I heard of Roy and Marth in SSBM, but thought nothing of the Fire Emblem games, since they were in Japan only. My friend went to France and came back with this game called Fire Emblem. I had a quick go of it, and I thought "This isn't bad" so I bought it.
For a long while, I was adamant to myself that Pokemon is still better than it, but then I played it more and more, and before long I was on Fire Emblem alot more than I was on Pokemon. That was about 4 years ago, almost. When Fire Emblem first came to the EU. Fire Emblem, along with my other favourite games (Burnout, Ace Combat), has been running my life.