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