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.