| 24 NOV 2003 at 10:48pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MonkeyDude (23 NOV 2003 9:14pm)
I can't remember my first AG. I know it was infocom, but wasn't Scapeghost.
IIRC Scapeghost was Level 9's.
The first adventure game I ever played was KQ1 somewhere in 1987 on the great Hercules XT my dad brought home one day. Something about the exploration, moving freely through the forests, finding stuff, weird characters and creatures, appealed me a lot. I just couldn't believe there were other games like that - pure Heaven! Then I came across SQ2 and it still remains one of my favorite games ever.
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| 24 NOV 2003 at 10:50pm |
DragonRoseSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | The first adventure game I ever played was Wishbringer on my old Atari. I was about four. I'd sit with my parents and sister, and they would read it to us and we'd try and figure out where to go and what to do. It was the first game we had that wasn't from the cover of a magazine. Then, when the Atari went boom, the first game we got for the PC was Kings Quest 5. We started getting various other Sierra adventures. It took me several years to realize that not all full computer games were adventures!
I only realized there were different kinds of games when my parents bought Myst. Blechy.
/me ducks and covers.
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| 24 NOV 2003 at 11:47pm |
JoGuild Master
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Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (23 NOV 2003 8:41pm)
[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.
Michal -
ROTFL
My first game was Monkey Island 1 which came loaded with our computer (Win. 3.5 and a teeny-tiny hard drive! - how things change) in around 1993 or 1994 - it also had a Doom sort of thing (wasn't actually Doom though and it got uninstalled pretty soon and given away) and Maniac Mansion (which was just a floppy). Maniac Mansion I thought would have been good, but hated typing in the commands so of course Monkey Island was the game that started it all for me.
After that started looking for other games in the stores and I think the next one I bought was 7th Guest which was in a bargain bin and recommended by the shop assistant, then it was on to Tex Murphy, Spycraft, GK2 etc etc. - just totally hooked, still am and I guess always will be.
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 7:32pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Part 2 of my story
After enjoying the Secret of Monkey Island for Sega CD, I had high hopes of playing another adventure game. I had no computer back then, and didnt know there werent that many adventures for console players.
Then my neighbor bought a PC 386.
At first, I didnt cared for his new computer. All my life I played on consoles, so I didnt think computers were really suited for gaming. Boy, was I wrong!
Eventually, I went to my neighbor's house and saw him and his brothers playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I found it particularly interesting when I saw they were arguing on what “to say” next.
(You need to select a line of dialogue? So it isn't an action game? I sayed to myself: Wow! Another adventure!)
From that moment on, I played all sorts of great adventures at my neighbor's house. He had: Monkey Island 2, Day of the Tentacle, Amazon, Sam & Max and lots more! We did not had walkthroughs, but we knew a guy who was expert in adventure games. He was like our personal “hint line”! My friend let me play at his house even when there were nobody home! And even though his computer had no sound support, it didnt matter to me. I was happy just to play more of my favorite genre.
But I still wasnt happy enough: playing at my neighor's computer was OK, but I needed to buy my own PC! A few months later I finally got a PC 486 and started playing lots of new adventures: Dragonsphere, The Hand of Fate, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. The computer turned out to be even better than my old consoles!
My neighbors eventually lost interest in games, but I kept on playing...
...SPECIALLY adventures!
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 9:03pm |
RaySorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Location: US, CA
Status : Offline | 1. Playing Leisure Suit Larry at work.
2. Playing Myst at work.
3. Finally getting good computer at home. Loading Riven . . . in five minutes, it was all over. I was doomed.
Remember, procrastinate now. Don't put it off!!
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 9:23pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (23 NOV 2003 8:41pm)
[move][size=20]Games I could figure out? Certainly not Myst![/move]
It's okay, we knew that!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 10:37pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | When Doom was first released, I used to watch the guy I worked for playing it. He used walkthroughs when he had trouble finding items in the game. So I knew about walkthroughs years before I ever played a game.
In 1999 I bought a new PII 400 so I could play computer games. I wanted to find out what I'd missed while growing up. My parents were never interested in buying expensive toys like computer or video games.
