how old are you?
Emily
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I'm curious to know how old everyone here was when you started playing adventure games. (And, how old are you now?) I have a hunch that many of the people who post here started with LucasArts games, but I'm curious to find out if that's really true.
Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28). The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1.
) After that I moved on to King's Quest games. I never even heard of LucasArts until years later (2001 or so) when I started posting on forums. Not sure how I missed those games, because I used to go into software stores all the time to buy Sierra games, but it could be that I was so focused on Sierra that I never looked at what else was on the shelf. [:">]
How about you?
Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28). The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1.
) After that I moved on to King's Quest games. I never even heard of LucasArts until years later (2001 or so) when I started posting on forums. Not sure how I missed those games, because I used to go into software stores all the time to buy Sierra games, but it could be that I was so focused on Sierra that I never looked at what else was on the shelf. [:">]How about you?
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I've started playing adventure games 16 years ago, when I was 13. My first adventure game was Manhunter : New York, an incredibly innovative adventure game from Evryware/Sierra. I remember I would play that with a friend of mine on his PC CGA (4 colors!) 8Mhz, 512Kb RAM, 3,5" drive, NO hard disk and NO mouse (the game didn't support that!!!!!)... okay, now I FEEL old....
We used to chit-chat waiting for animations and locations to load...
My first Lucasarts adventure was Maniac Mansion on the Amiga (great sound & great music, I'll never forget that).
Diduz (Italy)
I remember that game.
That didn't stop me from enjoying the game though.. even though I never made it past the first part. I played it again about two years later (thanks to using computers a lot, I knew English by then) and finished it.. I was amazed to find out that there were four parts.. I'd always thought the entire game took place on Melee Island hehe
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/black-cauldron
I started to seriously play games when I was 12 or so. Escape from Monkey Island was the first one. Then I hunted down original copies of all the Monkey Island games. Then I started to find out about all of Lucasarts other adventure games. Then Sierra. Then I started buying just about every adventure game I could get my grubby little hands on. I started off my games obsession with an Adventure game and I'm still hooked on 'em.
It was ABSOLUTELY zany, Emily. It got a very original and twisted horror-creepy--splatter-whacky-hilarious sense of humor. Unfortunately it was extremely hard too. BTW, yes, you actually HAD to flush yourself down a toilet.
Diduz (Italy)
I loved Carmen Sandiego.
Another game that I really liked but isn't quite an adventure game is Oregon Trail. I actually picked this up a couple of years ago at a thrift store... good times. I loved shooting those buffalo.
Gersen
Man, Carmen Sandiego... I remember the first releases of those games that came with paperback reference books in the box. That was awesome. I think I still have the (now very outdated) almanac that came with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego somewhere
Before that I had a version of Zork for the Atari 800, (which I didn't get very far on...I was too young to understand why it wasn't liking what I was typing). I also had some weird graphical adventure game on the Atari called....Gwendolyn I think? It was similar to Zork and Adventure, where you ran around a huge underground dungeon finding treasures and using them to solve puzzles. And getting lost because you fouled up the map despite the fact that you had been extra extra careful drawing it...
Now that I think about it, I actually had a few adventure type games for the Atari, like Snooper Troops (??) and The Search for the Most Amazing Thing. Which I still want to play again some day.
I loved Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. I also think I must still have my Almanac somewhere that came with the game. I learned alot from that game! Too bad I've forgotten almost all of it now...
I don't know I played a pirated version ¬ ¬
Yes, it included a piece of pocket fluff, a microscopic space fleet, and peril-sensitive sunglasses.
Then I played Zork on IBM AT's or XTs or whatever they were (no hard drives, no mouses) in our computer studies class at High School in 1985.
Got a Commodore Plus/4 later in 1985 and bought Zork I, II, III for it. That was where my love of the genre originated. I used to get the infocom magazine and would marvel at all the great games that weren't being released for my stupid 8-bit machine.
I had those awful Scott Adams adventures (Pirate Adventure, Hulk, Spiderman etc) and for the live of me can't understand why those games are considered classics. They're all awful.
My cousins had an XT or something and had King's Quest & Leisure Suit Larry (which was pretty exciting for a 12 year old boy!), though I, uhh, never got very far.
Then my friend got an Amiga in, I dunno, 1990 (?) and had Monkey Island. It was absolutely mindblowing. Now that was where my love of point and click / "modern" adventuring comes from...
