The Breath of Fire games were two of the PS1's unsung gems. 3 looked and sounded very Capcom, and two of the early villains were some of the best RPG villains I've seen.
Chrono Cross came out at around the same time as an Enix RPG, Valkyrie Profile. I had limited funds, and I actually picked Valkyrie Profile over Chrono Cross. When I did play Chrono Cross some time later, I found that I had made the right choice.
Fall 2001 was when I started nursing school, and I really wanted a PS2. My folks got me one for Christmas, and the next day I went out and got Final Fantasy X.
I remember 9/11. I drove an old truck that didn't have a radio, so I didn't have any idea what was going on until I got there and the school was completely deserted. I went to a nearby bank and that's when I saw the footage, on the lobby TV.
I looked at Double Dungeons. Sometimes I like first-person dungeon crawls (like Etrian Odyssey), sometimes not. I did notice it was made by the same people who made Langrisser, a game I bought recently for Switch.
I use Uber Eats for delivery in Phoenix. When I lived in Baltimore, I used GrubHub. Never tried DoorDash.
Code Veronica seemed to be considered to be the real RE3 back in the day, not only by gamers but by Capcom itself. These days, though, I see RE3 getting a lot more respect.
They were on Sega CD, and it was unfortunate that the Genesis Mini didn't include Sega CD games in addition to cartridge Genesis games as the TG16 Mini did. There were quite a few gems on the Sega CD like the Lunar games, Sonic CD, and Popful Mail, which was made by Nihon Falcom. Lunar's licensing is a mess, from a post I read not long ago by the guy at Working Designs who did the localizations, which is why the PS1 versions were never re-released as PSOne Classics.
The Sakura Wars were, for a long time, my most wanted localizations alongside Mother 3 and Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana. I bought Sakura Wars: So Long My Love (which was Sakura Wars V in Japan) as my last brand new PS2 purchase in 2010. I had a few tapes of the anime series, and I also bought the new PS4 Sakura Wars.
2000 was the year I started college, and I played a lot of games in my downtime. My favorites of the year were FFIX, Majora's Mask, Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, and Valkyrie Profile. I got the copy of FFIX I got for Christmas that year autographed by Nobuo Uematsu at Distant Worlds in Omaha in 2013.
Yeah, I knew abour LotW being part of the series. It's funny how Xanadu and Legend of Heroes spawned their own series... and the Trails subseries of Legend of Heroes is now its own meta-series... and the individual Trails arcs (Sky, Cold Steel) are their own series.
With Far East of Eden, I'm mostly a sucker for anything that's anime-styled and a RPG. I'd have been all over the Genesis Mini if they'd put Lunar and Lunar 2 on that thing.
They aren't. Aside from the fact that they're text heavy, they were also on CD-ROM. I guess the amount of storage they needed isn't a big deal; the PS Classic had Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil.
It's not on the TG16 Mini either, but the original Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes was on the TGCD as well, and it did get an English version. It was the last LoH game to be localized until the Gagharv Trilogy was localized in the mid 00s for PSP.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a TG-16 display at the mall. It had Bonk set up on it and I played it a bit. I didn't know anybody who owned one. One of my favorite publishers back then, Working Designs, got its start localizing TG CD games. I've played a few TG16 games on Virtual Console, including Ys 1 & 2. The PC Engine games that grabbed my attention the most were the Tengai Makyo (Far East of Eden) games that were never localized.
