How old were you when you were first introduced to Monkey Island?

[Chyron8472]

How old were you when you were first introduced to the Monkey Island franchise?

[SHODANFreeman]

7 or 8

[Avistew]

How old were you when you were first introduced to the Monkey Island franchise?

Too young to remember how old I actually was, sorry. I know I played the first two before Curse was released, and I was born in 85, to narrow it down a bit.

[Jake]

I was, I think ...eleven? I was first introduced to Monkey Island when MI2 came out.

hi co-workers who were making those games when I was eleven :( ... :)

[Ignis]

I was maybe 13. . my best friend showed CMI to me and I was hooked. I bought it myself, but sadly it wouldn't work on the ol' family computer so when I finally got my first computer at 14 I was able to play it--the first thing I used my first computer for: Monkey Island. Good memories. :)
Actually, after all those hours at my new computer desk playing the game, I now associate the nice smell of wood in new desks to CMI.

I wasn't able to get ahold of MI 1 and 2 until I was in college, but better late than never.

[GuruGuru214]

I believe I was 9. I was in third grade, and apparently Curse was new when my friend had me try it, though I never realized that before now. It took me years before I found out that it was the third game, though.

[zhebrica]

I was 8 or 9. My dad gave me the demo version of SOMI shortly after it came out to see if I would like it. I distinctly remember playing the demo on our yellow and black monitor; we had to install a CGA or EGA emulator(!) to get it to run on our PC. I was totally fascinated with the demo and played it through several times until Dad got me the full game.

My kid is 6 now... not too much longer until I can try to make it three generations of MI fans. :P

[elzbenz]

I was 13...

I am one of the youngest users on this forum since I was introduced to in The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition... I soon bought tales of MI then the curse off ebay...

[Giant Tope]

17.

...I'm 18 now.

[Majus]

hi co-workers who were making those games when I was eleven :( ... :)

Oh my. I was about 6 or 7…
Anyway, I couldn’t read at that time, and I LOVED that game nevertheless.
Four disks on the AtariST. Aah, good times.

[Chyron8472]

I was 12 I think.

Actually, I don't remember my age. I just remember seeing the EGA version of the game on my aunt and uncle's new computer back then, so I bet it was 1990, making me 12yo back then.

I borrowed the game from them some time afterward... but I can't remember if I ever returned it. :o

[unicornfoal]

I was also too young to remember playing it for the first time, but as I was born in '89 and my parents acquired SMI in '91 at the earliest, I had to have been pretty small.

[Shwoo]

Fifteen, I think. I kept seeing people on the Internet talk about it, and it got me curious.

[MonkeyMania]

Age 9 Curse of Monkey Island

[GuruGuru214]

You people and your ancient computers. I didn't have a computer until I was 13, in 2000.

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

Age 15, Curse of Monkey Island

[Avistew]

You people and your ancient computers. I didn't have a computer until I was 13, in 2000.

I remember my first computer. It was an apple, and we had floppies with teaching games. My parents try to teach us stuff with these, and know I loved playing them, although I can't remember what they were about. I know that much later we gave that computer to my primary school.
We also had a NES. I used to watch my dad play the first Zelda. Man, I must have been a baby back then.

[Little Writer]

13, back in 1992. The VGA version of SoMI on big floppies.

[OzzieMonkey]

I think I was about 10, when a friend of the family showed me Full Throttle, The Dig and The Curse of Monkey Island. Loved the series ever since.

[Hassat Hunter]

I don't recall, but it must have been 6 or so? Hardly knew much english and sucked at adventure games (still do) so "lite" with walkthrough MI2:LCR.

[shovell]

I think I was 6 or 7, I remember first playing a demo of curse and being hooked since then. I actually got the full game for my birthday whatever year it was...

It could have been younger, as I don't remember if it was before or after that I played the first two, I think it was probably after when my dad magically dug them out from nowhere.

[Little Writer]

I'm starting to feel old again. I was 18 when Curse came out. When I was 6, there were only two King's Quests, and I'd never even heard of computers :D

[Scrawffler]

Around 11 or 12. It was in 2000; my dad worked at a second hand electronics shop back then, and someone had donated the first 2 MI games to the shop. My dad bought them before any of the actual customers got a chance! We got Day of the Tentacle exactly the same way a year earlier.

It was only a few years ago when I got Curse (well into the days of ScummVM), and last Christmas when I got Escape. So it was nice to actually be one of the first customers when Tales came out!

[flesk]

My first MI game was MI2, and I think I must have been 12 or 13, because I seem to remember playing it on my Amiga 1200 with an additional floppy drive. It could have been on my 500 though. I think the game came on 12 floppies or something.

