Role-playing games (RPG's) date back from a time well before the commodore 64 and other ancient home consoles squatted in front of your TV. The first inception of the RPG as we know it can be dated back to the first pen and paper (P&P) board games such as the well-known Dungeons and Dragons. When you mention D&D to your average attractive young lady it is considered a bigger social fopar than describing in detail the last time you made passionate love to your hand. So people may consider you a geek, but without these types of games the RPG genre would not have migrated over to the games console medium. So that we can be thankful for, and besides, at least the hand never has a headache. Women 0, Hand 1.
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Actually first Final Fantasy was heavily influenced by D&D. So if it wasn't for Gygax and his buddies, we wouldn't have FF as it is now, along with classic RPG goodness.