But I had to add my two-pennies. My earliest adventure game was an adaptation of The Colour of Magic, a classic in full CGA, on the Speccy. I can't recall how old I was at the time, must have been about 7 or 8. My father was the CEO of the company that held the exclusive licence to develop and produce titles for the Spectrum (Prism Software Ltd). This was closely followed by The Hobbit (again in full CGA glory).
I was then given an Amiga 500 for my 8th (or 9th) birthday and with it came a games pack. One of my favourite games was Rainbow Islands (remember that) because my best friend at the time and I used to compete against each other (as in who could get the furthest). This led me into graphic adventuring in a roundabout way, as I'd heard about this game called (yep, you guessed it, the one that nearly everyone played first) Monkey Island and I persuaded my parents to buy it for me for Christmas. Well, that was it, I was hooked. I eschewed all forms of nourishment as I learnt how not to "fight like a cow" and I used to save up my chore money so I could buy more (I have a whole cupboard full of Amiga titles - mainly LucasArts and Sierra - though I'd played at least a half-dozen LA titles before I discovered Sierra - I can't recall what my first Sierra game was; it may very well have been the first King's Quest, or, indeed, the first Leisure Suit Larry. The only games I had, AFAICR, that weren't either LA or Sierra, was the Kyrandia series. )
I really miss the Amiga days. ISTR that a 100MB HDD was something like £300 and I pestered my parents for one so that I didn't have to keep swapping discs, but they never relented. Monkey Island 2, if memory serves, was on about two dozen floppies and I was devastated when I got about halfway through and one of the discs was faulty. Took LA nearly 3 months to send me a replacement.
The Amigal did have its own 'talkies' - does anyone remember the Valhalla games? Okay, so the 'speech' was digitised and sounded like Stephen Hawking's voice synthesiser, but it was still speech. ISTR that the company (the name of which completely escapes me) made a full proper speech version available on CD; but, as Amiga CD readers were completely proprietary and, therefore, expensive, they never sold many and I doubt very much whether they are still in business.
I remember I bought the first Kyrandia game from an advert in the back of Amiga Action magazine and my mother grounding me for a fortnight and making me return it (I think my grades must have been slipping!). The girl I bought it from refused to take it back and I kept it (and sneakily played it when my parents were out - and at night (the computer was in my bedroom).
I remember going babysitting at the age of about 12 and discovering that the husband had the PC version of Monkey Island on CD with voices! I remember pestering my father for months for a new PC so that I could hear my games speak.
When I got my mitts on my first PeeCee some years later, I was heavily into IF (that's Interactive Fiction for those who don't know). I had the full Zork series, Planetfall, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Enchanter, The Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy, and one or two others the names of which escape me.
Sorry, I've just re-read this and realised how jumbled it is; but it's nearly 3:30am here in the UK and every fibre of my being is crying out for sleep and I really can't be bothered to put it into any kind of order.
I do not remember exactly, but I started my video-game career the same christmas that Super Mario Bros. came out for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and I'm 22 now.
Someone who knows when that came out, do the math for me. Feeling lazy tonight. :cool:
Then around 9-10 years old. First game was offcourse. Day of the tentacle. And its still is one of my favorite along site Sam & max hit the road and the new ones..
Hmm i don't remember anymore, i am 24 now, played most(at least the good ones IMO) adventures, and other games, but i do remember my first one from lucas arts was loom at 1990 i think, ah and roger wilco./SpaceQuest)
My first Games where Sam and Max, and Goblins Quest 3, and the other Goblins games. I'm not sure how old I was, but it was the year those games came out.
I am 20 now.
I think I started playing adventure games when I was around 10 (I'm now 24).
Monkey Island (1) was one of the first adventure games I played, and I've since played most of the classic Lucas Arts adventures (Sam&Max Hit the Road being one of my favorites, but I played that one a fair bit later).
