pleasant game surprise

[Rift120]

I dunno I feel chatty lately.

Anyways I was just reminicisng on some of the RPGs I owned and rembered this little story.

Long long ago, when I was but a wee lad and still naively beleived Nintendo Power was unbiased and only showed good games. I begged, pleaded, got good grades, and grovled. Finally My mother bought me a Super Nintendo, the first console I ever owned. AMong the majority of my first game pruchases were RPGs. However there was one game I studiously avoided.

Now to understand why I avoided it, you need to understand my reading habits. I have always been a big Sci-fi, Fantasy fan. But there have always been a few genres that I absolutly despised (Evil twin, freaky friday) and others that I just dislike. IN the latter catagory fell time travel stories. I never really enjoyed them and tended to avoid them when reading and watching movies and TV .

Thus it was that when at the local Video game shop I always passed over a certain game. I disliked timetravel, this games main focus was on timetravel. Thus I refused to buy the game. As you may have already guessed the game I always passed over was called Chrono Trigger.

It may have continued to this day, with me never buying the game had not my mom dragged me to a bed store. Why this changed things? Let me explain, the owner of the store had  his old Super Nintendo and a couple of games and strategy guides in the back corner of the store.

While  my mom discussed a new bed she wanted to buy, I wandered over to this pile of stuff bored out of my young mind. I picked up the strategy guide to (You guessed it) Chrono Trigger and began to flip through it, enjoying the artwork.

My mother noticed this, and since I was a good boy that day inquired to the store owner about the games and such he had set out. Turns out the owner was getting rid of his old stuff, and was willing to part with the games and strategy guide for about $10. A quick exchange later I was leaving with a new game and strategy guide, a game I had previously decided I didn't want to buy myself but since my mom was paying.

needless to say I plugged in the game and was pleasntly surprised that not only did I not dislike the game, but that it quickly became one of my favorite titles to play (Right up there with FFIII and Earthbound). Thus was I introduced to the excellent Chrono Trigger.

So now I ask the other forum goers about games they bought on impulse, or got as gifts that surprised them in a good way when they finally sat down to play them.

[Dracos]

I've bought too many games, good and bad on whim to say =P

Dracos