Some PlayStations. One 1001 and two 5501’s to be more precise. I think they still work, but it’s been a while since I fired them up. After boycotting the console for a few years (despite enjoying playing games for it when I went to visit friends who owned the system), I finally bought my first PS when Final Fantasy VII was released. A guy at I worked with sold me his copy around 24 hours after he bought it. He’d never played any type of RPG before, fell for those lovely CG-packed ads Squaresoft ran, and like many people, bought the game the day it came out. From what i recall, he hated it because it was “too slow and boring” and didn’t look anything like the ads once the pretty CG movies stopped playing. Oh yeah, you should have seen him do his impression of the battle system and what he thought about it. I think he was expecting a more action-based type of game. A much more action-based type of game. Still, once I unlocked it a few weeks later, I just had to tell him about Knights of the Round and the hilariously long time it took for that spell to cast.

And nope, he wasn’t impressed in the least.