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.
I normally wouldn't consider them adventure games either, but someone else in this thread mentioned the series, so I figured it was fair game.
I was four years old I think. Maniac Mansion was the first Adventure Game I can remeber anything of. Couldn't understand anything though. Just sat with dad while he played/helped me play.:o
The first adventure game I played were day of the tentacle, I were about 6 at the time, quite obviously didn't understand much of it. Didn't complete the game before I were about 12. Didn't even get to play as Hoagie before I were about 12 actually, seeing as I at the time didn't have a legit version of the game hence didn't have the copy protection solution, I figured it out eventually though. ^_^
However the game that really got me started with adventure games were CMI, I got the game from an uncle and instantly fell in love with it (this were also at around age 12). After that I found the DOTT diskettes and played through that then moving on towards all the other lucasarts games and the leisure suit larry games.
How often should we have this discussion... Really
Anyway, I tried playing Leisure Suit Larry at the age of 9-10, but I didn't fall in love with adventure games before I was 11-12 I think. Which was when I played Monkey Island 1!:D
I must have been about 8-10 years old when I first played Monkey Island. I had an Amiga 500 and Monkey Island 2 was on 13 floppy disks or something like that! I've been into adventure games ever since and have played soooooooo many! I'm now 22.
Hey, I wanna play! (Especially if it means I can put off working for a little longer).
The first adventure game I ever played was "Uninvited" on a Mac Plus in 1988. I was 17 then. The one that first got me hooked was the "Citibank" demo of Secret of Monkey Island, which I played on an Amiga around 1990.
The first point n click adventure game for me was Discworld 2. I was 6 at the time, but managed to get through it mostly without a walkthrough (I had a bit of trouble in Death's domain).
It was probably way too old for me, and most of the jokes went way over my head, but it got me hooked to the genre.
After that, I got into Broken Sword (another game I was way too young for) and then played the Curse of Monkey Island at a New Year's Party a couple of years back, about 1999 (about 9 years old at the time).
A few years later (aged 12 by now), I found the Monkey Island bounty pack by chance in the local game shop, and played the first two for the first time.
Not long after, I found Sam and Max: Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle, and got really into them.
Then the same friend who got me playing CMI got me playing Grim Fandango too (great game, but I still prefer pointing and clicking).
I'm glad the genre's still alive and kicking, after spending more than half my life with it, and looking forward to getting the money sorted to buy the new Sam and Max games.
I started with Maniac Mansion for the NES. I think I was around 8 or 9. I was instantly hooked.
Not much later, I stayed at my Uncle's house for while where I discovered the PC Adventure game scene with The Adventures of Willy Beamish. It was a downward spiral from there.
My family never owned a PC while growing up. I remember spending long hours in Software Etc. in my very early teens playing demo versions of new Lucas/Sierra games for ages. DOTT floored me. The characters could talk! The graphics looked EXACTLY like a cartoon! I begged and begged for a PC for years.
I'm now 26, and have spent the years since I finally acquired a PC making up for lost time
Anonyme Adventuregamers? *gg* So i startet gaming around 1991 (sweet 7) ;-) Advernture Games caught me late 1993 and as far as i remember it was Leisure Suit Larry 6. I was hooked up on Sierra Adventures. I still have the Original disks of the LSL and the PoliceQuest series. 1997 i got my hands on Monkey Island 3... my addiction got worse since then...
When I was four, I used to watch my dad play Space Quest IV and then run out of the room screaming when something scary happened. When the Lucas Arts Archive Vol. 1 came out, I was maybe six or seven and me and my twin sister burned through pretty much all of it.
She plays absolutely no modern games. Just Nintendo, and Lucas Arts point and click on ScummVM. But she's been begging me to play the Sam & Max episodes on my fast computer!
I`m 24 now.
I was around 5 or 6 years old when I had my first adventure (on the `puter that is). And that was on the commodore, afer that I stepped to the Amiga.
I don`t know which game it was tho.. seen too many titles fly by in time.
It still amazes people that I was able to understand most of it, even though it`s english (I`m Dutch by origin.) actually, I`m better at english than my own language, they never did make any good dutch movies or games.
