Ridere wrote:
Hey, Ket.
How did you get into RPGs without a (S)NES? Though as I type this, I guess you sort of explained it with the whole FF7 thing in that remake thread.
Yeah, it was FF7. I'm pretty certain I really hadn't played one before that. Even if the Genesis did have things like Phantasy Star, I never owned any of those games.
It's not like we had the Internet to teach us these games existed, my family were heavily against buying magazines (because "once you've read them they're a waste"), and we never had anything like a Blockbuster membership to get a constant stream of games with.
My actual library of owned games back then was pretty small. We were a pretty low-income family, so buying me video games was pretty low on the ladder. Throughout my whole childhood I usually got one game for my birthday and one for Christmas each year, that's it. I owned very few of my own and I occasionally borrowed one from a cousin of mine. Lets see...
Sonic 2
Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles (never had both at the same time to lock it on, sadly)
Earthworm Jim
Mortal Kombat
Rocket Knight Adventures
Super Skidmarks (despite the silly name, this was a pretty neat isometric style micro machines game)
Hmm, yup, that's about it I think, before eventually getting a Saturn (remember, Sega-country). And I probably only ever owned like 4 games for the Saturn too.
I have however, played WAY more games than that. It's just that I did most of them via emulator many years later. Got access to the Internet around 1996-1997, and I discovered that it was possible to get all these games I missed basically for free. Even on a 56k modem, your average SNES/Genesis game was probably only 1-2MB. So I've played and probably beaten basically every SNES/Genesis game worth playing, I was just really late to the party.
NES on the other hand I couldn't get into, I was just too late for that party. I've played the obvious classics, but not more than a few minutes of anything else.