17... and of all those games, I first completed EMI and later CMI (because I didn't had the second cd). Probably that's the reason why I still think EMI is a great game.
Well you never know your parents may have taped your hands to the keyboard.... I think I too started around that time too it wasnt new but I was around age 12 and it left an impression on me... at the time it was really immersive, at the time I was used to games being a jump b fireball
I didn't play until it was ported to Mac which I imagine was a little later. I was younger than you but I too found it so immersive and amusing. My parents had to put a kerfew on the computer so that I wouldn't play all day. I really did grow up on the series.
20. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was pretty much the game that got me into games. That was a memorable chunk of my childhood. Years later, I discovered CMI, and EMI came out soon after, then I was finally able to get the Monkey Madness CD-ROM, and finally played SMI and MI2.
Im 29 and i had to sneak into my brothers room to play MI1 when it first came out, until he finally decided to allow me to play on it. Then I later bought all the games myself for my first PC when the third game came out.
20. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was pretty much the game that got me into games. That was a memorable chunk of my childhood. Years later, I discovered CMI, and EMI came out soon after, then I was finally able to get the Monkey Madness CD-ROM, and finally played SMI and MI2.
I am 21 , but this is more of less the same story for myself.
I'm 20, but according to the mental-age tests, I had a mental-age of 38 when I was 15, and it slowly dropped over five years and is now 6
I wonder if i'm going to just be a cabbage by the time all the MI episodes are released?
15. It may freak you out that the first adventure games I grew up with were Broken Sword! It was only later through an article in gamestm that I found out that LucasArts had made a tonne of similar games that were highly praised. Unfortunately, after playing some, I found out Lucas didn't roll like that anymore. Fortunately, shortly after, in yet another copy of gamestm, I found a review for Culture Shock, giving it a whopping 9/10!! And that's how I discovered Telltale!:)
18, played MI3 in high school, loved it, played the others, fell into a pit of despair when they stopped making them.
The Monkey Island 5 aprils fool joke made me cry at the time. I got really excited when I saw the box art. I was young, I didn't read the whole article. I was sorta in a fit of happiness when my mum came and read it and said it was all a joke.
I'm 15, but Monkey Island was the first and best game I ever played... Most guys are in their late 20's here
I'm probably one of the VERY VERY few younglings to have played and enjoyed all the Monkey games...
I've only just realized that I have filled out the poll, but have not yet replied to this thread.
I'm 20 now and will turn 21 this August. CMI was one of the first games I played on the PC. I was about 8 years old and despite my youth and relatively low understanding of English, Monkey Island caught me hook, line & sinker. I aquired the other games later on and I still replay them now and then.
hmm do the old text adventures count?
if so then i would have been around 12 and it was the hobbit on my zx spectrum
38 now and proud owner of PS3, 360, wii & mac!
I tried my first adventure games when I was about 4 or 5 (the Gobliiins series) but didn't become hooked on those right away.
I was about 9 or 10 when I first played Simon The Sorcerer, which was the one that got me addicted to the genre.
And I was 11 when I first played Day Of The Tentacle, which was my first LucasArts adventure. And that one confirmed that I'd be addicted to the genre. 1 or 2 years later, Monkey Island 1 & 2 reinforced this.
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.
Leisure Suit Larry 1 when i was 19 in 1987. After that, Police-, Space- and King's Quest until finally Monkey Island and all other Lucasfilm Games arrived.
I'll let you do the math of my current age. Yikes!
The first adventure game I ever played is actually one of my very first memories. It was Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. I remember the sweet box art and cover for the games that ended up in the garbage somehow. I remember very distinctly
I remember playing old Blue's Clues games on my grandma's laptop that were made by the guys who made Pajama Sam. I think they may have been point and click games, but it's been a good while since I've played 'em.
I was 4 or 5 when I played adventure games. I remember waking my parents up in all hours of the morning asking how to spell "suit" for Space Quest II. Those games are how I learned to read and spell. I also played Maniac Mansion (though it scared the crap out of me everytime a cutscene happened and I was in danger of getting caught...dad would laugh at me), Police Quest, King's Quest, and Zak McKracken.
I'm 17 and I first discovered adventure games through a PC games magazine demo disc. I thought "Grim Fandango? That sounds odd, I'll see what it is". I instantly fell in love with the game and the genre. Of course, I was only around 6 or 7 at the time so most of the puzzles were beyond my grasp but I still had fun even when I had to look the solution up.
