how old were u when u started playing ff?

[bkkguy]

When I was 14 with FFVI in 94. Yep, I'm one of those (many) people that got hooked on Final Fantasy because of FFVI

[ljkkjlcm9]

Let's see, I was born in 86, my mom got FF when it first came out, 1990 i believe. I didn't actually play myself, but my brothers and my mom played all together, Like i'd press the buttons for a fight, my brothers would look at the enemy chart and decide to run away or not, and my mom would sort of watch us and tell us where to go and stuff. It was a team effort, but I loved the game and played it many times. Then we missed getting FFII(IV) and couldn't find it anywhere, so we waited and my bro and I bought FFIII(VI). My oldest brother still insists that that is final fantasy III not VI because it was released as III in the US, and all I can do now is laugh. But yeah, i've been playing them as early as I could, even though I didn't get most of it!

THE JACKEL

[Yuffie514]

all i can remember was that i was hooked on FF7 when i just started out in high school . and, i'm glad i found Final Fantasy!

[zimmunky]

I was 16, I bought FFX because my friend told me about it, that night when i was driving home to play it, i got in a car wreck and i totaled the car and everything was destroyed, Me and FFX are the only things that made it out without a scratch.

[Mahabutt]

Hmm... I first played FF1... at least a year before FF6 came out (as FF3) in the USA. Going by a few other posts, FF6 came out around '94, so it was around '93 when I played/beat FF1, and that would make me... 7 or maybe 8 years old at the time. Wow... heh.
And beat it on the NES, on my.. I think second try. Mainly because on my first try I just randomly picked characters, not realizing that White Mage + front slot = dead white mage... I didn't read the manual or anything until after being killed by.. I think a Madpony, about 3 minutes in. Heh...

And up until a few years ago, I still had that big sheet with every monster's stats on it... slightly crumpled and taped together in places, but it was still there. But now I can't find it... :(

[mythus]

Let's see...
I was 10 years old when I first got and played FF1 on the NES. Got it for christmas along with my own NES! Was one happy kid and loved the game ever since, with the exception of FF8.

Here's a date lis of when I first played a particular FF game...
FF1 - 1990
FF2 - 1999
FF3 - 1999
FF4 - 1993
FF5 - 1999
FF6 - 1994
FF7 - 1997
FF8 - 2000
FF9 - 2002
FF10 - 2003
FF10-2 - 2004
FFMQ - 1993
FFT - 1998

[PearlRose]

First one I played was 7, I think I was 15 or 16 at the time. Later, much later, I played 5 for a bit.

The first one I actually beat was 4. Currently trying to find a copy of 8 for the PC to buy that isn't horribly expensive, and I might start 6 this weekend.

[crashNUMBERS]

i was 8 and i played ff7

[Apollo]

I was 5 years old and I played FFVI (FFIII) On my SNES.I would have my sister help me half the time though.

[Destai]

It was 1997, I was six years old. For absaloutely no reason at all I asked my parents to pick me up a copy of FFVII on a trip to England (without me!!!) They brought it back and after the half an hour I spent learning how to run and realizing there was no jump button I loved it! My first RPG(the first of many) had me totally hooked.

[amratis]

Well I'm a late-comer to FF, first FF I played was X, and that was 2 years ago. It was in a 2 for 20 pounds sale at GAME and I'd allready picked up Deus Ex and was looking for something to go with it. It was the platinum collection edition and I thought 'well I've never played one before but what the hell'. I've never looked back since

amra

[TDubz1270]

Hmm 6 That Was... 1996 I Guess I Bought The Potions In 1 Form My Brother Or Less Train From Him Well He Went Out Heres The List!

FF1 1996
FF2 2000
FF3 1998
FF4 2000
FF5 2001
FF6 1999
FF7 2002
FF8 2005
FF9 2003
FF10 2003
FF10-2 2004
FFT 2003
FFTA 2004
FF MQ 2001
FF 12 Plan On Beating That In A Week!

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I was 14 when FF7 came out - that was my first FF.

[abrojtm]

I was probably five watching my older brothers play FFI, then I tried to play myself at six probably, but I couldn't actually beat ToF (2000YitP).

[Rossodio]

I wanted to vouch for my brother, AbroJTM, here... He is my younger brother, and I would like to say that he doesn't give himself enough credit here.

When AbroJTM was 3 (before he could read), my older brother (the oldest of the three of us) received Final Fantasy II (FFIV Easytype) for Christmas. AbroJTM was 3, I was 11, and my older brother was 13 at the time. My older brother and I had been playing quite a bit, and to exposed AbroJTM to the game by putting audiotapes of recorded FFIV music in his room while he slept in his crib/bed (don't remember if he was still in a crib or not). Apparently, the engraining of Final Fantasy into his toddler mind is still influencing him today. From the time we started playing in Christmas until about 6 months later, AbroJTM would say "Final Fancy!" when he wanted to watch us play it, which was all the time... and, of course, my older brother and I had no problem with this. AbroJTM would turn the game on sometimes when he just wanted to listen to the theme and stare at the screen/intro for literally hours at a time. He was hooked before he understood the difference between a boy and a girl.

In any event, my older brother and I came downstairs to our playroom one day to find our barely 3-year-old brother actually *playing* FFIV. He had watched us play so much that he had learned how to load the game up, and he started a new game (remember that he couldn't read, and obviously didn't know the controller THAT well, even though my older brother and I had shown him how hitting the buttons makes stuff on the screen move).

We were initially worried that he had erased a save game or something like that, and were about to get mad, when we actually looked at the screen and saw where he was and what he was doing in the game. He actually progressed from the beginning of the game ALL THE WAY to the END OF THE MIST CAVE before we found him there, playing. Both my older brother and I were astounded to see that AbroJTM could actually get that far just from having watched us play so much. He knew how to find his way around Baron, and even fight his way to the end of the Mist cave. I don't remember if we let him play to see him get to the end of it, or if we took the controller at that point, but wow, it honestly took my breath away to see what he had accomplished.

This is one of my top 5 most vivid memories of my little brother as a toddler/infant, along with when he got his fish who died the night he got it when he was 3(which he named "Stop", because it "stopped"), recalling him with his fire truck he got for Christmas at 2, which he called "Fire Fruck", his digging into his first birthday cake after he initially had no interest in it (our mom put his finger in the icing and then in his mouth, at which point he smiled, and he then dug into it completely, making a mess), and his "poopie face" that he made when taking care of business (also goes along with "karate chop" and "point to your nose", which are other stories in and of themselves).

Ahh, nostalgia. But no, AbroJTM, you didn't start when you were 5, though that is when you began to play the original FF, and you did indeed get to ToF2kYitP. Give yourself more credit, you were well on your way through FFII/IV easytype when you were THREE.

As far as me, I began when I was 4 or 5, can't remember which, playing the original Final Fantasy, as it had just come out and my older brother got it for Christmas. It's been almost 20 years since then. As if that's important, considering the story I just told...

- Rossodio
older brother of AbroJTM