I absolutely preferred FF9's Chocobo Hot and Cold Game over the Racing/Breeding game from FF7. The FF7 game was unnecessarily repetitive and yielded only a few genuinely awesome rewards. As opposed to the FF9 system which was fun, engaging and offered most all of the final weapons for the characters and a bunch of other badass equipment in the process. I just found exploring the world map and digging up treasure a hell of a lot more entertaining than racing the same damned track over and over and over again for hours on end.

I also preferred FF8's Chocobo Forest minigames a lot more interesting than FF7's breeding game.