I use to subscribe to Nintendo Power since about issue two or three. I would eagerly await it every month and spend that whole month pouring over every page. One month, a strategy guide came in the mail instead of the usual Nintendo Power and that strategy guide was for Final Fantasy.
I thought WTF is this stupid shit!? (in somewhat cleaner words since I was 9), I wanted my Nintendo Power, not some strategy guide for some crappy game! I read the strategy guide but the game seemed pretty stupid so I skipped it.
That was my first experience with Final Fantasy.
My next experience was with Final Fantasy II (IV) on the SNES. My sister got it and made me play it. I was pretty shortly hooked and I loved it! I still remember the thrill of all the big moments in the game.
So that was my first real experience with Final Fantasy.
And with FFIII (VI) on the SNEs, it may have not been my first experience with Final Fantasy it was the game that made me know I wanted to make games for a living which made that one of the most important games ever for me. I liked games before but it was the first game that ever really moved me.
