Nostalgic game thread.
No game series ever made means as much to me as the shining force series. I remember getting 1, and 2, along with Sword of Vermillion, and Out of this world from my older brother when I was 5 or 6. He said they were lame, and he didn't want them.
It was the first game I'd ever played at the time where you could move more than 2 directions on a map, and I thought it was pretty cool. It took me awhile to figure out how the game worked, but me and my friends eventually picked it up, and we'd play it every day, despite never getting anywhere in it.
We eventually beat the first one. But I ended up moving away before getting past a certain point in the second one. Even being stuck at that point in the game, I still played it every day, trying to figure out how to advance the story. When I finally found the key to the puzzle I was at, I was estatic. It was where you had to put a wooden panel into a big tree in the middle of one of the towns. We didn't have walkthroughs, or the innuhnet back then, so I was stuck there for at least a year.
I eventually moved on to beat the game, and it was probably the most fufilling gaming experience i've ever had. To this day, it's still my favorite, and I still play it every once in awhile.
The company that made the games eventually went on to make a third for the sega saturn. Me and my friends always knew of the third game, but none of us had a saturn, so we never got it. A year or 2 ago, I finally had everything required to pick it up, and so I did. I like it, but it doesn't give the nostalgic feeling I get from the first two.
That game probably had a really strong hand in teaching me how to read, and I love it.
So post your old favorites, and memories of them.
