5 games I never bothered to beat as a Kid

Back when I was a kid and was old enough to be left alone with a tv in my own room without smashing it, I had a Playstation. The original one, the rectangular one that was probably heavier than I was back then.

And with that PS1 (as I’m going to call it from now on) I had a bunch of games that my parents bought me or I just got from family members. These games ranged from Monopoly (yeah, really) to Jet Moto 2 to even Crash Bandicoot and Megaman, and I had no idea how much some of these games would mean to people in the future, because well, I was like 7.

Now back then, I didn’t play games with the intention to master them or even beat them, I was just playing for fun, and going outside was more of my thing…well that an tv.

And when I say ‘just playing for fun’ I mean it, there was no saving, there was just turning the game off and leaving, then coming back later and playing the same level again for the Nth time, which I was cool with. Hell, there were some games that I didn’t play again out of fear (but more on that later on).

Unfinished Games: Final Fantasy X

I have a bit of a confession….I never finished Final Fantasy X. And it’s funny that I haven’t because it was the first Final Fantasy game that I played/bought.

I believe I was in the middle of playing, or finishing, the first Kingdom Hearts game, and that game was action in real time. Final Fantasy X was from Squaresoft just like Kingdom Hearts, so my 10 year old self assumed that they both must play the same. Man was I way off. Actually, now that I think about it, didn’t FFX come out before KH?

Any who, I’m pretty sure I don’t have to go into too much detail about FFX. Even if you haven’t played X you can probably figure out how it plays and the main story (Psst…..it’s “go save the world”), but for the sake of typing more and filling more space I’ll do a cliffs notes version:

Final Fantasy X is a turn based RPG in which you travel throughout the world of Spira fighting the evil forces of Sin. You play as Tidus, a pro blitzball player whom, through a series of REALLY unfortunate events basically time travels to the future. As you play through the game you’ll meet several other people who will help in the fight against Sin. To name a few: There’s Wakka , a blitzball player and devout follower of the Yevon order (his religion basically). Sir Auron the badass, a taciturn former warrior monk. Yuna, the daughter of a High Summoner who defeated Sin to bring about a time of peace and embarks on a pilgrimage to obtain the final aeon and defeat Sin for good. And Lulu, a stoic and self-possessed, but well-meaning Black Mage.