That must have been SoftPorn in 1988 or something on my dad's rusty old XT with 10" monochrome screen. I never got far because I was only 10 and my grasp of English was just very rudimentary. Soon though we got a copy of LSL1 and I got to read about a lot more adventures in a Dutch magazine.
In the years following I got to play LSL3 and SQ3 on one of my buddy's dad's PC (some 286 w/paperwhite mono screen) and when I turned 13 we finally got ourselves a 386 16Mhz with VGA monitor so I could play LSL3 in colour!! And we started buying adventures legally... I think KQVI was the first one we ever bought legally, the second being ETERNAM -which was weird and I've never been able to complete it. In fact my mother was so addicted to them that she bought a bunch of them every month. I remember playing ULTIMA VII, Willy Beamish, Indiana Jones : Fate... , Monkey Island 2 in these times. This was when my English was improving and I learned most English from playing adventures and reading English pc magazines.
When I was 16 we got our first 486 dx with svga and cd-rom drive and the first games I got were 7th Guest and DotT. I remember all the great LucasArts and Sierra games, the anticipation for Phantasmagoria or something like Noctropolis because it had tits :-D. Under a Killing Moon must have been one of my favourite ggames in those years.
I kept playing adventures until around 1998 when I moved out to my own place and didn't have the money for a decent PC and games anymore. My mother kept playing adventures a little longer though, she beat Hopkins FBI before moving on to RTS games.... (which I really hate except for WarCraft 1+2)
I picked up on adventures only recently when I downloaded a demo of Secret Files : Tunguska to put on my work laptop for playing on boring business trips abroad. I just bought the full version last tuesday and I feel like re-living the great times of my youth
