Your first adventure game.

[redm]

I saw some people talking about this in another thread and thought the topic merited one of its own.

My first adventure game was Grim Fandango. I was very lucky to find a nice copy of it and to this day still think about the puzzles and laugh about the dialogue.
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/no_sequel-Grim-Fandango.jpg
yep

[jeeno0142]

The Secret of Monkey Island for me. It is the definition of awesome.

[Vainamoinen]

Maniac Mansion on C64.

...what? I'm old!

[RingmasterJ5]

Myst.

[Irishmile]

my grade school had Kings Quest 1 floppy disks....

[Secret Fawful]

http://www.activewin.com/reviews/software/games/m/images/mi4_019.jpg

A PS2 demo in a Wal-mart. Without it I would have never known of adventure games.

[Alcoremortis]

I was so young when I played my first adventure game that I can't really remember which one came first. In fact, I don't think I can even really remember the games that I played. There was Let's Explore the Jungle with Buzzy (I don't know if this counts), a sort of medieval, first person mystery type thing, and a game that I can't really remember except that I didn't understand the puzzles (I was only about four at the time) and it was very purple. It also took place in space.

The first memorable adventure game I played was Escape from Monkey Island.

[Irishmile]

much of the money I would get as a kid went into buying adventure games... If I could I would go back in time and pat that kid on the head because I now still own a lot of old adventure games that are hard to get your hands on..... including infocom text adventures.

[Jwab]

Curse of Monkey Island. From that quite rapidly went back and played the first 2, discovered and played through all the lucasarts classics and then began to explore anything in that vein with things like Simon the Sorcerer/Discworld

[Jessica]

ZeldaII: The Adventure of Link
Nintendo 8-bits.

[PecanBlue]

Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse. It came free with our copy of Windows 95. I think this was also my first PC game, but I can't remember if I played it first than some Peanuts children's game.

[xChri5x]

Sam & Max Hit The Road

[adventureaddict]

I watched mum play Secret of Monkey Island.. and other adventure games.
The first I ever played was either Legend of Kyrandia or Willy Beamish. Can't remember which.
Shame my mum doesn't really play adventure games anymore :(

[Origami]

Probably Max en het Gele Sokjes Spook. Translates to Max and the Yellow Socks Ghost.
A dutch production.


NO WAIT! It was King's Quest VI. The one with the crying tree. That always freaked me out as a kid.

[DrRocketGenius]

One of the Putt-Putts. And if that doesn't count, The Secret of Monkey Island.

[Giant Tope]

REPRESENT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzq_-cZfd0)

[Blooglspash]

NO WAIT! It was King's Quest VI. The one with the crying tree. That always freaked me out as a kid.

Actually, King's Quest V had the crying tree. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJc91-jx5Y)

Anyway, I'd like to say that my first adventure game was Monkey Island or Space Quest, but it was actually SBCG4AP. I'm trying to catch up though!

[Debbie82]

I played Maniac Mansion for the NES when I was little. I never knew that it was a censored version of the original PC one. :D

[Flyingman356]

http://images.1888freeonlinegames.com/download-games/fatty-bear-s-birthday-surprise/fatty-bear-s-birthday-surprise-game.jpg

[mgrant]

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/windows-3x-games/78-1.jpg

My cousin had this game and had me play it when I was 6. The Cask of Amontillado segment where you play as Fortunato and are slowly bricked up and screaming for mercy still haunts me. However, it was a gorgeously atmospheric and well voice acted game and I did enjoy it (clues to why I'm such an odd individual as an adult). However it wasn't until I played Curse of Monkey Island 3 or 4 years ago that I got into adventure games in earnest, though.

[swedish_jedi]

I think Sunes Sportlov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrxNhvG4CQo)(Sune's vinter vacation) might have been my first adventure game. A simple game based on a series of swedish youth-books.

[Irishmile]

This was not the first adventure game I played but it was the first on a game system I had it for the NES... it was and still is brilliant... anyone that is a fan of TTG would have loved this game because it was pretty funny... It was pretty much Monkey Island if Guybrush had wanted to be a superhero instead of a Pirate....

NIGHTSHADE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3LO8rRAks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade_%281991_video_game%29

[Comrade Pants]

Wasteland

[GuybrushWilco]

Wasteland is more of an RPG than adventure game :). Space Quest 1 EGA for me.

