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08-28-2004, 08:59 PM | #42 |
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King's Quest V. 1990. Heh. I went back and played text adventures and the earlier adventure games with graphics though.
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08-29-2004, 09:41 AM | #43 |
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My first one was "Day of the Tentacle" which I got as a birthday present.
Wow, can it actually be, that this was more than a decade ago? :eek: |
08-29-2004, 10:05 AM | #44 |
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Monkey Island
Since then I am playing every single adventure I can get my fingers on |
08-29-2004, 09:36 PM | #45 | |
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I still can't remember which one was the first one! It was either Maniac Mansion, Zak Mackraken or the Last Crusade all on my brother's Amiga. I was about 5 or 6 so I used to watch my brother play. They did seem incredible at the time. The first AG i finished by myself was the secret of Monkey Island. That game made me fall in love with adventure games. Loom was also cool if a bit short. |
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08-30-2004, 01:00 AM | #47 |
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It was Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Police Quest 1 for me... Played them on the same day ages ago when I was about 7 years old.
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08-30-2004, 08:46 PM | #48 |
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Sam & Max Hit The Road! I have played it thousands of times since and can complete with my eyes closed. Great game! Also, I think I played it after but I remember playing Monkey Island 1 for five minutes on someones computer.
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08-31-2004, 12:49 AM | #49 |
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It was The Secret Of Monkey Island back in about 1990/1991. The only game I remember playing before that was the original Prince Of Persia.
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08-31-2004, 01:59 AM | #50 |
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Mine was a text based one I got from Spectrum magazine Crash. I think it was called Artic?
After that I got heavily into the text based scene and became a regular customer of Zenobi who published the classic Behind Closed Doors Trilogies as well as some other more serious based adventures. I've entered a bit of nostalgia now so please excuse me as I continue... After Zenobi I have fond memories of playing Level 9's adventures Scapegoat and Ingrid's Back and Camelot. For me they were the pinnacle of adventuring on the Spectrum. I feel a sudden urge to dig out the speccy emulator now! |
08-31-2004, 06:50 AM | #51 |
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Adventure ("you are standing in front of a grate") IF back in *cough* 1978!
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08-31-2004, 11:15 PM | #52 |
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It must have been The 7th Guest back in 1994 (can only remember the year from remembering where I was living at the time). Spent many happy hours ensconced in a spare bedroom poring over the game, the clues and the puzzles and then having to phone my father late in the evenings and describing the puzzles verbally to him over the phone in the hope of an answer. Sometimes I even drew a picture of the puzzle then would drive over to his house (10 minutes up the road) to get the solution from him. Hey, these were the days before the internet and email really, not that ten years later my father has embraced this technological age.
Two years ago I revisted The 7th Guest and it was just as much fun, the sequel The 11th Hour was not quite a good with very annoying voiceovers. Always been a fan of adventure and platform games. Does Pitfall fall under this category, cos I remember playing that long before the advent of the home PC on a games console - C64, Sega or something, that long ago I can't remember now. Katie. |
09-01-2004, 07:20 AM | #53 |
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Zork was the first for me. But if we're talking graphical adventures, then it was King's Quest 1.
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09-01-2004, 08:38 AM | #54 |
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Lounge Lizards. It was around 1988; I was eight years old. Larry learned me how to speak English. I had a walkthrough in Dutch and the difficulty was how to get Larry to do these things using the English language.
Another game I played pretty early was the first Monkey Island. I'm glad that was one of my first adventure games and the first MI game I played. It remains the best adventure ever IMO. |
09-01-2004, 09:40 AM | #55 |
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The First adventure game I played was...
..."THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND", back in 1992!!! And that was it! I cannot lay my hands off adventure games since then! I JUST LOVE TO PLAY AND COLLECT THEM!!!!
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09-01-2004, 09:45 AM | #56 |
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After all these years I never knew Monkey Island was an adventure game. I think I might have to investigate this further... if I want to bankrupt myself!!!
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09-01-2004, 09:56 AM | #57 |
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First adventures I played were Leisure Suit Larry I and Space Quest II. My dad had just bought an IBM PS2 Model 30 computer with some games. The sales clerk recommended some Sierra games. Unfortunately my dad wouldn't let me play Larry. After my dad had gone to work I booted up the game and I wrote down all questions and tried every possible answer After a while I got in and finally understood why my dad wouldn't let me play! I learned some very naughty words that week... After that I got hooked on Sierra adventures.
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09-01-2004, 01:12 PM | #59 | |
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I played it on the C64. Also played Pitfall II a lot, but I seem to remember that I never got past a certain point in the game. Just didn't know what to do. |
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09-01-2004, 02:21 PM | #60 |
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First adventure game was Zork, a hacked copy I played on the Apple II (Sorry it was hacked, I was like 8 and didn't even know what that meant.) The first graphic adventure was Mystery House, by Roberta Williams, also on the II. I grew up playing old graphic adventure games on the II, IIe, etc. Favorites - The Quest, Death in the Caribbean, and tons of others.
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