No, but I got a Playstation a year before FFVII came out just to be able to play it. I had to make do with Beyond the Beyond for a year. Although the geometric flying machine was pretty cool.

My sequence:

FFIV (called FFII)
FFVI (called FFIII)
FFVII
FFVIII
FF Tactics
FFIX
FFV
FFI
FFII
FFX
FFX-2