[Captain Mickey]

7-8ish about around Curse. I was at a family friend's house and I fell in love with appearance (cartoons to my 7 year old brain = win). I really loved Guybrush too. I remember very throughly the boat/sword fight scene and giggling at Guybrush's remarks.

[StarEye]

Hmm, SOMI came out in '90, but I think I first played it spring of '91. So, I guess I was 13 years at that time (child of the late seventies), but not far from 14 years old since I was born early august. I remember getting MI2 about a year later.

sigh... those were the days. The Amiga was at its most popular and still had a couple of years left in it before the PC completely stole the market.

Yes, nostalgia runs strong in this one.

[lorecaster]

I'm pretty sure I played this when it came out, so I was 10 then. I never saw any advertisment for the game, it was just something a friend showed up with. But when MI2 was released I was prepared and had it on my xmas wishlist. It came on 5 floppies.

[StarEye]

I'm pretty sure I played this when it came out, so I was 10 then. I never saw any advertisment for the game, it was just something a friend showed up with. But when MI2 was released I was prepared and had it on my xmas wishlist. It came on 5 floppies.

Not mine (if we're talking about MI2). 11 floppies for the win!

[Little Writer]

I had 5 floppies for MI2 as well (in fact, I think they're still around somewhere).

Perhaps the Amiga needed more discs? Smaller capacity maybe?

[StarEye]

I had 5 floppies for MI2 as well (in fact, I think they're still around somewhere).

Perhaps the Amiga needed more discs? Smaller capacity maybe?

Yeah, I know, the Amiga disks were formatted with 880k capacity, while PC ran 1,44mb (basically exactly double the amount). It wasn't meant as a statement of doubt, just saying "HAH, mine came on 11 disks!!!". :D

I believe they took about the same amount of space if you installed it to harddrive. :)

[Little Writer]

I didn't know that. I had a buddy with an Amiga in those days, we liked the same games but of course they weren't compatible. I remember playing Zak McKracken on his and Indy on mine.

[corruptbiggins]

I was 11 or 12 when I got SoMI, sometime in 1993. It was the Kixx XL re-release, which I've still got. 3 x 3.5" floppy disks, the code wheel, manual and Kixx XL Autumn/Winter 1993 catalogue all for £16.99 (according to the sticker on the box). I also have MI2 from the same range but only got the 5 3.5" disks & a manual. Can't remember if there was anything else in there that I've since chucked away.

[Gibbeynator]

In 2005, I was 17 and I found a boxed copy of Curse of Monkey Island at EB Games.

[Mermaid]

I was 10 when I first played SOMI on my dad's 386.
This year I turn 30...and I'm still in love!!

[caeska]

I think I was 9 or 10 when I was introduced to SoMI. Didn't own it, only played it at a friend's sometimes. I bought MI2 on the good old floppy disks when I was around 12. I couldn't read English back then, but I remember I loved it nonetheless.

[plrichard]

I had to be around 3 or 4. My dad got my family the Sound Blaster package that came with LOOM and The Secret of Monkey Island in around 1992/1993. I was born in 1989 so it's somewhere around that age. Feel old.

[Rather Dashing]

I was definitely 5 or 6 when I first played Secret of Monkey Island.

[Didero]

I first got in contact with the series when I rented Curse of Monkey Island from the local library. I don't really recall how old I was then, but I was 8 in 1997, so I guess about 10-12. I even copied the library disks, because I liked the game so much :)
I bought the game off eBay half a year ago though, because I still like the games, and because I've got more money now.

[VeronicanPlay]

I think I was about 10 years old, I was sitting next to my brother as he was playing Curse of Monkey Island.

[thin029]

9. I fell in love with Grim Fandango when I was 7 in 1998 and I decided to try Escape From Monkey Island since it was made by LucasArts and had almost the same game engine. Then I discovered it was #4 and Curse was still in stores, so I got it too. Funny thing: I had to upgrade my computer because Escape required a 3D acceleration graphics card, so I bough one with 8mb dedicated memory! Omg!
This year I'll turn 19

[Wapcaplet]

I had the LucasArts-printed SoMI poster hanging on my wall in my college dorm room.

This was right after the game was first released in 1990.

I need to find that poster, along with the other ones I bought (I know I have the Maniac Mansion and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe posters somewhere...)

[lord darkstorm]

1991. Amstrad 8086.

[Jake]

I need to find that poster, along with the other ones I bought (I know I have the Maniac Mansion and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe posters somewhere...)

I still have my SoMI poster. So good.

