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Poll -The age of all you Monkey Island fans.

TimesNineXiXTimesNineXiX
edited November 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Hey all,

I don't happen to post much on these forums, but it has been a pleasure reading a lot of the theories and other fandom scattered throughout.

One thing has interested me, and I am sure it has come up before, is who is this game marketed toward? I love Monkey Island, and have been playing since I was a tot back in the early 90s. I have stuck with it, and Telltale has certainly delivered.(Just a note, I don't hate EMI, but I think TellTale has given us something better.)

However, I guess my question is what is the ages of all you gamers? I'm in my mid-twenties and have a nostalgic connection with these games. However, the young guns today seem like they would be completely disinterested in a point-n-click adventure. Just wanted to see the market for this thing, and what you guys thought.

Best,

LC
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  • doodo!doodo!
    edited November 2009
    Guys, that was the Last Crusade...been awhile since we've heard from that guy. :eek:
  • KromsKroms
    edited November 2009
    I'm 20, and have zero nostalgia connected with the series. I played CMI when I was eight - and man, do I not want to ever be eight - and the rest of the adventure games I've played from early 2006 onwards. :) I love them all; they mean the world to me.

    Edit: I do mean all. Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, etc etc...
  • dr freeman 23dr freeman 23
    edited November 2009
    well im 25 but been fan of adventure games since was at school lol :) and telltale done a amazing job with monkey island :) lovin the series
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    I'm predicting the poll results to be a bell curve, slightly skewed towards the younger demographic.
    TimesNineXiX wrote: »
    However, the young guns today seem like they would be completely disinterested in a point-n-click adventure.

    You might be surprised. I haven't been able to get my bro (18) to play TMI yet... but only because he is busy playing through my entire collection of old adventure games! He has some wonderful gems to (re)discover. :D
  • Black FalconBlack Falcon
    edited November 2009
    I'm in my 30's (32 to be exact). It's awesome how the game graphics have improved over the years! You used to look like a brick with arms and legs!
    lol
    ;^)
  • wavefunctionwavefunction
    edited November 2009
    Im 14
  • Fabula virFabula vir
    edited November 2009
    15 coming up for 16 next month today.
    Lots of nostalgia with Monkey Island here.
  • seagulseagul
    edited November 2009
    I'm 44 and still have all my teeth! :D
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited November 2009
    seagul wrote: »
    I'm 44 and still have all my teeth! :D

    They belong in a museum!    :mad:
  • WarlordX40WarlordX40
    edited November 2009
    I'm 19, 20 in January, and very possibly my earliest memory was LeChuck's Revenge, so plenty of nostalgia over here
  • ConCon
    edited November 2009
    19 here as well. Think I was 9 when I first tried CMI. Heh, those were the times.
  • shovellshovell
    edited November 2009
    Im 18, I reckon I must of been 8 or 9 first playing Curse of Monkey, shortly followed by the other games, still seems like yesterday though XD
  • FarlanderFarlander
    edited November 2009
    I am 18 (almost 19), and though I saw (and I think played a little, but am not sure) SoMI and CoMI when I was 7 or 8, it was Escape from Monkey Island in year 2000 that really brought me into MI.
  • LeakLeak
    edited November 2009
    32 and proud of it. :D

    np: Jackie Leven - Sting's Dead (Story Of The Sad Death Of The Well-Known Singer) (The Haunted Year: Autumn - Only The Ocean Can Forgive)
  • silvermonkeysilvermonkey
    edited November 2009
    30 here... started playing adventure games in my teens. So yeah, loads of nostalgia.
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited November 2009
    I'm 27, but I'm a child at heart. I've been a Monkey Island fan for over ten years now... how time flies...
  • TimesNineXiXTimesNineXiX
    edited November 2009
    I'm really happy that there are even teenagers playing TOMI. It actually blows my mind. There gonna be the ones with VM in 19 years running telltale games.

    I think TellTale has done a really good job with the story and ambiance of the game in general. It feels like it has been written for us aging gamers, but still welcoming to new comers. I've heard a lot of talk about the dark aspects, but I think the balance is quite good.

    I think the only major problem is the limit of the episodic format. I think the best part of MI2 was how long it took to finish that beast. All the islands and connecting the dots took forever. Doing that before internet cheating was a nightmare!
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited November 2009
    26 and still sexy!! I was a 9 yr old when monkey island first arrived at my home.
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited November 2009
    Only 18.
  • pilouuuupilouuuu
    edited November 2009
    32 here and playing Monkey Island nonstop since the release of The Secret. :-)
  • PyriteParrotPyriteParrot
    edited November 2009
    I'm 23 now... I was about 11 when I got Secret of Monkey Island, it was on the CD of a Game Magazine my dad bought for me and my little brother. My first PC game. Ee had only gotten our PC a few weeks before. My brother and I played it all the time - he couldn't read yet, but learnt the positions of "Pick up" etc. by heart. :)

    Anyway, so yes, I have lots of nostalgia for the games. I played all of them when I was younger, and waited for ages for the 5th part.
  • punkmariopunkmario
    edited November 2009
    im 17, 18 next month, and i first played MI1 in my first week of secondry school, my teacher had 1 and 2 on his PC and let me play them, i then hunted down copies of curse and escape a week later for a fiver each :D and have loved monkey island ever since
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2009
    I am 29....
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2009
    I just turned 22 on Saturday. My friend got me to play Curse at his house when I was in 3rd or 4th grade (somewhere between ages 9 and 11)...which I'm just realizing was 1997. Okay, I've just managed to blow my own mind by realizing that I played Curse when it was brand new.

