| 22 NOV 2003 at 11:51pm |
SonicIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 49
Joined: 17 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Here is my story:
The first adventure I played was Monkey Island 2 and this was back in childhood. I remember I had a CD with many games at that time, including some adventures, and I installed MI2 from it. However, I didn't knew English well then, thus I couldn't play the game. Later, when I learned more of the language, I tried to replay it, and succesfully did this, but I still wasn't hooked on the genre - MI2 was fun, but I liked Doom so much more.
I can say my life, at least from the gaming side, was changed one day in 2000. In these times I played RTS and racing games mostly, although I was becoming bored, I didn't knew any better genre. I thought of all adventures as a 2D animated childish games, as was MI2, and thus wasn't interested in it. However, I liked detective games. At least, I wanted to try them - I remembered playing some game called Scherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective at childhood, but then because of lack of knowledge of English I wasn't able to play it. Now (1997-2000) I would have liked to, but that game disappeared from hard drive in all those years. I've read review of one adventure which got me interested, this was Temujin. However, I've asked for it in many places and never got it. Later in 1999 I've read review of Gabriel Knight 3 in a gaming newspaper (which was the only periodical about gaming in Lithuania at that time and appeared once in two weaks). It got me very interested - I didn't knew anything about the GK series (although I knew it is in those series as in article it was mentioned "Our Gabe is back" and also the number 3 indicated this), but I thought it would be a good detective game. I didn't knew what format will GK use, I thought it will be something like enchanced version of mentioned Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. After watching the few bad quality screenshots, I was surprised, that they shows people in the game (SH: CD was more like a puzzle game) and decided to surely get it.
However, just like with Temujin I wasn't able to find it. Just like Temujin and also some other games I wrote it in a list of games, which I do always ask for wenether I am in shop if no new releases interests me. However, in most cases I've never found any of games written on this list. At these times there were only pirate games in Lithuania (back in 1993-1994 there were legal gaming shops, but all these bankrupted later because of pirates - government of then very young Lithuania was unable to do anything. To tell truth, even now there aren't any legal shops worth to visit - few which are has only very bad Russian titles). There was such a shop, more like a market under roof, where all kinds of goods were sold and games among them. Few stands of games (about 5 in peak times) there were in it, and I ussually went through all of them at each visit.
So was in the day mentioned before (in 2000). I didn't found any of the new releases I've read in the gaming newspaper (they were still not released or not available). After visiting last stand I was going to leave the shop bought nothing, but remembered to ask the seller for the games in my old-games list. I didn't expected anything, this was more like a routine, because I asked for the same games in the same stand maybe a month ago and many times before and they didn't had any of these games. Ussually, pirates has only the newest titles at their disposal. However, when I asked for Gabriel Knight 3 the seller said that they had it and gave it to me. I was surprised (now I do believe somebody traded the game since same seller was also trading old games to new ones for certain amount of money) and bought it. By the time, I had already forgotten the review of GK3 I read probably almost a year ago, just remembered that it is some kind of detective game and also it's name (which I remembered only because of frequent telling of it while reading old-but-wanted game lists in shop each month or so).
Well, when I got home and played it, it was breathtaking to say at least. From the very beginning. I've liked it very much, even if I did knew almost anything about GK universe at a time (didn't read graphic novel at first and thought that Knight is a simple private detective and Schattenjager is probably a name of his office). To tell the truth, it is still my best game of all time. I also told my friends of this game and showed it to them and since then they also became adventurers despite of knowing nothing about the genre before this. The greatness of GK3 made me to search for more info about adventure games in internet. I've found forums and websites dedicated to this genre and that got even more hooked. Because of adventures I've also started using walkthroughs and learned what is abandonware .
