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| 3 DEC 2003 at 6:32pm |
jonathanboakesSpace Cadet
Posts : 140
Joined: 10 MAY 2003
Status : Online | I was very much into an old SpectrumZX game called "The Mystery of Arkham Manor" back in the early 80's. The exploration of a village, manor and graveyard captured my childhood imagination.
Very little gaming followed in the late 80's, and then I went to a really bad party. Got drunk, like everyone there, but found Myst on the hosts computer while bored. 7 hours later I had to be forcibly removed by the owner, who had a terrible hangover.
The next day I started saving for my first PC computer, so that I could continue what I had started. I never saw the host of the party again....
[img]http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/warning.jpg[/img]&&[url=http://www.thelostcrown.co.uk]Darkling Room: The Lost Crown[/url] / [url=http://www.barrow-hill.co.uk/sales]Playing: Barrow Hill[/url]
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| 3 DEC 2003 at 8:32pm |
| Deleted User | Why? Did you kill him and bury him at a disused railway station? That would explain a lot.
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| 3 DEC 2003 at 9:12pm |
jonathanboakesSpace Cadet
Posts : 140
Joined: 10 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Something like that.
[img]http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/warning.jpg[/img]&&[url=http://www.thelostcrown.co.uk]Darkling Room: The Lost Crown[/url] / [url=http://www.barrow-hill.co.uk/sales]Playing: Barrow Hill[/url]
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| 3 DEC 2003 at 10:18pm |
ThanandaJourneyman
Posts : 1168
Joined: 8 OCT 2003
Status : Online | I was 8 years old, when my brother bruoght home the first adventure, I've notesed. It was Loom (in hebrew translation).
I watched him playing, and when I decided to give him a tip on a tough spot, which turned out to be right, adventure took over my life (It's more fun now, when I can understand english ). True, I do not play as much a I wish (mainly because of my tight budget and lack of time), but I guess, it's in my blood now
Do go on! I always yawn, when I'm fascinated!
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| 4 DEC 2003 at 1:01am |
| Deleted User | Guess I should tell my story too. The year was 1991. Before me I had the first family computer, an IBM PS1. 40 meg hard drive, 2 meg ram. 12'' screen. VGA graphics. Ahh, the memories... *nostalgic sigh*
The game was Leisure Suit Larry 3. I was only 10, so I suppose I was a bit young for the content. Nevertheless, the graphics just stunned me. I could spend hours just walking around in the lush jungle landscape. Then I slowly started figuring out how to progress in the game, with an Enlish dictionary by my side all along as I struggled with the interpreter. Every little thing that I could figure out and that resulted in some sort of meaningful reaction from the game was incredibly rewarding. Then I saw a preview of Eco Quest in a computer magazine and knew I just had to have it. The poor IBM computer couldn't handle the game properly with that little RAM so it froze up in the middle and I had to play past that part on another computer. Then, during the mid 90's I played my way through most of the Sierra and LucasArts games. Adventure games were just the natural thing to play. I loved the stories and the intellectual challenge. I played other types of games too (I still do) but for some reason adventure games just were my cup of tea. When they started declining I quickly joined forces with other fans on the Internet, struggling to see a renissance. And here we are today...
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| 4 DEC 2003 at 3:56pm |
AkhillesPrivate Detective
Posts : 581
Joined: 21 JUL 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | I wish I could recall... it was during my childhood.. I do recall the games though:
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here
No pixel hunting. No bad cameras. No jerky joysticks. No bad acting. Ok, maybe some quirky humor... but PURE adventure!
Note: I will add.. there was an adventure game I had on the C64.. in basic.. some guy created.. I loved it! I was so hooked on it, I contacted him to get a bug fixed because I couldn't finish it without the fix
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
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| 4 DEC 2003 at 6:33pm |
Mike_ASorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 292
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Sir Funkenstein jr. (2 DEC 2003 4:39pm)
Pirate Adventure by Adventure international on a TI 99/4a in 1977
[img]http://www.if-legends.org/~aimemorial/images/pirate.jpg[/img]
Sigh.....
