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| 29 APR 2006 at 4:00pm |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I played the old Amiga games like Uninvited, Deja Vu and many others of that Era and they were really cool in those days. One of my favorites that I played a lot was an actiion adventure called Elvira, Mysteress of the Dark
Later I switched to IBM and tried a few that were ported over and they just wen't the same as the graphics and sound were terible. Elvira was also very poor on the IBM but I did play it on the IBM too a lot.
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| 29 APR 2006 at 4:37pm |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
Posts : 702
Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | If we really want to push the definition of adventure, my first experience would be as a Commodore 64 owner playing Oregon Trail or Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
As far as adventure games today goes, it was when I was about fourteen and we got our first PC, which came with a free copy of Return To Zork. I enjoyed it so much I ended up asking for the King's Quest Collection (the one that came out shortly before VII came out) for my birthday, because I played the fifth one at a friend's house. The rest is pretty much history after that.
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| 29 APR 2006 at 5:03pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
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My first experience with commercially released interactive adventure games was probably playing Clue as a kid when it first came out.
Cheers, Terry
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| 29 APR 2006 at 5:29pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4035
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | As I mentioned in the other thread, my very first adventure game was Starship Titanic. I bought it on 9/11/99 (interesting coincidence) and started playing it as soon as it arrived. It took me about 2 months of weekend playing to finish it because I had absolutely no clue as to what I was supposed to do, but I had a blast (and still hate chickens with sauce ). I bought both Connections and Riven on 12/15/99 and played them in that order. By the time I finished Riven, I felt I was an old hand at AGs.
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-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 29 APR 2006 at 6:02pm |
RecklessJourneyman
Posts : 962
Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | First one I can remember was The Hobbit on a ZX Spectrum Then some text only thing on a VAX 'mainframe' followed some years later by early Sierra games on an XT (PC).
Funny, just found this in Google - http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/Hobbit.html
Classic
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| 29 APR 2006 at 9:00pm |
MaraPrivate Detective
Posts : 542
Joined: 6 JUL 2007
Status : Offline | Myst was my first experience. I loved the game and the graphics!
Mara
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| 29 APR 2006 at 9:23pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Reckless (29 APR 2006 6:02pm)
First one I can remember was The Hobbit on a ZX Spectrum Then some text only thing on a VAX 'mainframe' followed some years later by early Sierra games on an XT (PC).
Funny, just found this in Google - http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/Hobbit.html
Classic
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| 29 APR 2006 at 9:41pm |
alkis21Schattenjger
Posts : 2112
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: GR
Status : Offline | I'm still trying to answer that question after 20 years (11 years old). All I can remember is staring at a black screen with white letters on a ZX Spectrum, reading the text, scratching my head as I realized the game was expecting something from me, very carefully typing "take keys" (feeling ridiculous talking to a computer), and getting the response "Taken". I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
The first game I remember completing (after a full textbook of maps and notes and countless times of consulting my dictionary and bugging my dad to explain phrases to me) was The Hobbit (hi Reckless).
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| 29 APR 2006 at 9:53pm |
RobDSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 382
Joined: 30 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Myst. I'm almost ashamed to say it in the midst of all you vets.
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| 30 APR 2006 at 1:50am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | The first adventure I ever played was the VGA remake of Police Quest 1. It was actually a very easy game, but the level of storytelling was just so much higher than any other games I had played to that point (action and strategy games were not exactly plot-heavy back in the early 90s) that I was enthralled. I still feel like Police Quest 1-3 were a great trilogy. After those initial 3, they took some weird turns with the series that I didn't really appreciate, but those first 3 were great.
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| 30 APR 2006 at 2:17am |
karlaAdministrator
Posts : 2588
Joined: 27 JUL 2003
Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By RobD (29 APR 2006 9:53pm)
Myst. I'm almost ashamed to say it in the midst of all you vets.
If you think that's bad, I didn't start adventure gaming until 2001 with Schizm, (before it became Mysterious Journey -- a change allegedly made because so many people had trouble pronouncing "Schizm".
BTW, I've always wondered about that. Considering the brain-knotting difficulty of its puzzles, you'd think that anyone playing the game would be able to pronounce its name. But what do I know? I've never been able to pronounce Still Life. [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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| 30 APR 2006 at 5:38pm |
| Deleted User | "Castle Wolfenstein" was my first pc adventure. I would secretly play it at work for hours on end and then feel guilty about not working. LOL. But we all worked very hard and there was time for playtime too.
But Byzantine The Betrayal was the first 'classic' adventure I played and it got me hooked on the genre. I still remember how suprized I was when that thug in the basement cisterns knocked me out cold.
