The first Square game I ever played was Parasite Eve - I was hooked immediately. I was in um. maybe 7th grade? I can't remember. I saw it at the video rental place and thought "OOoooh pretty!" Talked my dad into renting me a PSX on the weekends.

He finally broke down and bought one for me 'cuz he was tired of shelling out cash on a rental. There was a demo of FFVIII on the demo disc and again, I thought "Ooooooh pretty!" .. It came out Summer 99 - just before my freshman yr of High School, I'd moved in with my sister and she let me take over her summer babysitting job so she could go back to teaching swimming lessons. I saved and bought my copy of FFVIII -and- the walkthrough. Wasn't that hard. The kids' dad paid me like $100/wk. I was hooked ever since!