[JedExodus]

I was 12, home 'puters were becoming more affordable so it wasn't just that kid in school whos dad worked in America who had one anymore. My friend came into school with this box full of floppy discs and some wheel thingy telling me I had to play this. It was LeChucks Revenge, my friend next door and I plowed through it after our homework everyday for the best part of a week

[Alcoremortis]

Thirteen when I played Escape, several years after it came out (my parents wouldn't let me play a rated T game until I was technically a teenager). Then, hunted down the--nigh impossible to find--other three at used game stores.

[Threepwood4Life]

5 years old, Secret of Monkey Island on Amiga 500 1990

[Weeblerjake]

12. As in, last year. I bought Strong Bad a while back, then Sam and Max, then Monkey Island. While waiting for it to come out, I bought MI:SE. Hooked.

[Sero]

it was ca. 1993 when i played mi2 on my first pc (a 286 processor with 12 MHz, 640 Kb ram and a 20 Mb hd)... i was totally blown away, the games i played before were nes and c64 games, i was awestruck by the animations, the graphics and even the intro music with pc speakers. and of course the story and characters. Guybrush was such a hero for me (and still is).
oh, before i forget: i was 12 back then.

ps: too bad scummVM doesn't support PC speaker music and sound effects for this game yet.
pps: first post :D

[GuruGuru214]

I remember my first computer. It was an apple, and we had floppies with teaching games. My parents try to teach us stuff with these, and know I loved playing them, although I can't remember what they were about. I know that much later we gave that computer to my primary school.
We also had a NES. I used to watch my dad play the first Zelda. Man, I must have been a baby back then.

My dad had an Atari before I was born, and I remember getting my NES, and later my Genesis, then my first Game Boy (a Color), and then my N64, and then in October 2000, we finally got our first computer, which sat in the box until my 13th birthday on November 14th, the day after we had our dog put to sleep. It was a Dell Dimension (4400, I think) with Windows ME. And I got it just in time to be able to buy The Curse of Monkey Island when I spotted it at the store a few months later. If we'd gotten it any later, I might not be the Monkey Island fan I am today.

And I kept that damn thing alive until about two years ago. It'd still run if I hooked it up, but we've finally gotten another computer and moved on.

So yeah, I pretty much know nothing about this "Amiga" thing, except that it was apparently some kind of computer way back when.

[Dadel]

I was around 10 when I got Curse. Didn't understand so much of it back then, but it had some pretty pictures. It was one of many illegal copys from some "nerd" at my mothers job. Still got it, the crime is barred now... :D atleast in Sweden... :confused:

[Fealiks]

7. I played a demo of Escape from Monkey Island and really liked it, then I saw CMI in a shop and picked it up a while later. I found the Bounty Pack after that (a bundle of the first three games) and played MI1 and 2. Later still I got EMI for the PS2.

[Avistew]

So yeah, I pretty much know nothing about this "Amiga" thing, except that it was apparently some kind of computer way back when.

I know we also had a computer-like thing that was called Alice, like me.

[Indrid Cold]

12. CMI was new then, and it was actually my first adventure game. I could barely understand enough English to play at the time and 2-3 of us actually played separately and helped each other when someone was stuck at a point someone else had passed.
I got the first two in one of LA's packs, the year after.

[thin029]

My CMI was in Portuguese, why do you guyz keep saying you couldn't understand English so you couldn't play if the game was translated to almost every major language out there! You illegal copiers!

Just kidding

[INGINE]

1997 was my first relationship with monkey island series which is ofcourse curse of monkey island, love from the first sight, i was born in 1987, so 1997 - 1987 = 10 years, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap, now you know the truth :D

[jolieo]

I think I was ten or eleven when I first played MI2, but I remember playing with the code wheels when I was much younger.

[Ezny]

About 12 or 13... Something like that... Born in '83...

[Jenny]

I was 3 or 4 years old. My dad got the game from one of his students and brought it home and played it while I watched in the chair next to him. All I remember is that I always wanted to get my turn at using the mouse and moving Guybrush around, but I usually just yelled out commands to my dad if I wanted him to look at something. :P And then I played it again myself a few years later.

[Little Writer]

Amazing how young some of you were ... and can still remember it! When I was six I think I only played with Matchbox cars and this miniature fortress thingy with cowboys & indians.

[Psychotron7x2]

I would have been probably seven years old when I first played SOMI, probably in 1990, on my parents friends computer way back in the day and made them get it for me. I was pretty young at that time and didn't get to far. I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out how to find the sword master by following the store keeper. However, I was unwise to playful humour in games and didn't realize that the tree stump puzzle was actually a joke and thought I had to order the rest of the game and gave up on it. I don't think I would Have beat it regardless so I'm not too bothered by it. On top of that my dad lent the game to his friends kids and when I got it back it was missing the code wheel to start the game. It wasn't until Curse came out about seven years later that I got hooked again and have been ever since.

