Final Fantasy VI. I've been waiting to play it since the early 2000s. Growing up I had older cousins who were RPG fans and grew up on the SNES, they told me it was their favorite game ever made. I always read in gaming magazines around that time that it was basically the crowning jewel of the SNES's JRPG catalog, the best of the best. I had played Final Fantasy IV and later V and they were both games I really liked. I wanted to wait for just the right opportunity to play it. It got a release on the GBA, but I always read that version had its soundtrack neutered, so I decided to wait for a later release.
Finally, in 2011, it got released on the Wii Virtual Console, and was basically 100% perfect emulation of the SNES version. Finally this was my chance to play this game. I waited until December and set aside three weeks where I was going to finally play this game from start to finish. I went out to GameStop, bought a Wii Points card, and came home with it after dinner. Then, I made a fatal mistake: I scratched the code off. I've never done this before or since. I was able to call up Nintendo Support, provide them proof of my card, and give them my Wii's serial number so they could load the 2000 points directly onto the console. It took over a week for this to happen and by the time it did I was already in the middle of some other game.
I did buy the game on my Wii and it's still sitting there, unplayed. I don't think I bought the game until like 2014 or something since I totally forgot they ever loaded the points on there. Once I did I've been waiting for the right time to play the game. In like 2014 I was horribly depressed and not really in the mood for an experience that was awaiting me for so long, and ever since then I've just been waiting for the right moment. Maybe sometime this year. The funny thing is, in the time since I've waited, it feels like popular opinion has shifted to Chrono Trigger being The Best SNES JRPG Ever Made, which was the other game I bought with those 2000 points.