Some of the games I find memorable (that I can recall at the moment):
Lucas Arts:
Monkey Island 1,2,3
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max: Hit the Road
Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
Full Throttle
Sierra:
Police Quest 1
LSL 1
Gabriel Knight 1,2
Revolution:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword 1,2(,3)
Well, i am 27 now, living in germany, my first Adventure was ManiacMansion on C64 when i was 9 or something like that ... I even finished that game with a friend (same age). After that I played Zak and later (using an AMIGA) Indy 3,4 , Monkey Island 1,2 .... much later i got an PC ( year 1998 or so) ... then I tried the Sierra stuff, played Larry and some Kings Quest versions but i prefered the LucasFilm / Lucas Arts stuff - i played all of their point and click adventures.
Sam and Max Episode 1 was short but great! I hope there will be many Seasons !
I haven't posted for sometime so I am probably pressing all the wrong buttons and I apologise in advance for the incorrect use of smiley's and the likelihood that my picture has come out as some incomprehensible blocky image!:eek:
I am very proud of my gaming history, especially as girls often weren't into games when I was younger.
I guess my first adventure game was 'Adventure' on the Atari and following this it would have been the Hobbit on the Spectrum 48k. The consoles I had in later years I don't recall having any adventure games for (Nintendo Famicom, Sega Mega Drive) as I don't think they were available. It was only when I got my first PC that I started really getting into the point and click style games which I truly love, and I was happy that Playstation accomodated a few of these too, even if they play better on a PC. My list would be as follows (from memory which is bad!):
Zork
Myst
Gabriel Knight
Noctropolis
Phantasmagoria
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Grim Fandango
Broken Sword
There are quite a few nice games which can be found on the channel 4 games website for any of you that are interested.
I started when I was four or five with a LucasArts package that included Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I didn't really like the latter as much as the first two, and I didn't really understand them for a couple years, but I least I tried.
Sam and Max was my first ever game, my dad bought it brand new when I was 5 and it had just come out. I used to sneak onto his computer and play it. That and Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
The cool thing about the first game was as I got older I kept finding new jokes whenever I played it again.
I got into Adventure gaming very young. It was back when Monkey Island just came out on the Amiga and PC in the year 1990/91. My older brother (11 year gap) bought the game and we used to play it together. Then out came Sam n Max, DOTT, Full Throttle, DIG, Broken Sword and many others! I'm 18 now and I am a true hardcore Adventure gamer It's a shame I can't afford to buy them all!
Heck, I even write music for games I think of haha!
I assume it was Maniac Mansion on the NES, so I would be between 7 and 10. Then Sierra adventure games (I think one of the Space Quests was my first). Then LucasArts (all of them hehe). Leisure Suit Larry made me feel very naughty and rebellious. I remember shutting off the computer if my parents walked by while I was playing it.
I am 21 now. Still so young... but I feel so old. And still playing adventure games... please don't ever let them die!
My first adventure game was Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer, because it was on disk my dad had gotten from a friend. I was about 12 years old at the time, and we had just bought our first PC. I hadn't even heard of the term "Adventure games", but I got hooked immediately. After that, I played Larry, Police Quest, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandago, Broken Sword, Sam and Max of course,...
I think my first experience with an adventure game was probably when i was four or five, i cant quite remember the game but i think it was the agi kings quest. I remember my mom and older brother playing zak mckracken around that time.I would sit for hours and watch them move thier little character around the screen clicking/typing away trying to figure out what they need to do to advance thier way through the story. Often i would bug them to go back and continue playing so i could know what happenes next.
The first adventure game i atually "played" to completion was LOOM. I used to play that game over and over, my mom had already finished it and was constanly giving me a lot of pointers.
The game that made me fall in love with adventure gaming though was The Secret of Monkey Island. That was the first game i completed without any help. I tend to think in silly ways and the warped logic of the game really just clicked. I actually finished the game before my older brother (8 yr's older) which really ticked him off. I was hooked
Now Im 24... and habitually(maybe obsessively ) play through the monkey island series once every month or two
I was going to say that Day of the Tentacle was my first, when I borrowed it from a friend 10 or so years ago. Then I remembered that my parent's first computer, an XT 8086 (16 colours baby :cool: ) they bought in 1990, also had an adventure game on it. I was four then, though I think I didn't play that particular game until I was a bit older. I think the name of the game was Mother Goose or something similar. It was about returning items from 18 different children's stories to their owners so they could jump over the moon again and such. I guess that was my first adventure game, all the other games on that computer were things like Digger, Pacman, Xonix and such. I' m 21 now by the way.
