Post a screenshot of your first RPG

[Eirikur]

The Faery Tale Adventure

 

[pippin]

Now I remember the first "true rpg" I've ever played, western made and in the Codexian definition. It was Exile: Escape from the Pit. My english was quite basic at the time, so I didn't understood what was going on most of the time. But I managed to complete a few combat instances here and there, do some quests, etc. I was surprised at the fact that you actually had to control more than one character.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Probably

 

[Elwro]

My first time was on a ZX Spectrum:

Wow! Bloodwych! That's also the first one I had installed at home, on my PC XT . Spent dozens of hours on it, even playing two parties in split seen mode with a friend, (It had a game-breaking bug so I did not finish it.)

I had no idea there was a Spectrum version...

 

[DavidBVal]

Now I remember the first "true rpg" I've ever played, western made and in the Codexian definition. It was Exile: Escape from the Pit. My english was quite basic at the time, so I didn't understood what was going on most of the time. But I managed to complete a few combat instances here and there, do some quests, etc. I was surprised at the fact that you actually had to control more than one character.

Broken link!

 

[Bumvelcrow]

The Faery Tale Adventure

One of my first games on my shiny new Amiga - now I'll never get the music out of my head for the rest of the day. I never considered it a RPG at the time - although you could probably get away with the designation these days. What version is that? A remake or an artistic touch up? Incidentally, I played it so much I can still remember the security protection rhyme.

Of course, mine is this, on the glorious Commodore 64:

Mercifully it banishes the Faery Tale music like an iron hammer bludgeoning a duckling. Unfortunately, every other RPG has been a subsequent disappointment.

 

[pippin]

Broken link!

Weird, I can see it just right, it's from Spiderweb's website.

 

[Eirikur]

One of my first games on my shiny new Amiga - now I'll never get the music out of my head for the rest of the day. I never considered it a RPG at the time - although you could probably get away with the designation these days. What version is that? A remake or an artistic touch up? Incidentally, I played it so much I can still remember the security protection rhyme.

I played it on the Amiga 500. Not sure which version the screenshot is from, I chose it more or less on random.

Of course, mine is this, on the glorious Commodore 64:

Mercifully it banishes the Faery Tale music like an iron hammer bludgeoning a duckling. Unfortunately, every other RPG has been a subsequent disappointment.

Sentiment shared. Thankfully, for those of us who enjoyed the Ultima series, there's hope in the horizon.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

I played it on the Amiga 500. Not sure which version the screenshot is from, I chose it more or less on random.

Googling suggests it's the Sega Genesis version, probably upscaled and smoothed on some emulator.

 

[DavidBVal]

Weird, I can see it just right, it's from Spiderweb's website.

Now I can see it too, maybe it was down

 

[hivemind]

Gifted to me by a friend when I finally got a computer. He also showed me some spellforce and prince of Persia games but those were boring shite compared to this.

I had to be like between 8 or 9, maybe 10 at most.

I remember that I never even managed to kill the final boss, might have to redownload it one of these days to fix that.

 

[Dedup]

I played Temple of Apshai on my cousin's C64 back when I was a dumb kid who didn't even know what an rpg was. I never really knew what I was doing in the game, just thought it was fun.

Years later I got my first computer and got into adventure games. A friend of mine suggested Hero's Quest which remains one of my all time favorite games.

Hero's Quest eventually led me to Pool of Radiance which became my other all time favorite game and my first true crpg.

 

[Shin]

Back then I didn't know wtf was going on (still don't actually). And it's not that I'm that old, I played this on my grandpa's PC (yeah he was real oldskool, bless his soul). My first non-roguelike RPG is probably RoA3.

 

[noisenerd]

Questron

 

[Alchemist]

It's been so long ago, I can't precisely remember. But it was either one of these:

Rogue (DOS version from Epyx)

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (in glorious 4-color CGA graphics)

 

[V_K]

 

[Necroscope]

Spoiler

 

[Jimmious]

I'll admit playing Daggerfall in such a young age was such a traumatizing experience that I went away from RPGs for a while. But then...

I remember playing the demo and being in awe. I fell in love with turn-based gaming and RPGs instantly

 

[khavi]

On Commodore 64.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I think it was Champions of Krynn on Amiga,don't really remember playing any memorable rpg on C64. It was also the first game i was completely mesmerized with,played it all night,till 6 am,when i created my 1st party

 

[Brancaleone]

That one. Made me switch to adventures and (later) RTS for a few years.

 

[CryptRat]

That one. Made me switch to adventures and (later) RTS for a few years.

Is Eye Of The Beholder 3 THAT bad? I never played it (it never came to Amiga) but 1 & 2 were very good.

 

[Brancaleone]

Is Eye Of The Beholder 3 THAT bad? I never played it (it never came to Amiga) but 1 & 2 were very good.

Well, I was a kid when I played it (a few years after it came out), and I was just coming from Monkey Island 2, Golden Axe (the PC version) and Crime Wave by Access Software, so EoB3 to me made just no sense. I've tried playing it again a few years ago, and it really is not very good at all.

I think it is not a coincidence that blobbers are my least favourite kind of Rpg's, must have been the trauma-imprinting by EoB3.

 

[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

 

[Zeronet]

One of these 'RPGs', no clue which one.