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I'm pretty sure I never finished any of the NES Final Fantasy games, even though I poured a massive part of my childhood into it. I think I might have lost files a few times and had to start over again or something, but I don't even think I got particularly far. I remember in like 6th grade or something, I used to stay up every single night until 2 in the morning playing Final Fantasy on the computer with NBC playing in the background until the Conan O'Brian show was over.
I actually never had any idea whatsoever that I was a nerd growing up, so there are two things about this that were kind of strange and amusing to me:
1) I was playing on an emulator that had like every NES game ever, and I just accidentally stumbled on this game series listed as FF1, FF2 and FF3 in my emulator having no idea that I was playing some insanely vaunted game series. By the time I was in middle school, they musta been releasing Final Fantasy 8, and I was like Jesus, how many of these games do they need to release, and what's so great about it that makes all these nerds go bananas for it. I got hooked on a couple of FF games in college (I think VII and X), and when I went to play the NES games I was like, "WHAAAAAT?! I was a FF fanatic the whole time?"
2) I had no idea Conan O'Brian was a thing. I thought he was just some random dude who came on between the guy everyone's heard of (Leno) and infomercials. I was always surprised by how little the guy I'd heard of was funny and how funny the guy I hadn't heard of was. Fast forward a few years, and in 9th grade someone in my high school responded to a silly joke of mine by being like, "Cicala, I bet you're a Conan O'Brian fan. You seem like the type who would have Conan O'Brian as like your favorite comedian ever." I was seriously fucking floored. It might literally have been the first time I ever heard anyone mention the name Conan O'Brian, and now apparently there was a whole "type" of person who watched him, and in the first soulread I'd ever experienced, I was being placed in that type.
Point is, as much of my childhood I spent on the NES FF games, I don't think I ever beat any of them. I think between switching PCs, having files crash and switching between the 3 games. That's right, 3 games. I even played some of FF3, using trial and error with what the different windings meant.
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Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
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