EDIT: found it in Wikipedia eventuelly, the game was called Mixed-Up Mother Goose , published in 1987 by Sierra.
My 1st adventure was probably The Hobbit on the Commodore64 when I was 13, I moved onto the Amiga and was treated to some of the best games I've ever played, then Lucasarts announced that they would no longer support the Amiga due to piracy issues and they moved their support to IBM PC compatibles (as though piracy was any better on the PC!), so I sold my Amiga and built myself a PC waaaay back in 1993 because Lucasarts were just about to release Day of the Tentacle on the PC and i HAD to have it.
My first exposure to video games in general was when I was three, and my parents were working on King's Quest 4. I didn't play, I just watched them, and I used to think the fairy's castle was so cool.
The first game I played was either Mixed-Up Mother Goose or Mixed-Up Fairy Tales when I was 5 or 6. I think I eventually played Mixed-Up Fairy Tales so much I used each "character" at least once.
I was middle school/early high school aged when I really got into adventure games, though. This was when I played most of the big names, like Monkey Island, The Dig, Gabriel Knight (protip: 12 year olds should not play GK O_O), King's Quest, Zork, the Journeyman Project, and Myst/Riven (even though I never beat actually beat Riven). This is where most of my favorite adventure games come from, with Journeyman Project 2 and Zork Nemesis topping the list.
I'm 22 now, and I just recently started playing adventure games again, mostly because I got a new computer last summer so I can play new games now without my computer overheating and dying. I actually didn't play Sam & Max Hit the Road until very recently, either, but I figured with Season 1 coming out that I needed to track it down on ebay (which I did). Of course, it's a given that I'm playing Sam & Max and BONE.
I was very very young when I bumped into PC adventure games for the first time. I think I might have been in the age of 7-9 years. I started gaming with NES in the age of 5 I believe, but we didn't have a PC in our house until I was 8 years old. Anyways, I tried games like King's Quest and Police Quest, but since those games use parsers and are otherwise very difficult as well, we just tried them out as much as possible. :rolleyes:
With a later age I bumped into point 'n click -adventure games. There were these classics like The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle and of course, Sam & Max: Hit the Road. Once again, I was still about 10-12 years old so those games had a bit too tough puzzles for a young brain. :eek:
Anyways, as I grew older I managed to acquire most of those games I never finished. So I played them through one by one. Sam 'n Max was very memorable, because of its graphics and mystifying 'n sick dialogue. It's one of the rare games I still might play even today if I need to have a good laugh.
Okay, so that's a piece of history in a nutty shell, and I consider myself fairly influenced by adventure games. :cool:
And as a top of this, I'm 20 years oldies at this moment.
Started playing adventure games (Monkey Island on the Amiga 500) when i was about 6.
Im 21 now and still love the old game just as much as i did then, if not more.
I think one of my favourites has to be 'The Dig', great game
(many many years ago when i played S&M hit the road, when i was young, i never even knew there was voice acting in that game, it obviously never worked on my pc at the time lol. First played the game with voices about 2 years ago)
Started playing adventure games (Monkey Island on the Amiga 500) when i was about 6.
Im 21 now and still love the old game just as much as i did then, if not more.
I think one of my favourites has to be 'The Dig', great game
(many many years ago when i played S&M hit the road, when i was young, i never even knew there was voice acting in that game, it obviously never worked on my pc at the time lol. First played the game with voices about 2 years ago)
Oh yeah, The Dig. It's very beautiful. But I never played it through, maybe I should.
I started when I was around 6 or 7 (I'm 23 now) with The Black Cauldron, which led to other Sierra games: Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. Around 1995, a friend loaned me Monkey Island, which I loved, and then borrowed Day of the Tentacle from another friend. I picked up the Lucas Arts Archives vol. 1 around that time too, which introduced me to Sam and Max. Quite possibly the most endearing adventure game of all time.
If we want to get technical though, the first thing I vividly remember playing was The Ancient Land of Ys, I had to launch it out of PC Tools, anyone remember those? (Oh, I was about 5 at the time.)
My first adventure game was Indiana Jones 3, which came as a bundle with an Amiga 500. I was 10 years old.
