Video Game was Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past.....I played this when it was new on SNES...my cousins had a bunch of video games, and I had none...I use to go over to their house and just play for hours on end.

First pen and paper was Conan RPG...I was late into pen and paper, just started a few years ago...gave me somethin to do when I was on probation, and now I prefer pen and paper RPGs to all else...

Pencil & Paper RPG: Originally it was the first large boxed version of Dungeons & Dragons, probably around the late '70s because I was still in elementary school at the time. The first module from which was "Keep on the Borderlands". After that, I was hooked on RPGs. That was my start. Since then I have played just about everything under the sun that has come out up until the big boom early in the new millennium when the Pen & Paper RPG industry took off.

Video Game RPG: The original Ultima on the Apple II, than the Commodore 64, and then subsequent to that all the other Ultima games, the D&D Gold Box series, and many more. Then I switched to IBM PCs in the middle of the 1980's. The "CRPG" remains my video game of choice...

Lunar: The Silverstar Story & FF7

Originally posted by Krn_Assassin

Lunar: The Silverstar Story & FF7

...in my opinion...the best RPGs of all time!!!

Zork, and Kings Quest.

Originally posted by Krn_Assassin

Lunar: The Silverstar Story & FF7

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My first love was Zelda...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64

Well..When I played Pen and Paper it was Of corse D&D 1st Edition..

The Video Games Ive played...

Eye of the Beholder On Sega CD, Zelda's on NES, Shining Force Series on Sega G, Lunar was On Sega CD or Sega Saturn I forgot...And there was Many more i cant remember...Anyone remember River City Ransome???  My friend and I played that game constantlly...And Contra...lol

My First MMO,s was Muds...But then I went on to Play Ultima Online..And I have never had a game that was as Fun as Ultima Online...I miss that game alot..I wish it went back to the way it was thats for sure...

Super Mario Bros on NES as a kid, then FF7 on PS as a teenager, then WII (mostly Mario and Zelda games). Now, starting about 3 or 4 years ago, Guild Wars (my favorite of all time), occasionally Runes of Magic, and Aion.

 I've started with FF7 and then, a bit later, my loved Mu Online. Still playing it. And I've started it when it was relased :p

Actually quite a few, Might & Magic, Wizardry, Lands of Lore Series: Throne of Chaos, Guardians of Destiny and their was a 3rd one can't remember that title offhand. The first Kane, their were so many really good rpg games in the 80's and 90's. Stonekeep was a game I really liked as well.,

Before D&D there was "le chateau des sortileges" in France, I started with that then played D&D.

And before that I played Pong, that was my first video game.

First MMO was SWG. 

I had a look at Ultima online and Everquest 1 but never jumped into them.

i started with cabal online then played talisman online , wow, nos tale , gods war ,mu tryed to play maple story but still playing cabal online :) 

The first Dragon Warrior was my first RPG.  But Final Fantasy got me hooked.  My first online game was Gemstone 3 back when it was hosted on AOL.

Originally posted by Astralglide

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.

Started with pnp games and Forgotten Realms is what I remember the most. After that, I played various pc games like Might and Magic and Pools of Radiance, but Final Fantasy really sticks out in my childhood memory. Enough so that I followed the series and played the MMO for a while.

Sorta funny to look back on the simplicity of those old games compared to today's games. For how far we've come, those old games provided hours upon hours of entertainment that many new games fail to reach. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking ;)

Originally posted by Astralglide

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.

Pen & Paper D&D

Then a D&D video game for the Turbo Graphics 16

the first real epic sort of feeling i got while gaming was at a place called virtual world. it was like this hybrid arcade/larp room where you sit in a sci fi space bar watching live monitors of other people in battle while waiting to be briefed on your mission. then you play your game from inside a pod filled with all kinds of esoteric lights and dials.

 PnP D&D. Was too young to know what I was really doing or how to at the time but it was fun. I just rolled dice and said what I wanted to do.

Then on my C64 I got Might and Magic. After that I played Bard's Tale III... Curse of the Azure Bonds.

On my 386DX-66 I played Battletech: Crescent Hawks inception/revenge.

From there on I played the FF series and other RPG's... (damned metal slimes in DW1)

Ocarina of Time when I was eight, followed by a lot of final fantasy/other Playstation titles.

In 2001 I bought Everquest to begin my MMO career: Great mistake number one.

RuneQuest ,D&D,Cyberpunk,Talisman (p&p)

Gateway to Apshai,Larn,Moria,Alternate Reality the city (computer games)

still playing other roguelikes and Alternate Reality