how old are you?

[Emily]

I'm curious to know how old everyone here was when you started playing adventure games. (And, how old are you now?) I have a hunch that many of the people who post here started with LucasArts games, but I'm curious to find out if that's really true.

Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28). The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1. :)) After that I moved on to King's Quest games. I never even heard of LucasArts until years later (2001 or so) when I started posting on forums. Not sure how I missed those games, because I used to go into software stores all the time to buy Sierra games, but it could be that I was so focused on Sierra that I never looked at what else was on the shelf. [:">]

How about you?

[jannar85]

Well, I guess I started at the age of nine playing kings quest and such sierra adventures. At least tried it. Then, when I got older, about 12, I played Monkey Island and I fell in love <3

[anonima]

Well, let's see...
I've started playing adventure games 16 years ago, when I was 13. My first adventure game was Manhunter : New York, an incredibly innovative adventure game from Evryware/Sierra. I remember I would play that with a friend of mine on his PC CGA (4 colors!) 8Mhz, 512Kb RAM, 3,5" drive, NO hard disk and NO mouse (the game didn't support that!!!!!)... okay, now I FEEL old....
We used to chit-chat waiting for animations and locations to load...
My first Lucasarts adventure was Maniac Mansion on the Amiga (great sound & great music, I'll never forget that).

Diduz (Italy)

[Emily]

Well, let's see...
I've started playing adventure games 16 years ago, when I was 13. My first adventure game was Manhunter : New York, an incredibly innovative adventure game from Evryware/Sierra.

I remember that game. :D Never got too far in it. It had some very strange moments... (Isn't there a part where you have to flush yourself down a toilet?)

[anonima]

Not sure exactly. My clearest early adventure game memories are of Hero's Quest, so probably 3 or 4, although I think there may have been earlier ones. I'm now 19.

[anonima]

well I was playing the police quests original maniac mansion zak mccracken kings quest etc with my older brother when i was 9 or 10... but it was maniac mansion 2 and sam and max hit the road which i just absolutely loved..got them when they came out I was 13.. and still look very fondly back on those games... I'm 26 now..

[anonima]

I started playing Monkey Island when I was ten years old. Of course, since I live in Norway, I didn't know any English at all :D
That didn't stop me from enjoying the game though.. even though I never made it past the first part. I played it again about two years later (thanks to using computers a lot, I knew English by then) and finished it.. I was amazed to find out that there were four parts.. I'd always thought the entire game took place on Melee Island hehe :D

[tabacco]

Hmm... I think my first adventure (that I remember, anyway) was Sierra's adaptation of Disney's The Black Cauldron. I have no idea how old I was, but the game came out in the mid 80s, so I must have been five or so.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/black-cauldron

[Pvt._Public]

Well I'm 15 so... I guess I played Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego and Escape from Horrorland back when I was 7 or so. Hardly the best games I know :) .

I started to seriously play games when I was 12 or so. Escape from Monkey Island was the first one. Then I hunted down original copies of all the Monkey Island games. Then I started to find out about all of Lucasarts other adventure games. Then Sierra. Then I started buying just about every adventure game I could get my grubby little hands on. I started off my games obsession with an Adventure game and I'm still hooked on 'em.

[anonima]

Well, let's see...
I've started playing adventure games 16 years ago, when I was 13. My first adventure game was Manhunter : New York, an incredibly innovative adventure game from Evryware/Sierra.

I remember that game. :D Never got too far in it. It had some very strange moments... (Isn't there a part where you have to flush yourself down a toilet?)

It was ABSOLUTELY zany, Emily. It got a very original and twisted horror-creepy--splatter-whacky-hilarious sense of humor. Unfortunately it was extremely hard too. BTW, yes, you actually HAD to flush yourself down a toilet. :D
Diduz (Italy)

[Haggis]

Let's see... my first adventure game was Day of the Tentacle, and I instantly fell in love with it. I don't know exactly how old I was, but I think I must have been 14 or 15. I'm 24 today.

[Emily]

Well I'm 15 so... I guess I played Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego and Escape from Horrorland back when I was 7 or so. Hardly the best games I know :) .