I was going to say "Discworld" was my first (I'd have been 13 and it it would have been 1996. I'm 25 now), which I played until I got bored after 5 minutes or so because I was forced to play it with no sound or subtitles, since I was in a tiny game shop and the clerk said it was annoying with the sound on and I hadn't figured out how to put on the subtitles. Until recently the adventure games I managed to play were few or far between because so few were published in this country and I live in a one horse town anyway.
I've discovered more titles in these last few months than I have in 12 years of browsing for games of this genre.
But then I realised that we had a game that was a lot like an adventure game on the ancient computers in my primary school (I think they call these 'elementary schools' in the US). I think it was called "Gran's Garden". It was a fantasy game and, tbh, I remember very few of the details. I do, however, recall that it couldn't have had more than 8 colours.
I started gaming fairly early. My dad brought home a copy of the original Duke Nukem when I was 3, which I played all the time. My first adventure game came next Christmas with DOTT, and I was completely taken in by the humor, the voices, and the puzzles. For the last 15 years, adventure games have been my favorite genre. (that makes me 19, for the mathematically impaired).
I first played a text based adventure on the sinclair spectrum.
I wasn't very good at it.
The "secret of monkey island" was bundled with an amiga 500 version at xmas one year for my sons xmas present.
I fell in love with all things "monkey" from then on.
I was in my thirties then and am now 50..........something.
I think I'm quite a late-starter. My first adventure game was CMI when I was about 14 (I didn't have computer at all until few months before, and my only home videogames experience were a few NES games). I loved aventure games since then (I did some crappy ones myself usind IndyJava and Wintermute), specially the golden LucasArts era classics. I'm a big Telltale games lover now.
By the way, since last monday (July 13th) I'm 30 years old.
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Secret Of Monkey Island was the first game I played on PC, and that's how I felt in love with the series.
I was 9 years old back then.
I am 21 , but this is more of less the same story for myself.
I wonder if i'm going to just be a cabbage by the time all the MI episodes are released?
np: Tosca - Honey (Suzuki)
The Monkey Island 5 aprils fool joke made me cry at the time. I got really excited when I saw the box art. I was young, I didn't read the whole article. I was sorta in a fit of happiness when my mum came and read it and said it was all a joke.
But I am fine now they are making tales!
Monkey Island FTW!
I'm probably one of the VERY VERY few younglings to have played and enjoyed all the Monkey games...
I'm 20 now and will turn 21 this August. CMI was one of the first games I played on the PC. I was about 8 years old and despite my youth and relatively low understanding of English, Monkey Island caught me hook, line & sinker. I aquired the other games later on and I still replay them now and then.
if so then i would have been around 12 and it was the hobbit on my zx spectrum
38 now and proud owner of PS3, 360, wii & mac!
But I played Hugo's House of Horrors at 3 with my sister who would have been 8 at the time. Does that count as an adventure game?
I don't think I ever actually played it. I think I would just try every crazy action phrase I could think of to see what would happen.
I was about 9 or 10 when I first played Simon The Sorcerer, which was the one that got me addicted to the genre.
And I was 11 when I first played Day Of The Tentacle, which was my first LucasArts adventure. And that one confirmed that I'd be addicted to the genre. 1 or 2 years later, Monkey Island 1 & 2 reinforced this.
Leisure Suit Larry 1 when i was 19 in 1987. After that, Police-, Space- and King's Quest until finally Monkey Island and all other Lucasfilm Games arrived.
I'll let you do the math of my current age. Yikes!
I've discovered more titles in these last few months than I have in 12 years of browsing for games of this genre.
But then I realised that we had a game that was a lot like an adventure game on the ancient computers in my primary school (I think they call these 'elementary schools' in the US). I think it was called "Gran's Garden". It was a fantasy game and, tbh, I remember very few of the details. I do, however, recall that it couldn't have had more than 8 colours.
I wasn't very good at it.
The "secret of monkey island" was bundled with an amiga 500 version at xmas one year for my sons xmas present.
I fell in love with all things "monkey" from then on.
I was in my thirties then and am now 50..........something.
btw how awesome is the new monkey island games on telltale? wow i love his new beard
By the way, since last monday (July 13th) I'm 30 years old.