[crfh]

Day of the Tentacle.

[Origami]

Spin the bottle. :D

[Brainiac]

As I have said elsewhere, there are four adventure games I remember being among my first on the age-old 286 my father bought for the family back in the day; I can't remember which one specifically was first. They are as follows:

http://ui30.gamespot.com/989/kq5boxart_2.jpghttp://joepearce.org/programs/kyrandia_b.jpg
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4938/609329-last_crusade_box_front_6390x8118_large.jpghttp://digitalpolyphony.webs.com/amiga_the_secret_of_monkey_island.jpg

[adventureaddict]

REPRESENT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzq_-cZfd0)

I love you forever.
Used to play this all the time with my aunt/best friend(we're the same age) when I was young. Oh dear lord the memories.

[taumel]

Ignoring various adventure elements in certain VCS 2600 titles or on arcades, it was a multiple choice text adventure written in Basic on the C64, i don't remember the name but i had to enter the listing first. Then came real text adventures, graphical text adventures, rpgs and finally point&click adventures on the Amiga.

[Irishmile]

Does Oregon Trail count?

[Giant Tope]

I don't think so..

[GuruGuru214]

The first adventure game I ever played was The Curse of Monkey Island. However, the first adventure game I was ever exposed to was Riven. A friend I had in first grade once showed it to me, years before I had a computer, and I had no idea what it was or what the hell the point of it was. In fact, all I really remember about it is some bridge. I'd still like to come back to the Myst series someday and find out just what it was all about.

[Krohn]

The first adventure game I ever completed on a computer would be Maniac Mansion on a C64 back when it was brand new.

(Most of older adventures had death endings...and once I died I can hardly try again, can I? )

[Comrade Pants]

Wasteland is more of an RPG than adventure game.

This may be true, come to think of it. I guess, then, it would be Maniac Mansion on the NES. Does that count?

[tredlow]

Freddi Fish, I think. Or is it MI2?

[Blooglspash]

Anyway, I'd like to say that my first adventure game was Monkey Island or Space Quest, but it was actually SBCG4AP. I'm trying to catch up though!

Wait a minute, my first adventure game was actually Freddi Fish. I still have the first two games.

[seson3churious]

I'm a bit young so I would have to say Situation: Comedy, when I was in the third grade I bought some kind of magazine that was called e-kids and with it you get playable demos of some games, I saw the picture of a rabbit and a dog and thought well let's try that out. From that moment on I was addicted to Sam and Max. :)

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

I don't remember exactly, but my first adventure game must be one of these three:
* Curse of Monkey Island
* The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril
* Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico

[JedExodus]

Inbred with Rednex
http://www.recordpalace.com/files/rednex_in_bed_with.jpg

In case you aren't 100% sure what/who Rednexs are look here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMVwZRJ-UQ)

First adventure game I played that wasn't total shit was Broken Sword 1. And it still remains awesome to this day

[Shen-Zhi]

the classic!

leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards!

[GuybrushWilco]

This may be true, come to think of it. I guess, then, it would be Maniac Mansion on the NES. Does that count?

Maniac Mansion counts :)

[JedExodus]

Actually mine was Maniac Mansion on the NES as well. We rented it out back in the day.

You helped jog my memory Pants :)

[Nintomster]

I've only been playing them since last year, I think I was either 13 or just turned 14, and it was Fright of the Bumblebees. TOMI was the one that got me hooked on adventure games, and since then, I have played all the Telltale Games released (except for Bone and TTH) and started Monkey Island. Just to play Curse and Escape. I've also played Hit the Road. Any other great games, possibly on Steam that anyone can recommend?

[Comrade Pants]

Actually mine was Maniac Mansion on the NES as well. We rented it out back in the day.

You helped jog my memory Pants :)

I was... useful? How utterly bizarre.

[Ribs]

Something from Humongous. Probably Pajama Sam 2.

[VeronicanPlay]

If we are talking about the first one ever played, then it's Tales of Monkey Island.

If we are talking about the first one ever experienced, then it's Curse of Monkey Island.

