Oh man, this was my intro to the emulation world. (long rambling incoming)
I remember wanting to play Final Fantasy II & III (4 and 6, I knew later), but we rarely got any RPGs where I lived. One day a classmate tells me about a way to play SNES games on the computer, and I was hooked.
So we go to his house, he opens this program called ZSNES... cue the falling snow background. He starts looking among a batch of ROMs he already had... but no FF2 nor 3. There was, however, this FF I'd never heard about before... so we fire up FF Mystic Quest...
... about 10 minutes later, he looks at me with such disappointment.
Him: 'Is this what you were talking about?'
Me: 'No! I mean, the 7th one is looking to be awesome!' (The hype about a FF7 was starting)
I can still remember his horrified face, almost like it said 'You telling me there's 6 of this crap already?!'
Goddamit, Mystic Quest.
The music was awesome though. Even he couldn't contest that. And I eventually got to the other games, and so, so many more.
Thank you guys. ZSKnight, _Demo_, Nach and everyone else.