A couple days after Christmas my friend Justin was over at my house, and we decided we were going to watch a movie. I had heard great things about the Final Fantasy VII (thats a 7 folks, learn Roman Numerals) Movie and asked if he would be interested in it. He replied that he had seen it before but he wouldn’t mind seeing it again. He then asked if I had played the game. I hadn’t. He insisted that I not see it until I played the game and finished it. After debating, I agreed and we instead watched ‘Let the Right One In’. The next day he had brought his FFVII disks over and I dug out my now old Playstation and started playing.
A few days later I went to a birthday party that Justin and another friend of mine, Dillon were also at. We started talking about Final Fantasy which immediately sparked a conversation between Dillon and Justin. Both agreed that Final Fantasy 7 was the best game they had ever played because of the amazing story line. After awhile Dillon had the idea of having a Final Fantasy night.
Here was the plan: Each of us pick an installment of Final Fantasy, get 3 Playstations and 3 TVs in 1 room and all play at the same time. We would each play, and when ever someone ran into a cinematic sequence, everyone would pause the game and watch the clip. It was like a LAN party without the LAN.
We agreed that the idea was awesome and on New Years Day the plan was put into action. We set up 3 TVs in my unfinished basement and started our nerd-fest. That same day my dad had scheduled a DirecTV guy to come over and do some stuff related to well… you know, Satellite TV. As we were playing, the guy game into the room we were playing in walked behind the TV to put an end on the coaxial cord coming out of the wall. At that moment I was in the middle of a battle in my game. As he squatted down to do his job, he turned to us and asked “Are you playing Final Fantasy 7?”. To which we all looked at each other in awe and stated that we thought it was ‘freaking awesome’ that he knew that just from hearing the battle theme music. He smiled and then told us that he loved that game and he had an original sealed copy of the game back at home. Isn’t it a little weird that the day we decided to play Final Fantasy in the basement, my dad schedules a fellow Final Fantasy fan to come over to our house? Life is full of surprises.
‘I haven’t felt the way, I do today in so long’ -Incubus