| 10 OCT 2002 at 10:59am |
RavensbreedSpace Cadet
Posts : 156
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I've been playing adventures pretty solidly since, um, the mid to late 80s, its tough to recall exactly. First ever adventure game I ever played was called Quest for Eternity (pretty obsure I guess) on the Atari 800 XL. It was a good old fashioned text adventure that I never actually finished. It wan't a very good game, but up till this point I'd only played arcade games and I had no idea of the possibilties available to me. Games that meant you had to think instead of just react. I was hooked
From there it was Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Pawn, Jinxter, and any and all adventures in between. As the years past I switched computer systems (from the Atari to the Comodore 64, from the 64 the Amiga 500, from there to my first PC) generally to keep up with the games. It was the Amiga that first introduced me to Sierra (Space Quest, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry) in those golden days, and of course Lucasart (first Lucasart game I ever played was Zak McKraken and the Alien Mind Benders). With the PC came some of my favorite games ever, the Monkey Island series, Gabriel Knight, Grim Fandango, Broken Sword, The Longest Journey. Plus the hundreds of other titles that I'm forgetting to mention. Its been getting harder and harder in recent years to buy adventure games locally (here in New Zealand), especially after my favorite store closed down. Still Syberia is now available and as soon as I can scape the money together (I must admit that this site reviews have convinced me its a must have).
Some people are like a slinky. They might not be good for anything, but its fun to watch them tumble down stairs. &&
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 12:39pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I played Quest for Glory, and that was it - I was hooked for life.
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 1:51pm |
ZiggyIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 19
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Status : Online | King's Quest V, if I remember correctly!
[i]We can be heroes. Just for one day.[/i]
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 5:09pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hmmm don't remember the exact first adventure I ever played, but it was on a C64, and probably some dutch game or Twin Kingdom valley.
After the C64 I started playing adventures on a friends PC, early Sierra and LucasFilm games, but also things like FutureWars, Fascination and the Stealth Affair...
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 5:44pm |
mbc841Space Cadet
Posts : 194
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I'll never forget my first Adventure experience - it was a game called Myst, back in 1995. I had just bought my very first Windows95 computer, and was at Best Buy looking for a game to play on it. I remember the WHOLE shelf was filled with Myst. I picked up the box and read the back of it, having no idea of what "Adventure Games" were. The very concept of exploring virtual worlds was so fascinating to me. Little did I know it would change my life ! !
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 10:15pm |
| Deleted User | My first adventure game was Myst too- but wouldn't you know it, I got stuck on the Mazerunner in the Selenitic Age and put it away for years. After I finished it I got the rest of the series and am now buying Dreamcatcher games like candy.
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 11:28pm |
Cindy_KIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 56
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I started with the Zork text series in the early eighties. Then, took a long break when the graphic requirements of games exceeded my PC's abilities.
I received Myst as a Christmas present and stuck it on the shelf for about six months. One day, I installed it for grins and the rest is history.
I then blew through Zork Nemesis, GK3, and Ripper - all of which I was so obsessed with that I was seriously sleep deprived for a number of months.
My only complaint now is that my real life gets in the way of entertainment... it seems that I never have enough uninterrupted time to really play like I used to!
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 11:59pm |
| Deleted User | I was weened into the genre by the grandaddy founding father of graphic adventures: [glb]MANIAC MANSION[/glb]It wouldnt run on my PC so I had to settle for the NES version rented from the Blockbuster, but every weekend my parents picked up a copy, and if I was lucky nobody had deleted the savegames I had left on from the previous rental. I spent hours in a go sitting in front if the TV screen controller in hand, flat-out NEEDING to save Sandy from the clutches of Dr. ED. Within a year of weekends, I had managed to beat the game each of seven ways with all thirty different character combinations. After that, the next two real adventure games I played were the CD-Rom versions of Loom and The Secret of Monkey Island. I am holding Lucasarts Single-Handedly responsible for my unbeatable addiction to Graphic Adventures. They have yet to dissapoint.
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 12:31am |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | back around '95, when i was still a computer illiterate, my dad decided i should have his old computer when he updated his...
so......along with the older computer, he gave me a game called "myst" ...THE REST IS HISTORY...
a landscaper by day...
i have become an adventure-game-junkie by night
(or any given rainy day)
i scour the internet looking for reliable reviews and searching for the underdogs...
i have many favorites and my library has expanded to include games which have yet to be unwrapped...
i am now smuggling games past my boyfriend in attempt to hide my addiction...
