Yeah the PS1 FF's are the best. . .but that doesn't mean I don't like 2D games. 2D Mario games I think are totally awesome, but hey I like the FF's before FF7 too even though not as much. By the time I got to FFIX, I fell in love with the series as a whole and wanted to check out its roots. So, after getting Anthology and before Chronicles, I got Origins and loved FF1. Then I started to be a really weird collector and got the NES version of FF1, and the famicom versions of FF's II and III.

If you didn't grow up with the NES version of FF1 you won't like it so much, and I didn't a whole lot either (but still beat it on the NES lol) and you don't have to get that version unless you're a huge fan of the series. FF Origins is awesome though and I'm interested in getting the PSP version since I bet it's even better.