Leisure Suit Larry is one of my earlier memories which was when I was 10 in 5th grade (I'm 24 now). It was the VGA release, That was in 1992. So that may have been it.
I got my first PC (486 DX 33, 16megs of ram and a 120 meg HDD) around the same time, probably a little later and that thing was top of the line and then some back then.
One of my gradeschool friends and I played every adventure game we could get our hands on that that point. Standing around the computer hopped up on skittles and mountain dew at 3am trying to figure out some puzzle or another taking turns at the keyboard.
Frederik Pohl's Gateway stands out as being one that had us particularly stumped for a while. (Random factoid one of my co-workers worked on Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, developed by Legend 5 years later).
Most of the stuff after was more Sierra stuff. GK still goes down as one of my all time favorite series
I actually didn't get into LucasArts games until around my 16th Birthday. One of my friends gave me a copy of COMI and it was all downhill from there.
That was around twelve years ago.
Ahh... we're kindred spirits, then.
I'm 31 now and still psyched about sam and max coming back and enjoyed both bone games.. i guess i'll never grow up
Most intresting adventure for me - LBA2;)
I remember how i enjoy playing:)))
Later, I learned of LucasArts, and their adventure games. Full Throttle was my first LucasArts adventure game, followed by Escape from Monkey Island.
Recently, I've been tracking down a few classics for my collection. A few months ago, I purchased Grim Fandango and The Curse of Monkey Island through LucasArts' online store. I won't get into the ordeal that I had with them, but needless to say, I eventually received my copies.
Now, if you've seen my adventure game list in that other thread, you'll know that I don't own Sam & Max Hit the Road. Please, don't poke me with those pitchforks! I'm still looking for a good deal on Sam & Max Hit the Road, among other games, such as Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I was 13 when I picked up my first adventure game, and I'm now 23.
Ha. It was *almost* The Black Caldron but the one friend of mine that had it would never let me play it, So I'd just watch him go through a few scenes then i'd get bored and go play Combat on the 2600.
Before I played Monkey Island on the Amiga, I played Larry 1 (AGI version) on my fathers laptop that he used at work (he brought it home sometimes).
I never got far though and I didn't realize that this game was part of a genre or anything like that, but I really liked it though... when it would let me play it (I didn't know how to skip those questions hehe).
That makes three of us then
We should so start a club. Secret handshakes and everything!
My first adventure game was Monkey Island 2 and it's still my favorite! I was about 11 years old (20 now) that special day. During these years I've played most Lucasarts games and some Sierra games... Now i'm playing Bone 2
UPDATE: Im done with Bone 2! Good game Telltale!
I first bough Monkey island 1 2 3 together for £15 at my local 'GAME' about. . .3 years ago? I'm currently 14.
I first played sam and max a few months ago, but I had rememebred the series from the old 'fox kids' channel. . . not much, I just rememered the bunny and the detective saying something to this fish. . .
Don't fret though, I finally got my hands on the episodes, which I loved. I suposed that seeing sam and max from a early age had left me with something more than just the vauge memorie I descibed. . . a twisted sense of humour ^_^
Ok,. I can;t blame that entirely on sam and max, but it is weird. . . I laugh at history videos we watch in class -_-;
I have to say, I'm very amused by the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" discussion, seeing as I was a fan of both the game and the TV show. I must have been about eight years old around that time.
I used to play all sorts of games from Half Life to Starcraft ...still do sometimes. I actually busted out Starcraft last week.
I've no idea which was my first text adventure (I'd guess the hobbit for the speccy though) - I reckon my first graphic adventure was probably some budgets Spectrum release - Though I'll stick with Heavy on the Magik (Speccy) or Labyrinth (C64)
With the C64, I was definitely a big Lucasarts fan - I could never really get into the Sierra titles???
*sigh* Okay, 36. (Yes, I'm an old fart compared to most people here, but I am doing what I can to mentally stay 25 forever.) My first adventure game was probably "Adventure" for the Atari 2600.
Yes, Atari 2600 when it was new, C64 when it was new, PC when it was relatively new (286 class CPU). Played most of the Sierra games, Ultima games, LucasArts games, etc. Never got into Infocom games, though.
There I've said it. I'm going to go sulk in my rocking chair now.
Yay! - Makes me feel young
--Erwin