In that time I did not know what an adventure game was. I played Indy3 for about a year, without making any progress. I just visited the same starting areas, interacting with the same items over and over again. I loved it. It was when I got to the Venice location that I realized "wow, this is a story telling game you can make progress in" (I did not know the movies). I finished it very fast then (well a month or so).
After finishing Indy3 I looked for more adventure games. The genre was called "Nimm-Benutze-Spiele" (german for "Pickup-Use-Game") around my friends.
I soon got MI1+2, Indy4, Zac, DoT, Loom, Simon the Sorcerer and so on. My friends and I competed in finishing Pickup-Use-Games as fast as possible. For every single title I needed more than a month to complete (which was the average for my friends, too).
This was approx 15 years ago. I am 27 years old now.
I was about 5 (24 now) when I played King's Quest I. Actually, I can't say I really played it as I didn't know English at all (I'm Italian!). The only words I knew were "open the door" to enter the castle and I remember I spent days "talking" to the king who always replied me he "couldn't understand" or "couldn't do that"... Also, when trying to do something else I was just getting killed by someone or something! I clearly remember a guy standing on a bridge and a witch.
As it was my first one, I don't know why I didn't grow up hating adventure games!
I got a IBM XT system with 650k ram, 20meg HDD(!!!) and a CGA screen when I was 10-11 years old. I learned dos by myself, also using the trusted 'try-every-command-ending-with-exe-or-com" method. I learned what the 'format' command did the hard way!
My first ever game was Alley Cat, and my first Adventure game (or Quest games as we called them) was SQ2. I loved the humor. I eventually got and played all the Space Quest games.
During this time a friend of mine introduced met to Leasure Suit Larry. Talk about bad influences! I can still remember his mom scolding us for the type of games we play, but ending up helping us with the puzzles!
Then came the Monkey Island. I was shocked and awestruck. I remember I played it on 9 double-density floppy disks (which made the stump joke very amusing!). I could not believe my XT could render such graphics and the (pc speaker!) music blew me away. I remember replaying the intro just to hear the theme song over and over again.
After that I was pretty much hooked. I played almost all the Lucasarts games (Indy and the fate of Atlantis being one of my favourites) and then, years after its release, discovered Sam&Max HTR. I thought the humor was insane and it won me over, still being one of my favourites to this day!
Wow.. that's asking me a lot to go back that far... I've played a lot of adventure games when I was young.. I have no idea how old I was. My parents tell me that I started playing computer games at the age of 2 tho.. with Pac-Man. I think it's funny.
But anyway.. the ones I remember are.. hmm.. King's Quest Fairytale Adventure (I think that's what it was called.. might also be RPG instead of Adventure) Leisure Suit Larry (this first one) Uninvited Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego? (Commodore 64 memories!) Dragon's Lair (Amiga version.. this count as adventure? )
Possibly a few others... I list all of those because I was too young to remember my exact age when playing them. Any one could have been my first.
After those, the Lucas games caught on when my dad started buying them. Monkey Island 2 was cool, but I never finished it.. wish I still had it too.. undead pirates are awesome. Day of the Tentacle was the first adventure game I finished (with two other people, so I can't take full credit), and I still play it to this day and get fond memories.. Hoagie is awesome. Sam & Max: Hit The Road was the last one I played, and I needed to use the included hintbook to get through it.. some of the puzzles were just too.. I dunno. About 85% of the ones I couldn't get involved using Max (the wooly mammoth being the only one I can remember offhand). Guess I didn't think to use him on every object in the game enough.
Haven't played an adventure game since.. until I got in a mode and did some research on Sam & Max.. felt an urge to play Hit The Road, and I remembered hearing about a sequel a few years ago. blah blah blah, yak yak yak, yakkity yakkity yakkity, blah blah blah.. that's when I found Telltale and the new Sam & Max games.. played the demo, bought the season, and am quite pleased.
Ok, hmm... I remember we had some Indiana Jones game on our 286 computer, I was 8 years old then (1993'ish). Later I played Sam & Max, Leisure Suit Larry (all of em), 7'th guest (loved that game!), DOTT and lots of other great classics =p (Loved Carmen Sandiego)
22 years old now, played Situation: Comedy a few days ago, playing Voyage Century Online on a daily basis and is so looking forward to get my Nintendo Wii as soon as they get it in stock to play Zelda - Twilight Princess and Rayman Raving Rabbids =p Playing as much as I can now because I'm getting a son/daughter in august and must start being responsible and stuff like that =p (Of course, Im still going to play around after that, but not in a lazy lifestyle kind of way like now
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?
