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| 14 FEB 2006 at 8:36pm |
shed22Space Cadet
Posts : 106
Joined: 18 SEP 2005
Status : Offline | I, on the other hand, don't feel all that old, but I am. :'( My first game was the proverbial one. I bought my first computer, a low power IBM, in 1992. MYST was part of the original progam bundle. I've been hooked ever since. [smiley=offtopic.gif] By the way, a bit before that I remember paying $149.95 for an ATARI game so my kids could play asteroids. That was a really hot ticket item at the time
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 9:12pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | My first game came with our first PC - Monkey Is. 1, which is probably why I still prefer 3rd person games perhaps, I have a theory that those who start with Myst tend to prefer 1st person games thereafter and those who start with 3rd person games tend to lean towards them later on. It would be interesting to find out if that's really the case.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 9:16pm |
| Deleted User | "The Dig"
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 11:27pm |
SkyeSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 348
Joined: 20 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I remember Adventure although I never played it.
My first game was Zork I followed very closely by Zork II and Starcross. Those were the days when you paid $50 odd for a game with NO graphics!!
Anne
Indie Developer of Scavenger Hunter&&The Replayable Adventure Game!&&- 4,446 scenes, 5,796 overlays,&&- First Indie Adventure Game&& To Use A.I. Randomizer Technology,&&- 7 years in the making!!! RELEASED !!!&&&&Order yours now at:&&[url]http://www.Sagewood-Software.ca[/url]
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 11:41pm |
pinzartIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 19
Joined: 11 FEB 2006
Status : Online | Shed22, You're just a young pup... I got my first PC in the early 80s. (I refuse to count the atari. lol) No games. 640K of memory. All our friends were getting 10meg hard drives, but we went all out and got a 30 meg drive. All our friends thought we were nuts. What were we going to do with all that space? LOL.
Anne, Ah yes.. Zork.. And then I got Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I think I lost interest about then... not to be resurrected until the arrival of 7th Guest, which blew me out of the water. Just getting my hands on a copy was a huge challenge. We'd never seen anything like it and they coudn't keep it on the shelves! Too bad the company that produced it self-destructed.
Pam
Pam&&&&All my life I've wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 11:57pm |
SonicIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 49
Joined: 17 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Gabriel Knight 3 got me started, and I have played many older games since then. Prior to Gabriel Knight 3, I played several adventures including monkey Island 2 but they did not particularly hook me up and I didn't complete them, partially also because I was not good enough at English at the time to play adventures maybe (my native language is not English).
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 1:04am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5540
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jo (14 FEB 2006 9:11pm)
My first game came with our first PC - Monkey Is. 1, which is probably why I still prefer 3rd person games perhaps, I have a theory that those who start with Myst tend to prefer 1st person games thereafter and those who start with 3rd person games tend to lean towards them later on. It would be interesting to find out if that's really the case.
I think you're right, that the adventure games we play first often set our preferences. I started with a number of first person games, and although I've played a mix of adventures, I've found myself getting sort of jaded with third person adventures over time, while my interest in first person games is stronger than ever.
I got my start with some ICOM adventures for the NES: Deja Vu, Shadowgate, and Uninvited. Being a bookish sort of person, I was really intrigued by what I saw with those games as they covered some my favorite themes in fiction: noir, supernatural mystery, epic quest, and here they were in a game form, something I had never had a chance to experience before -- I was thrilled! So I tracked down the remaining few adventures available for the NES, but not having access to a PC, that pretty much cut my introduction to adventures short.
I didn't give the adventure genre much thought after that until a few years later I got my first PC and was getting familiar with all the games available to me I came across Myst, which I knew was phenomenally popular, but not much more. I'm usually cynical about advertising, but I have to admit everything I saw on the box hooked me, from the picture of Myst Island on the front, the incredible screenshots the likes of which I hadn't seen before, to Atrus' cryptic diary entry on the back. I had to try it.
Well, I was pulled in right from the moment I landed on that dock and began to explore Myst Island. For two blissful weeks I rushed home after work eager to open up some new Age or uncover a missing page or two. Unfortunately, it was over all to soon, but the game had given me a kind of rush I hadn't experienced......since my NES adventuring days. I knew I had to have more! So began (again) my adventuring career, and it's been the most fun I've had in gaming ever since.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 1:15am |
CrapstormJourneyman
Posts : 829
Joined: 18 FEB 2004
Status : Online | My first adventure game was also Zork I. I fondly fondly recall exchanging maps with my school chums and trying to figure out how to get all those great treasures. After that, I got a paper route so that I could afford more Infocom games (and comic books).
