The iPhone 4G is on everybody’s mind and in everybody’s hearts right now. But my own thoughts and desires drift back to an announcement Square-Enix made at E3, and then, without pause, it drifts even further back to 1993. Secret of Mana is coming to the iPhone later this year.

Secret of Mana was one of my favorite RPGs on the Super Nintendo way back in the olden days. I still have my old SNES cartridge, and I have downloaded it for the Virtual Console. I have played both installments more times than I can count. I have played the game’s ROMs, including re-translations and hacks that dress up the main characters as clowns and other silly things.

And still, every so often, I plug in Secret of Mana and start up a new game. If you told me, “Nadia, never play Secret of Mana again or I’ll eat this puppy,” I’d hand you the salt and get back to plundering the Mana Fortress.