Final Fantasy I & II Advance bundles the first two classic JRPGs in one neat GBA package. The pixel art looks crisp on the small screen, and the updated translations make the old-school dialogue way less awkward than the NES versions. You start off picking your party—I always go for a fighter, black mage, white mage, and thief combo—then dive straight into that classic grind. Random battles, turn-based combat, the whole deal.

FFII’s weird leveling system still throws me off (you improve stats by using them, which means whacking your own party to farm HP gains), but it’s cool to see where the series experimented early on. The added dungeons and post-game content give you more to chew through if you’re into that. Just don’t expect modern quality-of-life stuff—this is pure, unfiltered 80s/90s RPG design.

Works great on emulators if you want that big-screen nostalgia hit.