And they never did many translations either, so heck, I`ll just learn the most used language then. Always been a computer Wizzkid. But nowadays I`m a computer Wizzdude, soon to be Technomage. (I can almost sense the troubles that a computer has, go figure, intuition, experience or magic?)
I began (amusingly) with Al Lowe's...Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood!
What do you mean it doesn't count? You used a map, you had goals, chats to the characters and most things that counted. I was around eight...or ten...under eleven definitely.
My first OLDER and more serious first game was Sam and Max Hit The Road, so they have a place in my heart as my first true Point and Click Adventure Game (uh, word of warning, don't take the Sam and Max manual's middle-of-the-book board game's rules LITERALLY. I won, punched my sister in the shoulder, and she wasn't too pleased, blubbering to mum. OOPS.), followed by Day of the Tentacle and the Larry series. I plan to find Space Quest A.S.A.P, but the new Sam and Max and BONE episodes keep blocking my path.
24 and still playing adventure games. Soon it'll be MY 20th anniversary playing these things!
well.. It all started from Maniac mansion and the platform was Commodore 64 . My brother got it from our aunt who visited Disneyland in early 90's. I got a stupid Donald Duck toy
First I watched my brother play, but soon I wanted to play, and I always asked him "how do I get the key under the carpet?" I didn't try Larries or other games of Sierra, 'cause I didn't know english, but games of Lucasarts offered click opportunity for me
Actually I learnt first english sentences and phrases from adventure games.
So I should blame Lucasarts for my bad english
Hey Buuga we have much in common! I turned 26 just some days ago (19/3) and I also learned English through playing adventure games. It really helped me out later on when I studied English. My native language is Norwegian and I think that made it easier for me as the sentence structure is pretty similar in both languages.
However, I suck at actually speaking English as I've never really done that.
For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?
It's a while ago, but I'd say the dialog was definitely more important than the few verbs typical adventures used; though probably the fact that appropriate nouns appear when you hover your mouse over an object or inventory item was even more important.
Yeah the dialogue was important. Also, in older Sierra games you had to type commands yourself.. even though they were very simple, that also helped.
And I didn't only learn some English that way, I learned a lot.. I didn't know a word of English when I started except "I love you" and "fuck off" and stuff like that but after I'd been playing adventure games for a year or two I could understand most English on TV without subs.
My mother bought a dictionary for me that I used a lot while playing, that was very helpful.
Yep, it was definitely the dialogue. It helped me to expand my vocabulary, and to learn some typical expressions. I also found that playing the German version of The Secret of Monkey Island was quite helpful in improving on my German - for instance, I'd never known that cinnamon was 'Zimt' before playing the game in German. 'Guybrush liebt Zimt.'
For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?
It was the demand of using "the point and click interface" 'cause otherwise characters wouldn't do anything.
I couldn't follow the storyline or make locigal solves from characters' speaks. I just randomly tried everything.
I remember, that I used to play police quest 1 by just remembering sentences as "pick up the radio" and I used command "op" which meant "open door" without understanding it's meaning
Oh yeah that was friggin hard for an 10 year old. I was very good in my english class. But Driving under influence of drugs and homicide didn't appear in my english book ;-)
ah, old adventure games... typing, reading, virtual imagining.
while with new adventure games... reading, listening and virtual splendors!
typing is an abandon "way" now, I guess players will buy a point-and-click games rather than typing ones (if there's any nowadays).
I think I was about 7/8 when I played my first adventure game (it seems such a long time ago now.) My first adventure game was The Secret of Monkey Island back on the Amiga 600, I still remeber that half the time it would crash on your way to meet the swordmaster, due to an item not being in a room or something like that.
Oh dear... How old was I when I started?
I know that the first Lucasarts adventure I played was Monkey Island 1. I think I was around... 6 or 7 years old. (I'm 18 now)
And yes, as Dutch person I'll have to say... I think it was both the dialogue and the interaction that helped me develop my English.
I played the early Humongous Entertainment games (which were made by Ron Gilbert!) when I was about 4, but I stumbled upon my first real adventure game when I was about 10. One of my older brother's friends lent him a classic games disk that came with a PC Gamer magazine, it happened to have The Secret of Monkey Island on it. I've been hooked ever since.
