I was part of the D&D craze back when it hit big in the early 1980s. I must have been around 13 when I first got introduced to it by my next door neighbor, he was 20-something and he had a bunch of us neighborhood kids start to come over for long D&D sessions. It was a lot of fun. And then I also would play at lunch time in middle school too.
If you mean computer role playing games, I did play some of that text game Zork, but I came late to computer rpgs you might say, I missed most of the 1990s era, my first real one that I played was Baldur's Gate. I was absolutely amazed at that game at the time, and it hooked me real good on the crpgs.