[Toothless Gibbon]

http://clients.mediastation.co.uk/integriti/adventure.png

[divisionten]

Haahaa, my first was Riven. I feel old now. But not as old a some of you.

[corruptbiggins]

Can't remember for sure but it was probably The Secret of Monkey Island.

[Irishmile]

LOL yeah you can usually tell about how old people are in these threads.

[Sarendor]

Hmmm, I believe that my first one was either Putt Putt Goes to the Moon, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, or one of the Israely Itamar games, (which are somewhat more minigame-y,) which are partially based on books by David Grossman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grossman). The man's name alone justifies calling it an adventure game.

And about more serious quests, I remember that my older cousins used to bring their games so that another cousin could play them, and they often played the games in my house. They introduced Loom and Day of the Tentacle to me, although I couldn't really understand them, so I watched them rather than played them. Nevertheless, those games were kept in my mind.

LOL yeah you can usually tell about how old people are in these threads.

Not necessarily! Putt Putt, Fatty Bear, Day of the Tentacle and Loom are all older than me!

[GreenVodka]

Spud. Anyone else on the planet play that game?! It was quite rubbish when I think about it. Even back then it annoyed me haha.

I got my first computer when I was 10 so my mum went out and bought a few random games including that one. Then I got Monkey Island, DOTT and the 2 Indy adventure games that christmas. I think the Ace Ventura game was thrown in there too somewhere... I never completed that one. Wonder if I still have the disc, now I have the magic of not being 10 and have the internet for walkthroughs!

[JedExodus]

Wait, third attempt. This is the definitive answer from me, like any of you care. This game was called Cops and was on the BBC Micro. I was too young to truly remember, but I think when we had a BBC it was horribly outdated, but we were poor and had fun with it anyway

Emulated and played by me for your viewing pleasure

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/6956/copsq.jpg

[Farlander]

I think it was Space Quest 2. Or The Legend of Kyrandia. Or Gobliiins... I really don't know, but those are the earliest adventures I remember I kinda played with my family, so one of them is definitely the first one.

[Remolay]

Full Throttle.

I sucked at it. I still do suck at it. I don't have that disk anymore.

[Epic Kiwi]

http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/1203521602-00-232x300.jpg

Remember how awesome Hypercard games were? I sure do!

[Giant Tope]

sweet sig steal, mr waterdispenserbot

[bosbeetle]

My first gaphical adventure must have been Monkey Island or Loom (i dont remember)

The first text adventure was on the MSX I remember The Hobbit and another one. I remember drawing maps etc but I dont know the name. Also I remember dieing alot.

Eat snake

The snake releases its deadly venom, you died.

Hit gnome

The gnome stabs you with a knife, you died.

etc etc

[OzzieMonkey]

The Curse of Monkey Island. So many fond memories....
Oh, and there were those spongebob games, but nothing beats MI as a first experience.

[Alcoremortis]

Thinking back on early games, I think I did play one even earlier than the vague ones I already mentioned. It was a text adventure that had to do with Star Wars and all that I can remember besides the fact that my X-wing kept on blowing up was that I later tried to make a similar type of adventure and failed miserably (then again, I was only four or five).

[Mr Nutt]

My first adventure game is Gobliiins (then Gobliins 2 then Goblins Quest 3).
http://www.ellosnuncaloharian.com/imagenes/pantallas/big/gobliiins_1.png

[WarpSpeed]

I can't remember my first text adventure. That's pretty ancient. But I do remember my first graphical adventure!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Ulysses_and_the_Golden_Fleece_Cover.png

Of course, Jason was the real mythological figure associated with the Golden Fleece. I don't think Sierra ever explained why they had Ulysses going after it.

[robotman5]

my first adventure game was Monkey Island: LeChucks Revenge

[Captain Viku]

Monkey Island 2

...so I played the sequel first, so what? I stil lvoed it and made me truly appriciate the genre.

[sweety911]

Secret of money island is my first adventure game.

[SHODANFreeman]

Secret of money island is my first adventure game.

Me too! We're twins.

[Debbie82]

Me too! We're twins.

Don't respond to sweety911, for he has got spam links in his signature.

[Scrawffler]

The Gobliins 2 demo was my very first.

But my first actual full adventure game was Simon the Sorcerer.

