Fossil, harsh... I still have my old cart and the manual/map for it too. I've put it down probably a half dozen times over the years. The one RPG though I've beaten to death excessively because of how damn good it is was FF2. Back in the 90s I killed it as a habit like nearly once a year and I know I finished it at least 7 times, and then the GBA one I did once or twice too though I didn't bother with the added stupid stuff.

At least think of it this way and sorry about SNES aping this thread, it's a fringe quality system thankfully. Those who put some effort into not being generic with their games, and because of the amount of complexity allowed both by the hardware and the 8 buttons on the controller, it left the door wide open for things that are relatively ageless that they don't feel dated. Thanks to the lovely retro junk the last decade in gaming, especially with indie and mobile/tablet gaming there's a lot of stuff released that is SNES in quality or just above/below so you can fire up that old 1991-96 title and it wont' feel crusty. And the GBA helped to cement that a decade later too with the ports of the old titles too. The NES stuff even if the game play is still solid in some of the games, a lot have aged badly, and they are of such color/audio level they do feel like fossils of sorts but that's also the charm of it.