The Long Road to Final Fantasy
Sometime after the release of FFVII, I asked my father to buy me a PlayStation for Christmas, and then I used my birthday money to buy a copy of FFVII. I waited longingly to play through the newest iteration of one of my favorite game series. I read the manual for months until Christmas would arrive and I could finally play the game that everyone swelled with blissful joy just thinking about it. During that time frame, I hit up a used game store looking for some lost treasure to occupy my time with until my beloved PS1 was in my grasp, and I was fortunate to come at the same time a mother arrived to sell off her son's Nintendo and all of his games. In one fell swoop I bought Dragon Warrior, Castlevania, and most importantly, Final Fantasy.
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