One of my first games was Bards Tale on the Apple IIGS. It more or less taught me how to read (to use spells you had to look at the descriptions and type in a 4 letter code from teh manual to use em). I was something like 2 and a half playing that in 1985, good times.
My dad did have to use a hex trainer to make the characters start at a decent level for me to really get going though, character creation was a bit much for me at that point.
Also a great game was Taipan, it was this trading sim that games like drug wars (if you played that on your calculator back in the day) were later based off of. You went from port to port trading and fighting pirates on the high seas in basic fashion.
Think my first NES I got around 86 or so, Dragon Warrior was my first RPG on that system, it looks SO dated now but was awesome at the time. You used to get a free copy of it with a subscription to Nintendo Power.
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