Two of the five games that rotate my "favorite ever" list I got on the same day. I was 7(!). My parents would give us Easter baskets and hide them. My older sister's was pink, my twin sister's was purple, mine was blue. Every time it'd be a bunch of candy and toys with a small selection of gifts. I found mine in a cabinet, my twin found hers behind the tv, and my older sister started to cry because hers went unsound for an hour because my parents always played a joke about her taking along time to find hers so my parents would always say "The Easter Bunny must of wanted you to look real hard" so it was a running gag. My basket was awesome. Razzles! Reese's! Spree! Gummi Life Savers! On the bottom, however, was Final
Fantasy IX and Baldur's Gate II.

Now I rented Final Fantasy IX at Blockbuster a year ago and loved it but the disc would fail to read before the first scene of "I Want To Be Your Canary". After that, the game simply froze. But the world and environment simply enchanted me.

My dad played Baldur's Gate a bit and I adored it but didn't really understand it. The game was weird, complex, and a little scary but he lost time because of work. My dad read some PC Gamer and I re-read the article on it time and time again, recognizing the old characters and imagining the world and quests inside. Both games I wanted desperately.

I played Final Fabtasy IX all the way through the Evil Forest while Baldur's Gage II installed. Then I made a (very inept) BGII character and played through the first dungeon but took a break because the game kinda scared me. (I was 7!) Looking back, as far as days that influenced by adult person, that might have been one of the significant days of my life. All because my parents, despite their awful relationship and financial problems, decided to work together and be incredibly awesome.