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The first time I encountered Chrono Trigger, I was fifteen and broke. I’d been saving up for Final Fantasy VI (or Final Fantasy III as my American self knew it then), but when I walked into Electronics Boutique at the mall—the one next to the Orange Julius where my friend Tom worked and would sneak me free drinks—I saw this other SNES game with box art that stopped me in my tracks. A spiky-haired protagonist…
I remember the exact moment RPGs changed for me. It was Christmas 1991, and I was thirteen years old, unwrapping…
I was thirteen when I first stepped into the rain-soaked opening of A Link to the Past, huddled in the…
There are moments when some games just leave lasting marks on players, and for some reason, with their strange gravity…
Warcraft Before WoW: The RTS Series I Lost Weekends To It’s kind of funny how a simple shareware CD changed…
Christmas break, 1998. Five CDs in a massive cardboard box with a face on it that looked like it was…
Why Suikoden Deserves More Recognition The used game bin at Electronics Boutique (yeah, I’m dating myself here) was my hunting…
I still remember the exact moment Diablo took over my life. It was January 1997, a Tuesday night with snow…
I remember the day I brought Riven home in October 1997. The five-CD jewel case felt substantial in my hands,…
It was Christmas morning, 1994. I was sixteen, awkwardly caught between childhood excitement for presents and teenage pretensions of being…
