I remember my parents gifting me a PlayStation 2 for my 20th birthday.  No games.  I was living on my own, in a city where I knew virtually no-one, and I was very lonely.  I bought Final Fantasy X and, of course, loved it.  But I did not have a memory card at the time, and so I would leave it on all day and all night, and excessively grind out levels to ensure that I would never, ever be killed by an enemy or a boss, and wouldn’t have to start over again.

-2 May 2017

This post is part of the I Remember series.