I thought the "Green turtles circling the guy in front of you while you have one red turtle draggin' behind you" puzzle to be really tough. It seemed pretty random when it came to whether or not you solved it right.
And that "Spikey Blue Thing While You're Winning" puzzle is just AWFUL.
i played the dig about ten years (give or take a couple) ago. so i was anywhere from 10-14. i know there's at least one or two people at telltale who had worked on the dig at one point.that's really the only one i actually played back then... i knew sam and max from the cartoon show, but i had no knowledge of the computer game or the comic until fairly recently, with telltale's sam and max revival.
other than that, i've played some text adventure type games on a local BBS. fazuul, anyone? crossroads of the elements? trade wars 2002? good times.
I grew up watching my dad play "Maniac Mansion" on the Commodore 64 when I was 4, and then I myself played it later on a NES emulator, and was just hooked.
Then I found out that there was a company that still made good-old point and click adventure games, and that they were making a wallace and grommit game.
(FINALLY! A decent Wallace and grommit game!) So that's how I found telltale.
(woops, I got off-topic there!)
I was introduced to video games when I was twelve with Red Alert 2, the first adventure game I ever played was the Freddy Fish stolen conch saga when I was fourteen.
I'm pretty sure my first was Lego Island! Does anyone own/remember that game? To this day I still don't understand why giving the pizza to the prisoner helps him escape from jail 0_o, but I loved the different mini games, esp. car races!
I started when I was 13-14 years old (I'm 30 now), the day my parents bought our first PC, which came with a free copy of Alone in the Dark. My first proper adventure game though, arrived a few months after with Myst, with which I fell in love with.
I first learn about the LucasArts adventure series (though by then I didn't know -nor cared- they where adventure games) by watching the trailers included with the clasic Rebel Assault. I remember being quite intrigued with things like that menacing purple tentacle or Sam and Max riding the Cone of Tragedy... so, when LucasArts released the LucasArts Archives Vol. 1, it was an instant buy for me.
Edit: Woha! I just realized I already answered this thread... 2 years ago, on the old forums. wow, time flies...
I first started playing adventure games when I was about 14... which uh, is still my mental age (the rest of me is 20 now, maybe I should start acting like it )
I'm pretty sure my first was Lego Island! Does anyone own/remember that game? To this day I still don't understand why giving the pizza to the prisoner helps him escape from jail 0_o, but I loved the different mini games, esp. car races!
that game PWNS!!!
Also, the pizza helps him get out because the peppers were so hot! ITS BASIC SCIENCE!!!:):):):)
I'm pretty sure my first was Lego Island! Does anyone own/remember that game? To this day I still don't understand why giving the pizza to the prisoner helps him escape from jail 0_o, but I loved the different mini games, esp. car races!
I wouldn't necessarily call that an adventure game, but I do remember getting too scared to fight the enemies, so I just stayed in the house.
My first graphical point-and-click was, I think, Kings Quest V. (KQ5, Quest For Glory III, and Spacequest 4(?) were all right around that time so I cant remember which one was the first I played)
I dont know if it counts, but between the two I also played "Temple of Asvi" (sp?) on my C64 and later my mother's AMSTRAD. While not point-and-click it WAS an adventure game!
Started... I dont know, maybe 5-7 (yes I could read long before other kids my age)... and am now just shy of 24 (March).
Oh, man. I've been playing adventure games since I was eight! My first adventure game was Mist, and I've always loved them since that. I stopped playing adventure games for a while, and then I played Monkey Island and I can't think of a time when I haven't been in the middle of an adventure game (or have been begging my parents to buy me a new one) since then.
I am now 14, and STILL playing adventure games.
I think it was, because lint played a big part in that game.
The first adventure game I played was The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time. It was a time traveling adventure game, from the first person! It was like I was inside a time traveling jumpsuit with a wisecracking AI/Virus!
Then... Darkness... Until Telltale. Well, I take that back. I enjoyed Peasant's Quest and Thy Dungeonman before Telltale.
Unless we're getting into Action-Adventure... which we aren't.
thought it'd be fun to see if it's mostly old guys here, or young people who've played MI in retrospect.
I am nineteen, soon to be twenty. but I started off playing at a real young age. like three to five. at first my father and his sister/my aunt played them with me... but I think they got sick of it, because they taught me some English. there were some words I didn't get at that young age, obviously, so every now and then I would just ask them about the words, and they'd help me. these games are basically how I learned English. see - games *can* be used for education
I'm 27 and I just about grew up with games like SMI.
