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Your first adventure game.

redmredm
edited December 2010 in General Chat
I saw some people talking about this in another thread and thought the topic merited one of its own.

My first adventure game was Grim Fandango. I was very lucky to find a nice copy of it and to this day still think about the puzzles and laugh about the dialogue.
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  • jeeno0142jeeno0142
    edited November 2010
    The Secret of Monkey Island for me. It is the definition of awesome.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2010
    Maniac Mansion on C64.

    ...what? I'm old!
  • RingmasterJ5RingmasterJ5
    edited November 2010
    Myst.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2010
    my grade school had Kings Quest 1 floppy disks....
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2010
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    A PS2 demo in a Wal-mart. Without it I would have never known of adventure games.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited November 2010
    I was so young when I played my first adventure game that I can't really remember which one came first. In fact, I don't think I can even really remember the games that I played. There was Let's Explore the Jungle with Buzzy (I don't know if this counts), a sort of medieval, first person mystery type thing, and a game that I can't really remember except that I didn't understand the puzzles (I was only about four at the time) and it was very purple. It also took place in space.

    The first memorable adventure game I played was Escape from Monkey Island.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2010
    much of the money I would get as a kid went into buying adventure games... If I could I would go back in time and pat that kid on the head because I now still own a lot of old adventure games that are hard to get your hands on..... including infocom text adventures.
  • JwabJwab
    edited November 2010
    Curse of Monkey Island. From that quite rapidly went back and played the first 2, discovered and played through all the lucasarts classics and then began to explore anything in that vein with things like Simon the Sorcerer/Discworld
  • JessicaJessica
    edited November 2010
    ZeldaII: The Adventure of Link
    Nintendo 8-bits.
  • PecanBluePecanBlue
    edited November 2010
    Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse. It came free with our copy of Windows 95. I think this was also my first PC game, but I can't remember if I played it first than some Peanuts children's game.
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited November 2010
    Sam & Max Hit The Road
  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited November 2010
    I watched mum play Secret of Monkey Island.. and other adventure games.
    The first I ever played was either Legend of Kyrandia or Willy Beamish. Can't remember which.
    Shame my mum doesn't really play adventure games anymore :(
  • OrigamiOrigami
    edited November 2010
    Probably Max en het Gele Sokjes Spook. Translates to Max and the Yellow Socks Ghost.
    A dutch production.


    NO WAIT! It was King's Quest VI. The one with the crying tree. That always freaked me out as a kid.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited November 2010
    One of the Putt-Putts. And if that doesn't count, The Secret of Monkey Island.
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited November 2010
    REPRESENT
  • BlooglspashBlooglspash
    edited November 2010
    Origami wrote: »
    NO WAIT! It was King's Quest VI. The one with the crying tree. That always freaked me out as a kid.

    Actually, King's Quest V had the crying tree.

    Anyway, I'd like to say that my first adventure game was Monkey Island or Space Quest, but it was actually SBCG4AP. I'm trying to catch up though!
  • Debbie82Debbie82
    edited November 2010
    I played Maniac Mansion for the NES when I was little. I never knew that it was a censored version of the original PC one. :D
  • Flyingman356Flyingman356
    edited November 2010
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  • mgrantmgrant
    edited November 2010
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    My cousin had this game and had me play it when I was 6. The Cask of Amontillado segment where you play as Fortunato and are slowly bricked up and screaming for mercy still haunts me. However, it was a gorgeously atmospheric and well voice acted game and I did enjoy it (clues to why I'm such an odd individual as an adult). However it wasn't until I played Curse of Monkey Island 3 or 4 years ago that I got into adventure games in earnest, though.
  • swedish_jediswedish_jedi
    edited November 2010
    I think Sunes Sportlov (Sune's vinter vacation) might have been my first adventure game. A simple game based on a series of swedish youth-books.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2010
    This was not the first adventure game I played but it was the first on a game system I had it for the NES... it was and still is brilliant... anyone that is a fan of TTG would have loved this game because it was pretty funny... It was pretty much Monkey Island if Guybrush had wanted to be a superhero instead of a Pirate....

    NIGHTSHADE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3LO8rRAks

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade_%281991_video_game%29
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited November 2010
    Wasteland
  • GuybrushWilcoGuybrushWilco
    edited November 2010
    Wasteland is more of an RPG than adventure game :). Space Quest 1 EGA for me.
  • crfhcrfh
    edited November 2010
    Day of the Tentacle.
  • OrigamiOrigami
    edited November 2010
    Spin the bottle. :D
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited November 2010
    As I have said elsewhere, there are four adventure games I remember being among my first on the age-old 286 my father bought for the family back in the day; I can't remember which one specifically was first. They are as follows:

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  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited November 2010
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    REPRESENT

    I love you forever.
    Used to play this all the time with my aunt/best friend(we're the same age) when I was young. Oh dear lord the memories.
  • taumeltaumel
    edited November 2010
    Ignoring various adventure elements in certain VCS 2600 titles or on arcades, it was a multiple choice text adventure written in Basic on the C64, i don't remember the name but i had to enter the listing first. Then came real text adventures, graphical text adventures, rpgs and finally point&click adventures on the Amiga.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2010
    Does Oregon Trail count?
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited November 2010
    I don't think so..
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2010
    The first adventure game I ever played was The Curse of Monkey Island. However, the first adventure game I was ever exposed to was Riven. A friend I had in first grade once showed it to me, years before I had a computer, and I had no idea what it was or what the hell the point of it was. In fact, all I really remember about it is some bridge. I'd still like to come back to the Myst series someday and find out just what it was all about.
  • KrohnKrohn
    edited November 2010
    The first adventure game I ever completed on a computer would be Maniac Mansion on a C64 back when it was brand new.

    (Most of older adventures had death endings...and once I died I can hardly try again, can I? )
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited November 2010
    GuybrushWilco wrote: »
    Wasteland is more of an RPG than adventure game.

    This may be true, come to think of it. I guess, then, it would be Maniac Mansion on the NES. Does that count?
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2010
    Freddi Fish, I think. Or is it MI2?
  • BlooglspashBlooglspash
    edited November 2010
    Blooglspash wrote: »
    Anyway, I'd like to say that my first adventure game was Monkey Island or Space Quest, but it was actually SBCG4AP. I'm trying to catch up though!

    Wait a minute, my first adventure game was actually Freddi Fish. I still have the first two games.
  • seson3churiousseson3churious
    edited November 2010
    I'm a bit young so I would have to say Situation: Comedy, when I was in the third grade I bought some kind of magazine that was called e-kids and with it you get playable demos of some games, I saw the picture of a rabbit and a dog and thought well let's try that out. From that moment on I was addicted to Sam and Max. :)
  • Javi-Wan KenobiJavi-Wan Kenobi
    edited November 2010
    I don't remember exactly, but my first adventure game must be one of these three:
    * Curse of Monkey Island
    * The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril
    * Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited November 2010
    Inbred with Rednex
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    In case you aren't 100% sure what/who Rednexs are look here

    First adventure game I played that wasn't total shit was Broken Sword 1. And it still remains awesome to this day
  • Shen-ZhiShen-Zhi
    edited November 2010
    the classic!

    leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards!
  • GuybrushWilcoGuybrushWilco
    edited November 2010
    Comrade Pants wrote: »
    This may be true, come to think of it. I guess, then, it would be Maniac Mansion on the NES. Does that count?

    Maniac Mansion counts :)
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