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| 30 APR 2006 at 10:28pm |
KewalakaSpace Cadet
Posts : 130
Joined: 3 SEP 2004
Status : Online | I started with Sierra's first Space Quest. I miss Roger Wilco.
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| 1 MAY 2006 at 5:48am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Timelapse. 1995. Totally addicted to puzzle rich games ever since. Sod the story, stuff the action and can the conversation - give me puzzles. Oh and pretty pictures.
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| 1 MAY 2006 at 1:38pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | not that it's a secret anymore!
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/dv.jpg[/img]
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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| 1 MAY 2006 at 1:47pm |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Deadline by InfoCom. My first real adventure game. Granted, it was text based, but the whole packaging with the crime scene photos, the pills in the little plastic baggy, the coroners report, etc. It just fired up my imagination and I played it for hours on end. Never did figure it out. I'm amazed that the walkthrough will print on one page. Of course we didn't have those kinds of things back then so I was stuck and loving every minute of it.
http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/deadline_grey/deadline.html
After that it was Moonmist (http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/moonmist/moonmist.html). Another great game from Infocom!
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| 1 MAY 2006 at 5:27pm |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By kuddles (29 APR 2006 4:37pm)
If we really want to push the definition of adventure, my first experience would be as a Commodore 64 owner playing Oregon Trail or Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
As far as adventure games today goes, it was when I was about fourteen and we got our first PC, which came with a free copy of Return To Zork. I enjoyed it so much I ended up asking for the King's Quest Collection (the one that came out shortly before VII came out) for my birthday, because I played the fifth one at a friend's house. The rest is pretty much history after that.
I too played on the Commodor 64. I would have to say my favorite game on it was Below The Root. That was so log ago I don't remember too much about the game but it was a lot of fun.
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| 2 MAY 2006 at 9:39am |
stinking_dylanIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 33
Joined: 24 APR 2006
Status : Online | 'Planet of Death' from Arctic on the spectrum. I hated it
I then played 'The Hobbit' about a year later and loved it, and from there fell in love with the genre.
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| 3 MAY 2006 at 4:05pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | My first adventure game was King's Quest IV. I was about 9 or 10 years old and had to rely on a dictionary a lot to be able to play this one. Around the same time, I also played Gold Rush, Police Quest 1 and Space Quest 1. As you can see, I grew up with Sierra adventure games, and they still all rate highly on my favourites list. 8-) Second wave of interest in adventures came around '93, when it was again a King's Quest game (VI in this case) that (re)sparked my interest. This time, my interest remained and broadened to other AG companies as well, such as The 7th Guest, Discworld 1 etc.
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| 3 MAY 2006 at 4:25pm |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (1 MAY 2006 1:38pm)
not that it's a secret anymore!
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/dv.jpg[/img]
I played Deja Vu 1 and 2 many times on the Amiga and enjoyed the a lot. When I switched to the IBM I wasn't impressed with the port overs so never played it too much after that.
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| 3 MAY 2006 at 4:26pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Well, to be honest, I struggled with a text-based game on a mainframe but not sure what it was. A friend was a programmer and worked late in computer services for IBM:
"Mark! You GOT to see this!"
Possibly it was "Star Trek"? I think it was.
Anyway, my first commercially available game wasn't an Adventure, per se. I had just bought a Apple Mac+ (1 Meg memory!) and I bought a black and white (the only "colors" available for the Mac+) arcade-style game called The Dark Castle. This game has since been "colorized" by an independent party.
The first Adventure game I played on a PC was in 1999 (yes, I was an Apple/Mac user until then and used the computer exclusively for music sequencing, music notation and some business applications).
When I bought my first PC in 1999 I bought it to play games and surf - not do business. And the first game I played on it was Sanitarium.
I immediately had to find more, more, MORE alloy-coated plastic discs expurging their horrors onto my new digital word processor and entertainment box.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 3 MAY 2006 at 4:46pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jalex (3 MAY 2006 4:25pm)
I played Deja Vu 1 and 2 many times on the Amiga and enjoyed the a lot. When I switched to the IBM I wasn't impressed with the port overs so never played it too much after that.
yes, the dos versions of those games sucked big time... but you'd be pleased to know there are now windows versions that are really great, and definately worth checking out! 8-)
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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| 3 MAY 2006 at 5:43pm |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | I can't remember exactly what my first adventure game was, as we had acquired a few of them at once; however, it was either King's Quest 5 or The Colonel's Bequest.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 3 MAY 2006 at 8:06pm |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Ahhh, yes the C64. My first computer ever and fondest memories. If you discount the Infocom games (which were my first AGs) and go with an AG that had graphics, then Dallas Quest would have been the first.
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