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| 23 MAY 2003 at 1:06pm |
Bob_the_BuilderJourneyman
Posts : 956
Joined: 25 APR 2003
Status : Online | Country-USA
Age-15
Playing seriously at....I have no idea, I pretty much played games my whole life
First game....probably Mario or something.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
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| 23 MAY 2003 at 1:42pm |
EvaGuild Master
Posts : 3247
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Age: 20 - for a few weeks more.
Country: Denmark
First game: Hmmm, I don't remember but it was probably either "OL 1988" on my brothers Amiga 2000 or "Kane(?)" on my cousin's Commodore 64.
First adventure game: King's Quest VII somewhere around 1996 which is when I started playing "seriously" at about the same time we got a decent PC at home.
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| 23 MAY 2003 at 5:28pm |
Z-GirlPrivate Detective
Posts : 503
Joined: 12 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Z-Girl
Country: USA
Age: A crusty old 33
First decent games bought: Around 1995 or so) Phantasmagoria, Myst, Shivers, Gabriel Knight
First not-so decent games bought: Cruise for a Corpse, Search For the King, Club Dead, and some adventure pack with Chaos Continuum and The Magic Death
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| 23 MAY 2003 at 6:41pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Country: Netherlands
Age: 37 (since last week, still have to get used to this age ... )
I play games seriously since the mid 80s
My first game: Valkyrie 17 (adventure), Space Pilot (shoot em up)
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| 23 MAY 2003 at 6:50pm |
jamarchandSchattenjger
Posts : 1665
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Country - BRAZIL
Age - 38 (into a 37.5 body shape)
First game - RIVEN
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| 23 MAY 2003 at 8:20pm |
| Deleted User | Country- Former : Singapore
Current : Malaysia
Age : 24
First game : 1985 ( Non adventure....educational game)
First Adventure : 2000/2001 : The Longest Journey.
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 1:40pm |
JessJourneyman
Posts : 1359
Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Country - USA
Age - 23
First Game - Super Mario
First Adventure - Riven (in 2001)
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 2:37pm |
CyberHippieIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 37
Joined: 24 APR 2003
Status : Online | Country - Canada
Age - 28
I've been playing and loving adventures since as long as I've had a computer. I think I got my commodore back in 1986(ish). So I would have been about 12 when I started playing adventures.
First Adventure (that I can remember) - Maniac Mansion
Before that I remember playing some text adventures, Spiderman, The Hulk, and the Hobbit. I was also a HUGE fan of the KQ games.
16 years later I still like adventure games just as much. Although I'm a lot more impatient now. I don't spend hours wandering around the game figuring things out, all to quickly I skip over the to the walkthrough to get out of a jam. Bad I know...
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 5:13pm |
copycatSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 293
Joined: 24 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Country - Belgium
Age - 29
First game - probably 'Asteriods' on the Atari
First pc-game - must've been the original Larry1-game, on my XT, at least that's the only thing that was worthwhile calling a game at this time, and if it was anything else I don't remember it either. ).
Playing seriously - No idea.
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 6:49pm |
Z-GirlPrivate Detective
Posts : 503
Joined: 12 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By copycat (24 MAY 2003 5:13pm)
First game - probably 'Asteriods' on the Atari
I forgot about Atari! I'd like to amend my answer in the "first adventure game bought" category to RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX ON ATARI!. I was about 8 when my family got Atari, and we had Frogger, Asteroids, and that cheap freebie cartridge that came with the unit (it had Combat and Bi-plane on it). Later we got Riddle, as well as some game with ghosts in a haunted house. It may very well have been called "Haunted House", but I can't really remember.
Z-Girl
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 8:02pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | - Country - USA
- Age - 49 (shi† happens)
- First personal computer bought in 1985 - Mac+ (One megabyte of RAM)
- First computer games played - "ark Castle" and "Beyond Dark Castle" for the Mac+
- First PC bought in 1999, and have been playing Adventure Games ever since
- Primary objectives for the PC: Adventure Gaming and on-line use
- First games - Sanitarium and Zork: the Nemesis
Other:- Bought one of the first Mini-Moog synthesizers (analog) back in 1971
- Was around for the digital revolution in electronic musical instruments (MIDI) in the mid-70's
- Bought or was given synthesizers (Yamaha, Roland, Kurzweil, Fairlight, New England Digital, Sequential Circuits, eMu Systems, Peavey, etc.) for artist promotional use - usually didn't have to give them back; just had to say I used them
- Have made a living being a all-purpose musician, with occupational forays into telecommunications, office management, computer programming, etc.
- Still don't own a DVD player, an X-Box, a Playstation 2 or any console machines, but don't really mind. My former German exchange student brings his boxes over, and the occasional movie or mayhem game is enough. Would rather play Adventure Games in my spare time
- Current game playing: Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses and thoroughly enjoying it - after I programmed my Gravis Xterminator Digital Gamepad to perform all the keyboard functions. Detested Odyssey before I did this
- At this point, rather settled with occasional business travel. Now I mainly want to go to Walt Disney World to relax (it's about seven hours down the road) - or perhaps Estonia? Haven't been there; would love to go
Thank you for the neat topic, franklin, and I apologize to everyone here if I have given more personal information than necessary.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 8:12pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Have made a living being a all-purpose musician, with occupational forays into telecommunications, office management, computer programming, etc.