Evil Sierra spirit . It was a total pain to start the game on Commodore with 1 MB of RAM. I can't believe how we used to switch disks in and out all the time to see a person walking few steps. and then we might have taken the wrong steps and die, and start all over again!
Anyways, sorry it's a too late reply. I started playing adventure games at around 1990, I was 10 at that time. My first game was Monkey Island. My uncle bought it for his son and it was a lot of talking for a 10 years old kid who's native is Arabic! USE means cut that out in our local language, and we used to think and use it as the VERB :P
Pretty stupid. Now I am 26, in the past few years I played Syberia, Broken Sword, Longest Journey was too long and buggy for me to finish, and what else... ohhh yes, Bone and Sam & Max . This is when I knew why adventure games haven't been so fun lately... they aren't as good as you make them . My 1 year old kid loves watching your S&M trailers by the way, so you don't have to close your business anytime soon. You have one potential customer .
I was about twelve [21 now] when i got an old laptop from one of my father`s friends.
An ibm 386,fully loaded with old adventure games.
My first game was leisure suit larry,followed by where on earth is carmen sandiego and monkey island.
I used to struggle with those age restricted questions at the beginning with larry.
I`m from the netherlands ,so most of those questions meant nothing to me.
Adventure games hold a special place with me now .
I can't remember exactly, but I think I was about 11 when I truly played an adventure game (By which I mean, I didn't give up after the first few screens), and that game was Shivers 2: Harvest Of Souls. It remains one of my favorites. (I'm 20 now)
If you count adventure games I gave up on, my first was Myst when I was about 7.
I happen to remember spending a lot of time with Leisure Suit Larry, and one of the Space Quest games (whichever one had the Energizer Bunny in it). I'm 21 now, and as far as adventure games go, I played a lot of Abandonware (including Hit the Road and a few more of the Space Quest games), and I picked up the Monkey Island game for the Playstation, thought that was pretty nifty.
Being the youngest of four, I played adventure games ever since I can remember (despite my teenage appearance, I am 23.) The first was King's Quest I. I think I was playing kq 3 or was it 2? by the time I was in Kindergarden; I recall telling my teacher about the game and how I would ask help from my brothers on how to spell a certain word like "Pick up rock."
Other than Indiana jones 3(the EGA version,) I played mostly sierra games (from king's quest to Leisure suit arry) during my childhood up until Sam and Max came out where I decided to try some of the lucasarts games. At the time, my cousins introduced me to Sam and Max (they gave me their old talkie version to me after they got an extra from the archives pack,) Day of the tentacle, Fate of Altantis, and Full Throttle demo. My brothers and I later got Full Throttle at a used music store. I actually got into the rest of the lucasarts game a year or so ago after hearing so many talks about Monkey Island.
My first computer was an Apple II, so my first experience with adventure games were with the Carmen Sandiego series and various interactive fiction games. When we got our first Windows box, I got hooked on the LucasArts and Sierra titles. That's how the story goes.
I'm twenty now, and still just as addicted as ever.
I've never thought of the Carmen Sandiego games as adventure games. Weird. I guess they sort of are. In hindsight, they're probably a lot closer to Phoenix Wright than any other adventure game that I've personally played.
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I was then given an Amiga 500 for my 8th (or 9th) birthday and with it came a games pack. One of my favourite games was Rainbow Islands (remember that) because my best friend at the time and I used to compete against each other (as in who could get the furthest). This led me into graphic adventuring in a roundabout way, as I'd heard about this game called (yep, you guessed it, the one that nearly everyone played first) Monkey Island and I persuaded my parents to buy it for me for Christmas. Well, that was it, I was hooked. I eschewed all forms of nourishment as I learnt how not to "fight like a cow" and I used to save up my chore money so I could buy more (I have a whole cupboard full of Amiga titles - mainly LucasArts and Sierra - though I'd played at least a half-dozen LA titles before I discovered Sierra - I can't recall what my first Sierra game was; it may very well have been the first King's Quest, or, indeed, the first Leisure Suit Larry. The only games I had, AFAICR, that weren't either LA or Sierra, was the Kyrandia series. )
I really miss the Amiga days. ISTR that a 100MB HDD was something like £300 and I pestered my parents for one so that I didn't have to keep swapping discs, but they never relented. Monkey Island 2, if memory serves, was on about two dozen floppies and I was devastated when I got about halfway through and one of the discs was faulty. Took LA nearly 3 months to send me a replacement.
