LogFAQs > #929803728

I still have several of my VHS tapes from the Age of Fansubs. Good times created by good people (because subtitling, speaking from a little experience, is enough of a pain in the all-digital era that I cannot imagine how difficult it must have been in those days), though I do not miss the availability issues.

And I want to jump into the JRPG discussion from several posts up, since that's my wheelhouse, but, er, I'm not sure I can completely engage on that one. Most of the games I love from the eras described are games that P.O. absolutely hates.

I can offer a memory, though: I picked up .hack//SIGN and Xenosaga Episode I (plus Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter) on the same day back in '03 (February, IIRC). One of my prouder moments as a collector. It was one of my last paychecks from my university job before I graduated and moved back to this city. I remember having to wrap the games up in my scarf to keep them warm for the bus ride back to the dorm.

Finding JRPGs felt like more of an achievement back then, both because of rarity and because there were more stores than just Game Stop. E-Bay was also much more of a jungle than it is now. In the beginning, I could not use Pay Pal, so I had to hike to the local Kroger for money orders early in the morning so I could mail them off. (My first E-Bay purchase was a memory cartridge for my Sega CD so that I could get the extra scenarios in Shining Force CD.)

Eh, not really going anywhere with that. Just felt like sharing.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.