I JUST LOVE THIS STUFF !
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 2:00am |
OmniaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 25
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Fickfack, I admire your patience.
For various reasons I missed out on Myst's debut. I heard about it but it didn't interest me at the time. Then years and years later, I bought a new PC and decided to give realMYST a whirl. Amazing. That really got me hooked. Though the mazerunner puzzle nearly drove me mad. I even tried to map it out while trying to make sense of the sounds. Clever (annoying) puzzle. Then I missed a key visual element on the Myst island, leading to hours of running around screaming, "Why won't the generator work?" ??? Other than that it was a satisfying experience as the puzzles for the most part were easier than I expected.
I immediately moved on to Riven and it captured my heart.
So immersive, detailed and haunting. The finest gaming experience I've had to date. (minor note: gameplay is hugely improved if you save all 5 CDs to your hard drive so you don't have to deal with disk swapping).
Yup, I've turned into an adventure game junkie too.
Cheers, Omnia.
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 4:59am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
Posts : 2391
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I really can't remember
The first graphic adventure game would probably be Maniac Mansion, but I remember fondly enjoying adventure games way before that. My first school had one of those old BBC type computers, the kind that are only one step up from stone circles. But somehow, I think we were able to get a few games to run on it without it exploding. I think we got Zork to run. But the very first one was an archaic education game called Grany's Garden.
Damn, that brings back memories.
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 9:27pm |
SamandMaxIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 11
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I started playing adventure games probaly about 10-12 years ago, when I was about five. I played games like Police Quest 1-2. I wasn't very good at them, as I was very young, but those games did help me learn how to read, and since then, I've been basically playing adventures games without stop.
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 10:41pm |
ariczIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 7
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | the first game i ever laid my hands on was space commanders (ibm pc version), i think it was '87 (i'm born 1980 by the way). some weeks after my first enlightenment my dad showed me leisure suit larry 1. i was hooked. i loved sitting in front of my toshiba 286 (with 20mb hdd, cga graphics) with the dictonary (seems like i still need it) in hand typing what larry was to do. from there on, it was sierra-games all the way
my all time favourites are leisure suit larry 3, space quest 3, colonel's bequest, quest for glory ega, quest for glory 4, king's quest 4. as you may see most of them are using the SCI1-engine (320x200x16 ega, midi-support and the lovely textparser). :
it wasn't until early 90's i figured out sierra wasn't the only adventure-family around. i found zak mckraken, maniac mansion. and oh boy oh boy did they get me hooked. zak mckraken is perhaps the most unsane adventure i've ever played, and the double-headed squirrel still freaks me out!
adventure-games have always been a part of my life, sierra online, ken williams, roberta williams, al lowe, jim walls and the sq-designers (i never seem to grasp their names) still inhabits half my heart . they played a huge part in my childhood
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 3:14am |
AlixIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 2
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Adventure games were how I was introduced to computers. In 1981, my father bought an LNW80, which was a TRS-80 clone with improvements. He set it up on the dining room table. I went over to take a look and saw:
You are in a meadow. You see:
A sign
A sleeping dragon
I asked my father what this was and he just shrugged. I sat down and began to type. READ SIGN. And the rest is history.
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 5:02am |
dallymistyIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 18
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first adventure game was Leisure Suit Larry followed by all the Sierra games like the Kings Quest series, Police Quest series and anything in between. My alltime favourite series is Gabriel Knight.
I remember playing the old games on a 286 computer and our first one didn't even have a hard drive - just floppy drives :
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 10:20am |
druidIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 2
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | All right, this my first post here, although I visit this site for about 1 year. I think it's the best site on adventure gaming, which I hope is true for the forum also
Anyway, I started with monkey island, countdown(one of the top 10), loom, zork, day of tentacle, and many more.
I really think TLJ is the best, in every aspect, and quite a starter of generation.
Syberia was a wonderful performance although everyone, I think, expected more from it(not in graphics, mind you )
The problem today is that advs seem to get shorter and simpler, leaving the rest of the whole to image, animation and graphics.
