What was your first adventure game? [Archive]

stoney1981

08/05/2009, 02:33 pm

Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Monkey Island 2

Later on -> Kings Quest VII, Phantasmagoria, Sanitarium, 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Gabriel Knight, Riddle Of Master Lu (excellent game!) and of course all the Lucas Games ( ie. Indiana Jones 3/4, Day Of The Tentacle, Monkey Island 1, Sam&Max - you name it, i had em) And i finished each of those Lucas Arts Games aswell. The Ones i haven´t finished (yet) are Loom, The Dig and Full Throttle.

I payed WAY too less attention to several Sierra Games, such as the excellent Police Quest Series for example. I´m making up for that now. :) So Sierra, bring them on. Also, i´m trying to dive into Myst, which is quite a though yet rewarding nut to crack.

Phew, so much games to play, and so less spare time. :(

NunoCardoso

08/06/2009, 03:14 am

Leisure Suit Larry 1 on EGA... epic story for a teenager with its first 386sx PC. Only Sierra game I've really enjoyed.

Jazzy

08/06/2009, 05:38 am

I think it was Zak McKraken and the Alien Mind Benders, but I'm not sure, been quite a while. It was on the Atari though, I remember that much, loved that game though, have to find it again sometime. Possessing the yak and meeting Elvis, good times good times.

MusicallyInspired

08/06/2009, 08:48 am

I believe it was either Space Quest I or II. Or King's Quest I maybe.

wefeelgroove

08/06/2009, 09:00 am

Probably King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, but since I was only three or four years old at the time, I only watched my parents play it.

I think the first ones I actually played on my own was Mixed Up Mother Goose/Fairy Tales.

natlinxz

08/06/2009, 09:21 am

Maniac Mansion! I used to have that for Commodore 64. Then I got it on a *cough*nesemulator*cough* and then got into point and click.

Nimeni

08/06/2009, 12:42 pm

Wow, I'm getting nostalgia just reading this thread. Gobliiins, Lost in Time (which is terrible, and yet still manages to evoke nostalgia), Space Quest . . . Ahh, the warm, squishy memories of childhood . . .

My first was King's Quest, which I tried to watch my dad play and finally stopped with the consession that he would let me try it when he was done. Those typing interfaces did a lot to motivate my general improvement in spelling, I'll tell you what.

corruptbiggins

08/06/2009, 03:21 pm

I think it was Police Quest 1.

MusicallyInspired

08/06/2009, 05:13 pm

Wow, I'm getting nostalgia just reading this thread. Gobliiins, Lost in Space (which is terrible, and yet still manages to evoke nostalgia), Space Quest . . . Ahh, the warm, squishy memories of childhood . . .

You mean Lost in Time. Lost in Space was the cool old TV show (though only the first season was any good).

My first was King's Quest, which I tried to watch my dad play and finally stopped with the consession that he would let me try it when he was done. Those typing interfaces did a lot to motivate my general improvement in spelling, I'll tell you what.

Indeed. I learned to read and spell through Sierra's AGI games.

Armakuni

08/06/2009, 06:08 pm

Leisure Suit Larry 1 - on my fathers Toshiba laptop :p

Nimeni

08/07/2009, 08:35 am

You mean Lost in Time. Lost in Space was the cool old TV show (though only the first season was any good).

Fixed. I knew that. That'll teach me to post and sing along with Viva La Vida at the same time.

Jace Taran

08/07/2009, 01:14 pm

SOMI, way back when my cousin had it on his computer (he had the CD edition about 15 years ago). Still remains my all time favorite game, regardless of genre or platform.

elaine treepwood

08/07/2009, 03:36 pm

The Secret of Monkey Island

DjNDB

08/08/2009, 05:25 am

There was sure some Textadventure before i don't remember, but the first Graphic Adventure i played was Zak McKracken on the C64 ~20 years ago.

TookiGuy

08/08/2009, 07:06 am

CMI. I guess that's why I don't dislike the version of Guybrush in that game. It's my favourite, after MI2. You know, when I come to think about it, I haven't been THAT interested in other advenchies. Special place in my heart, I guess.