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 1:27am |
SteveSpace Cadet
Posts : 112
Joined: 3 DEC 2003
Status : Offline | I suppose it would have to be Mountains Of Ket (Incentive Software Ltd, 1983) on the Sinclair Spectrum. It was a text adventure and the first part of a trilogy. Pretty good for it's time!
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 1:33am |
PoyntenklikSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 201
Joined: 25 AUG 2005
Status : Online | 'Another World' as per my avatar, ( also known as 'Out of this World' played on sega mega drive) in the very early 90's. This was the first game I ever came across that got me interested in puzzle solving. The game that got me to buy a PC in 1995 and get into serious pc gaming was actually Doom. Both those games were action based, but the minor puzzles in AW and finding secret doors in doom sewed the seed for me for proper adventure games.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:02am |
Joe_MolotovSpace Cadet
Posts : 153
Joined: 4 OCT 2003
Status : Offline | Maniac Mansion on the NES. I rented it 3 or 4 times before I finally bought it. I don't know what it was that drew me to it so strongly, but at the time I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever played. I few years later I got a PC with a CD-ROM drive and picked up Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle, I've been hooked ever since.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:29am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6694
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
I recall during the 1970's when the very first coin-op Pong machine was installed at a local pub back in Annapolis, Maryland and a couple of years later the first PacMan machine. But otherwise I missed the entire arcade craze that swept the malls of America. By then I was already married and raising a family. For the same reason, I missed the whole D& college campus craze and all the early game console systems for homes.
But sometime in the mid to late 1980's I also remember playing a few text-based adventures and some MUDDs on our then multi million-dollar, high end, state-of-the-art Mac system at the old ad agency after hours a few times. Until then, we would play pub darts in a business associate's office to kill time after work if several people had to stay and wait for a late delivery or catch an evening flight together.
But honestly it was at best a brief amusement and none of us played that stuff at home. So it wasn't until several years later when Windows PCs first made home computing really affordable that I bought one and it came with Tetris, etc. Well, after becoming totally addicted to interactive card games and simple action-arcade titles, I went seeking something more.
That's when I discovered Myst, Doom and SimCity for the PC at virtually the same time. I loved them all and quickly expanded into a few old Interplay RPGs like Wasteland for DOS and a little turn-based strategy called Civilization. So I fell in love with the full range of genres all at the same time and have never stopped playing a wide variety of them since.
Cheers, Terry
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:38am |
| Deleted User | Zork, the original.
Then, after a long hiatus, Myst.
Speck
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 12:46pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1632
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | I first played Riven in 1996, when we got a new computer for our office. I played on and off for 3 months (no internet). Then we got a home computer in 2000, and I restarted the game and finished it (with some internet help. Also discovered my first forum at that time, GB). I was so taken with the experience, it set me off on a consuming habit. I now own 156 adventure games, and have played 129 to date (including some free and borrowed ones).
I also agree about our first games setting our preferences. Though I've played some 3rd person games, I rarely enjoy them as much as 1st person solitary games .
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 12:48pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
Posts : 581
Joined: 26 APR 2005
Location: PT
Status : Offline | First PC (kinda of) game I ever played: Outrun in a ZX Spectrum 48K in a friends house..
First really adventure game I played: Flight of the Amazon Queen.. and then I was hooked! But I agree on what was being said..maybe the first games you play make a difference on your preferences, I mainly started playing 3d person adventure games and to this day I don't appreciate as much a first person perspective as I like 3d person...
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:08pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | [img]aya.tecort.net/pics/dv.jpg[/img]
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which makes the preferences theory invalid, since i prefer 3rd person over 1st person, and deja vu was 1st person
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:30pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | I started out with two games at once (my first PC was a Christmas present with those games pre-installed):
Day of the Tentacle
and
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes Case 1: The Serrated Scalpel (a murder mystery is actually a strange game to give to a kid, but whatever...it was my uncle's idea)
I couldn't finish either one of them without a walkthrough (I was 11 years old, I believe).
I played only 3rd person games for years, actually for as long as I played adventure games until I switched to RPGs. Or maybe that's not correct...I think I played the two Tex Murphy games UAKM and PD before I took a break from adventure games. And I briefly played Myst and couldn't deal with it. Which formed my inaccurate opinion about this game. Recently played the first three Myst games as you can see in my signature and I liked all of them, two of them even enough to call them my favorite games, ever!