I can't believe I haven't posted in this thread yet. Well maybe I did, I am having a deja'vu moment here. Anyway - in 1989 I got a brand new PS/2 computer with a 20 MB hard drive and 640kb of RAM. It rocked - and I believe that either the Black Cauldron, or Kings Quest 1 was my first game. Wait, I didn't answer the question - 1989 would make me 10 or 11 years old.
I know I quickly moved through the Kings Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest series as they came out. Gotta love those old AGI text parser games. I still have a couple of those games and fire them up in Dosbox every now and again. I think I can beat Space Quest 1 in about 20 minutes.
For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?
I guess it was both(but a long time after that i learned much more by Mod. Development).(because all Dev-kits(SDK ect.) are english, and many times Mod. Team members are scattered all over the World, but have to communicate with each other.)
Thats something i love about Sam and Max, even if i did not fully understand the dialogue sometimes, i had mostly anyway a little laugh because the gestures are made well.
Btw. And then the learning effect takes place because i have to check Leo.org.
And after that i play the Episode again.
I would call that; "zwei fliegen mit einer klappe geschlagen"
Don't know if it's correct( i guess not) "two flies slain with one swatter"
I really think this could be a great new territory for TTG! Sam & Max teach English! People could learn the names of multiple firearms, as well as odd words and phrases they would never hear in a normal English class.
heh, my greatest fault yet was to read a 27+ page Thread about politics, i won't do that again! (don't like that, but it was interesting so many funny conspiracy theories).
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I normally wouldn't consider them adventure games either, but someone else in this thread mentioned the series, so I figured it was fair game.
However the game that really got me started with adventure games were CMI, I got the game from an uncle and instantly fell in love with it (this were also at around age 12). After that I found the DOTT diskettes and played through that then moving on towards all the other lucasarts games and the leisure suit larry games.
I'm 16 now.
Anyway, I tried playing Leisure Suit Larry at the age of 9-10, but I didn't fall in love with adventure games before I was 11-12 I think. Which was when I played Monkey Island 1!:D
The first adventure game I ever played was "Uninvited" on a Mac Plus in 1988. I was 17 then. The one that first got me hooked was the "Citibank" demo of Secret of Monkey Island, which I played on an Amiga around 1990.
Have you finished it yet?
The first point n click adventure game for me was Discworld 2. I was 6 at the time, but managed to get through it mostly without a walkthrough (I had a bit of trouble in Death's domain).
It was probably way too old for me, and most of the jokes went way over my head, but it got me hooked to the genre.
After that, I got into Broken Sword (another game I was way too young for) and then played the Curse of Monkey Island at a New Year's Party a couple of years back, about 1999 (about 9 years old at the time).
A few years later (aged 12 by now), I found the Monkey Island bounty pack by chance in the local game shop, and played the first two for the first time.
Not long after, I found Sam and Max: Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle, and got really into them.
Then the same friend who got me playing CMI got me playing Grim Fandango too (great game, but I still prefer pointing and clicking).
I'm glad the genre's still alive and kicking, after spending more than half my life with it, and looking forward to getting the money sorted to buy the new Sam and Max games.
Only in my dreams.
Not much later, I stayed at my Uncle's house for while where I discovered the PC Adventure game scene with The Adventures of Willy Beamish. It was a downward spiral from there.
My family never owned a PC while growing up. I remember spending long hours in Software Etc. in my very early teens playing demo versions of new Lucas/Sierra games for ages. DOTT floored me. The characters could talk! The graphics looked EXACTLY like a cartoon! I begged and begged for a PC for years.
I'm now 26, and have spent the years since I finally acquired a PC making up for lost time
When I was four, I used to watch my dad play Space Quest IV and then run out of the room screaming when something scary happened. When the Lucas Arts Archive Vol. 1 came out, I was maybe six or seven and me and my twin sister burned through pretty much all of it.
She plays absolutely no modern games. Just Nintendo, and Lucas Arts point and click on ScummVM. But she's been begging me to play the Sam & Max episodes on my fast computer!
Scott Adams! - Now there's a name that reminds of the eighties - or Dilbert - depending on how I'm feeling at the time
I was around 5 or 6 years old when I had my first adventure (on the `puter that is). And that was on the commodore, afer that I stepped to the Amiga.