I asked some friends on another forum what games they recommended I start with. It wasn't a gaming forum, but I knew some of them played games. Most of the games mentioned were not available in the stores I went to. But the ones that were were Myst, Shivers, Shivers 2, Riven, and 7th Guest. I also bought the first Tomb Raider game because it was only $10. Riven was the only game that cost more than $10 or $15. I wasn't about to spend much money on something I might not like, but I made an exception for Riven because my online friends had spoken of it so highly - and the pictures on the box looked really nice too.
The first game I tried was Myst. Before playing Myst I thought all games were action games. Either you'd run around shooting things, like in Doom, or you'd be moving around a screen grabbing or blasting things really fast, like in PacMan or Space Invaders. Myst was a revelation. I thought it was so cool how you could move around and play with the gadgets - turn water on and off and so forth.
Since I already knew about walkthroughs, I had no problems completing it. I figured since I'd learned how to do crossword puzzles by looking up the answers to the obscure clues on my first attempts, the same obviously applied to games.
Tomb Raider was much more like what I was expecting when I decided to try out computer games. I've recently replayed it using an unlimited health cheat and thought it was much more fun that way. You don't have to repeat things so much. And you don't have to worry about whether you'll have enough health packs to complete the next section.
Loved Shivers.
Hated Shivers 2 - the first game I played that gave me a dead end due to a game bug. Even worse was how you were forced to watch really bad music videos in grainy black and white.
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 11:22pm |
ArmstrongIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I guess i'm one of the lucky few who grew up playing adventure games during the "golden age" of computer gaming.* The VERY first adventure game I played was on the commodore and I don't remember the title. I didn't get very far on it I just remember it consisted of trying to escape from a cell after an alien imprisoned you (the title started with an O.) My first purchased adventure game was Space Quest 3 which I bought right off the shelf at Electronics Boutique in 1990. I had gotten a brand spankin new IBM 286 model 30 computer right around that time. I went shopping at the mall with my mom one day (I was only 12) and saw the box for SQ3. I eagerly picked it up and looked at the back of the box expecting some NES style graphics but instead I was blown away with EGA! Console games paled in comparison to PC games. The nintendo looked like utter crap next to the sierra adventure line. What attracted me to adventure games was the depth of the plot and characters, it was something new and fascinating.
Soon after that I played various sequels in the King's quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and Leisure suit larry lines. My most distinct computer gaming memory was playing King's Quest 4 with a friend of mine. Believe it or not I never played Myst or any of its sequels or clones. After playing the sierra games I naturally delved into the lucasarts and origin line of games. Everything after that is history..i've been gaming on and off for 13 years. It doesn't get old but my attention span seems to have decreased.
*Some would say the Commodore 64 is the golden age but I say feh to that . Computer games didn't truly become advanced until the PC.
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| 29 NOV 2003 at 11:26pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Tomb Raider was much more like what I was expecting when I decided to try out computer games.
Yeah - I love the TR series as well (I'm in the middle of replaying TR3 at the moment). You've got to replay TR1 with GLIDOS someday if you haven't already (assuming you never played it with a Voodoo).
What's your opinion of TRAOD by the way? It wasn't quite up to par IMHO -
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 12:16am |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Armstrong (29 NOV 2003 11:22pm)
The VERY first adventure game I played was on the commodore and I don't remember the title. I didn't get very far on it I just remember it consisted of trying to escape from a cell after an alien imprisoned you (the title started with an O.)
Oo-Topos?
That was the only title starting with an O I found...
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 12:36am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Armstrong (29 NOV 2003 11:22pm)
The VERY first adventure game I played was on the commodore and I don't remember the title. I didn't get very far on it I just remember it consisted of trying to escape from a cell after an alien imprisoned you (the title started with an O.)
Out of This World, I think? An excellent game. It was an early game for me (on the SNES) as well.
Which reminds me of something I've been wondering about it ever since. Did they ever get around to a sequel? I think the ending was somewhat open ended and had a "To be continued" message to boot, if I recall.