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:25pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | Curse of Monkey Island! There couldn't be a better game to start off with.
psst...aya, you're ooold....
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 5:42pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1632
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | which makes the preferences theory invalid, since i prefer 3rd person over 1st person, and deja vu was 1st person
Sorry, I always generalize. 1st person solitary games meaning minimal inventory, no character interaction, and lots of puzzles. 3rd person meaning dialogue and inventory puzzles. Yes, I know there is some cross over, but I'm just generalizing. Deja Vu is obviously a dialogue driven inventory type game.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 11:24pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16553
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Aya could just be the 'exception that proves the rule'.
I bought a pc in 95 with two games - Star Trek Academy and Timelapse. I never could master the 3D radar and would get far too tense shooting photon torpedos so never enjoyed that but Timelapse...... puzzles, solitary environments..... give me MORE!!!! Quickly followed by Myst, Riven and a whole bunch of 'clones'.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 11:49pm |
SkyeSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 348
Joined: 20 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Chris. (15 FEB 2006 4:25pm)
psst...aya, you're ooold....
No Chris, you are sooooo young
I remember the Amiga when it came out. It was the ultimate in computers for the graphic games - all those colours. My poor IBM could only display 4 at any given time (red, green, yellow + a background or white, cyan, magenta + a background)
Think you can guess which screen shots were always on the backs of the boxes? Right! Amiga screen shots. Well, at least I could drool over the pictures . . . .
Skye
Indie Developer of Scavenger Hunter&&The Replayable Adventure Game!&&- 4,446 scenes, 5,796 overlays,&&- First Indie Adventure Game&& To Use A.I. Randomizer Technology,&&- 7 years in the making!!! RELEASED !!!&&&&Order yours now at:&&[url]http://www.Sagewood-Software.ca[/url]
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| 16 FEB 2006 at 3:11am |
ShadowWalkerJourneyman
Posts : 997
Joined: 27 JUL 2005
Status : Offline | Hello There!
King's Quest 6; Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow started me on a love affair with computer games. Old computer games and all that was Sierra.
Afterwards it was the 7th Guest, which I also played almost simultaneously.
Today I collect computer games of old. I could say that I am a collector, particularly of adventure games.
Loved Prince Alexander, but I loved playing as Rosella even more on King's Quest 4; The Perils of Rosella.
Loved playing her so much, that to this day if I have a choice on a game; yes, I prefer to play as a woman. That is how much the King's Quest series affected me!
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| 16 FEB 2006 at 2:26pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | [img]aya.tecort.net/pics/old_lady.jpg[/img] SAY WHAT CHRIS?
@colpet: deja vu is inventory based, but no dialog... you are right though... this is the most common mistake ppl make... considering anything first person as puzzle-driven, and anything third person as inventory-driven... and while when it comes to 3rd person, it is actually the rule (although keepsake seems to want to change that!), it is completely inaccurate when it comes to 1st person... there are dozens of 1st person adventures, old and new, that are inventory-based
(of course we know who is to blame for this inaccuracy, don't we?!)
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 16 FEB 2006 at 3:07pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3839
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | First computer game on a computer I owned:
Dark Castle on an Apple MacIntosh Mac+. One megabyte! Black and white! Teeny screen!
Then, after bringing home a Windows-based PC years later: 350MHz with a Diamond Monster 3DFXII Voodoo 2 accelerator card installed, I tried to play Unreal but wanted less action and more Point 'n' Click Fantasy/Puzzle-y 1st Person stuff.
So then it was Zork: The Nemesis, and Sanitarium (actually a 3rd-person game) - and I was hooked.
Then I started grabbing up out of the bargain bins all the 1st-Person Adventures - and some 3rd-Person games as well - I could find: Obsidian, MYST, Riven, Shivers 2, RAMA, Morpheus, Zork: The Grand Inquisitor, Inherent Evil (I paid full price for this one), the Monkey Islands, Grim Fandango (with a joystick/controller to help), Shannara, some King's Quests, and of course, the Gabriel Knight trilogy - I was like a kid in a candy store.
I have never regretted a single moment of Adventure gaming pleasure (well, there was "The Scroll", and a couple of other stinkers).
I've also finished Unreal by now, as well as Clive Barker's Undying, and Half-Life 2.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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