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This was surreal to watch tonight. Mega64 did a fantastic job with their GDC skits.

I know this is gonna be a gushy thing to post, but I don’t know if I can totally convey what this meant to me. Sakaguchi gave his Lifetime Achievement awards speech and ended it by thanking Mega64. It was funny and a little surreal, sure, but man- I played Final Fantasy games my entire life. My mom bought the first one in the late 80’s and my whole family fell in love. We would get together after dinner every night and watch her play and progress in the game. When Final Fantasy II (Or rather, IV that is) came out on SNES, we couldn’t believe what we were experiencing through a Nintendo game. I remember all of us actually getting… choked up at Golbez being Cecil’s brother (sorry spoilers for a 20 year old game), Pallam and Porom being turned to stone, etc. I remember my dad waking me up in the middle of the night when I was in first grade. I thought something bad must have happened, but when they raced me downstairs it was to see that my mom had just gotten to Zeromus at the end of the game. They didn’t want me to miss it. We watched the ending of the game really late on a school night. That’s how BIG those games were to us. My family bonded over them my whole childhood, and if I could tell my 7 year old self that someday the creator of it all would thank me in his speech, my head would have exploded. I know we try to come off cut and dry with most of the stuff we make, but real talk- I was near tears when he thanked us on Wednesday night. It was a “this was all worth it” moment for me. I don’t expect anyone else to care about this but it was really heavy to me and I couldn’t keep it to myself. Thank everyone so much for the support that made something like this happen. I cannot be more grateful.

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