The Amigal did have its own 'talkies' - does anyone remember the Valhalla games? Okay, so the 'speech' was digitised and sounded like Stephen Hawking's voice synthesiser, but it was still speech. ISTR that the company (the name of which completely escapes me) made a full proper speech version available on CD; but, as Amiga CD readers were completely proprietary and, therefore, expensive, they never sold many and I doubt very much whether they are still in business.
I remember I bought the first Kyrandia game from an advert in the back of Amiga Action magazine and my mother grounding me for a fortnight and making me return it (I think my grades must have been slipping!). The girl I bought it from refused to take it back and I kept it (and sneakily played it when my parents were out - and at night (the computer was in my bedroom).
I remember going babysitting at the age of about 12 and discovering that the husband had the PC version of Monkey Island on CD with voices! I remember pestering my father for months for a new PC so that I could hear my games speak.
When I got my mitts on my first PeeCee some years later, I was heavily into IF (that's Interactive Fiction for those who don't know). I had the full Zork series, Planetfall, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Enchanter, The Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy, and one or two others the names of which escape me.
Sorry, I've just re-read this and realised how jumbled it is; but it's nearly 3:30am here in the UK and every fibre of my being is crying out for sleep and I really can't be bothered to put it into any kind of order.
Solstice blessings,
Sarah
Someone who knows when that came out, do the math for me. Feeling lazy tonight. :cool:
btw happy Xmas and happy new jear.
I am 20 now.
Monkey Island (1) was one of the first adventure games I played, and I've since played most of the classic Lucas Arts adventures (Sam&Max Hit the Road being one of my favorites, but I played that one a fair bit later).
Some of the games I find memorable (that I can recall at the moment):
Lucas Arts:
Monkey Island 1,2,3
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max: Hit the Road
Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
Full Throttle
Sierra:
Police Quest 1
LSL 1
Gabriel Knight 1,2
Revolution:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword 1,2(,3)
Other:
Runaway
Sam and Max Episode 1 was short but great! I hope there will be many Seasons !
I am very proud of my gaming history, especially as girls often weren't into games when I was younger.
I guess my first adventure game was 'Adventure' on the Atari and following this it would have been the Hobbit on the Spectrum 48k. The consoles I had in later years I don't recall having any adventure games for (Nintendo Famicom, Sega Mega Drive) as I don't think they were available. It was only when I got my first PC that I started really getting into the point and click style games which I truly love, and I was happy that Playstation accomodated a few of these too, even if they play better on a PC. My list would be as follows (from memory which is bad!):
Zork
Myst
Gabriel Knight
Noctropolis
Phantasmagoria
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Grim Fandango
Broken Sword
There are quite a few nice games which can be found on the channel 4 games website for any of you that are interested.
I will await the next episode of Sam & Max...
The cool thing about the first game was as I got older I kept finding new jokes whenever I played it again.
Heck, I even write music for games I think of haha!
I assume it was Maniac Mansion on the NES, so I would be between 7 and 10. Then Sierra adventure games (I think one of the Space Quests was my first). Then LucasArts (all of them hehe). Leisure Suit Larry made me feel very naughty and rebellious. I remember shutting off the computer if my parents walked by while I was playing it.
I am 21 now. Still so young... but I feel so old. And still playing adventure games... please don't ever let them die!
22 now, but still playing and enjoying them!
I think my first experience with an adventure game was probably when i was four or five, i cant quite remember the game but i think it was the agi kings quest. I remember my mom and older brother playing zak mckracken around that time.I would sit for hours and watch them move thier little character around the screen clicking/typing away trying to figure out what they need to do to advance thier way through the story. Often i would bug them to go back and continue playing so i could know what happenes next.
