I was actually alive back then... I did see pictures of the game on C64, but I don't think that I was very interested in the game back then; I have learnt about a lot of console games over the years, especially as I was pretty much exclusively C64 and PC (excepting the odd bit of Game Boy) until about 1997, when I got into emulation (I was 14 then), because I wanted to learn about the history of the older Final Fantasy games before VII (which was coming out on the PC), although ironically, at the time I saw TV ads for it when it was coming to PS1, I scoffed dismissively at them!

In any case, I'm for most intents and purposes a gaming historian and an amateur ludologist, so I try to learn as much about games as I can, as well as the tech surrounding them, because that helps contextualise the decisions made with a particular game at the time!