Can't believe this game is 23 years old.

[DMKA]

I first played it when I got the internet at home and discovered what emulation was back in 2002 or so. I thoroughly enjoyed it but still have yet to finish it (got all the way to the last dungeon then my 486 decided to bite the dust). I remember getting to the Ice Cave and not being able to believe how hard it was. Nothing I'd ever encountered in a Final Fantasy game had proved that formidably challenging to me at that point.

I wonder if anyone will still take the time to find and play it decades from now? I think it's awesome that people are still finding it and playing it today at it's age.

[Hot Shot]

It just goes to show how timeless the FF series as a whole is. If you're a gamer who doesn't judge a game on it's graphics you'll love them all (well nearly all of them). When I got my PS3, I played FF IX on it more than XIII, which I still haven't completed (I don't have to want to complete but I will one day). And FF is so unbelievable hard and so is the whole of the NES era, but that might just be because I'm not very good at games.

[ReloadPsi]

I bought this game when it first came out... in Europe, in the early 2000s. That is when it first came out over here, so as far as I care, that counts. I haven't had any luck in finding a way to get an NTSC NES game to work in my machine, so there.

[Bahamut LSU]

My brother got it in 1987 when it first came out. I was only 3 years old at the time so I didn't play it then. I played through it for the first time during the summer of 1991. I still have my original NES with this game.

[aquatius]

I wasn't even born then. Well that's humbling.

[Jiro]

Agreed! Still half a decade til I even turned up on the scene.

[Pike]

Knowing that I'm nearly five years older than Final Fantasy makes me feel old.

[I Don't Need A Name]

It may be 23 years old, but it's still going strong! You know why!? Because of the love of the Misfits! That's why!

[sad.mind]

When Origins came out. Then I checked it out on an NES ROM, and last week I got the actual cart.

[Gamblet]

Wow, this game is 7-8 years older than me. I beat the Origins version on PS1 and it was pretty hard, dungeons were sometimes annoying because of the limited amounts of items, so I had to go back and forth from towns and dungeons, Chaos also took me like 7 tries before I beat he/she/shemale/it/animal/devil/satan.

[Bolivar]

I've played the original US NES eversion on an emulator on my brother's dreamcast. I got up to the Ice Cave where you go for the Levistone before stopping. That was hard. I'm sure it must be awesome to beat that game but I don't think I have the stomach for it.

I've beaten the FFI & II GBA version multiple times. It is too easy. I tried running from all battles until the bridge is completed at the beginning, but the difficulty came back to way too easy at the Water cave/temple/crystal/whatever.

Still, it's a wonderful experience and an interesting formula that has stood the test of time. Love FFI.

[Wolf Kanno]

My original copy of the game stopped working some time ago, the game would crash anytime I got to the Marsh Caves and my saves would be deleted. So I never actually finished the game until Origins came out. Recently, I picked up the game on Virtual Console and have finally been playing through the NES version past the point my old game would meltdown, and its been a blast. I don't know what it is about these simple 8-bit rpgs but good god are they addicting. I have a Dragon Warrior 1 file I'm still playing through.

I've been meaning to write an article about FFI, maybe I'll do it when I'm finished with my current playthrough.

[Pike]

I'm playing this game right now and it's fun as hell. It has elves, it has dorfs, it has Black Mage one-shotting everyone and it's just glorious.

[Bolivar]

My original copy of the game stopped working some time ago, the game would crash anytime I got to the Marsh Caves and my saves would be deleted. So I never actually finished the game until Origins came out. Recently, I picked up the game on Virtual Console and have finally been playing through the NES version past the point my old game would meltdown, and its been a blast. I don't know what it is about these simple 8-bit rpgs but good god are they addicting. I have a Dragon Warrior 1 file I'm still playing through.

I've been meaning to write an article about FFI, maybe I'll do it when I'm finished with my current playthrough.

Awesome, I can't wait to explain why your position is tenuous at best.

[Hollycat]

And then There are people like me who are rewriting FF 1 to make it an action romance