid and didn't have internet! so don't blame me! xD
so with it i was like the king of niche Japanese games, i bought a lot of Dragon Quests (it was actually called Dragon Warrior back then) and lots of beat em ups and lots of J-games, i LOVED them even though i couldn't read a single word, but i did understand some of the things that happen, so after playing lots of cool games, i found about this Final Fantasy II (IV) that everyone talking about (and by everyone i mean like two kids i knew xD) so i got very jealous because they own an NES while i own a Famicom ... which i thought was inferior to the NES at the time, so i went to find a game and then out of freaking nowhere a WILD Final Fantasy V appears.... wait a minute?! Final Fantasy V ? 5?!? but my friends have 2? I MUST GET THIS ONE! TO RUB IT ON MY FRIENDS FACE! so i got it and surprise i actually lost a lot of time with my friends and more times enjoying teh eff out of the game, while it was still japanese i didn't give a damn, when i was a kid i actually skipped most of the dialog anyways.
so after awhile , my father bought an NES and my family began a Mario fever, this is the reason why i didn't like the original mario on NES , my family used to play ALL the time, and i didn't had much chance to play other games, so i got really bored playing it over and over and over , we had only one tv back then, but me having the NES means i get to get the english games that i haven't got back then
i actually remember getting terribly confused by the numbering, (II was IV) , so i actually bought it twice by accident because i thought it was II and not IV, but i DID end up buying them all, can you believe it that i never figured out the storyline or anything that actually happens on FFIII until like 10 years (?) later when it was released in english on the DS? , yeah its silly i know 
oh and when my family bought the NES , the Super Famicom / SNES was released like just two weeks after that, that is yet another story of how my friend was teasing me with Super Mario World's AWESOME GRAPHICS, while i had inferior looking mario's, that game is still one of my favorite Mario games, but i actually didn't buy an SNES i bought a SEEGAA MEGA Muthafucka! , and that awesome console wasn't region locked as well! ... but thats another story xD