I loved Carmen Sandiego. :) I don't think I owned Where in Time, but kids I babysat for did, and I played it at their house with them. I had Where in the USA and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

Another game that I really liked but isn't quite an adventure game is Oregon Trail. I actually picked this up a couple of years ago at a thrift store... good times. I loved shooting those buffalo. :))

[anonima]

The first adventure game I remember playing was King's Quest 1, the old CGA, bootable version. I was something like 10-12 (I am 30 now). I took me nearly one year to finish it (I wasn't speaking a single word of English at the time so it didn't help ). My second one was Maniac Mansion.

Gersen

[anonima]

My first adventure game was Voodoo Castle for the Vic-20 while I was still in single digits. After that, I played a few random games here and there, like King's Quest and Where the Stink is Carmen SanDiego. I didn't really get into computer games until I started high school in 1990. My first games then were Where in Time is Carmen SanDiego, Hero's Quest, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[anonima]

My first adventure game was Space Quest 3 when I was 10. The first adventure game that I got absolutely addicted to enough to complete was Maniac Mansion for the NES.

[tabacco]

My first adventure game was Voodoo Castle for the Vic-20 while I was still in single digits. After that, I played a few random games here and there, like King's Quest and Where the Stink is Carmen SanDiego. I didn't really get into computer games until I started high school in 1990. My first games then were Where in Time is Carmen SanDiego, Hero's Quest, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Man, Carmen Sandiego... I remember the first releases of those games that came with paperback reference books in the box. That was awesome. I think I still have the (now very outdated) almanac that came with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego somewhere :)

[Heatherlee]

I don't remember how old I was, but I remember playing King's Quest II on an all amber screen. I think I played it all in one or two sittings.

Before that I had a version of Zork for the Atari 800, (which I didn't get very far on...I was too young to understand why it wasn't liking what I was typing). I also had some weird graphical adventure game on the Atari called....Gwendolyn I think? It was similar to Zork and Adventure, where you ran around a huge underground dungeon finding treasures and using them to solve puzzles. And getting lost because you fouled up the map despite the fact that you had been extra extra careful drawing it...

Now that I think about it, I actually had a few adventure type games for the Atari, like Snooper Troops (??) and The Search for the Most Amazing Thing. Which I still want to play again some day.

I loved Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. I also think I must still have my Almanac somewhere that came with the game. I learned alot from that game! Too bad I've forgotten almost all of it now...

[Jake]

I played Sierra's the Black Cauldron (which was trash) and an Infocom game called Wishbringer as well as the Hitchhikers Guide game (both of which I enjoyed but was terrible at) when I was too young to remember, but I seriously started playing adventure games after playing Monkey Island 2 on my Mac when I was, erm 11.

[Emily]

Is the Hitchhiker's Guide the one that came with a piece of lint?

[Jake]

Is the Hitchhiker's Guide the one that came with a piece of lint?

I don't know I played a pirated version ¬ ¬

[anonima]

Is the Hitchhiker's Guide the one that came with a piece of lint?

Yes, it included a piece of pocket fluff, a microscopic space fleet, and peril-sensitive sunglasses.

[jp-30]

I first encountered what must have been "Adventure" when I was 11 in 1983. It was running on some mainframe type thing in the Rangers HQ in Banff National park in Alberta, CA. My Uncle was a park ranger there at the time.

Then I played Zork on IBM AT's or XTs or whatever they were (no hard drives, no mouses) in our computer studies class at High School in 1985.

Got a Commodore Plus/4 later in 1985 and bought Zork I, II, III for it. That was where my love of the genre originated. I used to get the infocom magazine and would marvel at all the great games that weren't being released for my stupid 8-bit machine.

I had those awful Scott Adams adventures (Pirate Adventure, Hulk, Spiderman etc) and for the live of me can't understand why those games are considered classics. They're all awful.

My cousins had an XT or something and had King's Quest & Leisure Suit Larry (which was pretty exciting for a 12 year old boy!), though I, uhh, never got very far.

Then my friend got an Amiga in, I dunno, 1990 (?) and had Monkey Island. It was absolutely mindblowing. Now that was where my love of point and click / "modern" adventuring comes from...

[anonima]

Yeah I remember we had where in the world is carmen san diego.. I dont think I played it too much because it was a) too involved or b) too girly c) i had no idea what i was doing ..but they definitely gave u plenty with that box

[anonima]

Hmm... Good question.

Leisure Suit Larry is one of my earlier memories which was when I was 10 in 5th grade (I'm 24 now). It was the VGA release, That was in 1992. So that may have been it.

