What Was The First Adventure Game You Ever Played?

[AlmostApollo]

I'm sorry if this thread has existed before, but I'm really curious. What was everyone's first adventure game and how old where you when you played it?

To start off, mine was Pajama Sam In: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside. I was six and loved every minute of it.

[Secret Fawful]

My first adventure game that I remember Escape From Monkey Island for PS2 as a demo in Wal-Mart. I played it over and over; I loved kicking the coal onto the cannon. I always found that to be absolutely hilarious. Sigh. That really was a game meant for consoles.

Although Scooby Doo - Classic Creep Capers for the N64 may pre-date it; I'm not sure if that qualifies as an adventure game.

[Wapcaplet]

Probably Zork I. Never did get around to playing any of the old Scott Adams games.

Unless you want to count Adventure on the Atari 2600.

(Yes, I am that old.)

[brunner]

Day of the Tentacle is the first adventure game that I played through to completion. The rest of the LucasArts games weren't far behind. In fact, Full Throttle was the first game I ever purchased myself. It came with a free Toys 'R' Us mouse pad. I remember being so excited looking at the back of the box as I went home.

[Hayden]

Curse of Monkey Island for me. I had a good debut :)

[brunner]

Curse of Monkey Island for me. I had a good debut :)Also a lot of disappointment because adventure games died completely not long after that.

[OzzieMonkey]

I got 3 adventure games from a family friend when i was about 8. There was The Dig, Full Throttle and The Curse of Monkey Island. I can't really remember which game I played first, but I do remember that I played Curse a lot more than the other 2 games I got. Eventually I found out about Escape from a kid at school, which I then searched up to try and get it. I went to my loical Ebgames and when I asked for it they said "No, you can only download it." I don't like piracy, so I ask this family friend where he got Curse from. He told me it was Gametraders (I don't know whether any country besides Australia has this shop, it's basically a shop that sells pre-owned games) and not only did I find Escape, but Monkey Island madness on CD, too! Best. Moment. Ever.

[Hayden]

Also a lot of disappointment because adventure games died completely not long after that.

Yeah, but I was able to go back over all of the old classics from earlier years. And I think that we're currently in the first days of a revival in the adventure game industry.

[jmm]

Maniac Mansion

[Avistew]

Probably Monkey Island 1, but I was too young to remember. I vaguely remember playing the 2nd one for the first time, which would have happened afterwards, but I remember much better things like Broken Sword and Curse, since I was much older then.

[corruptbiggins]

Either the Secret of Monkey Island or Maniac Mansion. Probably MI1, though not entirely sure. Damn my rubbish memory of my childhood.

[Eduardo]

Secret of Monkey Island.

[Iryon]

Loom

[GuybrushWilco]

Space Quest 1 EGA

[Remolay]

Full throttle. which is also one of the first video games I ever played. I sucked at it

[Hassat Hunter]

My memory really sucks, but probably DoTC or LCR. Has to be one of those 2.

[Macco]

First I can remember (and probably the first adventure I've played) was Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders.

[Icedhope]

Leisure suit Larry, and the land of the lounge Lizards.

[Chyron8472]

My family's first adventure game was King's Quest 4.

I parents dislike adventure games in general because they have too much experince with Sierra's tendency to punish gamers for not picking up everything and using it all in the right order.

My second adventure game was The Secret of Monkey Island. Some time after my parents got their first computer, my aunt and uncle got one, and one of the games they got with it was SMI. I remember watching my family play it together at their house, though I think at the time we all only got as far as the Important-Looking-Pirates in the SCUMM Bar before we started doing other things. Well, I remember at one point going back over to their house and seeing that game in their floppy disk holder thingy, and asked if I could borrow it.

So, because my parents' only real adventure game experience is from Sierra, while I got into LucasArts early enough, they dislike adventure games and it's one of my favorite game genres.

[Fury]

Curse of Monkey Island. Followed shortly by escape and MI1 and 2.

Then Spy Fox. Spy Fox Dry Cereal is probably Ron Gilberts greatest non-MI game.

[PecanBlue]

Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of Orpheo's Curse

It came free with our Windows discs. It was actually a pretty solid adventure game for its time, and despite it being a kid's game managed to be pretty scary in places even now. There is a chase scene with a mummy that traumatized me from beating it for a long time, because I just couldn't figure out how to get rid of the mummy before it caught me. One time my mom was playing the mummy chase scene and she tried to get rid of it by attempting to leave the theatre, but when she was about to exit it CAME OUT OF FRICKIN' NOWHERE UP CLOSE TO THE SCREEN. She and I jumped about twenty feet in the air.

Oh by the way, the way to get rid of it was to observe a random unicorn statue that was considered a red herring up until that point and the game gives you no indication of it being useful in any way. It comes to life and stabs the mummy with its horn. Yeah thanks game.