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| 22 NOV 2003 at 11:51pm |
SonicIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 49
Joined: 17 NOV 2002
Status : Online | CONTINUATION OF THE POST ABOVE
Unfortunately, I didn't found any good adventure games in shops later. Some were action-adventures (Blair Witch 1), others were simply bad (Arcatera), but because I was in the internet community for this genre, that did not let my interest to diminish. It was quite sad for me and my friends who become adventurers after I've shown them GK3 to know that there will not be GK4. However, after lack of success in stores, I reviewed my old bundle disks and also abandonware websites. In 2000 I've also played GK1, which I also liked very much (still less than GK3), and in 2002 I've (at last) found a rip of Broken Sword, which became the third adventure game in my adventure hall of fame.
However, I didn't found the Longest Journey in stores, and all other adventures I bought were, unfortunately bad. Now I am in quite a pity that I wasn't an adventurer earlier so I don't have titles like Gabriel Knight 2, later Tex Murphy games, probably also Grim Fandango. However, for most of older adventure classics which I didn't had I found in abandonware pages, unfortunately, most are rips. For some of them I searched for ages, like Broken Sword.
Now I am quite frequently wondering what would my life be if not that day in year 2000... What would I be playing? I doubt I would have found adventure genre, since, except of Longest Journey, I wasn't searching for any adventures because of reviews in newspaper/magazines (I bought most because of opinions of people in net, who I found only because I've played GK3) since then. And, just like nwo, I wouldn't have found TLJ anyways most likely. I wouldn't have played old adventures also, because I didn't knew what genre it is and bad graphics would have sent me off (like I wasn't playing GK1 before I found GK3 even if I had the former all the time). And I was very near of not asking for these old games that day (I wasn't asking for them if there was any good new games to buy, fortunately, that day there weren't), however, at a last minute before going out something told me to tell that list to the seller. Because I bought games only once a month in these days, next time I came GK3 already would have been sold most likely. So, I guess I did a wise decition...
What was your story of hooking up to adventures?
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| 22 NOV 2003 at 11:53pm |
adventuredogGuild Master
Posts : 3255
Joined: 14 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | [move][glb]MYST![/glb][/move]
Still adventuring after all these years!
Patiently awaiting The Last Crown: Haunting of Hallowed Isle, and Bracken Tor...
... and Asylum if it's not tooooo scary...
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 12:15am |
CountryEasternSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 250
Joined: 2 NOV 2003
Status : Online | My history is easy.....
As soon as I saw the first screen of Myst in 1993, I was totally blown away. I wanted to live there forever. The puzzles were too hard for me for the most part, besides all I wanted to do was wander and gaze. So, walkthrough in hand. I did so...for days and days....it was glorious.
(Actually, before that, there were a few Atari 2600 and Nintendo games that captured my imagination. But when Myst hit my eyes...zowie!)
I did not play another adventure until The Longest Journey and fell in love all over again. Syberia was next, which I adored. Others, older and newer, followed.
I have read fantasy novels all my life (LOTR six times) and until Myst never thought I would ever see anything close to what is in my mind--or better!
So those are types of games I seek with passion.
Yes, fantasy novels contain fighting...but it is for drama or plot reasons, not for shock affect or to stretch out the book or simply to entertain.
Reading about an epic battle is one thing. But I don't want to actually see the battle and I don't want to participate. Having wondrous games without fighting is a new layer to quality entertainment and reverie. So when I began reading the reviews of The Longest Journey and the reviewers made an apologetic point of letting us know that there are no weapons and no fighting, I was hooked, then and there.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 1:17am |
LagavulinPrivate Detective
Posts : 475
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online |
My first game was The Ripper and despite the tough puzzles I was hooked for life. Now I am 50+, not my age, but number of ADV games played.
FOR THE MOMENT I AM PLAYING ON MY Win 7&&&&Recently Played&& ark Fall Lost Souls,Outcry,SH vs A Lupin,Tales of Monkey Island,Still Life 2,Sinking Island,Pandora Directive (RP),The Lost Crown
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 1:29am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | The first adventures I played were a trio of ICOM games on the NES -- Shadowgate, Deja Vu and Uninvited. They were fun, so I found myself playing the few other adventures I could find for the NES. (Anyone remember Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom?) But those ran out soon enough, and I forgot about adventures until some years later when I got a PC.
