In fact, I couldn’t find anything in which it failed to perform. Well, it turns out that when you use a game as a standard to measure itself, it comes out rather well. But how, pray tell, does it stack up as a game by itself? So, like those in my age range, FFVI became the standard against which I will judge all other RPGs. I just knew I could play it over and over until the chocobos come home. I didn’t realize that Square had raised the bar on RPGs forever with this game. I didn’t really settle into a specific class…er, genre…until the early nineties, when my cousins, on their annual visit to Northern Michigan, brought their Super Nintendo with them along with a little unheard of gem called “Final Fantasy VI.” Er…Final Fantasy III. I took one dose, one afternoon at a friend’s house, and that spiraled into a life-long addiction and tens of thousands of dollars I had to scrounge up and commit to feeding my problem.
Like most people over the age of thirty–at least, those who play video games–Super Mario Bros hooked me.
