this is strictly my own perspective talking here, but I didn't play Chrono Trigger for the first time until 2002 via emulator and I loved it...but I'm also a fan of those old school RPGs. FF7 was still in the same sort of mold as FF6 so I had a certain comfort level. I couldn't adopt to FF8 at all, the levelling and junction system totally threw me (that's not why I hate it, however). I did adapt well to FF10 with that whole grid thing, but overall, I'll take old school any day.