I dabbled with computer gaming for awhile -- racing games, space sims, but no game really connected with me like my first PC adventure -- Myst, of course!
Myst was an eye opening experience. Amidst all the games that required hand/eye coordination or twitch reactions that I played but had no real aptitude for was a game almost tailor made for me and my inquisitive nature, a game that required intelligence and thought, not speed. I loved puzzles even as a child. Mysteries, riddles, and mazes (Yes, mazes!) were some of my favorite past times growing up, and here was a genre of games that had all those things and more. I was hooked.
But when I discovered JA and this forum, I found there was a whole new (to me) world of adventures I had never played beyond the LucasArts and Dreamcatcher games that were about all I had experienced.
So here I am, trying to track down the gems of the past while playing the games of today that will bring (kicking and screaming it seems at times, but bringing nonetheless : ) adventure gaming into the 21st century...and I'm loving it!
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 1:49am |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | [move][glb]MYST![/glb][/move]
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 1:50am |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | The game was called Dark Seed and from then on I was hooked. Played 1 and 2 and then Dark Eye and I knew I was hooked because I started going to big computer shows that I had heard would have game vendors and since I know nothing about computers, well....................................
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 3:49am |
Bob_the_BuilderJourneyman
Posts : 956
Joined: 25 APR 2003
Status : Online | I pretty much grew up with games my whole life but Myst was probably the first adventure game to shock me.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 3:52am |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | 1974 - The Colossal Cave Adventure. Been playin ever since.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 7:58am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | 1995, upgraded my pc from 286 to a IBM state of the art (as it was back then). Bought [size=18]TIMELAPSE. T
his is a brilliant, lovely pretty, amusing, puzzle based adventure game about aliens and trapped scientists. It should be re-released. It's terrific.
Unfortunately for me I've bought a lot of other games looking for a similar gaming experience. Only the Myst series, Obsidian and Syberia have pleased me as much. I have about 18 unfinished games.
Currently going nowhere fast in Uru.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 8:10am |
| Deleted User | Played ZORK - GUE on a Data general C330 Eclipse back in '82. Was hooked on Adventure games thereafter.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 8:21am |
TheWorldIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 24
Joined: 26 JUN 2003
Status : Online | My first ag was hook, looking at it now it's a pretty bad game but i loved it at that time . I had a cd with many old ag, and it had some great classics (it was something like 1996 i think). I played a bit of monkey island 2 (i didn't have mi1) but i didn't like it very much. The game that really made me love ag was quest for glory 3. I finished the game something like 20 times , maybe even more (not joking. ). After that i played sam&max, day of the tentacle, king quest 5 and 6, monkey island 2 (and this time i loved it), beneath a steel sky and many more i can't remember now. The next ag i really loved was broken sword.. i remember playing the demo on a friend's playstation, well the game was really good but my pc was not good enough to play it. My friend bought the game some time later and i played it with him. Only few years ago i managed to get a copy for pc. Well in 1997 i bought a new pc.. those were good times with monkey island 3 and blade runner. Mmm some years later i played grim fandango but i couldn't find many others ag.. One day i saw on a magazine a preview of Gabriel Knight 3. I never played a gk game but i remembered a review of gk2, i wanted the game but couldn't find it. Wow i said! This must be mine! I bought it as soon as it was released, it was maybe the best ag i've ever played. There are sure many others i found.. i remember little big adventure 1 and 2 (i loved those games ) and discworld 1. With internet i was able to find many old ag that i couldn't find in stores. But i couldn't find any more qfg games... luckily a friend of mine found anthology and gave it to me . Well it's a pretty confusing story and i'm sure i forgot many things but.. hey! i'm no story-teller
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 2:19pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | september 1988.... deja vu
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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| 23 NOV 2003 at 3:42pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I remember 3 different moments:
1) My first experience with the genre was around 1985 (I was 6 or 7 years old), while playing a game called (surprise, surprise) "Adventure"aka "Indenture" on the Atari 2600 console.
