One day at gamestop, I saw PoR, and quickly noticed the title above it spelling FIRE EMBLEM. (I'm not quite sure why, but I never noticed FE7 or Sacred Stones in the GBA section.) Seeing that title immediately reminded me of Marth and Roy from Melee, and I thought Ike on the cover could be Marth. At the time I hadn't played Melee for about a year so I forgot what Marth's face looked like, but I remembered the blue hair. Then I asked a guy working there what the game was like and he responded saying: "The game's like chess." I left dissapointed thinking "Man, I suck at chess." :( Later, when July was coming around, my parents asked me if I wanted any Gamecube games for my B-day. Now this was back in the day when no good games were coming out for the Gamecube anymore, so I said "Maybe Fire Emblem."
I got it on July, 12 2006. When I finally got to the endgame I couldn't beat it, so I went to gamefaqs and took all my units up the left flank like it suggested. Took me a while to figure out how to defeat Ashnard by using Physics, but it worked eventually.