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For me, it is one of my foundational childhood memories, and even though I never beat it until much later, it still holds a special place in my heart. That music!

None, I never played it as a child. Even as an adult I've only played the GBA remake.

Not much nostalgia at all (it was released 8 years before I was born). I played it on mobile some years ago and certainly enjoyed it.

zero, i started with FF4 and didn't play FF1 until the gba port.

I remember playing through the NES version when I was in 7th grade. It helped that I had one of the extra strategy guides that came with Nintendo Power at the time.

darkmaian23 posted...

For me, it is one of my foundational childhood memories, and even though I never beat it until much later, it still holds a special place in my heart. That music!

Best song in FF 1 is sky castle
https://youtu.be/dEzO4eS_9D0?si=CM4aSa3P-qVDAXob

None, considering that I played it for the first time around a year or so ago. Its not a bad, little game.

This was not just my first RPGs but 1 of the first (along with dragon warrior) it felt like a new genre and new world to get hooked into.

Compared to so many other games they felt like like there were so many knobs to fiddle with, along with the permanent progress in the world and with all your party members.

However, I feel like i cant play rpgs any more.

I just don't have the time to plod through dungeons and do any more grinding.

When I was a kid I thought grinding for gear and exp and gold was the height of gaming. So much tho I thought all games should have leveling and grinding.

Now. I'm the opposite. I think grinding monsters for exp is the biggest waste of time design possible. (As seen in gacha and almost every app game)

I consider leveling/grinding a negative feature now. A time sink, and a money sink. It hurts the player.

I've never played any Final Fantasy game.

Got a bit for the Dawn of Souls version.
FF5 is the one I have the most nostalgia for, it's the first one I played.

I have very fond memories of 8-Bit Theater, which heavily pulled from the original Final Fantasy for inspiration, but that's about it.

Then again, I was also like 3 when I first played it, and it was a bit beyond my understanding at the time. Now if we're talking FF6... that's a game that will always have a nostalgic place in my heart.

Very little but it was my first full game I played on a phone so that was a unique experience.

None.

But I have a ton for the original Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest, am really anticipating the remake

It gives me nostalgia for my early time with emulators more than anything.

Little to none. Been gameing since I was 5 and quickly gravitated towards RPGs, but I narrowly missed the NES era and didn't touch such games until somewhere in my teens via emulation. FF1 being so primitive that if 4 guys are told to attack the same thing and the first guy kills it, the other 3 waste their turn attacking nothing... immediate turn off. Gave it another try at some point and got lost, idk.

Never played it. For whatever reason I didn't start enjoying RPGs until I got a PS1. I've only played FF6-9.

None.

None. I think I got a version of it on one of the gameboys and played it for a bit before quitting. There are better games to play.

None. Never played any Final Fantasy game.

Quite a bit. It wasn't the first RPG I played but it was the first one I really got into.

A lot but I don't think I can enjoy that grindy random encounter battle system anymore

Turbam posted...

FF5 is the one I have the most nostalgia for, it's the first one I played.

Yeah man! FF5 hits me right in the feels because I played it during a transitional period in my life. It was also my first time beating a Final Fantasy game. I sucked too much as a kid to beat the first one.

A lot. Ive beaten the game several dozens of times, including with a solo white mage (protip: dont do it). It was the first Final Fantasy that I ever played because my uncle owned it, albeit I had no idea what to do other than wonder around and get into battles.

Several years later when I was in high school is when I played it to beat it. And Ive gone back to replay it many times. Love the replayability due to the various party combinations. And while the game is clearly much more polished on the more recent releases, the NES game just hits that nostalgia chord for me.

Also, even though I know exactly what Im doing at all times these days, the Marsh Cave, Astos, and the Ice Cavern still make me anxious due to the troubles that they gave me on my initial playthrough.

I have vague memories of seeing it in stores when I was like six or seven. Most most of my early final fantasy memories were me watching my brother play Final Fantasy 2/4 and 3/6.

first time I played it was last year, but I got bored pretty quick

None. It wasn't the first NES JRPG I played. It's just kind of a footnote along side all the other stuff I played on the system and is just an afterthought.

While I did love the series throughout the 90's and definitely prefer later games much more like 7 and 10 I have a lot of nostalgia for it because of the time period of my life, more so than the game itself specifically.

It was the summer right before I started high school in 1990. Gaming was very much still pretty niche though NES was starting to change that. It was coming out of "nerd" culture and becoming more widespread at the time.

Though my friends house that I would go over to (Josh) and my other friend (Jason) were in fact very nerdy and kind of social outcasts but I was one of those people that I played sports and was friends with jocks and cheerleaders but I spent most of my time with nerds and kind of the burnout/music junkie guys. I pretty much got along with everyone.

Anyway I spent almost that whole summer over at Josh's hanging out playing. We were literally basement dwellers as he had his whole gaming setup down there with all his fishtanks. I have very fond memories of that friendship with him and Jason and our times gaming together. I ended up moving and changing schools a semester later and we drifted apart but it is a time I will always remember as we were great friends in junior high.

His parents were really nice to me because Josh's only friends were Jason and me so they were very nice to us. His parents were tech geeks then too and they had super high end PC's. For being the late 80's they each had a personal PC and there was a "family PC" for gaming that us kids were able to use.

But Josh and his brother Andy both had personal PC's in their room, his parents each had a PC and they had a family PC. They had 5 high end PC's for a family of 4, in the 80's. That was kind of unheard of. I barely even knew anyone else with a computer except for a few of the nerdy gamer PC guys that had a Commodore 64.

Anyway this is more memories that no one cares about but I felt like sharing. I'm very nostalgic, mostly for the time frame and all the stuff that came along with playing that game in the summer of 1990.

None, I didnt play it until the GBA version.

Nostalgia isnt really something i experience in general but its certainly zero for FF1 given the first time i played it was near the end of last year. Didnt dislike it but its certainly bottom 3 for me for the series.

A bit. Got this and Dragon Warrior 2 around the same time. Was really excited when FF 2 came out in the SNES.

First one I ever played and I loved it. I think I was like 11 or 12? So probably a good amount. My user name is stolen from it

Very little. I did play it as a kid and I played it when I was to young to really understand it. I actually hated it and didnt want to get into RPGs until later with FF7. I did complete the game in the last year though after I really got into (Spoilers just in case) Stranger of Paradise

Not that much since i played it later in life, The one i am most Nostalgic for would be FF6 which was my first FF game i played