I remember the christmas party of that year; my cousins got this for christmas with Super Punch Out, and I got NHL '95 and brought Mortal Kombat 2. We played that stuff endlessly, switching from games to games, challenging each other with our other cousins; fucking memories of eating tons of good food, drinking liters of cola and having our older cousins take sips of their beers; we played non-stop until we had headaches. Near the end, he let me tried FF6 and I was blown away by how much of an improvement it was over FF4; he let me borrow the game for a couple of days until the next party. Going home, I spent the next 4 days playing it as much as possible. I remember that he had his snes hooked up to his huge boombox, a novel thing at the time, and that we alternated from the game audio to music cds he had received that year, stuff like Aerosmith and Pearl Jam.
What a classic.