SHODANFreeman

08/08/2009, 07:31 am

The Secret of Monkey Island

^ This.

Rawr

08/08/2009, 10:38 am

Would of been Secret of Monkey Island, which I used to play around at a friends house. :P

uday1583

08/15/2009, 09:03 am

The first adventure game that i played was Full throttle and i enjoyed it thoroughly and that increased my appetite for more such games. Thanks

Megaloman

08/15/2009, 02:23 pm

I think it was King's Quest III. My father returned from London with the game right after its release and I've still got the original packaging and floppy disks! It's very possible that we had Police Quest before that, but KQIII is as far as I can remember myself actually playing.

Snicklin

08/15/2009, 02:33 pm

Either Banjo Kazooie or Super Mario 64. Both were epic.

RankoSao

08/15/2009, 02:36 pm

Those aren't adventure games... Think more along the lines of Shadowgate 64...

Woodsyblue

08/15/2009, 08:35 pm

The Secret of Monkey Island wasn't only the first Adventure Game I ever played but the first game I ever played period. I've been addicted to the point-and-click genre ever since ^_^

Frogacuda

08/16/2009, 05:12 pm

Trying to remember this was harder than I'd have thought. I've played thousands of games in my life and trying to sort them out can be hard. I got my first "new" (not hand-me-down) PC in 1994, and I remembered playing a lot of adventures after that, but I finally remembered some from before then.

I'm not 100% positive which was first, but I believe it was Transylvania, an early first person graphic adventure on Apple II with a text parser interface:
http://www.dailyping.com/images/transylvania.gif

I was in third or fourth grade when I played that (so 8 or 9?). I used to play it at school, since I didn't have my own computer. Then in 1990 or 1991 I remember getting a computer of my own, an EGA 286, and one of the first games I got was a Sierra-style graphic adventure called Hugo's House of Horrors:

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/h/hugos_house_of_horrors/hugos_house_of_horrors-4.gif

Bit of a Maniac Mansion rip off in hindsight, but it rocked my world at the time. I remember playing the two sequels as well. That was probably where I got hooked on the genre.

ShadMan

08/16/2009, 07:03 pm

Scott Adams' Adventureland. A text only game that took 5 minutes to load on a tape deck. Commodore VIC-20!!!!!

(Wow, I feel so old......)

Brian, Mighty Pirate

08/17/2009, 07:26 am

the first adventure game i played was the first putt-putt game.

lecharles

08/17/2009, 11:43 am

my first adventure game...(don't laugh) Pajama Sam

Rather Dashing

08/18/2009, 06:32 am

It was either Maniac Mansion or Secret of Monkey Island. My first exposure to these games was...kind of ecclectic.

Cinsev

08/18/2009, 06:53 am

mine was king quest 1. those were the days.

ssn626391689

08/18/2009, 02:02 pm

Wow. All of you either started adventuring late or I'm getting old. I vividly remember playing Kings Quest on my PC Jr. Cinsev you're right, those WERE the days.

Thriftweed Fancy Pants

08/18/2009, 06:42 pm

Full Throttle.

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/h/hugos_house_of_horrors/hugos_house_of_horrors-4.gif

HUGO! (That picture just awakened a flood of childhood memories...)

Unless there's another old adventure game I'm forgetting, I believe it was something like this for me:

1.Hugo House of Horrors
2.Hugo Whodunit?
3.Hugo Jungle of Doom
4.EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
5.EcoQuest II: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
6.Full Throttle
7.The Dig
8.Myst
9.Riven
(Insert 10+ year hiatus.)
10.The Secret of Monkey Island

It looks like my initial progression was Sierra>LucasArts>Cyan.

It's so funny that I've just rediscovered the genre as it's picking up some momentum. I literally just finished playing through SMI, MI2:LR, and CMI when I found out that there was going to be a new Monkey Island from TellTale, and that TTG was successfully resurrecting the adventure game industry.

