When/how did you start playing ff?

[Morgoth_Bauglir]

I started to play ff with vii and it is my 2nd best ff...
It goes like this,I was like 11 years old and I paid a visit to a friend of mine (who had lived in Germany and had a bunch of games)and after playing tekken II (THAT old..)he put a game for us to see...It was Final Fantasy VII ,which I had never saw or heard of...He showed us the games in the Gold sausage (the snowboard game) and that was how I was initiated to the ff world..(of course afterwards I got my hands on it and I delved deeper into it..)

how did you get to meet the ff world?

[Vyk]

My brother bought the first Final Fantasy for NES when I was about 8 I think. He beat it a time or two, then moved out and I inherited his NES and Final Fantasy, along with many others. But that didn't really get me into the series. I later became a die-hard Sega fan and didn't get re-introduced to the series until the Playstation era when a friend short for cash sold me his SNES (which was a dead system by then) along with many games (including the Final Fantasys 2 and 3 [otherwise known as 4 and 6]). I still remember fondly my first moments with FF6. Snow March = best opening ever

[Morgoth_Bauglir]

Snow March = best opening ever

amen to that

FF VI is the best ff

[DMKA]

My aunt, who I lived with at the time, bought a Playstation (this was back when they were still $175.00 for the system alone), and she would buy like, four new games for it every month. Well the month after we got it she bought Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha, Nightmare Creatures, Resident Evil 2, and Final Fantasy VII. I had never played a Final Fantasy, or an RPG period...I didn't even know what one was, but I'd seen the commercials for FFVII quite a bit. So anyway my sister was the first and only person in the house to even attempt to play it, and it looked very weird and boring to me, so I had no interest...until she got to Air Buster and couldn't win (LOL). I really loved the boss music, so I asked her to let me try, and I beat him my first try. So finally when she wasn't playing later that month I started a new game...I loved it to death. I got all the way to Demon's Gate, then I wasn't able to play anymore until I lived with my foster parents and bought the game myself like a year later.

That was in like December of 1997, I think.

[Dreddz]

Nanny had FFVI, I used to visit only to play it. I was pretty young and didnt get too far. Soon later, My bro had gotten FFVII and thats where I really started to get into the series. So after I beat VII, I got VIII, then IX and so on....

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

my friend was banging on about how good it was so I just bought it. FFVIII was my first. I gave up because I couldn't defeat Elvoret and half a year later I decided to give it another try. I'm glad I did. The Black Widow chase (and Selphie's short skirt ) were the things that got me hooked and I've never stopped playing it since

[Tavrobel]

2001, when FFX came out. It sounded cool, so I got a PS2 to get it and some other games (which I sold after I was done with them). Played X, KH, and then after I finished IIIj, I played X-2.

But before I actually got the PS2, I found an SNES and NES Emulator and played FFI, IIIj, and IV. (Played FFIIj and V, but never finished them).

Recently, I finished VI and IX (which I just finished this week, 30 hours). I'm currently attempting to steal my cousin's copy of VIII, and awaiting KH2 and XII.

[ljkkjlcm9]

1991, i think, my mom bought FF for the NES, we played as a family unit, granted I was 5, but I got to hit the buttons, and my older brothers did the map/enemy info stuff, and my mom sort of helped us all

THE JACKEL

[Crossblades]

I was in 6th Grade in 1998. I just became close friends with someone. I had Chrono Trigger at the time. He wanted to borrow it, so I told him to lend me one of his SNES games. He handed FF IV(known as FF II at the time)to me. At first I was bored with it, then his best file got deleted somehow. I told him I was keep his game for a little while longer until I get the file the way he had it before. As I kept playing the game, I was getting into it. The more I played it, the more fun I had with it. After I finished the game, I returned it to him with a file that was a little better than his. Few weeks later, went to Kmart and I saw a used copy of FF VI(known as FF III at the time)It was cheap too. I thought to myself "Hey look. another FF game. Maybe it will be as good as the other one." So I bought it. I went home to play it and I was very pleased it. From that point on, I started to keep track of every FF game that was released and bought it. In other words, FF IV and VI got me into FFs and those two games will always be my top 2 favorites because of it.

[Leucant]

My first experience with FF was when i was 4. The SNES was new at the time i beleive and we had some good games like Zelda:A Link To The Past, and Final Fantasy II(or IV really). I saw my dad playing Zelda and one night when i was up and he was gone on business i switched the system on to play Zelda. Somehow the cartridges got switched and i was playing FFIV. I was only 4 so i didn't know how to change games so i just went with it. Took me forever to beat Mist dragon cause i couldn't read all the text yet so i kept on attacking the whole time. I played FFVI back when it was known as FF3(has a moogle with a purple background on the cartridge right???) but i didn't get into it. I know i'd love it now but i can't find a copy. I guess you could say I got lucky to fall in love with FF. If that was Zelda in the SNES(Even though i love Zelda too and own them all) then i could be on some Legend of Zelda forum right now.

[Morgoth_Bauglir]

. (and Selphie's short skirt )

amen to that

[Carmilla]

This is like the 10th time ive seen this type of thread...

I was about 11 or 12 and some kid was reading the Final Fantasy manual during lunch time. I thought the pictures of the swords and armor looked cool so i had my mom buy the game for Nintendo.

And now its almost 15 years later and im awaiting Final Fantasy 12.

[Yuffie514]

i think it was 1997 (but the PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII) had already come out. my cousins, brother and i were still playing Zelda: A Link To The Past. then we heard of this really cool game and one of my brother's friend let him borrow it. while halfway thru disk 1, my brother decided to get us our own copy and voila - here comes a whole new chapter of my life. this question pops up a lot but i reveal a little more when i make a new post.

[Death Penalty]

I played FF6 cuz it was in the 5$ bin at Target.

[Ramza Beoulve]

1996, In a bet that my brother and I did. My brother told me "If you can play and defeat FFVI and SMBRPG before you finish 1st grade, I sware I'll give you a PlayStation without arguing about it".

Now, I have a PS and a PS2, guess who won?