Update: A search at Moby Games and The Underdogs turns up a sequel for Sega CD. Rats. I was hoping for a PC version. Ah, well. I'll have to be content with emulation!
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 3:18am |
ArmstrongIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Andromus (30 NOV 2003 12:36am)
Out of This World, I think? An excellent game. It was an early game for me (on the SNES) as well.
I played that too but it was much older than Out of this world. This was on the C64 back in like '87-88, I remember the graphics were primitive but the game was definitely adventure based.
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 3:19am |
ArmstrongIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Shany (30 NOV 2003 12:16am)
Oo-Topos?
That was the only title starting with an O I found...
Yes that was the name of the game . Thanks, i'm going to go check it out.
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 6:01am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (29 NOV 2003 11:26pm)
Yeah - I love the TR series as well (I'm in the middle of replaying TR3 at the moment). You've got to replay TR1 with GLIDOS someday if you haven't already (assuming you never played it with a Voodoo).
I bought an old Voodoo on ebay and installed it on an old computer just so I could play Tomb Raider I in hardware mode when I replayed it. It looked so much better with the Voodoo than in software mode. I hadn't heard of GLIDOS.
What's your opinion of TRAOD by the way? It wasn't quite up to par IMHO -
I decided not to buy Angel of Darkness. Not anytime soon anyway. I read what people in the alt.games.tombraider newsgroup thought of it. They changed the controls. Why? I liked the old controls. You have no idea how much it upset me back when they changed the sidestep keys for TR3. Now they have Lara automatically jumping when you get close to something she can climb, even when you don't want her to. Yecch! They can keep it. I had enough of that kind of nonsense with the stairways in Sanitarium.
And apparently there aren't any tombs in the game either. What were they thinking?
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| 30 NOV 2003 at 5:28pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Armstrong (30 NOV 2003 3:18am)
I played that too but it was much older than Out of this world. This was on the C64 back in like '87-88, I remember the graphics were primitive but the game was definitely adventure based.
Isn't that funny, because Out Of this World had a section where you were imprisoned by aliens and you had to use your alien buddy imprisoned above you to help you escape. Awesome game though, wasn't it? It was called "Another World" in the UK. I remember the intro and the first level so clearly. The squishy noise the slinky worms made when you kicked them.... Although it definitely had adventure elements I don't consider this type of game (like Flashback too, another gem) my intro to adventures. Myst was the one.
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| 1 DEC 2003 at 2:41am |
lakerzPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Hmm, I didn't know Out Of This World had a sequel. Pretty cool, too bad it was never ported to the PC. I wonder why not?
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| 1 DEC 2003 at 2:50am |
DracheHexeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | The very first adventure game I ever played was Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600. To this day I think is is still, by far, the most challenging and most creative adventure game of all time.
I've been hooked on adventure ever since.
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| 1 DEC 2003 at 12:08pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | My first adventures (which I played in turns) were Day of the Tentacle, Sherlock Holmes and the Serrated Scalpel and King's Quest VI. No, hold on...that was a bit later. I play adventures since I got my first "real" computer. We had an old machine before that on which I used to play Blockout in 3d and monochrome colors.
The very first computer game I've ever played (I was about 9 or 10 I think) has been Prince of Persia. I couldn't move one inch without dying. I really had no skill at all in the first place. Amazing.
But I played GameBoy and consoles before that. I got a GB by the time they were released. There are still some games I fondly remember and would love to play again. See my signature for a list with comments on them.
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| 1 DEC 2003 at 12:25pm |
EnyGmaTiKIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | The first adventure game i have ever played was Gremlins for the spectrum, adventure text game. It was so fun back then (and it still is).
But i got to say that the game which got me to be a hardcore adventure gamer was Secret of Monkey Island back on the Commodore Amiga 500. Stunning game. I was on the 5th grade and i remember i skipped school the day after i finished the game because the night before i went to bed at like 5am. How i miss those days :-[
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| 1 DEC 2003 at 1:12pm |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | It all started with Hoborg.. the being who had to create, because.. he had to.
And I fully agree with Michal.
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