My first contact with JRPG games started when I was 9-10. I went to my neigbours' house (for some reason I can't remember now) and their son, who was the same age as me, was playing Final Fantasy VII on his PS.
I remember have noticed that the translation to my language (Spanish) was terrible, but by these years the fact that a game with so much text were translated to Spanish wasn't a very common thing, so I didn't pay it a lot attention. I was able to understand what the characters were talking withouth a lot of effort, so I didn't found it so much terrible lol.
Anyway, the gameplay caught all my attention: The story was charming and the music incredible (Uematsu: GOD), and the first time I watched a battle and my friend summoned Titan, Shiva and Ifrit my brain blown out ๐คฃ.
A few years later I found that the that game was on sale for PC on a mall of my town for a really good price. I didn't doubt it and I bought it. That was the begining of my JRPG's world walkthrough: FF releases for NES and SNES, Illusion of Time (Illusion of Gaya), Chrono Trigger, The Secret of Evermore, Soleil (Megadrive/Genesis) were some of the games I played by then.
On 99's Christmas my parents gift my sister and me a PS. The first game we bought was Final Fantasy VIII, which had been released in our country by that year. A year latter FF IX was released and I played it from the begining to the end with great enthusiasm (I absolutely love Vivi).
The latest JRPG I played was Nier Automata for Nintendo Switch. Most major today's JRPGs I know are action RPGs.
Sadly, I find that current JRPGs aren't so good for me as the ones I played on my first years. Or maybe I'm just getting old ๐