A time before Baldur's Gate...
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I played Secret of Mana to death with my best friend and his brother at the time, as well as Lufia and Illusion of Time.
...I'm gonna go hook up my SNES again, back later!
I've also played a few Rogue-like games over the years; Telengard, Dungeon Hack, Sword of Fargoal.
Other genre games I've played and really liked; Ogre, Warship, PacWar, Panzer General, Fantasy General, Civilization (especially III), War in the Pacific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGtNoMk5xAU
Please don't laugh at me.... too hard, that is .
Anyway, before I discovered the amazingness that is Baldur's Gate, I played a lot of games from the late 1990s to early 2000s era, so a lot of second-generation and late-Playstation stuff (probably my absolute favorite era of video-games). The RPGs I played before Baldur's Gate that I loved (and still do) would have to be: Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Final Fantasy 9, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, Legend of Dragoon, and Threads of Fate.
What can I say? I'm a sucker for JRPGs. XD
A lot of those games are DOS, so they might work with an emulator or DOSbox. I know the last SSI release of the "General" games included a Windows 95 installer, so you should be in business there. I think those games would still look and play well. Obviously a little dated, but the game play is terrific.
Civilization III should also be available through GOG or something and would run fine on a modern system, I actually have an ongoing game that was interrupted by BGEE's release, I keep meaning to get back to that...
An updated Sword of Fargoal is available on iOS, and probably other modern systems.
The others get a little more problematic, they were never meant for a modern system. I played many of them on a Commodore 64. All my Gold Box games did eventually migrate to my Amiga, man I thought they looked so good on that system! I have no idea how well most of them would run, but various emulators are available.
I had the later AD&D games; Eye of the Beholder (three games plus Dungeon Hack), Ravenloft (two games plus Menzoberranzon), and Dark Sun (two games) in DOS. They're pretty good, especially Dungeon Hack (a randomly generated, single character dungeon crawl giving it high replay value); but they all will look pretty dated graphics wise. But I would think they would run fine with the DOS emulator.
Another classic oldie is Bard's Tale; all three versions are available for a single price ($5 maybe?) in iOS. It's a great deal if you're interested, but the series was never a favorite of mine.
2. Civ: Call to Power & Civ2
3. Panzer/Allied General
Dragon wars,
Ultima 7 and underworld,
System shock,
wizardry,
prophecy of the shadows
Diablo
were the games I still remember as good games to play.
SSI games
King's Quest
Bard's Tale
Wizardry
Ultima
way way way before:
Temple of Apshia - C64
Tunnels of Doom - TI994A
http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/tunnelsofdoom.png?w=528&h=396
*edit: BTW, it's not because I'm young (42), but because I went for years without a computer.
Monopoly!
Day of the tentacle, sam & max, monkey island, indiana jones and the fate of atlantis... good times.
I remember Little Big Adventure 2 being the game that got me introduced into the genre though, and shortly after completing it i switched to bg after reading a review in a gaming mag.
Also , I gotta say that my order of Infinity games was Torment, then Baldur's Gate II , then Icewind Dale. I only played BG1 back in 2004...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IO9OiWMfaQ