I never took a break from adventure games, even in the glory days of turn based strategy, like dune and imperialism, civilization etc.
My current preferences include a lot of respect and hope for adventure, and high interest in strategy like, master of orion 3, caesar 3 series(eg: emperor middle kingdom)and praetorians which is soon to come out. Unfortunately with my low speed internet, which is by the way located where I work, I miss a lot of adventure games.
Most of the new ones I got them from a friend adventurer in Britain who helped me by burning the empty cds whic I sent her through regular post office and received them the same way.
Money are a big problem, not that I don't want to buy games. It's just the fact that I live in Eastern Europe(which is great by the way-in every way except financial aspect )
So, anyone played countdown? I really need to know.
Thanks for your patience
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 2:19pm |
Mr_2_uIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 20
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first ever adventure was a game called "MOVIE" back on my spectrum computer in the 80's.
But the one that got me hooked into adventure games was "Lure Of The Temptress" and "Monkey Island" back on my Atari ST.
Adventure games Forever
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 7:32pm |
TimKIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first adventure was Zork I, which I played in 1984 on my old Commodore 64. Yes, those were back in the days before pixel hunting. Instead, we played find-the-verb. And by golly we liked it!
It seems everyone has been playing adventure games for at least several years. Is there anyone who has only just discovered the genre in the 21'st century?
-TimK
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 10:15pm |
FlameBoyIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 48
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Me! In fact I haven't been playing for long at all, and I'm sure there's a whole load of great games I haven't played yet! At the end of the summer a friend who was staying for a few days brought round the Monkey Island Bounty Pack, and I loved it! Then he went home, so I went out and bought it for myself, and since then I've played all the series, as well as Sam and Max and Day Of The Tentacle (wasn't keen on Maniac Mansion). At the moment I'm halfway through Grim Fandango, and then am hoping to get The Longest Journey, as it looks great and I've seen great reviews.
So, and recommendations for a very new adventurer?
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 10:36pm |
gschmidlIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 14
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first adventure game was Space Quest II, and I've been a Sierra junkie ever since (I own all their adventures). I learned lots of English from games as well, more than I'd ever have learned at school.
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 11:54pm |
itsgood2slideIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 35
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I read a feature on Day of the Tentacle in a PC Magazine, saw it for £4.99 a month or so later & decided to give it a go.... the rest was just common sense
(apart from the amount of money I have spent on adventure games on ebay, probably not common sense... )
P.S. Hi, this is my first post!
Ths sgntr hs n vwls.&&N Vwls? Hw ds t spll?&&Trrbl.
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 5:42am |
josieIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 86
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Well when I married my hubby about 10 yrs ago he got me interested in games. My first ones was "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego" Series. Then I found Gaberial Knight Sins of the Father and the rest is History.
Josie
JOSIE
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 5:49am |
glimpseIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 16
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Nintendo 64 .......... Zelda link to the Past convinced me to go PC. I bought a PC for gaming and email only. Return to Zork was my first PC game , I think.
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 6:16pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | hmm... let's see...
i sort of got started in '94. i was a sophomore in college, and soon after i began, i stopped. real life took over for several years. i got into console gaming as time went by, and didn't buy any games at all for the pc.
a few months ago, for reasons unknown to me, i got back into it. i played the 7th guest, and enjoyed it as much as i did the first time so many years ago. i became a regular (again) on the adventure newsgroup, and realized i'd completely missed all these fantastic games that had come out while i'd been "away," so to speak.
thus far, i've played only 3 adventures, one of which is not even really an adventure, but rather a puzzler (t7g, obviously). so to the person who posted as a newbie adventurer - i think i might be even newer i'm not counting whatever i might've played the first time around because, well, i've no recollection of it (hey, it was college, it's supposed to be a blur )
some time ago i searched for my name on google groups, and saw messages i'd posted to the marketplace newsgroup about games for sale. apparently i owned, and sold, games like sam 'n' max and the 7th guest. other games i remember owning (dunno what happened to them) include gk2 and phantasmagoria, among others. as you can imagine, i'm kicking myself on a daily basis for losing or otherwise disposing of these games. i'm having to re-buy them now, at ridiculous prices. *sigh*
took me like 8 years, but i'm back, and this time i'm staying
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