My brother bought this for his daughters when they were young and I was 4. They weren't into it, so my parents bought it from him for me. I remember poring over the manual, world map, dungeon maps, spell charts, weapon and armor charts, and bestiary endlessly. (If you've never seen the materials the original NES game came with, you're missing out. The manual is an 80-page strategy guide for the first half of the game, up to the airship, and you also get two giant fold-out posters of the stuff I listed.) I wrote a (terrible, and kind of hilarious) novelization of the story when I was 5. Basically, I've been in love with this game since I could hold a controller.