Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. It was so weird and off-beat that even though I couldn't stand the battle areas, I enjoyed it enough to get majorly excited when FFVI (then called FFIII) hit stores. After that I tracked down FFI and FFIV, and even started getting into the whole ROM hacking/translation scene. This was back when the general wisdom was "It's a shame Square would never release these games in America, we better translate and distribute 'em so people can at least play them."