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| 17 FEB 2006 at 5:32pm |
Sandy_SleuthPrivate Detective
Posts : 556
Joined: 22 JUL 2005
Status : Online | Nancy Drew Haunted Mansion was the first pc game I ever played!! I LOVED it!!!! I loved the whole point and click instead of having to worry about using the other kind my nephews have!!!
Loved finding stuff! Been playing every since!
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| 17 FEB 2006 at 11:23pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By pinzart (16 FEB 2006 11:15pm)
Obsidian! You mean I'm not the only person who ever played that one? It was my first "post myst" AG. I remember in the beauraucrat world there was this computer monitor with a picture of a guy fuzzing in and out and saying "bring me the blue pages...." LOL
Oh, you'll find a number of big Obsidian fans around here. It had the most original, creative, and nicely clued puzzles I had come across in ages.
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| 18 FEB 2006 at 2:53am |
CrapstormJourneyman
Posts : 829
Joined: 18 FEB 2004
Status : Online | Yep. I'm a recent convert to the cult of Obsidian too. Damn fine game. I haven't seen that much creativity poured into an adventure game in years.
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| 18 FEB 2006 at 7:43am |
KewalakaSpace Cadet
Posts : 130
Joined: 3 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Space Quest. And I miss Roger Wilco.
&&[url=http://gametz.com/user/stuartj.html]My GameTZ page[/url]
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| 20 FEB 2006 at 2:31pm |
AkhillesPrivate Detective
Posts : 581
Joined: 21 JUL 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hrm, not sure which came first.. since my Dad worked for NCR (IBM's competitor for a while) he got me an NCR PC (386SX! )
Before that I had a Commodore Vic20, Commodore 64.. anyway.. somewhere in there I played 7th Guest and the various ZORKs.
Somewhere in there I also had an Atari 2600. Pitfall Harry! That was kinda adventureous
I'm really not sure what was my "first" adventure game.
My "first" first-person-shooter was Wolf3D! I remember that one.. yeesh.. made me sick... had to get used to a 3D world moving around that fast!
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
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| 21 FEB 2006 at 2:11am |
BazzaLBPrivate Detective
Posts : 512
Joined: 27 AUG 2005
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Well, like a lot of "old timers" my first foray into the realms of "adventure gaming" was the original Zork. This version was later broken down into 2 parts (Zork I and II) in order to fit onto the micros of the day. The version I played was running on a Data General C330 Eclipse (hmmm, may have been around 1982 or so I guess). Once I got my TRS80 Model 1, I played as many text adventures as I could (loved anything with an egyptian theme). I certainly don't have the patience for them anymore, but they were great fun back then.
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| 21 FEB 2006 at 6:13pm |
GagoolIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 13 FEB 2006
Status : Online | Started way back in the 80's with text advenures on my BBC B Computer.
I remember 'Adventure', 'Collossal Cave' etc. but the one that got me started, I can't remember the name of. You started off in your sitting room, went into the grandfather clock and exited on different levels.
I made many, many maps.
Myst was a favourite as was Day of the Tentacle.
OOH! you've made me go all nostalgic.
Is this pub haunted? Me blooody pint's headless.&&&&Books - Almost anything by Stephen King&&Music - Bob Dylan - REM&&Adventures - Silent Hill - Silent Hill 3 - Myst
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| 21 FEB 2006 at 6:32pm |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
Posts : 1056
Joined: 14 DEC 2004
Status : Online | My first was on a TI99-4/A, and it was "Pirate Adventure." I honestly thought this was something different from Scott Adams's work, but did a little digging and, well I'll be! It was the real McCoy! So I guess my first AG was Scott Adams's "Pirate Adventure" after all.
Dyslexics wonder why there isn't a word that means the same thing as "cinnamon."
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| 21 FEB 2006 at 8:04pm |
| Deleted User | Leisure Suit Larry 1 and 3, followed by Eco Quest and a few others, starting in 1991. If you started with Sierra games, I believe you will always have a special feeling about them. Later I played through the main part of their catalogue, but to this day there are still games left to play on my Sierra list. Games that I still look very much forward to play. I also got the LucasArts classics, Myst etc... Almost makes me miss the 90's.
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| 22 FEB 2006 at 4:50am |
KingRyanSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 281
Joined: 25 JAN 2004
Status : Online | Technically, it all began with "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" That was back in 1995, when I got my first computer. But I got "Myst" for Christmas soon after that.
[size=14][b]Currently Playing:[/b]&&Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis[/size]
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| 22 FEB 2006 at 9:19pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | A borrowed copy of Riven on a borrowed Playstation. I wasn't even going to touch it because it was 5 CDs and my the friend who lent me the Playstation had said it was boring and impossible. My wife was away in India for two weeks and I got bored playing Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot, so I thought "Ah well, give it a punt." I was hooked from the opening scenes and became obsessed.