The first adventure game i atually "played" to completion was LOOM. I used to play that game over and over, my mom had already finished it and was constanly giving me a lot of pointers.
The game that made me fall in love with adventure gaming though was The Secret of Monkey Island. That was the first game i completed without any help. I tend to think in silly ways and the warped logic of the game really just clicked. I actually finished the game before my older brother (8 yr's older) which really ticked him off. I was hooked
Now Im 24... and habitually(maybe obsessively
Thanks Dave
EDIT: found it in Wikipedia eventuelly, the game was called Mixed-Up Mother Goose , published in 1987 by Sierra.
I'm now 36 and I still love them. :-)
The first game I played was either Mixed-Up Mother Goose or Mixed-Up Fairy Tales when I was 5 or 6. I think I eventually played Mixed-Up Fairy Tales so much I used each "character" at least once.
I was middle school/early high school aged when I really got into adventure games, though. This was when I played most of the big names, like Monkey Island, The Dig, Gabriel Knight (protip: 12 year olds should not play GK O_O), King's Quest, Zork, the Journeyman Project, and Myst/Riven (even though I never beat actually beat Riven). This is where most of my favorite adventure games come from, with Journeyman Project 2 and Zork Nemesis topping the list.
I'm 22 now, and I just recently started playing adventure games again, mostly because I got a new computer last summer so I can play new games now without my computer overheating and dying. I actually didn't play Sam & Max Hit the Road until very recently, either, but I figured with Season 1 coming out that I needed to track it down on ebay (which I did). Of course, it's a given that I'm playing Sam & Max and BONE.
I was very very young when I bumped into PC adventure games for the first time. I think I might have been in the age of 7-9 years. I started gaming with NES in the age of 5 I believe, but we didn't have a PC in our house until I was 8 years old. Anyways, I tried games like King's Quest and Police Quest, but since those games use parsers and are otherwise very difficult as well, we just tried them out as much as possible. :rolleyes:
With a later age I bumped into point 'n click -adventure games. There were these classics like The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle and of course, Sam & Max: Hit the Road. Once again, I was still about 10-12 years old so those games had a bit too tough puzzles for a young brain. :eek:
Anyways, as I grew older I managed to acquire most of those games I never finished. So I played them through one by one. Sam 'n Max was very memorable, because of its graphics and mystifying 'n sick dialogue. It's one of the rare games I still might play even today if I need to have a good laugh.
Okay, so that's a piece of history in a nutty shell, and I consider myself fairly influenced by adventure games. :cool:
And as a top of this, I'm 20 years oldies at this moment.
Im 21 now and still love the old game just as much as i did then, if not more.
I think one of my favourites has to be 'The Dig', great game
(many many years ago when i played S&M hit the road, when i was young, i never even knew there was voice acting in that game, it obviously never worked on my pc at the time lol. First played the game with voices about 2 years ago)
Oh yeah, The Dig. It's very beautiful. But I never played it through, maybe I should.
If we want to get technical though, the first thing I vividly remember playing was The Ancient Land of Ys, I had to launch it out of PC Tools, anyone remember those? (Oh, I was about 5 at the time.)
In that time I did not know what an adventure game was. I played Indy3 for about a year, without making any progress. I just visited the same starting areas, interacting with the same items over and over again. I loved it. It was when I got to the Venice location that I realized "wow, this is a story telling game you can make progress in" (I did not know the movies). I finished it very fast then (well a month or so).
After finishing Indy3 I looked for more adventure games. The genre was called "Nimm-Benutze-Spiele" (german for "Pickup-Use-Game") around my friends.
I soon got MI1+2, Indy4, Zac, DoT, Loom, Simon the Sorcerer and so on. My friends and I competed in finishing Pickup-Use-Games as fast as possible. For every single title I needed more than a month to complete (which was the average for my friends, too).
This was approx 15 years ago. I am 27 years old now.
As it was my first one, I don't know why I didn't grow up hating adventure games!
I got a IBM XT system with 650k ram, 20meg HDD(!!!) and a CGA screen when I was 10-11 years old. I learned dos by myself, also using the trusted 'try-every-command-ending-with-exe-or-com" method. I learned what the 'format' command did the hard way!
