I was like 3 or 4 and my brother and sister got it as one of the only games we ever did buy for Nintendo. Being young I never really got into it too much, but I watched them play. I tried it a bit, but I never got too far having the patience of a chipmunk, and being a freaking midget at the time. Furthest I ever managed to get as a child playing was like somewhere around Lich. Few years passed, I got older, and we got FFIV on SNES, it was the first true FF I managed to play through and beat when I was like 6 or somewhere around that point, granted over the course of like a year + to beat it, and randomly jumping in playing the game on different save slots. >.>

Been hooked ever since.