[AlmostApollo]

That sounds decent, actually. I generally like horror-type adventure games.

[KevinD872]

It's been a long time, but I want to say that the first adventure game I ever played (at a friend's house... not owned) was probably one of the King's Quests. BUT, the first adventure game I really liked, owned and actually played all the way through was Secret of Monkey Island, and thus a fan was born. :)

[Amaterasu]

Hmm...
Was it Simon The Sorcerer, Goblins3 or maybe Sam & Max HtR?
I remember buying these games...
OMG I remember BUYING each and every one of them!!!
Simon 1-2, S&M, DoTT, Gobliiins 1-3, LSL7, Neverhood... I still keep the boxes in my room you know. XD

[Laserschwert]

"Maniac Mansion" on my uncle's C-64 (in eye-popping monocromatic green)

[Fishstick_Kitty]

The first adventure game I played was about 25 years ago; The Legend of Zelda on a Nintendo NES.

Way back when, the NES was the ultimate in gaming systems so I surprised my son with it for Christmas. The moment he opened the package with that shiny golden cartridge inside, I knew it was a game I just had to play (that is, after he went to sleep).

I can hardly believe my son is now 33 :eek:

[Mr Nutt]

My first adventure game was one of the first three Gobliiins games (I can't really remember which one just that I had all three and I didn't finish any of them) but apparently when I asked someone it might of been Pink Panther: Hocus Pocus Pink... Yeah I think I'll stick to the one of Gobliiins being my first adventure game.

[Chyron8472]

The first adventure game I played was about 25 years ago; The Legend of Zelda on a Nintendo NES.

Way back when, the NES was the ultimate in gaming systems so I surprised my son with it for Christmas. The moment he opened the package with that shiny golden cartridge inside, I knew it was a game I just had to play (that is, after he went to sleep).

I can hardly believe my son is now 33 :eek:

Technically, Zelda is an action-adventure game.

But... you sound EXACTLY like my parents. They got addicted to old school Zelda back then, and the NES was in my bedroom, so they made me hang a heavy blanket over my bunk bed to block out light from the TV.

[One-Eyed Kijin]

Monkey Island I was the first adventure game I ever played, but Sam and Max Hit the Road was the game that got me addicted to adventure games. I also played a lot of the Sierra adventure games when I was a kid, but I never could get into those.

[vectorm12]

One of the first Leisure Suit Larry games I remember it particularly well as at that age I had a swedish-english dictionary sitting next to me in order to even get passed the first rooms. Ah the days before mouse input :P

What really got me started though was the original Monkey Island my dad got for my AMIGA 500.

[Remolay]

It has just occured to me that I may have been incorrect in my first Adventure game. It may have been one of the Humungous Entertainment ones. Probably Freddi Fish

[meretchen]

"Pirate Cove", a text adventure, in 1983, when I was 12, on my brand new Vic20. :)

Which looked like this:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pirate-adventure/screenshots

[JolieRobert]

The first adventure game I ever played was Age of Empires.. It was awesome and cool that I played all its parts.

[kaptein_kaffe]

My memory is a bit off but I'm guessing eighter Secret, Ace Ventura or most probably Hopkins FBI :D

[Hayden]

The first adventure game I ever played was Age of Empires.. It was awesome and cool that I played all its parts.

Age of Empires was a strategy. There wasn't another game called Age of Empires, was there?

[GozzoMan]

Secret of Monkey Island! ^_^

I saw it at a friend's home and instantly fallen in love... When I finally was able to afford my own PC (a 286), it was the first game I played on it :)

[Scrawffler]

Gobliins 2 was the first adventure game I ever played. Just the demo though.

Simon the Sorcerer was the first full adventure game I experienced, and the one that made me love the genre.

Day of the Tentacle was the first one I actually completed though.

[BlankCanvasDJ]

Full Throttle

The computer that I got when I was a kid came with a Lucasarts demo disc that contained the first few levels of Dark Forces and a Full Throttle demo. Being a big Star Wars fan, I blew through the Dark Forces levels right away and it wasn't until I was bored with nothing to do one day that I decided to give this weird looking Full Throttle thing a look. What was listed as a demo never stopped and ended up being the entire game. I was hooked from the opening scene and I don't think I got up from my computer until I beat the whole game. It's still one of my absolute favorites and I play through it from start to finish anytime I need a pick-me-up.

[Jen Kollic]

Secret of Monkey Island, after being introduced to it by an older cousin not long after it came out. Still my favourite too.

[AvzinElkein]

I think it was King's Quest VI during my childhood; I don't remember clearly.

[AlmostApollo]

I always wanted Ace Ventura. Can't find it now. :(