[cornholio1980]

15 or 16. Bought the "Bestseller Games"-versions at a computer fair (either in '95 or '96). I've been a huge fan of adventure games already, and had played Indiana Jones 3, Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle, but that was the first time that I stumbled over those old classic (which weren't sold in regular shops anymore). And that was the time before the internet, ebay etc., so it was rather difficult to get your hands on one of these games. But I loved them ever since.

[petethepanda]

I was 5. My dad was on a Lucasfilm Games mailing list of some sort, and he got a demo version of Secret of Monkey Island back in 1990. I loved it and he got the full game, and over the next few years we played through all the classic Lucasarts point 'n clicks.

It was my first video game. <3

[Jen Kollic]

I think I was 10 when I first 'played' SoMI, and by 'played' I mean 'watched my older cousin play it', this would have been sometime in 1991. I didn't get my own copies of the games until I got my Amiga 600 for Christmas in 1992. (the Amiga was a special present because I'd had spinal surgery in October)

The first thing I remember about SoMI was that I thought it was great that the Swordmaster was a girl. I don't think I knew that Elaine existed until I got my own copy...

[Kesal]

I played it when the first game was released, in 1990, so I would've been 16. It was the first graphic adventure game that I played to completion... I'd tried other games before that, like the King's Quest series, but found the interface too aggravating. Up 'til then, I'd stuck to text adventures.

I just found out that Telltale has picked up where Lucasarts left off, and I'm really looking forward to trying out the games here!

[pokemonpika77]

I have always been an apple person, so I found out about it when EMI came out for the mac. I was...I have no idea...maybe 8? I stopped playing after about 3 months, picked it back up 2 years ago, finished it, never tuched it again.

[Jerec84]

13. Curse of Monkey Island had come out fairly recently.

[Psy]

Somewhere between 5 and 7

[Everlast]

I was at the top of my game at the tender age of 97. Those where the time the good adventure games where made. WillyBeamish, Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantic, Lemmings man howi miss those days!

[nachtritter]

Well, when TSOMI first came out, I played it on my 20mhz 80286 PC (1 whole mb of RAM and a HUGE 20mb HD, WOO!), and I was born in 1976. So that would have made me about, oh, 14 at the time? I had the EGA version. Upgraded to VGA once that was available.

[nachtritter]

I'm starting to feel old again. I was 18 when Curse came out. When I was 6, there were only two King's Quests, and I'd never even heard of computers :D

If you're old, I'm older. When I was 6 there hadn't been a King's Quest game out yet. The first one came out when I was 8. I couldn't play it at first because it was for PCjr only, and I ONLY had a C64 and a TRS-80 CoCo 2 at that time (non computer side, I had an Atari 2600, a ColecoVision, and a Home Pong machine, but I digress)... :(

[anti_jo_delia]

7 years old... SOMI... four disks plus a save disk on the Amiga 500.

Had no idea what a pulley was.

Called Lechuck Lenchuck for some reason.

[tana]

41 in 1998 geez just call me gramps :D

[Leonilla]

Somewhere between six and nine. My dad brought home a copy of Curse of Monkey Island, and the whole family gathered around the computer and played it together in the evenings.

[techie775]

I think I was seven or eight. One of our first CD roms was called 'Night Owl' with a bunch of sample software and it had the demo for Secret of Monkey Island on it and it whole 16 color glory and pc speaker music. It was so hard to forget we picked up a copy of the whole game.

[Flah]

Well, when TSOMI first came out, I played it on my 20mhz 80286 PC (1 whole mb of RAM and a HUGE 20mb HD, WOO!), and I was born in 1976. So that would have made me about, oh, 14 at the time? I had the EGA version. Upgraded to VGA once that was available.

Wow, 1 MB? Mine only had 640k!

'Twas a gift from my parents for my 11th or 12th birthday, along with a state of the art dot matrix printer and full colour monitor. Loaded on it was a primitive version of DOS, Windows 1.1, and GEOS. And, along with that, were a few recent releases, including this new-fangled SimCity and the Secret of Monkey Island.

I still remember, all of the boxes for the machine took up most of my room before everything was hooked together.

Ah, but adventure gaming was a full time job back then. Took me months just to reach Chapter 2. And I'm pretty sure I didn't even understand half of the jokes. "Mom, what does, 'It's not the size of the ship...' mean?"

Those were the days.

[Kitmit13]

I first played SOMI when I was 3 years old =] im 18 now and being raised with Monkey Island I do have a certain fondness for this game...or more like a obession >w<