My first RPG

[womblingfree]

Mine was Sword of Vermillion.

But the one that got me completely hooked was Secret of Mana.

[Razz]

My first RPG experience was Shining Force 3 on the Saturn. Such an excellent game.

I wish they'd re-release the trilogy

[Sieg]

First J-RPG I ever finished was 'Breath of Fire' - which I enjoyed immensely ... 'Secret of Mana' has many fond memories too, but I never actually finished that (got lost on the map flying around with the dragon thing ... and never went back to it ~~). Later - 'Suikoden' and 'Wild ARMs' came along, and induction into the RPG cult was complete.

S.

[gIzzE]

A game called "adventure" on the atari 2600, I loved that game, very simple, got o one room find a key, get the goblet find your way round the maze and that was really it. The machines didnt do real rpgs because they couldnt.

Then it was Zelda on the NES that got me into adventures and obviously Zelda snes, mana, illusion of gaia, but these are all adventure games.
The first RPG was chrono trigger or final fantasy III.

[dataDave]

First adventure game = LttP
First true RPG = Secret of Mana, followed very shortly by Illusion of time.

Just started Terranigma on the SNES for the third time. I keep getting stuck on the poison tree boss and then never going back for 12 months, forgetting the story so far.

[Crispin]

Faxanadu, on the NES.

Generic pile of ****e from Hudson Soft. Nothing special. And not a single gameplay innovation. At all.

But to a 6 year old (i.e. me you dumbasses) it looked cool. I sucked at it at the time and I can't be bothered to go back to it whilst NES Turrican, Probotector and Spiderman are calling.

[dataDave]

I played Faxanadu also, I turned it off after 20 mins and never went back.

Better forgotten I think.