My first ever game was Alley Cat, and my first Adventure game (or Quest games as we called them) was SQ2. I loved the humor. I eventually got and played all the Space Quest games.
During this time a friend of mine introduced met to Leasure Suit Larry. Talk about bad influences!
Then came the Monkey Island. I was shocked and awestruck. I remember I played it on 9 double-density floppy disks (which made the stump joke very amusing!). I could not believe my XT could render such graphics and the (pc speaker!) music blew me away. I remember replaying the intro just to hear the theme song over and over again.
After that I was pretty much hooked. I played almost all the Lucasarts games (Indy and the fate of Atlantis being one of my favourites) and then, years after its release, discovered Sam&Max HTR. I thought the humor was insane and it won me over, still being one of my favourites to this day!
Today I am 26 and still an addicted gamer!
But anyway.. the ones I remember are.. hmm..
King's Quest
Fairytale Adventure (I think that's what it was called.. might also be RPG instead of Adventure)
Leisure Suit Larry (this first one)
Uninvited
Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego? (Commodore 64 memories!)
Dragon's Lair (Amiga version.. this count as adventure?
Possibly a few others... I list all of those because I was too young to remember my exact age when playing them. Any one could have been my first.
After those, the Lucas games caught on when my dad started buying them. Monkey Island 2 was cool, but I never finished it.. wish I still had it too.. undead pirates are awesome. Day of the Tentacle was the first adventure game I finished (with two other people, so I can't take full credit), and I still play it to this day and get fond memories.. Hoagie is awesome. Sam & Max: Hit The Road was the last one I played, and I needed to use the included hintbook to get through it.. some of the puzzles were just too.. I dunno. About 85% of the ones I couldn't get involved using Max (the wooly mammoth being the only one I can remember offhand). Guess I didn't think to use him on every object in the game enough.
Haven't played an adventure game since.. until I got in a mode and did some research on Sam & Max.. felt an urge to play Hit The Road, and I remembered hearing about a sequel a few years ago. blah blah blah, yak yak yak, yakkity yakkity yakkity, blah blah blah.. that's when I found Telltale and the new Sam & Max games.. played the demo, bought the season, and am quite pleased.
Current age: 24
22 years old now, played Situation: Comedy a few days ago, playing Voyage Century Online on a daily basis and is so looking forward to get my Nintendo Wii as soon as they get it in stock to play Zelda - Twilight Princess and Rayman Raving Rabbids =p Playing as much as I can now because I'm getting a son/daughter in august and must start being responsible and stuff like that =p (Of course, Im still going to play around after that, but not in a lazy lifestyle kind of way like now
Btw, anyone of you playing Voyage Century Online?
Evil Sierra spirit
Anyways, sorry it's a too late reply. I started playing adventure games at around 1990, I was 10 at that time. My first game was Monkey Island. My uncle bought it for his son and it was a lot of talking for a 10 years old kid who's native is Arabic! USE means cut that out in our local language, and we used to think and use it as the VERB :P
Pretty stupid. Now I am 26, in the past few years I played Syberia, Broken Sword, Longest Journey was too long and buggy for me to finish, and what else... ohhh yes, Bone and Sam & Max
i'm 30 now!
An ibm 386,fully loaded with old adventure games.
My first game was leisure suit larry,followed by where on earth is carmen sandiego and monkey island.
I used to struggle with those age restricted questions at the beginning with larry.
I`m from the netherlands ,so most of those questions meant nothing to me.
Adventure games hold a special place with me now .
If you count adventure games I gave up on, my first was Myst when I was about 7.
Other than Indiana jones 3(the EGA version,) I played mostly sierra games (from king's quest to Leisure suit arry) during my childhood up until Sam and Max came out where I decided to try some of the lucasarts games. At the time, my cousins introduced me to Sam and Max (they gave me their old talkie version to me after they got an extra from the archives pack,) Day of the tentacle, Fate of Altantis, and Full Throttle demo. My brothers and I later got Full Throttle at a used music store. I actually got into the rest of the lucasarts game a year or so ago after hearing so many talks about Monkey Island.
I'm twenty now, and still just as addicted as ever.