Before EQ...Follow

Dont forget
1. Bards Tale
2. Ultima 2,3 and 4

Ahh, yes Bard's Tale, that was a fun one.

I played some of the SSI games as well, Joph. The second one, the name of which escapes me at the moment, was my favorite (the one after Pool of Radiance). Um, which if I'd read carefully I would have seen the title of in your post. Man I need some coffee or something.

That first person game looks a lot like Wizardry, with the hallway setup. Although I played that one on a Mac in black and white.

Edited, Dec 1st 2008 8:39pm by Marres

Yep, it was Curse of the Azure Bonds. I even had the book at one point.

Zork ftw! Those Infocom text games were the best thing going back then. Since my first PC didn't have ANY graphics capability, that was all there was.

Like Wizardry, too (inexplicably).

Elite (yeah, that's how old I am); still the best game ever.

Elite! How could I forget! :-))

I played alot of console games. I plopped down 2k on a PC in 1991 and it was basically worthless. 2 megs ram (windows ate most that up) and a 50 meg hard drive didnt give much power for games. Worked great for business applications though, which is why I bought it.

I could play Daggerfall and Morrowind for HOURS!!!

Speaking of Console RPG games, how about Chrono Trigger? :)

My first video game was Pong.

My first "real" game was Pitfall on the Atari 2600 in the early 80's.

My first gaming obsession was Ultima 4 in '85.

The year I bought a PC and never looked back for a gaming platform was 1989 and Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic.

Edited, Dec 3rd 2008 1:54pm by Reyla

I played Super Mario Brothers at my friend's house when I was 14. Fast forward 20 years and I started playing EQ. A year later, it's still the only game I care about and the only MMO I can imagine I'll ever play.

There was a game called Dungeon Master, as I recall - it was a 3-D style game that predated the Eye of the Beholder games. I remember it was kind of clunky, but it really got my imagination going, and planted the seeds for the RPG's I played later.

There was an even older game I had on the Commodore 64 that was a 2-D dungeon adventure; you got sucked into a pool or something into the dungeon and as you hunted things, you collected better armor and weapons. I would probably remember the name if I heard it.

Then there was Zork and all the Infocom greats. I played those text adventures for hours on end. Pool of Radience and the sequels were the first role playing games that I played again and again, testing different paths to victory.

As someone mentioned, Elite was a fantastic game. Such a big world and so much freedom. Civilization kept me up many nights, too. Funny how there are "equivalents" to many of these games nowdays, newer Civilization versions, games like Freelancer, Neverwinter Nights, etc., but we still think most highly of those early games and the fun we had with them.

I'd put the Infocom text adventures and Wizardry I as my all time favorites. I also really enjoyed Below the Root and the Swiss Family Robinson from the Windham Classics series of games. There was another little-known game called Dragon's Eye that wasn't all that great but I have fond memories of playing it. I tinkered with Might and Magic II.

As far as consoles, I LOVED the D&D titles for the Intellivision (Cloudy Mountain and Treasure of Tarmin) and of course when the NES came out I played Zelda I & II like a fiend, and later Dragon Warrior, Crystalis, Castelvania, Kid Icarus, Wizards and Warriors, and Shadowgate which was one of my favorites. The gameboy also had some good RPG titles like the Final Fantasy series and the Zelda titles.

More recently, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the Icewind Dale series.