Hmm, looking back at the above list, I think there actually may have been some others in between (I remember babysitting at someone else's house, and I played a few games with their kids—Putt Putt, Freddi Fish, Spy Fox, and The Neverhood). Guess I was already becoming a Ron Gilbert fan before I found The Secret of Monkey Island. :P

purple_monkfish

08/19/2009, 10:24 pm

Monkey Island 2 I believe, which got me into the whole Lucasarts omg thing lol.

Only Sierra game I ever played as a kid was KQ7, and I wasn't a fan of the death thing. Being so used to being able to click everything and explore it all, it was a bit of a shock to be punished for trying things out. But yeah, i'm fairly certain MI2 was the first adventure game I played... unless you count the text adventure I played as a kid on the amstrad... which I can't recall the name of.
All I remember about that game was that you started on a raft, first command was "land raft" and there was a point where progress was blocked by a bear.
It was a bit odd. Anyone have any idea?

purple_monkfish

08/19/2009, 10:38 pm

OMG HUGO! I loved hugo! Hated the sodding mummy in the first game grrr.. and the flytraps in the second. And totally never understood the deal with the groundskeeper hahaha.

I remember being lent Mixed up fairy tales and Eco Quest.. I always enjoyed EQ, even if it was moralistic.

I'm sure Zork was somewhere in those early years as well... I sucked at it but I loved it anyway.

elaine treepwood

08/19/2009, 10:59 pm

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

aufbix

08/20/2009, 12:44 am

My first adventure was Kontrabant in year 1984, game for ZX Spectrum. It was textual adventure with few pictures, you had to put in your commands with typing, like S for going south.
http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/ZX/TextAdv/Html/Kontrabant.php

Link and game is in Slovenian, but being adventurer you can manage at least to start the emulator. For decent play you definitely need good knowledge of Slovenian..

Shinetop01

08/20/2009, 12:12 pm

Zak McKracken!!
So TellTale, no more Zak adventures?? :)

TUMS

08/20/2009, 04:46 pm

Definitely Zork 1. My dad had a dummy terminal he brought home from work. I would dial into the mainframe at his main office and play zork till all hours of the night.

AcidPluto

08/20/2009, 10:48 pm

There were probably others before, but the first one I vividly remember is 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos', an entirely text-based adventure from Infocom.

Gianthogweed

08/21/2009, 12:15 am

My first Adventure game was actually the first game I owned, Black Cauldron. My father got it for me and my sisters when I was seven years old and we got our first computer, a Tandy 1000. I remember we didn't know how to save, so we actually made it up to the horned king's castle by playing over and over again from the beginning (we would die constantly because early sierra games were hardcore that way). It took us all day to get into the castle and about five years before I finally beat the game (we were stuck at the part part where you have to find the fairy folk cave for years).

Space Quest was the second game we got and was the first game we ever beat. I have very fond memories of that game because it was the only game we beat as a family, even people in my extended family contributed to solving puzzles in that game and we never cheated or looked up hints (there was no internet back then to cheat). The game is also just perfectly designed, such a great story and such great humor. Still probably my favorite game and my favorite series of games.

Lucasarts adventure games came a little later with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island 2 (I actually didn't play the first one until a few years later). I always felt that they greatly improved on the formula by preventing dead ends and making it so that you can't die, but at the same time, I kind of missed the challenge of the parser interface and the humor of the deaths in the old sierra games. Also the lack of the internet in the 80s really forced you to really think things through and not get lazy.

Still, I started to like Lucasarts adventure games more than Sierra games in the 90s for their slick user friendly design, humor, good puzzles and stories, although Sierra still did have some great Space Quest and King's Quest games in the early 90s that kept them competitive for awhile. But by that point I was the only still playing computer games so it was less of a group effort and it wasn't as much fun to me. Nothing will beat the experience of working together as a family to beat Space Quest 1. It'd be cool if Telltale could work with the old Sierra designers to release some new space quest and king's quest games.

raegun

08/21/2009, 03:41 am

I'm trying to figure out what the genres were of the games I played. King's Quest 5 was definitely one of the first complex games I ever got into. Before that, I played Worlds of Ultima: Martian Dreams and The Savage Empire. I was buying some game at the computer store when I saw a promo disk for Monkey Island and I fell in love with the demo. Went on to buy it and also Loom.