But then there was a long gap. We couldn't afford a computer. Then when we could, we couldn't afford to spend money on frivolous things like games. It's only in the last few years that I've got back into it. That Riven experience was still lurking in my memory. I knew there was a game preceding Riven and I thought I would track it down and give it a go and one thing led to another...
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 23 FEB 2006 at 2:25am |
GhostSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 273
Joined: 31 JUL 2004
Status : Online | I started gaming in the 80's - we had a 860MB hard drive - that was a lot of room back in the day - I played PC game called Castle (it ran in DOS and used internal speakers for sound). It was a black and white game and you had to find stuff, and defeat ogres, etc... Then someone at work gave me a copy of Wolfenstein (which I gave back because it made me motion sick!). Since then, I decided to stick with adventure games....
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| 23 FEB 2006 at 12:01pm |
jimstaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 7
Joined: 28 JUL 2005
Status : Online | ohhhhhh man! considering some of the game titles here, is it appropriate to feel old at 22?
anyways, i have to choose two (as my uncle allowed me to pick out exactly *two* games when he bought me my first PC from a used computer store).
1) Police Quest 1 (EGA) - still one of my favorites
2) Mean Streets - I was absolutely CRUSHED when i discovered that Overseer was based on this game (though i'm probably one of the dozens that had played it).
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| 25 FEB 2006 at 6:50am |
infernoj13usaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 79
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By pinzart (14 FEB 2006 7:31pm)
I'm going to REALLY date myself here My very first introduction to adventure gaming was the original ADVENTURE written in fortran and played on a mainframe computer. does anyone else remember this game?
Pam (who doesn't FEEL that old...)
Hahahahaaaaa! I fondly remember hours and hours of playing that game on my IBM PC jr ---- This was the game that spawned my love of mazes.
I still play it today on my XP --- great adventure!
inferno
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| 25 FEB 2006 at 4:32pm |
SarahJourneyman
Posts : 913
Joined: 13 JUL 2004
Status : Offline | My first adventure game was The Longest Journey and that was in 2000. I have been playing computer games since 1985(on and off) but never adventure games.
Still busy being a mom &&
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| 25 FEB 2006 at 7:59pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | My first adventure game was Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within, back in 1996 or 1997.
But I have tried to play a couple of adventures before that, getting stuck pretty early on:
Hugo's House of Horrors - Got to the dining room and Hugo lost his head...
The Adventures of Maddog McCree - Managed to do some things, got to the beach and found someone who wanted to fight, either the game got stuck or my character died, either way I stopped playing.
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| 28 FEB 2006 at 1:11pm |
grumpy_otterIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 8
Joined: 24 FEB 2006
Status : Online | My first was Lost in Time (lurking over there in the Technical section because I want to play it again!) It had lots of MacGyver-type puzzles (is that what you call them?--you have to make things or connect things). I like those types. It's a third-person game.
I've only played one first-person game--MYST. And I hated it. Could never make anything happen. So I guess I like third-person best, so far.
The next one after Lost in Time was King's Quest VI, which my whole family enjoyed. So if my young son was about to get into something he shouldn't, we would say "Alexander has no need of that." He's 18 now, and probably very annoyed that I just told that story.....
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| 1 MAR 2006 at 7:30pm |
jamarchandSchattenjger
Posts : 1665
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Riven in 1997.
 &&&&[move]Actually playing SHIVERS and Rhem 2[/move]&&
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| 2 MAR 2006 at 2:41am |
hlalexSpace Cadet
Posts : 127
Joined: 19 JUL 2004
Status : Online | Well How about the game Below The Root on the Commador 64. Or Questorn. And our first IBM game was Hugos House of Horror. And as of Now we have over 400 games. Not counting the other computers we have had with all their games. I guess this really dates us.....
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| 2 MAR 2006 at 5:35am |
Wendy1117Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 51
Joined: 2 MAR 2006
Status : Online | My very first was Zork I.
First game with color: Full Throttle
Of course, I did have my trusty Atari 2600 with the ever popular free Tank game.
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| 2 MAR 2006 at 2:19pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gagool (21 FEB 2006 6:13pm)
but the one that got me started, I can't remember the name of. You started off in your sitting room, went into the grandfather clock and exited on different levels
just saw this! the game you're talking about is "the price of magik" by level 9 (yes, magik with a k!)
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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| 2 MAR 2006 at 2:28pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | (...to be appearing in next week's Phoenix trivia! )
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 2 MAR 2006 at 2:41pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | or maybe this week's trivia!
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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| 2 MAR 2006 at 6:34pm |
JenniferMillerSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 232
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | If you want to be technical, I think it was Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe . . .
But I think I would count King's Quest: The Perils of Rosella as my first adventure. And then Journeyman Project: Turbo as my first first-person POV adventure.
Jennifer 8-)
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