Ah, remember that game, the ending is quite ambigious but very emotion story and well written characters. Also, poor Nei. At least since it's established in Phantasy Star 4 that another Mother Brain was never made, it seems Rolf and his friends were victorious in this final battle. 

Well, it was already gotten a remake too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDUO9H0kLmc

Secrete of Mana.... Super Mario RPG, are amoung my most early memories of RPGs.
So one of those, lateron alot of the Final Fantasy games too (snes).

Wow, it’s hard enough trying to remember what my first game was overall, but to then narrow it down to a specific genre... I am not sure.

I think it’s probably Pokémon Blue, but I remember my aunt had Secret of Evermore on SNES, so I guess it depends on whether or not I ever played that. Or Mystic Quest.. she had that too.

Pokémon Emerald. I think I still haven't finished any RPG's except for the mailine Pokémon games.

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy VIII

That's easy since there was only one RPG-ish game on Atari 2600 the whole last century: Dragonstomper

https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/dragonstomper

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It would have been Pokemon Red in 1998, just before I turned 9.

The next RPG I played after that was Pokemon Gold, which I followed up with Final Fantasy IV through IX on PS1 and then Golden Sun on GBA in 2001/02.

FF1 on NES, and Sorcerian on PC.

To be more specific, you can't really "play through" Sorcerian, as it's a game with 15 odd "Scenarios" (levels/stories) you can play through, and your characters age in real time, so every adventure you go on, they get older. They eventually grow old and die. And then you can create a new character if you want. I beat several of the scenarios, but not all of them. Shit gets rough.

The first time I ever saw an RPG it was Legend of Dragoon at a friend's house, but since I was a Nintendo kid my first RPGs were Paper Mario on N64 and Baten Kaitos on the Gamecube

EDIT: Totally forgot about Pokemon Red! That was before I knew about Legend of Dragoon