I went back and got all the King's Quest and Space Quest games, then Monkey Island 2. I had both EcoQuests (forgot about that until today but I can still hear the theme music in my head), Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail, Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood. I had Gobliiins, Hugo's Jungle whatever, Kyrandia 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer... I think I stopped playing games around the time when Myst was the hot game, and I was disappointed in the direction gaming took. Since Myst, I've only played Fantasmagoria, and went off into MMORPGs until the new MI games came out.

Monkey Island 2 has always been my favorite game. I'm so glad that the Telltale crew has kept the same spirit with these new episodes.

This is a nice thread, too. Bringing back memories!

raegun

08/21/2009, 03:49 am

There should be a thread for "games that creeped you out." I would definitely put Loom into the "unnerving" category, at the very least. :D

Zeek

08/21/2009, 04:00 am

King's Quest. Don't know which number. Man, where those hard.

Thriftweed Fancy Pants

08/21/2009, 03:47 pm

I have very fond memories of that game because it was the only game we beat as a family, even people in my extended family contributed to solving puzzles in that game and we never cheated or looked up hints (there was no internet back then to cheat).

Don't know why, but PC gaming seems less group/family oriented these days. I remember how my family used to get together to play YDKJ, Myst, etc. Those were good days...

raegun

08/21/2009, 05:28 pm

It'd be cool if Telltale could work with the old Sierra designers to release some new space quest and king's quest games.

Someone beat them to it already. You might want to check out http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=projects

Thriftweed Fancy Pants

08/22/2009, 01:24 am

Someone beat them to it already. You might want to check out http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=projects

I don't think these are new; it says they're "remakes."

Crys

08/22/2009, 02:43 am

I was pretty young during the golden era of adventures ('90-'96ish), but my older brother used to play them (started in '92, I think) so I'd watch and occasionally help out when he translated stuff for me :D The first game I played alongside him was Zac McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

When I finally got a decent enough grasp of English, the first game I re-played on my own was either LeChuck's Revenge or Day of the Tentacle, can't remember.

StarEye

08/22/2009, 03:11 am

I didn't realize I was playing my first adventure game when I played it. It was a game called Murder on the Mississisppi, played in on the Commodore 64. But my first adventure game counsciously considered an adventure game was Operation Stealth from Delphine Software, on an unexpanded Amiga 500 (so I didn't have the horrible "spoken dialogue" that came with it if you played with 1mb of ram).

I still consider Operation Stealth my first real conscious contact with the genre. But I realize MOTM is in the same genre.

raegun

08/22/2009, 03:14 am

I don't think these are new; it says they're "remakes."

Oops! I misread. I thought you were talking about a remake, like SoMI. My bad.

Harpalyce

08/22/2009, 09:11 am

My first adventure game? Hard to say. Up until a few years ago I was usually a 'backseat gamer', watching as my sister played through King's Quest and Monkey Island games and harassing her with hints and ideas.

However, I will say that the start of that trend came watching my mother play King's Quest 4. The only time I have seen her truly mad is trying to get Rosella up and down those stairs.

blomsty

08/22/2009, 05:52 pm

Toonstruck was the first adventure game I ever played, and I loved it! That's how I got into adventure games in the first place :) There were supposed to be a sequel, but it never got released unfortunately.

mramigaadventurer

10/28/2009, 12:29 pm

Ah Murder on the Mississippi was a great game indeed! But for proper adventure gaming my first was Space Quest I which I kinda put on the back burner after discovering the Adventures of Willy Beamish on the Amiga 500.

spaghetti016

10/28/2009, 01:42 pm

My first was Full Throttle. About half way through the game it would freeze due to a scratch on the CD.

Icedhope

10/29/2009, 08:09 am

my first adventure game, was Sam&Max hit the road, I remember because my cousin had it on his computer, and I would play it when he was at work.