There are very detailed descriptions below:
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/adventure/
http://www.gamingworldx.com/features/CGOTWAdventureAtari2600.shtml
The atari "adventure" was actually based on the famous text-parser "Colossal Cave Adventure" (the one responsible for creating the genre we all love so much)
Interesting to note that the atari 2600 "Adventure" was one of the most succesfull games of the time, selling more than 1 million copies (so, adventures DO sell... )
It also featured one of the first (and most famous) easter eggs in game history. Read the 2 reviews above and find out!
2) The second time I bumped into the adventure genre was around 1986, with the CP-400 home computer (aka "Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer", or simply "Coco". There was a text parser game called "Martian Crypt".
At the time, I had no idea how to play the game, since I did not understand even a single word of english. I played "Martian Crypt" with the help of my brother, Pablo, and I still remember this was one of the most unique game experiences I had untill that day. A game where I had to "talk" to another NPC wasnt that common for me, as I was used to play mostly console action games.
There is some info about this game below:
http://nitros9.stg.net/martiancrypt.html
3) The ultimate adventure experience, the day I finally fell in love with the adventure genre, was after buying my Sega CD console.
I rented "The Secret of Monkey Island"...
It meant so much to me because it was the first adventure I ever played all by myself, with no help from anyone. I loved the humor, the inteface, the graphics, the characters....EVERYTHING.
From that moment, I knew that I finally found a very special game genre, one that was nothing like anything else.
And I still play adventures to this very day....
[center]DIEGO J. SOUZA&&Consulting Detective for Hire[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/YaBBImages/smilies//detective.gif[/img]&&&&[img]http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Fairygdmther/Avatars/A-G-E-S_SIG.jpg[/img][/center]
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 4:00pm |
DREAMWEBSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 226
Joined: 31 MAY 2003
Status : Online | My firs Adventure game was Space Quest 4, I played it with keyboard and without save; starting the game from the beginning each time because I didn’t know the save function and how to configure the mouse Now yes, I learned haw to!
After SQ4 I became a real fan of Sierra and adventure games
[url]http://www.artisticsoft.com[/url]
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 4:07pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (23 NOV 2003 3:51am)
1974 - The Colossal Cave Adventure. Been playin ever since.
*bows head in worship*
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 6:14pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Aah, I love these trips down memory lane.
For me it all started in 1989. My older brother bought his first computer and got two free games with it. One was an action game that he really liked (I don't even remember what it was called) and the other was King's Quest IV. He hated that one and gave it to me. He never realized how much that changed my life! As I was only 8 years old, I didn't understand much of the game at first, but the new experience of it all got me hooked. So with a English-Dutch dictionary (thank God there was no speech in games yet, all the text appearing in boxes on the screen ), I played my way through the game and totally loved it! It took me months to finish the game, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I asked around and my uncle had some other *ahem* illegal *ahem* copies of other Sierra adventures. That's how through the early 90s I played, amongst others, Gold Rush, Police Quest 1, Space Quest 1 and Larry 1. By contacting Sierra (to ask for some hints), I also asked them to send me some information on their latest games and they were nice enough to send me a game catalogue. I directly ordered two games from them, namely King's Quest 6 and Police Quest 4. Again, the KQ game had me playing for hours. Until that point, I had only known Sierra games and I remained a loyal customer for a long time afterwards (Sierra games still make up for about 50% of my collection), buying many of their adventure game releases throughout the rest of the 90s. Most of my favourite games are still Sierra titles (GK 2 & 3, Torin's Passage, KQ 4 & 6, ...). Luckily, through gaming magazines, I also read about great adventure games from other companies. In the mid-90s basically all my money went to the purchase of adventure games (and some games from other genres). When adventure games dried up at the end of the 90s, I ventured away from computer games for a while (and started a dvd collection ), but after writing a paper on computer games, I discovered some adventure game sites (like this one) and also a lot of info on games I had missed throughout the years and some great new ones. So now I'm back, and I won't be leaving any time soon.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 6:46pm |
