Why Final Fantasy became the face of Sony’s first PlayStation www.theverge.com

I still remember the very first time I laid eyes on a Final Fantasy game and, by extension, the original PlayStation console.
But there it was, a copy of Final Fantasy IX playing out on his bulky, silver pre-HD television.
But in many ways, discovering Final Fantasy became a defining moment in my relationship to both gaming and the PlayStation.
The PlayStation will forever be a Final Fantasy machine to meThe PlayStation will forever be a Final Fantasy machine to me, even if years later as a broke college student, I would forgo playing FFXIII on the PlayStation 3 because all I owned at the time was my Xbox 360.
Never once did I feel like I was playing something by and for a Japanese audience; Final Fantasy games felt universal.