LowMoralFiber

10/29/2009, 08:32 am

Escape from Monkey Island. I had my interest in Monkey Island piqued, and it was the easiest game to get a hold of!

It all just sort of expanded from there...

gregowich

10/29/2009, 08:49 am

It was MI2, and i didn't speak any English back then. Actually to be able to understand Monkey island was the sole reason i learnt English :P

JohanShogun

10/30/2009, 01:02 am

I'm not sure if it was some no name text adventure or The secret of monkey island which I played first, like the above poster I got my first English experience with MI ;)

coolsome

10/30/2009, 01:35 am

mine was Sam and Max hit the Road

mrlovanhey

10/30/2009, 01:35 am

Zak McKraken on C64. What a time that was :).

Then of course it got followed up on the Amiga by Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and so on.

fhqwhgads

10/30/2009, 01:42 am

It was Space Quest 1 or 2. But Monkey Island was the first one that blew me away. It was like the Crysis of adventure games to me.

Marty

10/30/2009, 01:43 am

I'm pretty sure it was King's Quest

Cadavre

10/30/2009, 01:51 am

CoMI or DotT, can't remember which.

Doesn't matter though, both were awesome! :)

wavefunction

10/30/2009, 01:54 am

Sam & Max: Season 1
a game by Telltale

Kaldire

10/30/2009, 04:21 am

zork or wishbringer, one of the infocom games as such... i think zork

BeeKay84

10/30/2009, 06:03 am

Mine was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Then, I got most of the other adventure games by LucasArts, including Monkey Island, and I was addicted!

swedish_jedi

10/30/2009, 12:12 pm

Sunes sportlov, a swedish adventure game based on a series of famous young-adult stories (in sweden). It was a simple game, both in gameplay and presentation. But it was the beginning for adventure games for me.

Mack Daddy

10/30/2009, 12:25 pm

Infocom's 'Zork I' on my Commodore 64 - yeah, I'm old.

techie775

10/30/2009, 02:31 pm

hero's quest aka; Quest for glory I. Adventure/RPG game but still. Then Monkey Island 1.

Alf Fly

10/30/2009, 03:41 pm

Would of been Secret of Monkey Island, which I used to play around at a friends house. :P

That's how I got into point-and-click adventure games too!

I played text adventures for years before that, though. My first was The Boggit.

glenfx

10/30/2009, 04:16 pm

My first "adventure" game was something with pyramids and Egypt with scorpions for the atari. Then in nintendo there was zelda which i hated with all my heart.

First adventure on PC for me was "Alone in the dark", but for the point click kind of adventures my first was "Curse of enchantia", "Gooblins" and "Simon the sorcerer" (I received them at the same time, but curse of enchantia was the first i tried of the three)

meretchen

10/31/2009, 08:49 am

I feel like a very old lady reading about your first experiences with adventure gaming. :rolleyes:

First time I playd would have been back in the orwellian year of 1984. I was 12, and I played a series of text adventure games on my brand new Vic20. The first one was about pirates - "Pirate Island" it may have been called?

First adventure game on a PC was "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Infocom. Also a text adventure game.

The first graphic adventure I played was "Kings Quest". By the way, I really love "Peasant Quest" by Videlectrics (Homestar Runner), which is a Kings Quest Parody - very funny for aging gamers like myself, who remember the first of the "Quest"-games. :D

yogurtmano86753090

10/31/2009, 09:06 am

lets see i came here excited about sbcg4ap. saw sam and max tryed the demo. loved it

Flocke

10/31/2009, 10:35 am

A very good question. When I was a little girl, I used to watch my two big brothers playing some games. I once tried the first adventure game in my home, Curse of Monkey Island. I liked it, but it was hard for me because I had just learned how to read and as English isn't my native language, I had a hard time playing it, so I gave up.
Around late 2007, I tried to play Curse of Monkey Island again. Well, as I was in the 9th grade, I had learned some English. =) I enjoyed the game even more, so... I guess I could say that my first adventure game was CoMI.

