It's a long time ago and not very clear in memory, I was no more young adult when I started so it's not just about time but probably age too.
0. The prelude before first full RPG, some Roguelike, then some small shareware RPG. Then buying a video game was stupid for me, all my money was spend elsewhere.
1. Pool of Radiance and an unknown RPG but quite advanced for its time, Citadel. The first two RPG I bought that marked me a lot, but not up to make me a regular video game player.
2. Pool of Radiance series (could chain multiple because many was already released when I played the first)
3. Might & Magic 1&2
4. More Pool of Radiance series but didn't finished the last.
5. Might & Magic 3, Eye of the Beholer, Ultima Underworld, Ultima 7, Lands of Lore (put in its context and not compared to later RPG, it's still a few years stifling for amount of good noteworthy RPG).
At this point it's clearly no more the first RPGs I played, but I was still not playng during long periods, hence later RPG contributed as much. In fact if Doom series generated me more interest and focus in shooters, it constantly degraded along years when at reverse it grown for RPG. When for strategy it's alwasy been high and low, and hardly a redular continuous interest, RTS making a stop to my interest in strategy, when 4X only generated some high.
6. Fallout 1, despite I played some great RPG before, and it's years after, it was defintely a comparable shock to what PoR and Citadel did.
7. Balgur's Gate 1, same shock than FO1. The pair pushed me to a more focused interest in RPG.
I definitely sarted play more often from this and preferably RPG, but still had months periods ignoring video games.
8. Crodwfuding, crodwfunding RPG trying break the blueprint cloning in AAA RPG, digital games, eventually Steam comfort, rise of indies games of many budget levels, perhap more. And it was dead, if I don't play more than two week, it's either a miracle, either a drug addiction growing. And yes, it's up to tend achieve hide a comuter in any luggage for any travel. RPG don't have the main share, it's more Tactical games, then RPG, then very few genres I won't bother list.