    Anyway, I didn't get my own copy until sometime after getting my first computer in November 2000 (we set it up on my 13th birthday), and I realized it was only the third game in a series sometime after that. I didn't get to play Grim Fandango until within the last five years and I didn't get to play the other Monkey Island games until within the last two or three years. Now I'm almost a walking Monkey Island encyclopedia.

    So yeah, I definitely have nostalgia for the series, but it took me a while to become the crazed fan I am today.
  • shovellshovell
    edited November 2009
    TimesNineXiX wrote: »
    I'm really happy that there are even teenagers playing TOMI. It actually blows my mind. There gonna be the ones with VM in 19 years running telltale games.

    I think TellTale has done a really good job with the story and ambiance of the game in general. It feels like it has been written for us aging gamers, but still welcoming to new comers. I've heard a lot of talk about the dark aspects, but I think the balance is quite good.

    I don't think any of the "teenagers" here are "newcomers" thought to be honest, I mean I'm certainly not :)
  • Thriftweed Fancy PantsThriftweed Fancy Pants
    edited November 2009
    The only problem with this poll is that there may be fans who don't come here, like the "Under 13" category.
  • BeeKay84BeeKay84
    edited November 2009
    PyriteParrot wrote: »
    I'm 23 now... I was about 11 when I got Secret of Monkey Island, it was on the CD of a Game Magazine my dad bought for me and my little brother...
    Wow, almost the same here! I'm 25, and at age 11, my dad bought a game magazine with The Secret of Monkey Island on CD for me and my older brother. :D Though SMI wasn't my very first PC game, my brother and I have been playing PC games for years already (our first PC was a Commodore 64 :D). But it was the first game I could never get enough of! So, yeah, I've been a fan of the MI series for about 14 years now, that's more than half my life, and I connect many memories to these games.
  • shovellshovell
    edited November 2009
    Thiftweed Fancy Pants wrote: »
    The only problem with this poll is that there may be fans who don't come here, like the "Under 13" category.

    Exactly, everyone who does post on these forums pretty much religiously follows MI, however Tales of MI could be reaching newcomers, possibly being in the under 13's category, what this poll wouldn't tell us :)
  • tommhanstommhans
    edited November 2009
    19 soon 20 but ive got alot of nostalgia :) ive played em all, and brings me back to the good old days when i was 6-7-8-9 years, cant remember exact when i first sniffed on MI though
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited November 2009
    17, and first played Monkey Island about two months before Tales was announced.

    ...

    AWWWW YEAH!
  • shovellshovell
    edited November 2009
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    17, and first played Monkey Island about two months before Tales was announced.

    ...

    AWWWW YEAH!

    haha I feel slightly jealous.... you didn't have to wait 9 years like the rest of us XD
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited November 2009
    Yeah, I remember the day before the game was announced, I thought: "Damn. It really sucks how we're not gonna get another game."

    The next day, I realized how I became a fan at the most convenient time.
  • TimesNineXiXTimesNineXiX
    edited November 2009
    Thiftweed Fancy Pants wrote: »
    The only problem with this poll is that there may be fans who don't come here, like the "Under 13" category.

    Yea, I figured that would be the case. However, I figure you guys on the board are the hardcore of the bunch, and probably the best test audience to poll. While we may not get a complete image, we're still seeing something.

    Personally, I still think this game would be largely unappealing to kids under 13. Feel free to chime in, but I just think it's such a niche game that unless they're motivated to play, it will fail to grab them.
  • Alfred1337Alfred1337
    edited November 2009
    Teens almost twenties
  • octochanoctochan
    edited November 2009
    I'm 28, but I didn't get to play the game when it first came out - I played it maybe 6 or 7 years ago. However, I'd been a fan of Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle when those came out; it just didn't occur to me after playing them that Lucasarts might have other games I'd like. Until much later.
  • guimero64guimero64
    edited November 2009
    I'm still 14 and me I too have monkey nostaligia when playing ToMI...
    I even replayed CoMI for blondbeard's maggot's biscuit's sake...
  • MeemsMeems
    edited November 2009
    17, and have been playing MI games for nearly all of my life.
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited November 2009
    TimesNineXiX wrote: »
    Yea, I figured that would be the case. However, I figure you guys on the board are the hardcore of the bunch, and probably the best test audience to poll. While we may not get a complete image, we're still seeing something.

    Personally, I still think this game would be largely unappealing to kids under 13. Feel free to chime in, but I just think it's such a niche game that unless they're motivated to play, it will fail to grab them.

    While I am no longer under 13 (26) if I had known about Monkey Island when I was under 13 I would have played it like a shot. The first Halloween costume I remember picking out was my pirate costume at 7, I first read Treasure Island when I was 10 and Pirates of the Caribbean has always been one of my favorite rides at Disneyland. I'm jealous of all of you who knew about these games from way back; I didn't even hear about them until I was 17 or so.
  • charliestumpycharliestumpy
    edited November 2009
    I was 39 when I bought first Monkey Island (Amiga) 1991, and still am.
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    I remember playing monkey Island when I was seven, and that was 92? I'm 24 now, I had to play these games on my cousins computer, but I remember them just the same as I play them today, but it's still a fun game to dink around with even after almost 20 years.
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