[SHODANFreeman]

Don't respond to sweety911, for he has got spam links in his signature.

PS: You might want to spoiler tag your signature. :p

[Debbie82]

PS: You might want to spoiler tag your signature. :p

That's what I did, but the spoiler tags didn't hide the link. :(

[SHODANFreeman]

That's what I did, but the spoiler tags didn't hide the link. :(

Maybe at least rename the file? ;)

[Frapril]

my first adventure game, i think is Woodruff

[Debbie82]

Maybe at least rename the file? ;)

There! I renamed the link as "SPOILER LINK!" so I can hide the remaining text in spoiler tags now. :)

[Frankov]

My dad had a bunch of Sierra games, but being french, I didn't know enough english to play Police Quest or Leisure Suit Larry until I was 10 (during the era where you had to type every action you wanted to do).

I remember trying Black Cauldron and getting stuck, Gold Rush and dying all the time but the first one I completed was Mixed-Up Mother Goose.

I know it wasn't tough, but hey I was 5.

[techie775]

although it's considered a adventure/RPG hybrid, mine would be ol' 16 colors Hero's Quest (aka Quest for Glory I).

[Remolay]

You are ann wrolg, lole of those are reanny your first advelture games as we are ann pnayers il the game of nife, ald nife is al advelture. Therefor, the first advelture game of everyole in the wornd is nife.

[Zepton]

The first adventure game I ever played was Hugo's House of Horrors. It was okay, I never beat it as a kid, and just found myself going 'round in circles. Anyone played this one?

I think, I played a little bit of Lucas Art's Monkey Island as a kid, somewhere. I was too small to really get it, though, and I don't think I really did much past turn it on and see the intro.

I think, the first adventure game I really got into (and beat) was a text adventure called Theatre, though. You play a guy trapped in a haunted theatre. It was really fun and exciting. The story really fell apart at the end though, when a witch showed up for no reason and you were teleported to some random mansion because of some strange gems.

[ZiglioNZ]

Leisure Suit Larry 1 in CGA!

[Zepton]

That's cool. I played Leisure Suit Larry online a while back. It was pretty fun.

[Tromeritus]

It was either Full Throttle or The Dig (Which I rarely got to run. Damn it, MS-DOS)--whichever came first.

[tredlow]

You are ann wrolg, lole of those are reanny your first advelture games as we are ann pnayers il the game of nife, ald nife is al advelture. Therefor, the first advelture game of everyole in the wornd is nife.

No, life is a go-kart racing game.

[Remolay]

Even with the mixed up L and N there, I was completely seriously there.

[puzzlebox]

The first adventure game I ever played was Hugo's House of Horrors. It was okay, I never beat it as a kid, and just found myself going 'round in circles. Anyone played this one?

Yeah, I LOVED Hugo!! I still remember the chippy little theme tune!

That game was one of my firsts too, and kind of special for me. At the very end there's an old man who won't let you pass unless you answer several questions. I was a young kid and didn't know squat, and this was in the dark ages before the internet, so I had to gather the answers from people I knew. I remember being so excited about going to school one morning because it meant I'd have a chance to ask my teacher about the hero of The Hobbit. :D

... Goodness, I was a weird kid.

It amuses me greatly that in this playthrough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bklfbpP5J5Q), the game takes barely more than 8 minutes to beat.

[Zepton]

Yeah? That's cool. I never beat it until a year ago when I looked up the walkthrough. I did like the chippy theme, though. It was kinda cool. Have you played the 2 sequels, too? There was one in the jungle and one at a mansion.

The Game of Life? Remember the one with the 3D cars on the computer? http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/gameoflife/index.html

[prizna]

Mine was the Hugo games aswell. I have versions made to run on newer systems so I can still play all 3.

[boumbh]

Day of the Tentacle on hacked floppy on our first family home PC. Then, obviously, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones LC and FoA...

My very first adventure games were all hacked. But I don't know how many time I bought these games after that... (I must have two or three legal versions of DotT :D , plus MM the Nes version...)

[tredlow]

Even with the mixed up L and N there, I was completely seriously there.

Oh, well, mixing up L and N tend to hide that fact.

[lightblade84]

My first was King's Quest 6. Heh, it was also the first CD-ROM based game I have ever played.