i got a tablet for my 11th birthday and immediately learned how to (DATA EXPUNGED) gba games while looking for a copy of pokemon fire red. also listed on the website was a game i recognized from playing marth in super smash bros brawl named “fire emblem”. i played it and thought lucius was a cutie patootie. here i am almost a decade later
When I was a lad, there was a hot new video game on the market called Super Smash Bros. Melee. The roster featured two dudes with swords that nobody in America had ever heard of before. This sparked a flurry of curiosity and interest in this mystery franchise that suddenly had two representatives in Super fuckin’ Smash Brothers. I was pretty young at the time, but some of the older kids that I knew told me about the new “Fire Emblem” game on the GBA (FE7). I didn’t really comprehend what the hell it was, but just knew that it had dudes with swords in it.
My parents both worked full-time and we grew up without a lot of money, so I qualified for a spot in the local city’s summer park/daycare program for kids where we would all just go hang out at the park all day. I did this every summer for years, and we had established a “Games Club” where we would all just huddle up on the picnic tables and play Yu-Gi-Oh and our Gameboys. One year, this new nerd named Gavin showed up with a copy of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. My birthday was coming up, so I was able to get my own copy shortly thereafter.
The rest is history.
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Discovered Fire Emblem through Heroes around 2018-2019, got hooked and i’ve been a fan ever since
Found out about FE when I used to constantly look for GBA games to play, I heard about FE through comparisons between it and Advance Wars (which used to be one of my favorite franchises back then)
damn, sorry for your loss.
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Super Smash Bros Melee, guy with the fire sword was sick. I then knew the name “Fire Emblem”, and the next time we went to our local game store for my birthday, I saw “Fire Emblem” and thought I had to get it, not knowing at all what it was.
8 year old me absolutely hated it, had no idea what was going on. Skipped the tutorial as all impatient 8 year olds do, and found myself super frustrated I couldn’t move my units. Wrote it off as a trash game. Then a year later decided to give it another try. Followed the tutorial, fell in love with the game, but also with turn based games in general. Learned how to do the mine glitch to equip all my units with Crimson eyes in Sacred Stones. Ran Lagdou ruins until I unlocked every unit and maxed out the stats and levels of every obtainable unit.
Got into modding, learning how to edit memory, inspired me to learn more about computers and ultimately ended up driving me to study computer science at university. Became a programmer, then made my own game inspired by my love of the genre.
Been almost exactly 20 years now… damn.
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6th grade, history class. Kid in front of me was playing The Sacred Stones on his Chromebook. Caught my attention, got the courage to ask “hey, what are you playing?”
“Fire Emblem.” He answered.
He showed me download links for a Chromebook OS compatible emulator, an English FE8 ROM, and the rest is history.
I’m not exactly sure but it’s one of three things, Smash Melee, Awakening or fe7 and 8 or wii u virtual console.
Like many, I knew almost all of the characters in melee as a kid except for the two weirdos in the corner. One of them had a tiara and the other desperately needed a new barber (and some buffs, his sword attacks only did like 2-6%). My brother told me they were from this really niche/obscure japanese game series. I remember thinking that was pretty lame.
About 6/7 years later my brother tells me his friend has this game that he (my brother) thinks I would really enjoy. I thought this was a bit odd, but I was like “okay. whatever”. He borrows the game from his friend, gives it to me, and it’s titled “Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.”
It’s hard to state how this game affected me. I was entering middleschool at the time & I loved the combination of Advance Wars gameplay with JRPG story and characters. I remember Easy mode was way too hard for me & I loved playing a game which actually punished me for missteps.
We’d had a collection of Nintendo Power magazines from the early/mid 2000s that i had scanned through previously & i remembered a mini-guide on Path of Radiance being in one of them. I went back and read it and it explained how to recruit enemy units. Mind, Blown.
A little over a year later I got Radiant Dawn for christmas (had played about half of PoR, it was just too hard 
) & together those two games helped me get through the harder parts of middle and highschool.
(I gave PoR back after about 5 years of having it in my possession. the friend had gone off to college and forgotten about it almost entirely.)
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from a youtuber sometime after 3h hit, then i started backtracking, when still in school I watched playthroughs of the GBA games and of Geneology, then it was downhill from there
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I think I was like in third grade and just got a 3ds for christmas or my birthday and fe8 came on it. I was instantly hooked
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My aunt played FE7 on her Wii U, and I was absolutely HOOKED watching her as a kid. I also really liked Lucina in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and that’s why Awakening was the first game I beat. (9 year old me NEEDED to play Lucina’s game)
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So a couple of online friends wrote a fanfiction about our friend group in a fire emblem setting, and the plot was fairly similar to awakening which had come out at the time, but we all enjoyed the story so a lot of us ended up playing it at their suggestion. Been hooked ever since!
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I was exposed to Fire Emblem via Smash Bros Melee like a good handful of others but it wasnt until Awakening came out and my friends were talking about it where I was like “okay i guess I’ll check out this fire emblem thing” And im the type of person who wants to experience a franchise as close to the beginning as possible, so i picked up FE7 since it was the first game to officially come to the US and well here we are
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Women
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What do you mean by this? did you enjoy the waifu’s unknowingly or some women told you about FE?
It was in the early 2000s, I was a kid and I had a friend at school that talked me a lot about this awesome medieval tactical game he had on his GBA
So he really hyped me a lot into playing this “Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones”, went into my computer, found the rom with french on it, and I had a blast. Asides that for a long time I though that Selena was recrutable because of what my friend told me (he didn’t specify that it wasn’t in the main campaign 
). Then I played 7, also 6 (but back in the day I didn’t liked this one that much due to my shitty english understanding). And that’s how I entered into Fire Emblem and I have been a fan ever since
Also me and this friends spent a lot of times at school drawing by hands maps and new classes ahah
Learned about it as a kid from Super Smash Bros. Melee, like a lot of others. I decided to try it I think some time in high school? Around when Shadows of Valentia came out I think. I borrowed a copy from my friend, and failed very quickly. Some point afterwards I picked up Fates, and that really got me into the series.
Back in 2015, when I saw my older brother playing Awakening and Fates. I started with FE7. I was interested in permanent death features
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Back at Elementary / Middle School, I found a GBA Emulator in my home pc alongside some ROMs, including FE8. I think my older brother got it from his friends. I played it back then but got stuck at chapter 6. At highschool, I decided to revisit the game and finally beat it. It was my first SRPG I knew at the time that when my brother emulated Front Misson 3, I asked him if it has Permadeath in it.