The first console I ever acquired on my own was a used SNES plus several games. This rich kid offered it to me in exchange for some skateboard components. I told him he was crazy but he said his parents would buy him another one if he wanted it. I was kind of over videogames, though--I played it but I didn't love it like I had the NES. That kind of changed when I stumbled over a used copy of FF6. I'd played the original Final Fantasy on NES so I bought it. It was incredible and changed gaming for me.
That resulted in me buying the original PlayStation when it was released, solely because of FF7. Prior to that I had been a Nintendo fan but the FF7 TV ad blew me away. I'll never forget seeing the "big guns" ad in a magazine, either.
