I remember playing a lot of different ones on my brother's C64 and, later, his x86 machines. The oldest one I recall is the text-based Hitchhiker's Guide though I'm not sure I made it much past the celery-eating alien. I played Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father, Prisoner of Ice, Daughter of Serpents, Bad Mojo, etc. but, since I was bumming my brother's computer, I only dabbled in them whenever he wasn't bumming around BBSes or playing Might & Magic.
The first adventure game I bought for myself and played on my own computer and played through to the end was Sanitarium (I even had to restart it due to the crippling Chapter 2 bug). Despite some tonal weirdness in the later chapters, I remember really digging that game and was really moved by the scene with his sister.
The next one I played was Grim Fandango which was (as I'm sure you all know) amazing. Shame it's lost in a box somewhere in my basement, the victim of multiple moves.
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