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| 15 OCT 2002 at 8:21pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | It was on an old IBM 370/168 running MVT (and supporting a fairly large business back in 1974) - On my lunch hour I would load up The Colossal Cave Adventure and Whompus...
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:17am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | when i first bought my Amiga in 1988 the store i bought it from gave me 5 games along... one of them was Deja Vu... i had never played any adv till then but after playing DV i realized that genre was made for me
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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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:31am |
overcomeSpace Cadet
Posts : 112
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first adventure game was played in black & white (EGA)
It was called
MANHUNTER II: SAN FRANCISCO
anybody ever played it???
A pretty gruesome game for a 12 year old kid. But at least the graphics couldn't be over realistic as much as they tried to be.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:42am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | It was called
MANHUNTER II: SAN FRANCISCO
anybody ever played it OMG the manhunters!!! only games that pissed the hell out of me and yet had me coming back for more!
A pretty gruesome game for a 12 year old kid. But at least the graphics couldn't be over realistic as much as they tried to be yeah, it's a game that needs a FMV sequel
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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| 17 OCT 2002 at 2:01pm |
stevemacIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 91
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Back in the old Atari days - with the 'Dizzy' series (the egg with boxing gloves), but not sure whether this was a UK only series of games. But, as most of you are saying, the first one just gives you an appetite for more.
It was nice to also hear about Zak McLaren, as I replayed that recently and found it just as much fun as when I first played it.
However, one game that has been around for what seems like forever was the Bitmap Brothers attempt at adventure games called 'Cadaver' - which I still play about once a year as there so many hidden secrets on each level - and I still don't think I've found all of them yet! But I believe it was the first game where you could more or less pick up or push every object, drop them on top of each other to help you climb over fences, throw them around the 'room' to knock things down ...and generally have a lot of fun.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 4:16pm |
Freddie_PharkasSpace Cadet
Posts : 114
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I guess I've been playing adventure games since the early 80s. My first game was Zork text, which I played on my Commodore 64. The first graphic adventure was Space Quest 1, on a a friend's Mac. From there, I was a Sierra devotee, playing anything they threw out there until they turned to the dark side. Cripes, I even played Manhunter. The friend with the Mac and I ended up playing adventure games together as we grew up, often playing more than 20 hours straight, sometimes together, sometimes in shifts with one waking the other if a breakthrough was made. That was a great time.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 10:04am |
kizzcee007Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 41
Joined: 2 JUL 2004
Status : Online | Kings Quest.....I come from Daventry...the real town in Northampton, England....!
Years later my son Ashley had bought a copy of a gaming mag and free with it was a demo of The Longest Journey.....well that was it.....stole it...played it....loved it.....
Then our local paper was running a competition to win 3 PC games...and included in the pack was a full copy of TLJ! Entered the comp and won!!!!
Been hooked ever since
:'(
ps...I know this has nothing to do with this thread but please keep positive thoughts for my dear son Ashley, as he is at this moment fighting for his life in Birmingham Kids Hospital after having treatment for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. The transplant went fine but he developed breathing probs and is now on a ventilator. The docs have no idea why he is so very very ill.
I love you , Little Man...hurry home
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 10:12am |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Best wishes to you son. I hope he gets better really soon.
P.s Welcome to the Forum.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 12:05pm |
ThanandaJourneyman
Posts : 1168
Joined: 8 OCT 2003
Status : Online | Hi, kizzcee0071, welcome
Sorry to hear about Ashly You'll see, he'll get better! We'll hold our fingers crossed
For now, be sure to visit the forum often. We will try to lower your tension, by being as goofy and funny, as we can be, right guys?
Do go on! I always yawn, when I'm fascinated!
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 1:58pm |
AnneGuild Master
Posts : 4800
Joined: 8 MAR 2003
Status : Online | kisscee,is your son in Milton Keynes hospital.They have treated my grandson since birth.The family live in MK.I do hope Ashley is out of danger soon.We will all be thinking of your family.Big hugs.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 2:06pm |
AnneGuild Master
Posts : 4800
Joined: 8 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Yes,well,I can`t read.He is in Birmingham.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 2:52pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Kisscee
I have two little men of my own. My heartfelt best wishes to you both.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 3:07pm |
gailSchattenjger
Posts : 1659
Joined: 19 JAN 2004
Status : Offline | Syberia was featured on Tech TV. After playing it, I (finally) realized what my kids already knew and I had yet to discover.... it is possible to sit for hours and play a PC game.
Kizzcee007:
Positive thoughts for Ashley and your family are on their way.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 3:43pm |
AnneGuild Master
Posts : 4800
Joined: 8 MAR 2003
Status : Online | It is possible to sit for hours with a forum and wonder where the hell your friends are and why they don`t all work on Grenwich Mean Time.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 3:55pm |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | I had played some adventure games over the years, like Psychotron and KQ7, but they meant nothing special to me. But then, one day, I played GK3 and I was addicted
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 6:58pm |
PrimroseIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 36
Joined: 31 JAN 2004
Status : Online | I got the demo to Little Big Adventure 2 in 1998 with a computer magazine, so I bought it as I could not find Relentless anywhere, and thereafter was I starting my MYST collection.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 7:22pm |
bdeckedSchattenjger
Posts : 1620
Joined: 14 OCT 2011
Status : Online | I realized that I wasn't into the "normal" games when the Atari and Intellivision games bored me (how many times can you go through the same screens in the original "Pitfall"? You could go on FOREVER....)
So instead, I started messing around on the computer... and my first adventure game was good ol' Zork 1 - and the "pick a verb that works" was akin to pixel-hunting these days... Even now, I've downloaded Zork again to re-live those text days (and who doesn't love drawing box & line maps *wistful sigh*)
My next stop was some murder-mystery-text game... I think it was "eadline"? But the time element annoyed me, so I was off 'em for a while... And then there was MYST, and the rest is history... aaah, true love) [smiley=love.gif]
P.S. Cyber-love and support for Ashley
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 7:51pm |
RecklessJourneyman
Posts : 962
Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | He he another thread of the old
Personally, started adventuring on a ZX Spectrum with Melbourne Houses' Hobbit - that's back in 1983! Shame I never kept all of it... the edition I got came with the Hobbit book (still got) and tape (eek, remember those bad old days!).
It was a great text adventure that used static graphics for key scenes.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 9:41pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | kizzcee, All the best for Ashley - hope he's soon well again - welcome to the forum.
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| 3 JUL 2004 at 11:08pm |
DinkiPixieSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 356
Joined: 26 JUN 2004
Status : Online | I really can't remember, but it must have been soon after I got my first PC seven years ago. It would have been nice to start much sooner and go through the experience of the early games.
Hugs to Ashley and his mum.
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