I personally got into Fire Emblem by an ad in Gameinformer which had Robin, "Marth", and Chrom fighting this dragon that was entirely black. Later I looked at a video on youtube about the different games in the series up to that point which was made right before Shadow Dragon was released which I especially wanted to play Path of Radiance and Thracia 776. I also wanted to start at the beginning of the series so I tried to look at the original Fire Emblem game but realized it was all in Japenese so I instead looked at Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and found Magenight404. I saw some of the beginning of the game at the time and tried to look at what the price of the game was which at the time was about $100.00. I just decided to wait for Awakening to come out. I pretty much played the game nonstop till I was done. Fun fact when I was playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the first time I thought that Marth's name was Martha.