twenty years ago today, i stayed up all night playing final fantasy ii(iv) on my snes after trick or treating with my best friend. i was 13 and it was my last time out on halloween, my younger brother was in the hospital recovering from spinal surgery. that night i made it as far as mount ordeals, where cecil the dark knight meets the spirit of his father and earns his legacy as a paladin. i don't think i fell asleep until about 6am though the dozens of fun sized candy bars probably didn't help.

and twenty one years ago tomorrow (november 1) was the first time i had the change to sink my teeth into chrono trigger.... ah, those were the days!

Why are you sinking your teeth into SNES cartridges in the first place? If it's cheesy you were looking for you could have just eaten some cheese.

Twenty years ago today I probably got drunk till I passed out, woke up, got drunk again, went to work. :P

Man, I was a good alcoholic! I really gave it my all; no slacking off!

I was expecting cheese.
There was no cheese in this story.
I am disappoint.

I have some memories of playing Final Fantasy 3 (really 6) on the SNES when the game was malfunctioning. In particular:

* When fighting the cranes, the game froze once.
* Trying to use Sketch in the Phoenix Cave led to disaster (game froze), so I had to not use an otherwise neat ability.
* The battery died, causing the game to stop saving, and I had to exchange it for another one. I also lost my World of Ruin save as a result.

Years later, playing the PSX version:

* I got stuck in a battle. Gau (Magic Urn rage) and Umaro (no Blizzard Orb) against an enemy that turned invisible and used elemental attacks (other two characters were dead). Even worse, running from that particular enemy was impossible; therefore I had to reset (both victory and defeat were impossible, losing everything since the last save).
* I believe it is the PSX version in which I had my last surviving character killed in the coliseum, putting me in a situation where the entire party was dead, but since I was outside of battle, I could still save the game and wander about.
* Not in FF6, but in FF5, when playing with glitches, the black chocobo got stuck in the void.

I am now less disappoint. Your memories are lame.
fortune_p_dawg is hereby proclaimed King of the Memories for this thread and shall receive the Thinking Cap of Remembering (with his contribution of $5.99 to cover the shipping and handling costs).

I will be adding this to my reaction folder for the future.
Thank you.

Really? Only 33yo? You look much older in your avatar....

i dothforth shall forever remain lord of these lands@!
that's not my actual pic. brown and bic'd is about the only thing accurate. i don't even wear glasses.