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It's quick poll time. This is not when you played your friend's game for 10 minutes, but rather this is when you first started playing your own game in an attempt to see how far you can get (I wonder if Figaro ever finished the game ). The poll results should be interesting doncha think?

I got my SNES copy on August 21st of 1995 for my 13th birthday, the same age as my favorite character.

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FFXI (Siren server)
Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru!
White Mage & Paladin

I picked '94. I assume it's listed because it's when the game first came out. When it first came out is when I played it.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

I started playing on October 13, 1994. I know this because I got the game off of my preorder two days after it came out, because I was only 14 and had no way to get into town to pick it up until Thursday after school.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I got the ROM at the beginning (in 2002) of my senior year in high school, and finished it during my first semester in college last year (around November 2003).

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Space Year 2000 AD. I first got interested reading the Final Fantasy Forum column in Super Play, but without a UK release, and not being much of an import guy, I never had a chance to play it until I could dig my greasy claws into the Internet and emulation. I've been online since 1999, but it was only after buying my cousin's copy of FF7PC that year (and subsequently playing it half a year later, when I finally had a gamepad -- I can't stand playing it with a keyboard) that my interest in the series reignited.

And then a few months after that, I was working on new message boards for the then FF6-only CoN, so I guess you could say I quite liked the game. FF7 will always be my favourite of the series, but six fought it hard for that spot.

But that's all by the by. Yeah, I reckon I'll be sitting on the later end of this poll.

Long as I could have. Good ol 94.

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

I started playing in Fall 2003, my friend gave me a SNES emulator, and that is when I started playing.

about 2002, when it came out on PS1. i

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Quote (i90east)

(I wonder if Figaro ever finished the game)

LOL
Yeah, I did. But my first "New Game" was waaaay back... sometime like in '97, so that's my vote.

I only just beat the game for the first time at the beginning of this year.

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

1996 for me ^-^ Strangely enough it was after beat FFMQ and FF4 that i just got this game. My uncle had said so many good things about FF6 so i just went out and got it.

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Link: "What is it?"
Mario: "It's coin, what the hell does it look like?"
Link: "Well.... What do you do with it?"
Mario: "You buy lives with them."
Link: ".... Isn't that slavery?"
~Mario/Link crossover comic~

Way back in the golden days, '94, for Christmas.

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Sabin: ... to Mom... and to Figaro.

"A true classic never goes out of style!"

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain..."

1994 - Same day as Rangers. I wanted the game very badly, so I went to my local funcoland to trade in 3 other games. Turns out they didn't want to give me cash, only store credit. That made me real sad, so my mother who drove me felt sorrry and decided to go ahead and cough up the dough. Thank you Mom.

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"My impersonation of an ordinary person was flawless." - Neal

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

i think i was about 12, so i believe that would be in '97.

i was never able to find a copy, so i borrowed a friends copy for about 6 months, the first time i ever played it, i went 12(?) hours without getting up or turning it off. i had just landed at albrook (and experienced the great setzer for the first time ever) before i turned it off and went to be at like 9 AM.

when i was 14, funcoland sold me a copy for 60 bucks (INCREDIBLY high demand for it, i reserved it, and someone offered to pay $150 for it). i paid the money and never regretted it. and i played THAT one for 9 hours straight, and was just making it to zozo.

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...

I don't remember. I downloaded the ROM around the first time we got our first computer. That was probably around 99/00
I null voted

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

I can't even remember. It had to have been a year or two after it was released, though... maybe in '96 or '95. :-/

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

I think I started in 1997, if I can do math correctly. I'd played FFIV, and it was my favourite game, but I didn't know that there were any more. Then, I was babysitting some boys who were only a few years younger than me, and they got me to play it with them. I was instantly hooked.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

I think around 1995, because i first watched my bro and sis play it, then I started to play it, and i still am of course! still lovin it

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Pretty little fly
Why does it cry?
Caught in a web
Soon you'll be...EATEN

FF6 addicts unite! wanna RP?

I can't remeber when. I started maybe back in 1996. Man were those the days back then, playing on the good ole SNES.

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"Ye better start believing in ghost stories; you're in one!" -Captain Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)

Christmas Day 1994.. Oh the memories

I was still in 8th grade when I first played it, so it was in 1994. My friend bought it and I borrowed it from him for about a month. We always did trades when borrowing games, so I traded FFIIus for his FFIIIus.

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

I remember first playing it in 6th grade (1997) because I used to get picked on alot, and to remedy it, I would go home and pretend to be shadow and beat up my bullies. I think thats why shadow is my favorite character. so yea, 1997.

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<Nealio> Seymour sounds like evil Winnie the Pooh

back about a year after it came out, beacuse my parents were getting seperated and i got my fathers snes with it. that was the same time i started playing mystic quest.

Only two years ago. I wish I would have discovered the splendor that Final Fantasy VI is a lot earlier. It must've been a blast being the first to discover all that stuff that only hacking provides.

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The Collapse of Heaven and Earth

It was December of 1994

I remeber the good old days when i was in the second grade and i used to get all A's and every quarter i would get a new game and y mother just so happened to get FFVI not knowing how much in demand it was in then and ending up paying 70 buckeroonies for the game! well i was in the second grade so based on the cover it just sat there for two months untill i got the chicken pox.
It was two days later the game was beaten! i continued to play for the next weak powering up my characters and fighting the dragons i still have the cartidge and the save file. but that is locked up and now I play my PS1 version now. Oh yeah and my copy still hold its 70 dollar vale today because of its mint condition! HOO HAH!!

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HAHA all my game saves lost!

oh yeah and i am the proud owner of a never before opened snes copy of ffvi still in plastic and everything!

I also started either in December '94 or '95, either one I begged and begged for it for Christmas, and when I got it, proceeded to tear through the game. It was my first RPG to own, Secret of Mana being the second, and they are both, BRILLIANT games. Love em.

Weird, I am the only person who started playing FFVI in 2003 or 2004.

I'm not completely sure but I think either 95' or 96' at the latest.

I first played thru FF VI in '96. I couldn't afford the game & my parents would never buy me games, so I borrowed it from a kid at school & kept it for a month until I finished it.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Final Fantasy!

Nah, GamblingCat, I started this year too; I probably being the most 'newbish' to the game. I started on April 30th of this year, but my progress is going along fast, so hopefully I can be fully functional in answering questions and contributing soon.

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

I didnt start playing untill 2001 but i beat it in 2003

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