Ah, Funk, the memories. That was the first adventure game I ever finished, and it was on a TI even (not mine, my grandma's that she used for her class at school).
I really can't remember if the first adventure I played was Zork 1 or Pirate Adventure. It's been a couple of decades. I played them both first about the same time on my friend's PC. Then I started playing Infocom games on my C64 and writing my own and so on...
Or go fishing. [i]- MI2 [/i]&&Okay. [i]- Me[/i]
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| 5 DEC 2003 at 8:10am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (23 NOV 2003 3:51am)
1974 - The Colossal Cave Adventure. Been playin ever since.
Are you sure it was 1974? Or was that a typo and you meant 1984? I first played Colossal Cave on a HP6000 at work (in my copious spare time) in about 1984. In the 70's most offices still used electric typewriters :
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| 5 DEC 2003 at 6:18pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Marlys (5 DEC 2003 8:09am)
Are you sure it was 1974? Or was that a typo and you meant 1984? I first played Colossal Cave on a HP6000 at work (in my copious spare time) in about 1984. In the 70's most offices still used electric typewriters :
It was created between 1972 and 1977. Souces quote different dates. Crowther used a language he wrote in '72 to map the real Mammoth caves on the computer.
So 1974 sounds about right.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 6 DEC 2003 at 4:24am |
kittySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 269
Joined: 27 SEP 2003
Status : Online | I know I'm a little late to the party, but this is a great topic.
The first adventure game I played was Hugo's House of Horrors. I loved it, but it was on a friend's computer and we didn't have one at home. Years and years later I played Myst, but I wasn't really hooked until a few years after that when a friend loaned me GK2. It's still my second favorite game (I'm actually in the process of playing through it for the 3rd time), and since then I've been playing and collecting.
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| 7 DEC 2003 at 12:51am |
insane_cobraIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 12
Joined: 12 OCT 2003
Status : Online | i was about 6 or 7 when my uncle, who lived with us at the time, bought a commodore 64. probably the first computer game i ever got the chance to play was trashman, a decent pacman clone, and immediately i was hooked. so i spent next 5 or so years playing mostly action and arcade games, i just loved it.
and then one day my uncle moved away and left his old c-64 behind. a few months later i went to visit him in his new apartment. he had some work to do so he just sat me in front of his new amazingly fast 386 pc with a black and white 14" monitor, showed me how to load games and went outside. the first pc game i tried was prehistorik, a cute little platformer, and the second one was xenon 2 megablast, a now-legendary vertical scrolling shooter. they both looked amazing and played beautifully!
and then came the secret of monkey island.
i have never seen anything quite like it. it was a game in which you were actually supposed to read to play it. it didn't have levels, it didn't have a highscore. instead it had a living, breathing island filled with amusing characters. and it was not just fun, it was downright funny! i was in love. i spent the whole afternoon playing it, wrestling with the english language and the puzzles, experiencing the level of fulfillment i have never grasped before, at least not sitting in front of computer screen.
when my uncle finally returned home, what he had found was just a shell, i was not there nor lost in some computer game. i was on melee island.
(come to think of it, my first-first adventure-ish game was probably rocky horror show, back on c-64. i was very happy to find a remake years later, but somehow it just doesn't cut it anymore)
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| 11 DEC 2003 at 6:45am |
| Deleted User | Hey, did ANYONE ever play Wonderland by Magnetic Scrolls??
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| 11 DEC 2003 at 8:17am |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Bazza (11 DEC 2003 6:45am)
Hey, did ANYONE ever play Wonderland by Magnetic Scrolls??
Yes, Fantastic game.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 5 JAN 2004 at 4:21am |
RussianRoseIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 6
Joined: 5 JAN 2004
Status : Online | Damn, my first action/adventure game was Tomb raider original. I was just in shock of this game, I was about 11 years old and I was just duying to play,but I couldn't because the game was my friend's and I had to come over to his house to watch him playing that game .. Iknow sounds stupid but I didn't have a comp then. MY second adventure game was Brothe pilots ( a russian game ) I loved it but it was too though for me, and then I bought LArry LAffer, thats it I was infected with adventure games since then.
"I know nothing about sex, I was always ,married"
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