Im 29 now, I was 12 when I first got Monkey Island 1 for the Amiga I even Got a 50mb Hard drive for it so I didnt have to keep changing the 4 floppy disks (MI 2 was 12 disks)
My guess is the majority of the MI fans will be around 25-35.
well im 16 and have been a mad fan of playing monkey island around 4/5, i actually played the demo of curse first on the monkey island madness cd and then went back and played the first two with my brother after that. ive now developed a love for monkey island - in particular the first three (and a hatred for number 4 - dont get me started.)
I'm 25 and I first discovered the joys of point-and-click adventuring on my aunt's PC when I was 9 or 10. Since then I've been hooked, especially on Monkey Island (I can't count how many times I've re-played all of the original games). So yeah, put me on the "waited for 9 years" list.
well im 16 and have been a mad fan of playing monkey island around 4/5, i actually played the demo of curse first on the monkey island madness cd and then went back and played the first two with my brother after that. ive now developed a love for monkey island - in particular the first three (and a hatred for number 4 - dont get me started.)
Yeah I remember first playing the demo of CMI, hehe was hooked from then I guess
i am 19, 20 in january...
i discovered monky island, as i saw a demo of escape of monkey island in a store... i wanted it, it looked so cool... and then i bought curse of monkey island, i couldn't save the game so i leaved the pc on overnight ^^... becauses of this i wanted another curse and found IT... the lucas arts andventure pack... with MI 1-3 and Indy 1-3...
and now the only MI i never played is the one that got me hooked...escape of MI... irony
I'm 21. But I didn't discover the Monkey Island series until it had been around for a decade; I was 12 at the time.
It was Simon The Sorcerer that got me into adventure games though, which I first played when I was about 9.
I played through Simon 1,2,4 at age 21, went to 3D at 22. I played the Monkey Islands some time in High School, prob around 15. Now, I played Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis, in their hay day Also got into STTNG A Final Unity, which I recommend to every and anyone but the game needs some sort of assistance to run on newer computers, because of their hardware acceleration. I definitely grew up in a retro gaming age though, DOS, atari 2600, Nintendo, sega, POP, Street Rod, Wolf 3D, A bunch of low end Dos games...Then I witnessed early windows games, from coloring games that ran on the earliest PCS to VGA....etc etc to the modern era. I remember old dos games like Hugo Jungle of Doom, played that game, and then there were awful text adventures, I've watched the PC evolve from floppy disk to DVD disc, lol.
Never played grim Fandango, or played Loom all the way through, never even played Full Throttle beyond watching some sort of demo that game with my box collection. I've also never played The Dig, so none of those titles even hold my interest and strangely enough I've never been inspired to give them a chance.
Gee, when I was twelve, I was one of those lame kids that only played Japanese games on Nintendo systems because I thought that the X-Box, PS2, and American games were for poseurs.
I'm 24. I grew up playing only NES games or shooter games like Wolf3D, Blake Stone, Doom, Rise of the Triad, Dark Forces 1 and 2, and maybe some more that I don't remember. I didn't really get into adventure games and role playing games until I was in high school.
Oh man, I must've been nine or ten or so when I played Monkey Island. I remember some of my parents friends came by with it and everyone was totally blown away by how atmospheric it was. Still think about that everytime I enter the Scumm Bar.
25. Good old days. I grew up on computer games not video games. My dad was/is a computer buff. I mentioned it before, but I learned to read, type, and spell on Sierra's AGI parser adventure games. I remember being too terrified at 5 years old to play Maniac Mansion because suddenly a cutscene would play showing the doctor or the song or somebody going to a certain area of the mansion and I was scared of being caught so I stopped playing. I vividly remember my dad laughing at me when I refused to play anymore.
There's a concept; being scared of a game with barely the resolution of depth perception or enough colours to show proper shading of perhaps some strategically placed shadows to make the scene that much more freaky. That wouldn't happen to any kids nowadays.
There's a concept; being scared of a game with barely the resolution of depth perception or enough colours to show proper shading of perhaps some strategically placed shadows to make the scene that much more freaky. That wouldn't happen to any kids nowadays.
Haha, I know exactly what you mean. Isn't it weird the things that can freak you out as a kid? Guess it's testament to the power of imagination.
I remember playing Last Half of Darkness when I was very young and being scared absolutely PANTSLESS when this guy showed up unexpectedly:
And I mean scared to the point of screaming out loud and refusing to continue until it was daylight and my older bro would play with me!
Gee, when I was twelve, I was one of those lame kids that only played Japanese games on Nintendo systems because I thought that the X-Box, PS2, and American games were for poseurs.
Man, I was so retarded back then.
When I was 12 it was 1992 and I rented (yeah you could rent PC games then) this game that was just released for the first time on CD-ROM called Secret of Monkey Island.... It was a great experience..
