Post a screenshot of your first RPG

[AbounI]

I guess it was mandragore, on C64

 

[Excidium II]

I guess it was mandragore, on C64

wow beautiful game.

 

[AbounI]

I guess it was mandragore, on C64

wow beautiful game.

Knowing how it looks in dungeons,

 

[Excidium II]

Looks like one of those indie games with spagheti limbs pixel art style that is so popular these days.

 

[AbounI]

Looks like one of those indie pixel art styles with spagheti limbs that is so popular these days.

I guess It was the first french cRPG developped in 1986, by Infogrames...

 

[Dorateen]

Looks kind of neat.

Spoiler

 

[Eirikur]

Aside from cRPGs... my first RPG book:

 

[Saduj]

Temple of Apshai for C64 has been previously pictured and that was my first CRPG. Ultima III for C64 has also been previously posted and that was first CRPG that really blew my mind.

I just looked it up and both were released in 1983. Doesn't seem possible considering how vastly superior Ultima III was. There must have been a 2-3 year gap between the my playing of each but back then it seemed so much longer...

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[SwiftCrack]

Console/JRPG (not sure which one was actually first):

PC RPG:

 

[Mortmal]

I guess it was mandragore, on C64

wow beautiful game.

This one an ultima 3 inspired french rpg, something rare enough to mention, done by a brother and sister. The graphics are stunning for its era.Luckily there still some screens on gamopat site, and Tilt is still archived in abandonware site.

Here's the advertisement we could read in the magazine back then in 1984 when i had natural teeth and still some hair. Notice the game wich is a pure rpg won the "best arcade game " award from the ministry of culture, yes our politics were already that incompetent for pretty much everything:

And here's the test i the prestigious magazine tilt, now defunct:

 

[Excidium II]

Cool! I love old game magazines. Too bad I can't read any of that.

 

[Mortmal]

Cool! I love old game magazines. Too bad I can't read any of that.

So not a great score on this english magazine, but some other testers rate it as high as 4 stars/5. Remmber too this was an era where above 50% was good.

 

[Mortmal]

Maybe on a thousand codexers there will be one guy wanting to try it again, so use css64 emulator and download game from this link http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=4572 .

 

[kwanzabot]

I dont remember which 1 i actually played first :S

i was very young when i played these games >.<


btw ishar was fucking terrible

 

[Excidium II]

So not a great score on this english magazine, but some other testers rate it as high as 4 stars/5. Remmber too this was an era where above 50% was good.

He also thought the grafics were nothing amazing. Sure very colorful but oddly drawn.

 

[CryptRat]

btw ishar was fucking terrible

Not a particularly good game, for sure, but its exploration part (looking/asking for key items) is much better than in any Obsidian/Bioware's game with their sequences of badly integrated intrusive checkpoints.

 

[Mortmal]

So not a great score on this english magazine, but some other testers rate it as high as 4 stars/5. Remmber too this was an era where above 50% was good.

He also thought the grafics were nothing amazing. Sure very colorful but oddly drawn.

Its an english reviewer , you cant expect a fair trial from an englishman, we are speaking about the perfidious albion .They always envy us and our refined culture , jealousy tend to to this. They often did that, for exemple little big adventure was trashed by reviewers just for being made by french (branded as a gallic torture) .But now they are replaced by muslims , its all fine, no such rivalry.

 

[Excidium II]

 

[kwanzabot]

btw ishar was fucking terrible

Not a particularly good game, for sure, but its exploration part (looking/asking for key items) is much better than in any Obsidian/Bioware's game with their sequences of badly integrated intrusive checkpoints.

idk, it's hard to compare games from the early 90s to modern games but even compared to the games that came out during that time ishar games were literally worse in every way to games like ultima underworld/might and magic 3/4/5 or even a game like thunderscape ect(im sure theres others that are better too )

too much annoying shit in the ishar games like the time limit in 3 or no automap in 1 and the fact all 3 games used the same shtty engine with the locked camera(some people probably prefer that for blobbers but not me )

and how can i forget the people you would recruit that would turn on you and steal your shit constantly

 

[Stella Brando]

My god! I thought I would never find out what this game was! Me and my brother had it on an early "CD rom" with seemingly hundreds of other games.

My brother would always talk about the "in-VENT-ory," rather than the "IN-vint-TORY." Whenever I see the word inventory I still imagine him saying that.

I also played a lot of fighting fantasy books:

 

[Mustawd]

First RPG ever was a complete accident. It was LOTR shareware version when I was a kid. Dropped it like it was hot after I kept dying. Of course this was in the same era as DOOM I and II, so my mindset (as an 11 year old) was not setup for an RPG.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

Knowing how it looks in dungeons,

Oméga Planète Invisible is better (made by the same people with the same engine). There is also a german version, but not an english one, contrary to Mandragore.

 

[Stella Brando]

Why is Bon Jovi playing baseball?

I almost forgot one game - Wizardry 8: Stones of Arnhem.

 

[Mortmal]

Looks like one of those indie pixel art styles with spagheti limbs that is so popular these days.

I guess It was the first french cRPG developped in 1986, by Infogrames...

Yes i think so another one i can remember of is Fer&Flame , release date was 1986 too probably a little bit later.