[potan]

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards,

Because back then i want to see a naked pixelated lady

[giga]

Blinded by the magnificent graphics, I was crazy about Guild of Thieves. Unfortunately I got stuck very soon and only got to see a few of those screens

[terhardp]

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, back in 1998. The year before I've got my first PC. As a kid I had all possible configurations of ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amiga.

[booB]

When I was a kid, my first adventure was Maniac Mansion on the Commodore 64. A friend brought it over to my house shortly after it came out.

My recent resurgence in adventure game playing (I had previously not played one since the 1990s) was sparked by The Longest Journey, which is now my all-time favorite adventure game. I found out about this one by looking at the box for Dreamfall in a store, and thinking, Heh, it's one of those Maniac Mansion/King's Quest type games. Wow, they still MAKE those?

[Little Writer]

I think it was my 13th birthday. My mom took me to this computer store and I could pick out a game. Back in those days, the games still came in those hardcover book-sized boxes. I just liked the pretty pictures of the Monkey Island box art, so that's what I came home with. It's one of those memories that make me sad that I don't see my parents as much these days, because they're really terrific.

[Mohlin]

Uninvited back in 1986. Here you can see a screenshot.

There was 4 games in the series, one was called Shadowgate. The other two I never found.

I also played "Fools Errend" which got me hooked on puzzles.

[Sughly]

Originally Posted by potan

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards,

Because back then i want to see a naked pixelated lady

Haha yeah now you mention it, probably the same would go for me too
But was too young then to carry on with the adventure scene (let alone go beyond the hooker upstairs). Then there were dabbles in Police Quest and Gold Rush at a friend's house, but I couldn't play them to save myself.

Then a friend of mine got Willy Beamish. He wasn't a fan but something drew me into it and I made him play it all the time (never got past the vampire babysitter back then though - very frustrating). His dad mistook this as him loving the game and bought the first LucasArts Archive.

My friend eventually gave the games to me, which led to days on end of Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, and Monkey Island 1/2. The Full Throttle and Dig demos led me onto LucasArts Archive vol.3, and the rest was history...

[Intense Degree]

Kings Quest VI was the first game that really got me into Adventure games. Prior to this I only had an old Amstrad (feel the power of 128k memory!).

To be honest, at the time I didn't really see them as "adventure" games, just as games really. If anything I referred to them as "sierra games" and that was enough for me to buy it!

[Ariel Type]

Originally Posted by Luna Sevithiainen

I started playing adventure games when I was about 5, maybe 6 years old, with my father. The first game we played (or at least the first one I consciously remember playing with him) was The Legend of Kyrandia Book 1 - Fables and Fiends.
And I loved it. Young as I was, I loved trying to figure out what we were about to do. I loved to discuss every possible solution when we were stuck. I loved being in a different world, with a story being told, and me being in control.

Almost the same with me, only I used to play it with my mother. And I was about 7 or 8 when she purhased the first Kyrandia. I was so amused; it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen at that time. And I still consider it being one of the most beautiful games in history. Syberias and so didn't even come close to that level.

[rottford]

Originally Posted by Little Writer

I think it was my 13th birthday. My mom took me to this computer store and I could pick out a game. Back in those days, the games still came in those hardcover book-sized boxes. I just liked the pretty pictures of the Monkey Island box art, so that's what I came home with.

After playing Zak McKracken as a boy, I remember my Dad took me to Chicago-area SoftWarehouse (now CompUSA) and told me to pick out a game. SOMI stood out because of the beautiful artwork (also saw an ad for it earlier in some magazine), but looking at the screenshots, I noticed the SCUMM system and thought, "Hey, that's just like Maniac Mansion!" That's what made me pick it. That Steve Purcell really knew how to grab customers with his brilliant artwork.

[skeeter_93]

First adventure games I played were Murder on the Mississipi, The Kobayashi Maru (sp) and another star trek one on the Commodore 64. I never got far in them, I was only about 6 or 7. When we got a PC when I was 9, Dad let us get a two games - a three pack containing Leisure Suit Larry 1, Police Quest 1 and Space Quest 1, and The Secret of Monkey Island. Those I did finish (a group effort) and I've been going every since. What I want to know is, apart from a few years where I didn't play any new adventures, I play them pretty regularly...yet how come there are so many I've never played? *Scratches her head* Even if you count replaying old favourites, and me not being rich? I keep thinking one day I'll catch up...

[Fantasysci5]

I had played "Kings Quest 5" as my first adventure, and although I liked it, it wasn't until I began "Riven" that I was blown away by the amount of detail a story in a game could have.

[rtrooney]

Kings Quest 1 on a 5.25" floppy disc on an 8088 antique PC.

[RxBandits123]

I do remember in my 5th grade computer class we had Myst, Amazon trail game, and Sim city on the computers. We even had computer classes around the games.

[cwapitm]

Not sure on that one. I was introduced to adventure games by my dad. I used to watch him play them a lot and sometimes help him out. One of the first games he got was Robin Hood: Conquests of the Longbow. I haven't a clue when I started playing them on my own, but I think the classic LucasArts games really got me into the genre because the Sierra games were too hard for me.

Then I got Syberia when it came out and then The Longest Journey after. I was about 17. I think those two got me hooked on the genre for life. I think I was playing adventure games on my own before then, but I'm not sure when I started. My dad has since stopped playing adventure games.

[nrvllrgrs]

The Black Cauldron. For a game with no typing and intended for children, that game was unrelenting if you didn't keep your waterskin full.

[Milad241]

Monkey Island 3
I was about 13 when played this game and fell in love with adventure games!

[Aubstopper]

When i was 6 or 7 years old, I went to a Montessori school and we had 3 computers. On one of the computers, two games were installed: King's Quest VI and King's Quest I VGA remake.

Both of those games captured my imagination (even though I couldn't get that far)...my mother ended up buying for me the "King's Quest Collection" and i was hooked from there :-)

[SamandMax]

I have a question for people who started playing the old Sierra text games when they were young: do you think playing those games at that developing age really helped to improve your reading and writing skills?

[Luna Sevithiainen]

Originally Posted by SamandMax

I have a question for people who started playing the old Sierra text games when they were young: do you think playing those games at that developing age really helped to improve your reading and writing skills?

Although I did not exactly start with the text-based Sierra games, I did, as a non-native speaker of English (I am Dutch), start very early (at about 5 or 6 years of age) with playing English games. My father translated a lot for me, but he couldn't translate all, because sometimes the text just went to quick. I think that this really helped me in learning English. Not only was I constantly seeing English text and linking it to what my father translated for me, or to the objects that they labeled (a really good way to increase the English idiom!), but there was also some sort of necessity to develop English skills to fill up the parts my father could not translate for me.