I don`t know which game it was tho.. seen too many titles fly by in time.
It still amazes people that I was able to understand most of it, even though it`s english (I`m Dutch by origin.) actually, I`m better at english than my own language, they never did make any good dutch movies or games.
And they never did many translations either, so heck, I`ll just learn the most used language then. Always been a computer Wizzkid. But nowadays I`m a computer Wizzdude, soon to be Technomage. (I can almost sense the troubles that a computer has, go figure, intuition, experience or magic?)
What do you mean it doesn't count? You used a map, you had goals, chats to the characters and most things that counted. I was around eight...or ten...under eleven definitely.
My first OLDER and more serious first game was Sam and Max Hit The Road, so they have a place in my heart as my first true Point and Click Adventure Game (uh, word of warning, don't take the Sam and Max manual's middle-of-the-book board game's rules LITERALLY. I won, punched my sister in the shoulder, and she wasn't too pleased, blubbering to mum. OOPS.), followed by Day of the Tentacle and the Larry series. I plan to find Space Quest A.S.A.P, but the new Sam and Max and BONE episodes keep blocking my path.
24 and still playing adventure games. Soon it'll be MY 20th anniversary playing these things!
well.. It all started from Maniac mansion and the platform was Commodore 64 . My brother got it from our aunt who visited Disneyland in early 90's. I got a stupid Donald Duck toy
First I watched my brother play, but soon I wanted to play, and I always asked him "how do I get the key under the carpet?" I didn't try Larries or other games of Sierra, 'cause I didn't know english, but games of Lucasarts offered click opportunity for me
Actually I learnt first english sentences and phrases from adventure games.
So I should blame Lucasarts for my bad english
(your english isn't bad at all, by the way)
However, I suck at actually speaking English as I've never really done that.
Well, Ironic and humoristic phrases can be categorized as bad english
Yep, I think, it's (or was) a very common way to learn english via games, and adventure games improves your vocabulary more than shoot'em ups.
I don't speak english so well
It can be proved by listening the F1 driver 'Kimi räikkönen'
The fans in my computer are so loud I can't really hear the PC speaker
And I didn't only learn some English that way, I learned a lot.. I didn't know a word of English when I started except "I love you" and "fuck off" and stuff like that but after I'd been playing adventure games for a year or two I could understand most English on TV without subs.
My mother bought a dictionary for me that I used a lot while playing, that was very helpful.
It was the demand of using "the point and click interface" 'cause otherwise characters wouldn't do anything.
I couldn't follow the storyline or make locigal solves from characters' speaks. I just randomly tried everything.
I remember, that I used to play police quest 1 by just remembering sentences as "pick up the radio" and I used command "op" which meant "open door" without understanding it's meaning
"administer test" or "perform sobriety test"
That one took me months to figure out...
while with new adventure games... reading, listening and virtual splendors!
typing is an abandon "way" now, I guess players will buy a point-and-click games rather than typing ones (if there's any nowadays).
Typing isnt that abandon now, Typing of the Dead was only released in 2000. Granted its not an adventure game but it still is typing.
I know that the first Lucasarts adventure I played was Monkey Island 1. I think I was around... 6 or 7 years old. (I'm 18 now)
And yes, as Dutch person I'll have to say... I think it was both the dialogue and the interaction that helped me develop my English.
I know I quickly moved through the Kings Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest series as they came out. Gotta love those old AGI text parser games. I still have a couple of those games and fire them up in Dosbox every now and again. I think I can beat Space Quest 1 in about 20 minutes.
I guess it was both(but a long time after that i learned much more by Mod. Development).(because all Dev-kits(SDK ect.) are english, and many times Mod. Team members are scattered all over the World, but have to communicate with each other.)
Thats something i love about Sam and Max, even if i did not fully understand the dialogue sometimes, i had mostly anyway a little laugh because the gestures are made well.
Btw. And then the learning effect takes place because i have to check Leo.org.
And after that i play the Episode again.
I would call that; "zwei fliegen mit einer klappe geschlagen"
Don't know if it's correct( i guess not) "two flies slain with one swatter"