When SoMI came out in October 1990, I was a month away from my third birthday and ten years away from my first computer. That kind of blows my mind a bit.
25, my first MI was MI 2 LeChuck's Revenge when I was like 8 or something and it took me a whole year to beat learnt 90% of my English through it also.
I'm 21. I grew up on the series though it was somewhat skewed as I played them in the order of 1, 4, 3, 2. Or 1, 3, 4, 2. I forget. Not strictly by choice but my parents couldn't ever find LCR in the stores and didn't want to buy it off the Internet coz back then such a thing was still creepy. :rolleyes:
Hey, at least you started in the right place. I went 3, 2, got confused and forgot what I was doing during the map pieces, 1, started 2 over and actually finished it, 4...5. I'm not quite finished with 5, but I know for certain that nobody else is either. At least not for another 18 days.
I'm 29 (well, 28 actually but I have to get used to that new number in a few days *g*) and Monkey Island was first introduced to me in 1990...I was ten years old and totally absorbed by that fantastic game and its atmosphere. *sigh* Those were the times...
When SoMI came out in October 1990, I was a month away from my third birthday and ten years away from my first computer. That kind of blows my mind a bit.
Not as much as the fact i was probably being concieved at the time of the european release...
I'm only 41. Played Loom (never finished it), Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Space Quest, Police Quest and finally Full Throttle - my last adventure before buying every adventure in the TellTaleGames store!
My first adventure was The Hobbit on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982(ish). I had to read the Tolkien book to be able to finish it. Therefore The Hobbit (the book) is the only book that I've ever read from cover to cover. (I hate reading books).
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My guess is the majority of the MI fans will be around 25-35.
Yeah I remember first playing the demo of CMI, hehe was hooked from then I guess
i discovered monky island, as i saw a demo of escape of monkey island in a store... i wanted it, it looked so cool... and then i bought curse of monkey island, i couldn't save the game so i leaved the pc on overnight ^^... becauses of this i wanted another curse and found IT... the lucas arts andventure pack... with MI 1-3 and Indy 1-3...
and now the only MI i never played is the one that got me hooked...escape of MI... irony
It was Simon The Sorcerer that got me into adventure games though, which I first played when I was about 9.
I played through Simon 1,2,4 at age 21, went to 3D at 22. I played the Monkey Islands some time in High School, prob around 15. Now, I played Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis, in their hay day Also got into STTNG A Final Unity, which I recommend to every and anyone but the game needs some sort of assistance to run on newer computers, because of their hardware acceleration. I definitely grew up in a retro gaming age though, DOS, atari 2600, Nintendo, sega, POP, Street Rod, Wolf 3D, A bunch of low end Dos games...Then I witnessed early windows games, from coloring games that ran on the earliest PCS to VGA....etc etc to the modern era. I remember old dos games like Hugo Jungle of Doom, played that game, and then there were awful text adventures, I've watched the PC evolve from floppy disk to DVD disc, lol.
Never played grim Fandango, or played Loom all the way through, never even played Full Throttle beyond watching some sort of demo that game with my box collection. I've also never played The Dig, so none of those titles even hold my interest and strangely enough I've never been inspired to give them a chance.
Man, I was so retarded back then.
Oh, early nineties.
There's a concept; being scared of a game with barely the resolution of depth perception or enough colours to show proper shading of perhaps some strategically placed shadows to make the scene that much more freaky. That wouldn't happen to any kids nowadays.
Haha, I know exactly what you mean. Isn't it weird the things that can freak you out as a kid? Guess it's testament to the power of imagination.
I remember playing Last Half of Darkness when I was very young and being scared absolutely PANTSLESS when this guy showed up unexpectedly:
And I mean scared to the point of screaming out loud and refusing to continue until it was daylight and my older bro would play with me!
When I was 12 it was 1992 and I rented (yeah you could rent PC games then) this game that was just released for the first time on CD-ROM called Secret of Monkey Island.... It was a great experience..
I was around for a couple of decades before MI came along (do the math yourself).
Well, off to find a suitable dinosaur avatar...
Hey, my mate said I was cool and Im only 23...go figure...looks like Im one of those child prodigies of coolness!
But yeah, 23 and 15 years ago pretty much I played SOMI on my first ever computer...awesome stuff...
Yeap, 23s are cool as well : ) Tcharnobyl tragedy year 1986 - I was 4 months when it happened.
I'm cool. And I glow in the dark.
Okay! Good luck, grandpa! :rolleyes:
My first adventure was The Hobbit on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982(ish). I had to read the Tolkien book to be able to finish it. Therefore The Hobbit (the book) is the only book that I've ever read from cover to cover. (I hate reading books).