The original Final Fantasy has probably the most profound effect on me as a child. I'd never played a game like it before and once I did, I couldn't get enough of it. To this day I still play it, or one of it's many re-releases on newer hardware. Most of the legendary NES classics also were very important to me as kid.
But I'm certain that the SNES has the most powerful influence on me. It was the very first console I had to earn the money for myself by mowing lawns, doing yard work, and just doing whatever people would pay a kid for. It took a little over an entire summer for me to earn enough to buy it, but I'll never forget that feeling of bringing it home and playing Super Mario World for the first time. There were so many SNES games that just blew me away with how good they were. Final Fantasy II was SO different than the original (probably because it was actually FF4), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past would become my favorite Zelda game of all time even to this day. I was a huge fan of Metroid, and Super Metroid only improved everything about the original... nay, perfected everything about the original. This was a general theme for the SNES. It took every game I loved on the NES and made them so much better.
Why doesn't that happen anymore? New sequels and reboots of old classic successful games are usually worse now. Probably because developers just don't understand that some games shouldn't be forced into a 3D format.
But I'm certain that the SNES has the most powerful influence on me. It was the very first console I had to earn the money for myself by mowing lawns, doing yard work, and just doing whatever people would pay a kid for. It took a little over an entire summer for me to earn enough to buy it, but I'll never forget that feeling of bringing it home and playing Super Mario World for the first time. There were so many SNES games that just blew me away with how good they were. Final Fantasy II was SO different than the original (probably because it was actually FF4), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past would become my favorite Zelda game of all time even to this day. I was a huge fan of Metroid, and Super Metroid only improved everything about the original... nay, perfected everything about the original. This was a general theme for the SNES. It took every game I loved on the NES and made them so much better.
Why doesn't that happen anymore? New sequels and reboots of old classic successful games are usually worse now. Probably because developers just don't understand that some games shouldn't be forced into a 3D format.
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