What was your first RPG?

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FF1 on the NES, I couldn't even read most of what was happening because I was like 4. Because of this I was generally over leveled to hell because I stumbled through until I progressed. My memories of my first playthrough end at around the water fiend, so I may never have gotten past it.
 
WOW, a lot of youngins here! Welp, let's see for consoles it was Dragon Warrior followed by Final Fantasy,
while on the PC it was a combo of Bard's Tale 3 and Quest for Glory 2 (the desert one for anyone in the know).

By the time Fallout came out I was well into RPGs... wait are there ppl on NMA for Fallout 3?! I thought NMA was a primarily
Fallout 1, 2, tactics and begrudgingly New Vegas kinda place? Or was that years ago and since has changed? I've never
been a forum person... well, not since forums started requiring registration and usernames lol
 
Fallout 1,2, NV and I think tactics are fine. Most fans of Fallout 3 here are trolls but there are a few who love the games who are as sane and normal as any other person here... if not more so.
 
Pokemon Blue possibly. I have bad memory. Diablo II, Magic and Mayhem and Nox also come to mind, though they are not pure RPG's. Pokemon neither.
 
AD&D Second Edition as far as tabletop goes. One of the shitty D&D games on the intelivision as far as consoles go.
 
Dragon Warrior on NES for video games

Dark Tower, though not a traditional RPG like D&D. There was adventure, asset management and a huge boss battle at the end. Plus, you could play with 3 other friends. Also Risk is awesome and can get really interesting if you introduce required objectives in addition to world domination. Not a RPG but everyone becomes someone else once you start placing armies. EDIT: These two are board games.

Additional Edit: I'm gonna rant here here about Dark Tower. I wasn't alive when the game came out but even into the 90's it's use of mixed media was still incredible. Milton Bradley made a robust game given the constraints of tabletop/boardgames in 1981. Search the game, see if there's some youtube and then put that game next to what was rolling out on the Atari 2600 at the time.
 
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mdf_365 said:
Dragon Warrior on NES for video games

Dark Tower, though not a traditional RPG like D&D. There was adventure, asset management and a huge boss battle at the end. Plus, you could play with 3 other friends. Also Risk is awesome and can get really interesting if you introduce required objectives in addition to world domination. Not a RPG but everyone becomes someone else once you start placing armies. EDIT: These two are board games.

Additional Edit: I'm gonna rant here here about Dark Tower. I wasn't alive when the game came out but even into the 90's it's use of mixed media was still incredible. Milton Bradley made a robust game given the constraints of tabletop/boardgames in 1981. Search the game, see if there's some youtube and then put that game next to what was rolling out on the Atari 2600 at the time.
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Dark Tower is totally a RPG, and has one advantage over D&D - it's always fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70zhwB9h0M

The guys at Beer and Boardgames did a 3 part show on Dark Tower if anyone is interested!
 
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For table top: D&D red box. I've actually got three of the four initial boxes, missin' only the wilderness one (blue box, maybe?).

For the PC: Baldur's Gate. This game is the reason I bought a PC.

For consoles: Legacy of the Wizard for the NES. If that don't qualify as an RPG, then Ultima: Exodus, for the NES. I still remember
the sound of my characters walkin' through the forest of Ambrosia as it's somber theme music played. *chip, chip, chip...*

I want to say Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 was my first, but it doesn't seem like it would qualify as one...
 
I am a longtime lurker of NMA, but I felt the urge to register because no one mentioned my first RPG in this thread.

It was Fallout's daddy, the glorious Wasteland for Commodore 64. :grin:
 
Dungeon Master on an old Apple machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4B22b_imQ

Although I was too young at the time to make much of it.

Later I had some amiga games but no real RPG games as I can recall. Then I got a nintendo NES and played Zelda 1 & 2 a bit but never finished them, I was still pretty young and I think they were a bit too hard for me.

The first RPG that I really enjoyed playing, and which I actually mastered, was Zelda - A Link to The Past for SNES. I've probably beaten that game 5-6 times and I still remember all the locations of all heart pieces and all the dungeons in and out. Still a great game, old school Nintendo.

But the game that really sold me on RPGs was Diablo 1 when it hit in 1996, it was quite special at the time. And the story and feeling of dread in that little town... like I said, it was pretty special at the time. Good old Blizzard before they had too much success and money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGBB-dXmPw
 
The first RPG I ever played was Quest 64.... and it sucked.
 
I grew up in a family of huge military buffs and used to play wargames with my uncle all the time, which then led to a general interest in D&D. The blue box was my start I think, it's been a couple of years since then so I could be wrong. My first RPG video game was probably Eye of the Beholder. Found a version for the GBA recently and it brought back all sorts of old memories.

Didn't play a whole lot of RPGs for the longest time though, my wargaming background meant I gravitated towards Panzer Generals and eventually into RTS and milsim titles.
 
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