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Topic	azuarc looks back on life and 45 games that touched it the most [ranking kinda?]
azuarc 10/20/25 7:39:33 PM #21:	43. Final Fantasy Adventure Created by Squaresoft Release year: 1991 Platform: Gameboy Guesstimated playtime: ~100 hrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MnOLR--jXo By the time I was 11, my parents had been forced to accept that I was "addicted" to video games. I took to them from the moment I first laid eyes on my dad and sisters playing on the C64, and I was mostly inseparable from whatever games I had access to. Which wasn't a lot because my parents refused to purchase an NES for me, despite an insufferable amount of begging. So I would go to my friends' houses after school every day to play on their systems. But my mom had signed me up for this traveling summer camp and I would be sitting on a bus for long hours at a stretch throughout the whole summer. For a kid who sat in long car rides about as well as you could imagine, my parents broke down and bought me a Gameboy. And it worked -- I could be completely placated by just sitting with my Gameboy so long as the batteries held out. The first game they bought for it, alongside Tetris, was Final Fantasy Adventure. I hadn't heard of it, but I had definitely heard of Final Fantasy, so I was excited. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be an action game! Still, I spent basically the entirety of Christmas day glued to my Gameboy, and the game holds tremendous sentimental weight to me because even if we had the Commodore, this felt like the first video game that was truly mine. Me. I owned this. It didn't belong to the family and I was just the one who monopolized it. No, this was rightly and truly my game. It felt special in a way that words cannot begin to express. For as much as I participate in the VGM community here on the board, I still call the ending to FFA my favorite video game song and I can't say how much of that is nostalgia or an inherent affinity for old chiptunes. The real question here is if 100 hours is even remotely correct for playtime. Given how I was often glued to my Gameboy for two summers, I'd say probably not, but I had other games later, and FFA was a pretty daunting endeavor to start a new game on. I probably played through it in full about three times, and a single playthrough was around 30 hours, (HLTB says 11, but I call bull on that,) so I think this sounds about right, but the fact that I'm putting it behind some other games does maybe feel a bit off in my head. Oh well. . Up next: A game strongly tied to one board member's username. --- Only the exceptions can be exceptional. <cite>azuarc posted [p:986786846] in azuarc loo... [t:81057138]...</cite> <quote>43. Final Fantasy AdventureCreated by SquaresoftRelease year: 1991Platform: GameboyGuesstimated playtime: ~100 hrshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MnOLR--jXoBy the time I was 11, my parents had been forced to accept that I was "addicted" to video games. I took to them from the moment I first laid eyes on my dad and sisters playing on the C64, and I was mostly inseparable from whatever games I had access to. Which wasn't a lot because my parents refused to purchase an NES for me, despite an insufferable amount of begging. So I would go to my friends' houses after school every day to play on their systems.But my mom had signed me up for this traveling summer camp and I would be sitting on a bus for long hours at a stretch throughout the whole summer. For a kid who sat in long car rides about as well as you could imagine, my parents broke down and bought me a Gameboy. And it worked -- I could be completely placated by just sitting with my Gameboy so long as the batteries held out.The first game they bought for it, alongside Tetris, was Final Fantasy Adventure. I hadn't heard of it, but I had definitely heard of Final Fantasy, so I was excited. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be an action game! Still, I spent basically the entirety of Christmas day glued to my Gameboy, and the game holds tremendous sentimental weight to me because even if we had the Commodore, this felt like the first video game that was truly mine. Me. I owned this. It didn't belong to the family and I was just the one who monopolized it. No, this was rightly and truly my game. It felt special in a way that words cannot begin to express. For as much as I participate in the VGM community here on the board, I still call the ending to FFA my favorite video game song and I can't say how much of that is nostalgia or an inherent affinity for old chiptunes.The real question here is if 100 hours is even remotely correct for playtime. Given how I was often glued to my Gameboy for two summers, I'd say probably not, but I had other games later, and FFA was a pretty daunting endeavor to start a new game on. I probably played through it in full about three times, and a single playthrough was around 30 hours, (HLTB says 11, but I call bull on that,) so I think this sounds about right, but the fact that I'm putting it behind some other games does maybe feel a bit off in my head. Oh well..Up next: A game strongly tied to one board member's username. --- Only the exceptions can be exceptional.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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