My earliest was playing Final Fantasy 1. My bro, sis, and I had rented our own nes game from a Hy-Vee(this was years ago, back in first grade, I think). I rented...some golf game, I don't know what it was called. I only played it once, never got interested in it. However, I was very interested in FF1. Of course, I sucked at RPGs way back then. I didn't even know what an RPG was! I always ended up going to Garland, all chars at first level, with no real preparation whatsoever. I always got plastered, even if I was fighting two spiders instead of the real guy. After returning it, I would end up not so much as even touching that game until my last semester in college, when I defeated it in the form of FF1 Dawn of Souls on a GBA ROM. To this day, that is the only FF game I've beaten. Gonna go for more of them, though!

The first RPG I ever beat in my life was Earthbound. Like FF, I naturally sucked at it at first. As I got older, though, I naturally grew more aware of the concept that I had to gain these thingys called "levels" to beat tough enemies and bosses. I honestly think that if it weren't for that SNES hit, I probably wouldn't have the interest in RPGs that I do now.

Harvest Moon, my first playthrough. It isn't all that remarkable, but I still have to talk about it. Around this time, I think I was in middle school, I was really into this game. I liked a lot of games, of course, but there was something about seeing an RPG from top down that just really entranced me. Now, it surprises me how much I love these games, considering I'm not into real-life farming at all. I didn't even grow up in one. I guess I saw it as a potentially good RPG and, I dunno, I just really liked it. My first playthrough was horrible, performance-wise. I barely knew what to do as far as planting crops and all. I was bad at getting gold at first, which was partly why the first cow I'd bought died with relative ease(wasn't until long after that did I realize that cows could die, but people couldn't. is that whole cemetery made up of cows?!). My overall ranking was "still a long ways to go." The next time I played it, I did much better, even got a wife! A third playthrough would see me better than my second, with a dozen happy cows and chickens, tons of crops planted, and the mayor's daughter in my loving arms with two kids. Until HM64 came along, this was a big hit with me.

I remember SMB3 as well. I never conquered that game once without the aid of the Game Genie. Ugh, I gotta remedy that someday.

Super Mario Kart: I once beat my brother 20 times in a row, once on each track.