I got my first PC (486 DX 33, 16megs of ram and a 120 meg HDD) around the same time, probably a little later and that thing was top of the line and then some back then.

One of my gradeschool friends and I played every adventure game we could get our hands on that that point. Standing around the computer hopped up on skittles and mountain dew at 3am trying to figure out some puzzle or another taking turns at the keyboard.

Frederik Pohl's Gateway stands out as being one that had us particularly stumped for a while. (Random factoid one of my co-workers worked on Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, developed by Legend 5 years later).

Most of the stuff after was more Sierra stuff. GK still goes down as one of my all time favorite series

I actually didn't get into LucasArts games until around my 16th Birthday. One of my friends gave me a copy of COMI and it was all downhill from there.

[anonima]

I was probably 8 or 9, we played Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis 7 hours straight at a cousin's house. Good times.

That was around twelve years ago.

[Emily]

Leisure Suit Larry is one of my earlier memories which was when I was 10 in 5th grade (I'm 24 now). It was the VGA release, That was in 1992. So that may have been it.

Ahh... we're kindred spirits, then. :)) (Except for me it was the original AGI version.)

[anonima]

well if we include text based adventure then i started when i was 9 or 10 or so on the c64 with infocom games, and then got into the lucasarts games when i got my amiga 500 in the late 80s

I'm 31 now and still psyched about sam and max coming back and enjoyed both bone games.. i guess i'll never grow up

[anonima]

I started at 12
Most intresting adventure for me - LBA2;)
I remember how i enjoy playing:)))

[anonima]

I had a rather late start in the adventure gaming sector. In 1996, I picked up a copy of Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers from the bargain bin of my local retailer. I became hooked on it. I had to have the other games in the Space Quest series, and eventually, the other Sierra adventure game series', such as King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.

Later, I learned of LucasArts, and their adventure games. Full Throttle was my first LucasArts adventure game, followed by Escape from Monkey Island.

Recently, I've been tracking down a few classics for my collection. A few months ago, I purchased Grim Fandango and The Curse of Monkey Island through LucasArts' online store. I won't get into the ordeal that I had with them, but needless to say, I eventually received my copies.

Now, if you've seen my adventure game list in that other thread, you'll know that I don't own Sam & Max Hit the Road. Please, don't poke me with those pitchforks! I'm still looking for a good deal on Sam & Max Hit the Road, among other games, such as Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I was 13 when I picked up my first adventure game, and I'm now 23.

[anonima]

Ahh... we're kindred spirits, then. :)) (Except for me it was the original AGI version.)

Ha. It was *almost* The Black Caldron but the one friend of mine that had it would never let me play it, So I'd just watch him go through a few scenes then i'd get bored and go play Combat on the 2600.

[anonima]

Oh I almost forgot :eek:
Before I played Monkey Island on the Amiga, I played Larry 1 (AGI version) on my fathers laptop that he used at work (he brought it home sometimes).
I never got far though and I didn't realize that this game was part of a genre or anything like that, but I really liked it though... when it would let me play it (I didn't know how to skip those questions hehe).

That makes three of us then :D

[anonima]

Oh I almost forgot :eek:
Before I played Monkey Island on the Amiga, I played Larry 1 (AGI version) on my fathers laptop that he used at work (he brought it home sometimes).
I never got far though and I didn't realize that this game was part of a genre or anything like that, but I really liked it though... when it would let me play it (I didn't know how to skip those questions hehe).

That makes three of us then :D


We should so start a club. Secret handshakes and everything!

[anonima]

Hello! I'm new to this forum, thought this would be a great thread to say hi!

My first adventure game was Monkey Island 2 and it's still my favorite! I was about 11 years old (20 now) that special day. During these years I've played most Lucasarts games and some Sierra games... Now i'm playing Bone 2 :)

UPDATE: Im done with Bone 2! Good game Telltale!

[Pvt._Public]

Welcome to the forums JK1985. Why I'm welcoming you is beyond my imagination as I have no importance here whatsoever but someone has to do it.

[anonima]

I'm so young!

I first bough Monkey island 1 2 3 together for £15 at my local 'GAME' about. . .3 years ago? I'm currently 14.

