Which games got you started role-playing? Was it a video game first or pen and paper/ table top? Do you still play them today? I'll start (this is just for curiosity's sake).

Video Games came first for me:

Final Fantasy (for NES) or Dragon Warrior (for NES)

The first pen and paper game I played was Shadowrun 2nd Edition but I became a big Vampire: The Masquerade Fan.

I have ROMs for all of the NES games, but I haven't played them in a while and I gave up on pen & paper games a while ago.

Good old-fashioned D&D.  I bought the "blue box" Basic Set in 1980 (give or take a year).  For computer RPGs, it was Ultima II on my Atari 800XL.

I started with the original Baldur's Gate.  Before that I just played around on my NES but never played any of the rpg's.

ultima: quest of the avatar on the NES, still have the original cartridge.

Never did the pen/paper thing... so my first RPG was a game called Dungeons of Daggorath on the TS-80 (Trash 80) in 1983.  I saw many a sunrise while pressing the famous A-R (attack-right) which normally held my two handed sword.

Next game after that was the original Bard's Tale 1 on a IBM PC about 1986....then came a long string of PC RPG's that is too numerous to remember these days....

I think it was D&D, But actual roleplaying was probably the old MUSH games

Czzarre

1 - Pen&paper D&D then ADD and some Call of Chtulu

2 - Alkalabeth then ultima series from 1 to the last (9?) on apple then pc

3 - Wizardy series (all of them)

4 - Baldurs' gates series

5 - Meridian 59

6 - in june 2000, i got a new rpg game called Everquest (didnt know was an online game). Still play it nowadays 

7 - getting online opened a new era : i played Asheron call, ultima online, lineage, Anarchy online, shadowbane...and Wow !

I need to clone myself  to be able to play them all at the same time.

PS : I love Zelda 

Originally posted by bonobotheory

Good old-fashioned D&D.  I bought the "blue box" Basic Set in 1980 (give or take a year).  For computer RPGs, it was Ultima II on my Atari 800XL.

As far as computer games go I was late getting one so Ultima 9 was my first. Also my first taste of "Buggy Way to Early Release" game! They actually MAILED me a Patch disk to fix it. Still a good game though.

Originally posted by Kyleran

... so my first RPG was a game called Dungeons of Daggorath on the TS-80 (Trash 80) in 1983.  I saw many a sunrise while pressing the famous A-R (attack-right) which normally held my two handed sword.

In all my days I have never met anoyone else who played Dungeons of Daggorath.  I remember actually getting surprised/scared in that green wire frame dungeon.

AR {enter}, AR{enter}, AR{enter}, ....

Wow. 

D&D, Reading The Hobbit, Wizardry, D&D Gold Box games (pool of Radiance),

Then my first MMO:  Neverwinter Nights on AOL.  I was a member of WGWfor a time (Warriors and Guardians of the Wood).

After playing live with others, it was all over.

Originally posted by bartoni33

 

I still have my D&D Blue box, though its pretty worn now! I also have the Red Advanced D&D box. I got mine I think in 84, I remember it was in the middle of all the backlash from those college kids somewhere that sposed to have killed somebody while RPing D&D. My preacher was condemning it as satanism while his son was turning everybody on to it in grade school, including me! Anybody remember that After School Movie with John Travolta (I think) about D&D? I used to go over to my rich friends house to watch it on their $600 VCR (yes children they used to cost that much)and make fun of it!

Mazes and Monsters, with Tom Hanks. God, that movie was terrible, but funny in a "God, that movie was terrible" sort of way.

Laugh! I remember that movie!!

Czzarre

my cusin introduced me to AD&D when was on summer holiday with us. then a friend had the red box set, so mucked about with it. (love the dice and the crayons to give the numbers contrast). in high school our maths teacher ran some AD&D for us in the lunchtimes. when i got to uni 2nd ed was coming out, so i played some that, along with GURPS, shadowrun, villians and vigilanties, space opera, and white wolf world of darkness. on PC i just really thought that they were not roleplaying games until the online thing happened. didn't get into muds and mushes either. did a little online with NWN, but not a huge amount. since then EVE has been the only ting for me.

yeah my mum went on and on about how bad d&d was for me based on that crappy movie. i was supposed to be out playing footy, getting into fights, getting drunk  and knocking some shiela up if i was to be normal and healthy.

I did start with Shadow of Legend, and it's the first game I downloaded, before that I just played offline and simple game

MUDs got me started. I played some horrible godwar pk mud for a couple of years and eventually picked a copy of Ultima Online.

I started with choose your own adventure books, lol. Then I moved on to real books, then a friend introduced me to D&D..next thing I know I'm sneaking out at night with a 40 pound backpack full of D&D books to go play all night.

Years later I found Gemstone3 on AOL. (MUD by Simutronics for those that don't know)
I played Gemstone for years, I was hooked. I only started playing graphical mmo's because none of my gamer friends played MUD's...so when they all jumped from UO to DAOC, I jumped with them, been playing something or the other ever since.

D.

Originally posted by daelnor

I started with choose your own adventure books, lol. Then I moved on to real books, then a friend introduced me to D&D..next thing I know I'm sneaking out at night with a 40 pound backpack full of D&D books to go play all night.

Years later I found Gemstone3 on AOL. (MUD by Simutronics for those that don't know)
I played Gemstone for years, I was hooked. I only started playing graphical mmo's because none of my gamer friends played MUD's...so when they all jumped from UO to DAOC, I jumped with them, been playing something or the other ever since.

D.

 I actually have some of those old Choose your own adventure books stashed away somewhere. These were the "high-fantasy" or sci-fi ones that actually made you role some D6s when you had a monster encounter. And although you would get some gold or loot, there was never the option to spend it!

Let's see, PnP gaming with original D&D in 1974, I think my first computer RPG was Tunnels of Doom on the old TI-99/4 and then the Bard's Tale/Ultima/FF route, at least until FF went to hell with FF7 and I've hated the series ever since.  Online, I started on MUDs until they turned into a mess, for a lot of the same reasons that MMOs really suck these days.

Personally, I wish I could still find decent people to play PnP with but the industry has fallen so hard since the coming of WoW that most of the people who still enjoy sitting around a table are the ones with no social lives otherwise.

That's really the experience I wish I could replicate online, but it seems like it's just not meant to be.

Pen and Paper -- Red Box Basic DnD back in....1987.  Keep of the Borderlands and the Lost City were the first modules.  SSI's gold box version of Pool of Radiance introduced me to computer rpgs back in 90-91.  Overdrive (overdrive.concentric.net:5195) was my first mud in fall of 93.  Dark Age of Camelot was my first mmo back in....99-00?

My first MMORPG, which was TSO (The Sims Online).

Good times in Alphaville. Good times.

Great Topic...

Yepper I was a BIG Fan of KOEI.  all of em including Dragon warrior , Ghengis Chan, Bandit kings of Ancient China. Just to many grate games that were GREAT to play.

PTO another of my very favourites.

Might N Magic series, Wizards Series, Pools of Radiance, ect, ect, ect, ect, I still have a LOT of them tucked away for the Grandson which he will like as well.
Oh yes he likes games as well, and am trying my damndest to keep him off Line as long as possible.

Bethesda:  What can i say besides GREAT GAMES.
: Gothic: series AWESOME games.

As far as Online Goes it was Everquest. and everything else Sony made afterwards.
 It was a Great game to start Online Very fond memories. Never have found anything to replace it.

To many more to mention. All Games are fun and ment to be so, It's the People that run them.

Have a Great day. It's back to Oblivion for me.