Ditto.
Also games like Monkey Island really helped me learn some english. There are still words I can remember remember exactly how I came to know the meaning of and which game that I learned it from. Like prophy.. something in Larry 1
I'm 29 years old and started playing Monkey series from the first game. I really loved old LucasArts and Sierra adventure games, which I played together with my friend. Back then we used to check a lot of words from dictionary.
I remember the sword fighting... since I didn't know much English at all back then, I just wrote down which reply went with which insult, without knowing what most of it meant
24. With two kids. I'll be married for 3 years on July 8th (a day after TMI's release!). I got my wife into adventure games. So much so that she played through the entirety of Maniac Mansion and BEAT it while I never ever did yet! She likes Maniac Mansion even better than Day of the Tentacle! That's a pretty good start to adventure games . She beat SMI and started MI2 a while ago but drifted off it. No she wants to get back and play it together since we both haven't beaten it (I've only beaten the easy mode). Then we'll go through the rest of the MI games, hopefully, in time for TMI to come out...I doubt it, though.
44 here, so I was a "grown-up", when it all started
And although I played all the classics back then, I had much more enjoyment out of it replaying them years later.
Comments
I thought the "Green turtles circling the guy in front of you while you have one red turtle draggin' behind you" puzzle to be really tough. It seemed pretty random when it came to whether or not you solved it right.
And that "Spikey Blue Thing While You're Winning" puzzle is just AWFUL.
Don't forget to save before that part!
I can imagine smashing intothe back of Luigi (sp?) amusing
other than that, i've played some text adventure type games on a local BBS. fazuul, anyone? crossroads of the elements? trade wars 2002? good times.
Then I found out that there was a company that still made good-old point and click adventure games, and that they were making a wallace and grommit game.
(FINALLY! A decent Wallace and grommit game!) So that's how I found telltale.
(woops, I got off-topic there!)
I also have fond memories of Pokemon back in '98
I first learn about the LucasArts adventure series (though by then I didn't know -nor cared- they where adventure games) by watching the trailers included with the clasic Rebel Assault. I remember being quite intrigued with things like that menacing purple tentacle or Sam and Max riding the Cone of Tragedy... so, when LucasArts released the LucasArts Archives Vol. 1, it was an instant buy for me.
Edit: Woha! I just realized I already answered this thread... 2 years ago, on the old forums. wow, time flies...
"You have died of dysentery."
that game PWNS!!!
Also, the pizza helps him get out because the peppers were so hot! ITS BASIC SCIENCE!!!:):):):)
I wouldn't necessarily call that an adventure game, but I do remember getting too scared to fight the enemies, so I just stayed in the house.
Started with ZORK (1) on C64,
My first graphical point-and-click was, I think, Kings Quest V. (KQ5, Quest For Glory III, and Spacequest 4(?) were all right around that time so I cant remember which one was the first I played)
I dont know if it counts, but between the two I also played "Temple of Asvi" (sp?) on my C64 and later my mother's AMSTRAD. While not point-and-click it WAS an adventure game!
Started... I dont know, maybe 5-7 (yes I could read long before other kids my age)... and am now just shy of 24 (March).
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE SUPER AWSOME BRICKSTER HAVOC FIRST PERSON LEGOLAND?!?!
That game was amazing!
The last adventure game I just played (25 now) was actually Indigo Prophecy, which was interesting but not that hard.
I am now 14, and STILL playing adventure games.
The first adventure game I played was The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time. It was a time traveling adventure game, from the first person! It was like I was inside a time traveling jumpsuit with a wisecracking AI/Virus!
Then... Darkness... Until Telltale. Well, I take that back. I enjoyed Peasant's Quest and Thy Dungeonman before Telltale.
Unless we're getting into Action-Adventure... which we aren't.
I was... 14 maybe. Now I'm 20. Rock, Rock On!
I am nineteen, soon to be twenty. but I started off playing at a real young age. like three to five. at first my father and his sister/my aunt played them with me... but I think they got sick of it, because they taught me some English. there were some words I didn't get at that young age, obviously, so every now and then I would just ask them about the words, and they'd help me. these games are basically how I learned English. see - games *can* be used for education
Ditto.
Also games like Monkey Island really helped me learn some english. There are still words I can remember remember exactly how I came to know the meaning of and which game that I learned it from. Like prophy.. something in Larry 1
And although I played all the classics back then, I had much more enjoyment out of it replaying them years later.
31?
I can't remember if that $ means binary.