What was the first RPG you ever played, and what was the oldest?

[freakytapir]

First RPG? Final Fantasy 7.
Oldest RPG? Do TTRPG's count? Then D&D 2nd edition

 

[BubblegumPatty]

What was the first RPG you ever played: HMMM I'm pretty sure it was Pokémon Sapphire? I was around 6-7 and could not read, but I recognized the Logo from the anime.
What was the oldest RPG you ever played: Final Fantasy 1 for NES. I had a retro games kick in the past.
And were they the same game: Lmao no, not even the same decade.

 

[AquaEcho]

FF1 for the NES which I never beat to this day although I got pretty far. Second was FF Legend III for the Gameboy which I did beat but learned years later isn't an FF game at all but a Square spinoff series.

 

[Ms Littlefish]

First? …wait for it. Quest 64. It’s a miracle I became interested in the genre at all. I didn’t have a memory card. Tried leaving the N64 on all night but it kept overheating so I kept starting over. OMG.

Oldest? It’s not that old but I do not recall if I played anything earlier. Mother.

 

[ZombieKidzRule]

Well, the first is easy. You always remember your first. Eye of the Beholder published in 1991.

Oldest is harder because I don’t pay that much attention to dates. I played Wizardry 6 from 1990. I may have played something older, but I’m not sure. I own games that are older that I just haven’t gotten around to playing.

Although, if I can count any computer RPG, my friend and I made a text RPG in 1987 on the new high school computers with no hard drives. Just floppy disks. And we made graphics using X plot and whatever by taping a transparency to the monitor and plotting each line to make a picture. But that wasn’t a complete game by any sense of the word.

 

[Sarisa]

First was either Final Fantasy V or Tales of Phantasia as I got them both at the same time. I think I started Phantasia first but finished FF5 first, so I'm not sure which one you want to count.

Oldest is a bit harder and depends on how you define it and count remakes. I've played FF 1&2 but on the Dawn of Souls GBA port. I've also played Pokémon Crystal which may be the actual oldest if we don't count remakes and such.

 

[Purple-H]

I believe my first RPG was Ogre Battle. I have to say "I believe" because I was frankly too young to have any idea what was going on, but based on a vague recollection of what I saw and after researching SNES RPGs released in the USA by the time I got a SNES I've come to the conclusion that it must have been Ogre Battle.
The oldest video game RPG I've played is a little bit of Ultima I, and the oldest RPG period I've played is a little bit of Basic D&D.

 

[CleanWater]

First: Chrono Cross
Oldest: Dragon Quest (NES)

 

[JPlaysan]

I think it was Final Fantasy 9 when I was around seven years old. Also Super Mario and The Legend of the Seven Stars for the SNES comes to mind.

 

[kyonides]

One tends to forget stuff that passed years or even eons ago, but my first games were Final Fantasy MQ & 6, Zelda A Link to the Past and Breath of Fire 1 & 2.

Yeah, FFMQ was a rotten mess, but who were I supposed to know that if I hadn't played a later edition? Then FF6 came along and it definitely changed my perspective.

 

[bookco]

The first RPG I ever played was Pokémon Blue, when I was six years old. I got a copy with a purple Game Boy Color for my birthday. The oldest? A close tie between Dragon Quest, which I played in my mid twenties, and Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord, for the Sega Master System, which I played around the time that I got into Pokémon. MW was released the same year as DQ. Since Dragon Warrior wasn’t released in the U.S. until two years after Miracle Warriors, I have to hand it to MW. I didn’t play Phantasy Star until my early thirties.