I hope you didn't burn your ASCAP card -
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| 24 MAY 2003 at 10:22pm |
white_zinIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Online | Country : USA
Age: 49 until next month when I will be 25 for the second time
First game: Pong on the Atari
First Adventure game: Zork 1 on my then fancy schmancy Tandy 286
syd
BAAGS carrier and darn proud of it!
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 4:06am |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Country: USA
Age: 21
Started adventuring: Early 90's
First games: King's Quest V, The Colonel's Bequest, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
My parents came home from shopping one day with three computer games. Things just took off from there.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 4:53am |
SunspiralSpace Cadet
Posts : 122
Joined: 9 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Country - US
Age - 25
Playing seriously at 1996
First "Adventure" games - Grim Fandango, Sanitarium
Played way way back on the C64 and even the Atari as a kid. Not sure if any of those old games would even be considered Adventures on this board...
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 6:08am |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | location:location(SelectLocationFromHere(gotoLocation.Irvine->"originating FROM USA") //Don't know why I just did that
Started serious AGing: 1991 or so.... I was 9
Started majorly collecting games: forever
Started majorly collecting Adventures: 1999
First Adventure ever King's Quest,...
Serious Adventure game period ~1994-5: DOTT, Full Throttle, SnM
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 6:10am |
GOne_NorcSpace Cadet
Posts : 112
Joined: 27 APR 2003
Status : Online | Country - Slovenia
Age - 21
Started playing seriously somewhare in early 90's
First game - Leisure suit Larry 3 (I know, I know...) and The Secret of Monkey Island
I was inspired to adventure gaming by my older cousin, one thing I am really grateful for.
Omnes Conspecti, Omnes Auditi...
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 5:44pm |
KillTheGrimaceSpace Cadet
Posts : 177
Joined: 6 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Country: USA
Age: 31 (until Tuesday)
Playing adventure games seriously: in two phases, 1987-1989 and 2002-present.
First adventure game played: Depends on what you think counts as an adventure...
- Adventure on Atari 2600 (totally graphical, no text except for the easter egg)
- Oregon Trail on Apple II (educational text adventure)
- Zork on Apple II (my first classic text adventure)
- Leisure Suit Larry on Atari ST (I think this game was point-n-click on the ST, which was a very Mac-like mouse-driven system... if that's true this counts as my first point-n-click adventure, and begins phase 1 of my hardcore adventure gaming)
- The Longest Journey on PC (first adventure game in phase 2)
-k
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| 25 MAY 2003 at 8:03pm |
SamSpadeIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Country: Portugal
Age: 27
Playing since 1985, give or take a year
first game: arkanoid (Spectrum)
first adventure game: leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards
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| 26 MAY 2003 at 3:06am |
VectorIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 70
Joined: 28 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Country: USA
Age: 40
Playing seriously since 1995
First game: Pong
First adventure games: Hugo's House of Horrors, Myst, Monkey Island 1 & 2
We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later we push up flowers.
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| 26 MAY 2003 at 5:19am |
chadIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 39
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Country: USA
Age: 18
Playing seriously since 1996
First game: Final Fantasy 3
First adventure games: Dark Earth, Blade Runner, Myst
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| 26 MAY 2003 at 3:43pm |
RecklessJourneyman
Posts : 962
Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Country - UK
Age - 33
Didn't like the 100% text based adventures but played a few. My 1st was probably The Hobbit on the Specturm. Then around 1987/8 playing Leisure Suit Larry 1 & Kings Quest 1 on an IBM PC at work (I ran it on a 'top spec' 286 IIRC)
Owned PCs ever since and have played a lot of games
[url=http://leisuresuitlarry.dyndns.org/]Leisure Suit Larry Archive Site[/url]&&[url=http://www.adamhearn.co.uk]Hearn Garage[/url]
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| 26 MAY 2003 at 3:59pm |
RpauPrivate Detective
Posts : 439
Joined: 15 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Country - Argentina
Age - 26
Playing seriously since 1999
First game - Larry Vales: Traffic Division
“even the lover of the myth is in a sense a lover of wisdom, for the myth is composed of wonders”
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| 26 MAY 2003 at 6:08pm |
DragonRoseSpace Cadet
Posts : 100
Joined: 5 APR 2003
Status : Online | Age: 18
Country: Canada
First Adventure Game: Wishbringer. I think my parents got that when I was about two, and my whole family would sit around the computer trying to solve it, with my parents reading the text to my sister and myself. Never finished it, though.
If music be the food of love, play on!- William Shakespeare&&&&[url=http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=8;action=display;threadid=4127]Candace Grace: Bard's Blood[/url]
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