AvakaJourneyman
Posts : 1437
Joined: 17 SEP 2003
Status : Online | My husband came home with Riven one day and started playing it. I heard all the noises coming from the room but never ventured in to see what the noise was all about. I had no concept of what computer games were all about. I thought it was like pacman so I was never interested in playing. THEN it happened. I walked by the room where he was playing and saw a beautiful scene on the screen and heard beautiful music. I was hooked. I started my own game, not knowing what I was doing or what what I was suppose to do. I stumbled and stammered. I immediately scheduled three weeks vacation around the Christman and New Year period and spent my time playing Riven, hardly ever coming up for air. That was it. Since then I've been on the hunt for games such as Riven. It's my life's quest, so to speak. Nothing else has come even close to that type of game. Of course I've played realMyst and Exile. Countless other games are in my library only to tick me off. I'm now upgrading one of my computers to enable me to play URU. So my immersment into AG was quick and painless but the hunt for the ultimate pleasure level of Riven has been very painful. I've been let down hard. There have been moments with other games but few and far between. But I still love AG games. Never ventured out of the genre, never will I'm always hopeful and ever vigil to new AG games on the horizon.
Myst IV - Never finished it. Got frustrated with it.&&Myst V - Did not finish it either. Very disappointing.&&ATTWN - BORING!!! Never finished it. Kept falling asleep.&&Paradise - So far .... not so good&&Voyage - Not on my favorite list
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 8:16pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
Posts : 3103
Joined: 19 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | [move][glb]Myst![/glb][/move]
Noticing a trend here....?
[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/yabbfiles/Smilies/detective.gif[/img][b]Playing:[/b] &&[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/yabbfiles/Smilies/blahblah.gif[/img][b]Reading:[/b] &&[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/yabbfiles/Smilies/whistle.gif[/img][b]Listening:[/b] &&[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/yabbfiles/Smilies/indie.gif[/img][b]Watching:[/b]
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 8:39pm |
adventuredogGuild Master
Posts : 3255
Joined: 14 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (23 NOV 2003 8:16pm)
[move][glb]Myst![/glb][/move]
Noticing a trend here....? Tee Hee! :
Still adventuring after all these years!
Patiently awaiting The Last Crown: Haunting of Hallowed Isle, and Bracken Tor...
... and Asylum if it's not tooooo scary...
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 8:41pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | [move][size=20]Certainly not Myst![/move]
My first adventure on the PC was SQ4. With mouse and saves and all. I had played adventures before, mostly text ones, on the C64 and ZX Spectrum. I loved the Sierra and LucasArts adventures from the early 1990s.
I forgot my sig.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 9:14pm |
| Deleted User | I can't remember my first AG. I know it was infocom, but wasn't Scapeghost. The first graphical AG I played was SQ3.
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| 23 NOV 2003 at 10:40pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | First Adventure Games Probably The Hobbit by Melbourne House on the ZX Spectrum my first computer. (Ah the good old rubber keyed Spectrum)
Played alot of text adventures on that computer (not bad for 48K of memory)
Lots of Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls games. Ah the days when solving puzzles was made harder by trying to guess the combination of words to do the trick even when you knew what to do
Then moved on to an Amiga where I learned to love Lucasarts and the strange French Delphine games (Future Wars and Cruise for a Corpse)
The on the the PC and the rest is history.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 24 NOV 2003 at 10:00pm |
| Deleted User | Yeah, magnetic scrolls were great.
Did anyone ever play wonderland?
I bought it for my amiga, but strangely, I never played it.
I think it was the game that basically broke Magnetic scrolls because it cost them a fortune to make.
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