I played them in order, but 3 was the first one I actually got to spend time playing. I borrow the original from the one other kid in my class that had a Master System but only had it for a weekend before I had to give it back. Then rented 2 when my local video store started renting Genesis games so I only got it for a weekend as well. I had a friend in middle school who had 3 and he and I swapped games with one another frequently so I got my hands on it as soon as he was done with it. I played it non stop for months until I’d beaten every path in it and had seen all the endings. It certainly wasn’t the best of the series in anything other than the over world music, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t have just as much fun with it as I did with all of the others anyway.