I liked to play adventuring games, so now I have played many different kinds of games, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Leisure Suit Larry, Monkey Island...
Oh yeah, when I was around 10 years old, I played some Spy Fox demo version. I think it was an adventuring game, right? I also recall some names such as "Freddi Fish", "Pajama Sam" and "Putt-Putt". I think they were some adventuring games, too. I might even have the demo CDs lying around somewhere...

But yeah. I guess it's safe for me to say that my first adventure games was Curse of Monkey Island. A great game, indeed. =)

DwarvenArchitect

10/31/2009, 04:45 pm

Space Quest II or Police Quest.. Or a Dr. Brain game. Can't remember

Nightwalker

11/01/2009, 01:49 am

Curse of Monkey Island was my first adventure game, right after it got released, I had no idea about that genre before I played it... Still my most favorite adventure.

someguyfromazoo

11/01/2009, 06:03 am

Pajama Sam or Freddy Fish, or Spy Fox.
I played all of those, I'm not sure which was first. On an unrelated note, Welcome to Tell-Tale, Locke!

MrAdventure

11/03/2009, 10:40 am

My first adventure game was The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Serrated Scalpel. I have played it a couple times since then. But....ahhh the memories.

Brainiac

11/04/2009, 04:32 am

My first adventure game was The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Serrated Scalpel. I have played it a couple times since then. But....ahhh the memories.

I remember that game. It was pretty good. The sequel, The Case of the Rose Tattoo, was better in my opinion.

seagul

11/04/2009, 05:26 am

My first was Day of the Tentacle - followed by Sam and Max hit the Road.
I didn't even have a computer than and was forced to play the games at different friends. Always replaying the parts i played on another computer. So it took me some time to finish them.
So, as soon i got some money, i bought my first computer.
And the first game i bought: Myst.

Kaldire

11/04/2009, 06:36 am

who also said zork.. some great lady (KISS) you are not old! perfectly ripened.

meretchen?

Also I dont think it was pirate island.. sigh my memory, thank god for mobygames. I have the box still and mine said pirate cove, until I searched it.. it is the game you are talking

http://www.mobygames.com/game/vic-20/pirate-adventure/screenshots/gameShotId,307775/

zork and wishbringer.. I still have my glow in the dark rock thing that came with it...(doesnt glow any more)

Shen-Zhi

11/04/2009, 06:43 am

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (original)

Kaldire

11/04/2009, 06:54 am

original or remake? you can TOTALLY tell

one is very pixelated .. one is not

shref

11/04/2009, 08:18 am

im happy to say that secret of monkey island took my adventure game virginity. seems like ages ago now.

johahyana

11/05/2009, 08:51 am

Mine was 'The longest journey'.........

waspbr

11/05/2009, 11:40 am

maniac mansion, those back then I barely knew any english, so I would really get stuck, good times...

upperchuck

11/06/2009, 09:59 am

During speech therapy I briefly played a little King's Quest on an Old Mac, that's back when the game was fairly new... then a few years later I got a hold of a Lucas Arts box collection of Hits and got

Sam n Max
DOTT
Rebel Assualt
Tie Fighter
Fate of Atlantis
A few others...all at once.
So we played them all, can't really remember which was first though. I remember getting them in the box at the store with my father though and looking at other games that we're out at the time. The Golden Age of video games, it was a beautiful time.

But that was the beginning of my parent's divorce and so it was the only thing we had to do because we were forced to stay at home and to not use the phone to call home home, or anything else. It was like a boring prison a lot of the time. We didn't do a whole hell of a lot. We eventually stold the CDS and took them home to play with them.

No, wait, now I remember, we got Rebel Assault for Christmas at our dads and it was an awesome game to get. We we're so very excited. Rebel Assault didn't come in the box. That was the same year I got one of those vader face masks that changes your voice, I think...OH WAIT, Maybe it wasn't Rebel Assualt, it might have been Star Trek Next Generations, A Final Unity. We had that game too and I loved/ love that game. Might have been both.IT was both games.