A little embarrassingly for me my first RPG experience was Chrono Trigger. Now it's not embarassing the fact it was Chrono Trigger, but the reason behind me hiring it from that video store. Now my video store used to stock PAL games and NTSC games for hire, which was unusual, but that always had it clearly displayed on the box. Now my friend had a US SNES, no it was no problem for us to be able to play these games.
So back to the embarrassing part, we were browsing for games to hire. At this time I would have been 11 or 12, the N64 had already come out so we weren't really into hiring SNES games anymore. We had picked up Wave Race and we were walking to the front counter when I spotted something. Something that looked like a DragonBall Z game.
The rest is history. After I hired it I asked the owner if he could order in a copy for me so I could haver it at home, I borrowed my friends SNES (he moved away I still have it

) and played the game like no tomorrow. I also bought Terranigma, cause the video store guy said it was made by the same people.
When I had a PSX I tried to get into Final Fantasy and the like, but they sucked.
Jam it back in, in the dark.