[Larry Emmo]

Originally Posted by ssa

Whoops! Started reading these threads and quickly jumped to the last.

Some firsts are more memorable than others .

There's no way I can recall it. However it wasn't on computer, probably was Nintendo. (I'm so old I didn't even see a computer from a distance til I was 15. Like early stoneage to some.)

The first game I can remember clearly was Escape from Monkey Island, quickly followed by Grim Fandango and GK (1,2&3).

Well 15 is not that bad, you cant be that old then! I think I played my first adventure game, well apart from Stugan when I was 10 or 11 and I am turning 23 soon and I dont feel that old :-). My first real adventure game was probably Day of the Tentacle followed by Sam and Max hit the road and Indiana Jones fate of Atlantis.

[ssa]

Originally Posted by Larry Emmo

Well 15 is not that bad, you cant be that old then! I think I played my first adventure game, well apart from Stugan when I was 10 or 11 and I am turning 23 soon and I dont feel that old :-). My first real adventure game was probably Day of the Tentacle followed by Sam and Max hit the road and Indiana Jones fate of Atlantis.

I meant 15 first time I saw a computer. I didn't sit down by one until a couple of years later, add another 7-8 years before I played a game on one.

With stonage I was only refering to the computerage not humanity .

The reason I got hooked on games was because my daughter wanted help with her games , I remind her of that when she wants to drag me away.

[Irishem]

It was 7th Guest that got me bitten for all time!

[thx1138]

My first adventure was CMI that I played on my friends pc it was in 1998. At that point I didn’t have pc so I bought B. Sword 2 for my PlayStation and that game hooked me on adventures forever.

[Solaera]

It only took 9 or so pages of posts before someone mentioned Darkseed. That was the first AG I ever played, too. I thought it was so awesome!

[eXo]

i (and Im sure many others) played darkseed... it just wasn't my first adventure.

[Heleo]

I was about to say that the first adventure game I ever played was The Secret of Monkey Island, which I'd desperately wanted and my parents bought for my Xmas to play on our Amiga. The whole family loved that game and we all played it. Even my mother loved playing adventure games, to such an extend she won't play them nowadays because she knows how much time they eat up.

But no, Monkey Island wasn't the first adventure game I played because I forgot all about the spectrum. Not that I owned one, but my best friend did and I'd stay over at her house and we'd play The Hobbit on her computer long before I had an Amiga.

But that wasn't the first adventure game I'd played either since the strangest of memories just cropped up. At school, when I was about 7 our school had a single computer and on that computer we got to play Granny's Garden. It wasn't the first computer game I'd ever played, but it was the first adventure game. The evil teacher never let me finish it though. I was most disappointed. I was too good at the game that I never got to play it with the others and was told to stop helping them.

[sand maester]

I only got into adventure gaming recently (about a month ago, last year) and the first one I played was CMI. What a great game...

[Bagpuss]

One of the Dizzy's on my ZX Spectrum I should think.

[Shoal]

It was either King's Quest 1, Space Quest 1, or The Black Cauldron. This was all back in the mid-80's when I was four or five.

[Hejsa]

The first adventure game I played was a game called Urban Runner. It was a FMV-game and I hadn't seen anything like it. At the time I spent most of my gaming time playing Command & Conquer, Quake etc, but I bought this after just looking at the box. I played it, can't imagine that the game itself was very good but it opened my eyes. Some time later I came into a conversation with a friend of mine who had gone through the same kind of discovery, but he had found Gabriel Knight 2, which I borrowed and I got hooked!

Later on I found GK 1 in one of those piles at game-stores where you could grab two old games for just 10 $ or something. A recent notice is that this copy of GK 1 I got is a Sierra classic edition so it's harldy of any collection value...

[Burge]

Originally Posted by fov

Leisure Suit Larry 1. My dad got a copy (yes, copy!) at work and he and I played it together. I was eight. Mom was mortified.

-emily

That's so eerily similar to my story! My dad got a copy of LSL1 at work aswell (Amiga) but I think I was maybe 6 or 7.

[sand maester]

oooh wait my mistake my first adventure was when I was like 6.... Putt-Putt. Man it was easy.

[Cold-Factor]

Wow, I'm surprised by the sheer amount of people who listed "Secret of Monkey Island" as their first game. That was mine as well. Was that era truly a watershed for new gamers?

[grnchile]

My first adventure game was, well, "Adventure," back in '77 or '78.

I loved the send up Adventure in at least two of Telltale's Sam and Max episodes.

[carlotta von uberwald]

Sphinx Adventure on the Acorn Electron it was a txt adventure (god that proves I'm so old) lol But the first graphic adventure was CMI and I've been hooked on them ever since.

[ChrisLaughlin]

Zyll

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lau...games/zyll.htm

[kalii2]

The first adventure game I played was an Interactive Fiction game, Scott Adams' Pirate Cove on a Vic20. It was a cartridge game. We had another one, but I forget the theme of it.
I think the first graphical adventure game I played was Colonel's Bequest. Yay eleventy billion floppies! I might have played some kiddie Commodore 64 Disney one, but I don't remember if it was adventure or not.
I tried to play KQ5 but the danged owl drove me nutty, so I ditched it to my brother, who loved it.

[beverheim]

My first adventure game would be Quest for Glory1/Hero's quest. In glorious 16 colour EGA and a text parser interface. Except I couldn't enjoy the colours, I was playing it on a PC with a tiny monochromatic screen. Somebody had installed it on a PC at my school, so there was no instructionbook, hence I had to figure out all the command verbs by myself. This was also before internet, so no hints or walkthrough available. I think I used 3 months to finish it.

But the feeling of joy and mastery was immense when I finally finished the game.

Second and third game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, both on the same PC with that archaic screen.

[Brimstone]

Hmmm, have to really think back now. Not really sure which game I played first. I do know it was on an Amiga and it was either Zork, Softcore Porn, or Dragon's Keep. All three were text adventures since graphics wasn't a concept yet.