I was never huge on this game when I first played it as a 6-year-old kid because I played SA2 first so I always preferred 2. But, there was a decent amount of time in 2011-12 when I was 9 before the remaster of SA2 where I had lost my SA2 GC copy and I was craving it really badly so, in compensation, I played SA1 on my 360 cuz it had the Chao garden and I spent an insane amount of time on this version, for that era alone it holds a special place in my heart and I grew to like SA1 a lot more than I originally did because of that period of time.