Monkey Island 2 I believe, which got me into the whole Lucasarts omg thing lol.
Only Sierra game I ever played as a kid was KQ7, and I wasn't a fan of the death thing. Being so used to being able to click everything and explore it all, it was a bit of a shock to be punished for trying things out. But yeah, i'm fairly certain MI2 was the first adventure game I played... unless you count the text adventure I played as a kid on the amstrad... which I can't recall the name of.
All I remember about that game was that you started on a raft, first command was "land raft" and there was a point where progress was blocked by a bear.
It was a bit odd. Anyone have any idea?
OMG HUGO! I loved hugo! Hated the sodding mummy in the first game grrr.. and the flytraps in the second. And totally never understood the deal with the groundskeeper hahaha.
I remember being lent Mixed up fairy tales and Eco Quest.. I always enjoyed EQ, even if it was moralistic.
I'm sure Zork was somewhere in those early years as well... I sucked at it but I loved it anyway.
Link and game is in Slovenian, but being adventurer you can manage at least to start the emulator. For decent play you definitely need good knowledge of Slovenian..
Definitely Zork 1. My dad had a dummy terminal he brought home from work. I would dial into the mainframe at his main office and play zork till all hours of the night.
There were probably others before, but the first one I vividly remember is 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos', an entirely text-based adventure from Infocom.
My first Adventure game was actually the first game I owned, Black Cauldron. My father got it for me and my sisters when I was seven years old and we got our first computer, a Tandy 1000. I remember we didn't know how to save, so we actually made it up to the horned king's castle by playing over and over again from the beginning (we would die constantly because early sierra games were hardcore that way). It took us all day to get into the castle and about five years before I finally beat the game (we were stuck at the part part where you have to find the fairy folk cave for years).
Space Quest was the second game we got and was the first game we ever beat. I have very fond memories of that game because it was the only game we beat as a family, even people in my extended family contributed to solving puzzles in that game and we never cheated or looked up hints (there was no internet back then to cheat). The game is also just perfectly designed, such a great story and such great humor. Still probably my favorite game and my favorite series of games.
Lucasarts adventure games came a little later with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island 2 (I actually didn't play the first one until a few years later). I always felt that they greatly improved on the formula by preventing dead ends and making it so that you can't die, but at the same time, I kind of missed the challenge of the parser interface and the humor of the deaths in the old sierra games. Also the lack of the internet in the 80s really forced you to really think things through and not get lazy.
Still, I started to like Lucasarts adventure games more than Sierra games in the 90s for their slick user friendly design, humor, good puzzles and stories, although Sierra still did have some great Space Quest and King's Quest games in the early 90s that kept them competitive for awhile. But by that point I was the only still playing computer games so it was less of a group effort and it wasn't as much fun to me. Nothing will beat the experience of working together as a family to beat Space Quest 1. It'd be cool if Telltale could work with the old Sierra designers to release some new space quest and king's quest games.
I'm trying to figure out what the genres were of the games I played. King's Quest 5 was definitely one of the first complex games I ever got into. Before that, I played Worlds of Ultima: Martian Dreams and The Savage Empire. I was buying some game at the computer store when I saw a promo disk for Monkey Island and I fell in love with the demo. Went on to buy it and also Loom.
I went back and got all the King's Quest and Space Quest games, then Monkey Island 2. I had both EcoQuests (forgot about that until today but I can still hear the theme music in my head), Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail, Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood. I had Gobliiins, Hugo's Jungle whatever, Kyrandia 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer... I think I stopped playing games around the time when Myst was the hot game, and I was disappointed in the direction gaming took. Since Myst, I've only played Fantasmagoria, and went off into MMORPGs until the new MI games came out.
Monkey Island 2 has always been my favorite game. I'm so glad that the Telltale crew has kept the same spirit with these new episodes.
This is a nice thread, too. Bringing back memories!
I have very fond memories of that game because it was the only game we beat as a family, even people in my extended family contributed to solving puzzles in that game and we never cheated or looked up hints (there was no internet back then to cheat).
Don't know why, but PC gaming seems less group/family oriented these days. I remember how my family used to get together to play YDKJ, Myst, etc. Those were good days...
I was pretty young during the golden era of adventures ('90-'96ish), but my older brother used to play them (started in '92, I think) so I'd watch and occasionally help out when he translated stuff for me The first game I played alongside him was Zac McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
When I finally got a decent enough grasp of English, the first game I re-played on my own was either LeChuck's Revenge or Day of the Tentacle, can't remember.
I didn't realize I was playing my first adventure game when I played it. It was a game called Murder on the Mississisppi, played in on the Commodore 64. But my first adventure game counsciously considered an adventure game was Operation Stealth from Delphine Software, on an unexpanded Amiga 500 (so I didn't have the horrible "spoken dialogue" that came with it if you played with 1mb of ram).
I still consider Operation Stealth my first real conscious contact with the genre. But I realize MOTM is in the same genre.
My first adventure game? Hard to say. Up until a few years ago I was usually a 'backseat gamer', watching as my sister played through King's Quest and Monkey Island games and harassing her with hints and ideas.
However, I will say that the start of that trend came watching my mother play King's Quest 4. The only time I have seen her truly mad is trying to get Rosella up and down those stairs.
Toonstruck was the first adventure game I ever played, and I loved it! That's how I got into adventure games in the first place There were supposed to be a sequel, but it never got released unfortunately.
Ah Murder on the Mississippi was a great game indeed! But for proper adventure gaming my first was Space Quest I which I kinda put on the back burner after discovering the Adventures of Willy Beamish on the Amiga 500.
I'm not sure if it was some no name text adventure or The secret of monkey island which I played first, like the above poster I got my first English experience with MI
Sunes sportlov, a swedish adventure game based on a series of famous young-adult stories (in sweden). It was a simple game, both in gameplay and presentation. But it was the beginning for adventure games for me.
My first "adventure" game was something with pyramids and Egypt with scorpions for the atari. Then in nintendo there was zelda which i hated with all my heart.
First adventure on PC for me was "Alone in the dark", but for the point click kind of adventures my first was "Curse of enchantia", "Gooblins" and "Simon the sorcerer" (I received them at the same time, but curse of enchantia was the first i tried of the three)
I feel like a very old lady reading about your first experiences with adventure gaming. :rolleyes:
First time I playd would have been back in the orwellian year of 1984. I was 12, and I played a series of text adventure games on my brand new Vic20. The first one was about pirates - "Pirate Island" it may have been called?
First adventure game on a PC was "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Infocom. Also a text adventure game.
The first graphic adventure I played was "Kings Quest". By the way, I really love "Peasant Quest" by Videlectrics (Homestar Runner), which is a Kings Quest Parody - very funny for aging gamers like myself, who remember the first of the "Quest"-games.
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Only Sierra game I ever played as a kid was KQ7, and I wasn't a fan of the death thing. Being so used to being able to click everything and explore it all, it was a bit of a shock to be punished for trying things out. But yeah, i'm fairly certain MI2 was the first adventure game I played... unless you count the text adventure I played as a kid on the amstrad... which I can't recall the name of.
All I remember about that game was that you started on a raft, first command was "land raft" and there was a point where progress was blocked by a bear.
It was a bit odd. Anyone have any idea?
I remember being lent Mixed up fairy tales and Eco Quest.. I always enjoyed EQ, even if it was moralistic.
I'm sure Zork was somewhere in those early years as well... I sucked at it but I loved it anyway.
http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/ZX/TextAdv/Html/Kontrabant.php
Link and game is in Slovenian, but being adventurer you can manage at least to start the emulator. For decent play you definitely need good knowledge of Slovenian..
So TellTale, no more Zak adventures??
Space Quest was the second game we got and was the first game we ever beat. I have very fond memories of that game because it was the only game we beat as a family, even people in my extended family contributed to solving puzzles in that game and we never cheated or looked up hints (there was no internet back then to cheat). The game is also just perfectly designed, such a great story and such great humor. Still probably my favorite game and my favorite series of games.
Lucasarts adventure games came a little later with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island 2 (I actually didn't play the first one until a few years later). I always felt that they greatly improved on the formula by preventing dead ends and making it so that you can't die, but at the same time, I kind of missed the challenge of the parser interface and the humor of the deaths in the old sierra games. Also the lack of the internet in the 80s really forced you to really think things through and not get lazy.
Still, I started to like Lucasarts adventure games more than Sierra games in the 90s for their slick user friendly design, humor, good puzzles and stories, although Sierra still did have some great Space Quest and King's Quest games in the early 90s that kept them competitive for awhile. But by that point I was the only still playing computer games so it was less of a group effort and it wasn't as much fun to me. Nothing will beat the experience of working together as a family to beat Space Quest 1. It'd be cool if Telltale could work with the old Sierra designers to release some new space quest and king's quest games.
I went back and got all the King's Quest and Space Quest games, then Monkey Island 2. I had both EcoQuests (forgot about that until today but I can still hear the theme music in my head), Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail, Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood. I had Gobliiins, Hugo's Jungle whatever, Kyrandia 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer... I think I stopped playing games around the time when Myst was the hot game, and I was disappointed in the direction gaming took. Since Myst, I've only played Fantasmagoria, and went off into MMORPGs until the new MI games came out.
Monkey Island 2 has always been my favorite game. I'm so glad that the Telltale crew has kept the same spirit with these new episodes.
This is a nice thread, too. Bringing back memories!
Don't know why, but PC gaming seems less group/family oriented these days. I remember how my family used to get together to play YDKJ, Myst, etc. Those were good days...
Someone beat them to it already. You might want to check out http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=projects
I don't think these are new; it says they're "remakes."
When I finally got a decent enough grasp of English, the first game I re-played on my own was either LeChuck's Revenge or Day of the Tentacle, can't remember.
I still consider Operation Stealth my first real conscious contact with the genre. But I realize MOTM is in the same genre.
Oops! I misread. I thought you were talking about a remake, like SoMI. My bad.
However, I will say that the start of that trend came watching my mother play King's Quest 4. The only time I have seen her truly mad is trying to get Rosella up and down those stairs.
It all just sort of expanded from there...
Then of course it got followed up on the Amiga by Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and so on.
Doesn't matter though, both were awesome!
a game by Telltale
That's how I got into point-and-click adventure games too!
I played text adventures for years before that, though. My first was The Boggit.
First adventure on PC for me was "Alone in the dark", but for the point click kind of adventures my first was "Curse of enchantia", "Gooblins" and "Simon the sorcerer" (I received them at the same time, but curse of enchantia was the first i tried of the three)
First time I playd would have been back in the orwellian year of 1984. I was 12, and I played a series of text adventure games on my brand new Vic20. The first one was about pirates - "Pirate Island" it may have been called?
First adventure game on a PC was "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Infocom. Also a text adventure game.
The first graphic adventure I played was "Kings Quest". By the way, I really love "Peasant Quest" by Videlectrics (Homestar Runner), which is a Kings Quest Parody - very funny for aging gamers like myself, who remember the first of the "Quest"-games.