I first played sam and max a few months ago, but I had rememebred the series from the old 'fox kids' channel. . . not much, I just rememered the bunny and the detective saying something to this fish. . .
Don't fret though, I finally got my hands on the episodes, which I loved. I suposed that seeing sam and max from a early age had left me with something more than just the vauge memorie I descibed. . . a twisted sense of humour ^_^
Ok,. I can;t blame that entirely on sam and max, but it is weird. . . I laugh at history videos we watch in class -_-;

[Squinky]

Hey, a resurrected old post!

I have to say, I'm very amused by the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" discussion, seeing as I was a fan of both the game and the TV show. I must have been about eight years old around that time.

[anonima]

I think it was around 95 when I played my first adventure game (Sam & Max). That's around when we got our first computer (A Mac with about 8mb of ram for $3000). Soon after I played Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle (which I both loved) and tried the Dig but lost interest. I didn't start the monkey island series until a few years later and yes I'm 21 now.
I used to play all sorts of games from Half Life to Starcraft ...still do sometimes. I actually busted out Starcraft last week. :)

[anonima]

Being an worn out old geezer I was raised on Text Adventures for the first few years of my gaming life (before those new fangled graphic adventures came out);

I've no idea which was my first text adventure (I'd guess the hobbit for the speccy though) - I reckon my first graphic adventure was probably some budgets Spectrum release - Though I'll stick with Heavy on the Magik (Speccy) or Labyrinth (C64)

With the C64, I was definitely a big Lucasarts fan - I could never really get into the Sierra titles???

[anonima]

Oh, jeez. I don't know that I should answer this one. ;)

*sigh* Okay, 36. (Yes, I'm an old fart compared to most people here, but I am doing what I can to mentally stay 25 forever.) My first adventure game was probably "Adventure" for the Atari 2600.

Yes, Atari 2600 when it was new, C64 when it was new, PC when it was relatively new (286 class CPU). Played most of the Sierra games, Ultima games, LucasArts games, etc. Never got into Infocom games, though.

There I've said it. I'm going to go sulk in my rocking chair now. :D

[anonima]

*sigh* Okay, 36.

Yay! - Makes me feel young :p

[anonima]

I don't really recall, but I must've been between 10 and 12 years old. The first game was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but I really started picking up the games after Day of the Tentacle and, of course, Sam and Max. :)

--Erwin

[anonima]

*sigh* Okay, 36.

Yay! - Makes me feel young :p
Pfft! A four-year difference! Not exactly what I'd call a generational divide! ;)

[anonima]

I started playing advanture games as soon as i could see the world around me... (when i was 6 months old -> i had an eye condition that required surgery etc... but that's not the point)... so... can anyone beat that? oh, and now i'm 16 :D and a few days ago finished phasant year at computer's high! LOL... watch your back, telltale... a new compy *ahem ahem ahem* ""genius"" is rising!! :D:D

Matt...

[apignarb]

I learned DOS by waiting for my dad at his job. Searching through the work-computer for games. "what files can i try?" "anything that ends with .com or .exe". I literally tried every com/exe file. My search bore fruits though, I found that cat game which i don't remember the name of, the one where you catch the babies from burning houses, and "Adventure", which I didn't like, mostly from the fact that I didn't speak english. I have no idea how old i was, but probably 7-10.

Some years later I learned english with Sierra-games, the first one being Leisure Suit Larry. In retrospect, I guess that explains a thing or two.. (I'm 29 now). Also it boggles me how my parents could give me some of the words i asked about with a straight face. But I remember they didn't know what a prophylactic was, so I had to figure out that one by myself. Which was no small task. No google or bigtittedmamasitas.com those days.

[Emily]

I learned DOS by waiting for my dad at his job. Searching through the work-computer for games. "what files can i try?" "anything that ends with .com or .exe". I literally tried every com/exe file.

Haha... I did this too. :)) Discovered some Zork games that way!

[anonima]

Well, i think the first adventure game i played actually was sam & max: hit the road when i wa about 5 years old, i played with a friend, ofcourse we didn´t understand anything couse we are from sweden, but then later about 2-3 years ago, another friend to me, told me that sam & max 2 was cancelled, at that time i had forgot sam & max and just said, "hey, sam & max i recognise it, and i started google sam & max, and saw the pictures, then my memories came back, that was a wonderful moment! =)

[anonima]

Me, I started at around age 10 [...]. The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1. :))

Same here! B-)
I remember the advanced protection at the beginning of the game that would prevent younger players from playing it: a series of questions that only adults would know the answer to (which was always Alt x ;) -- don't know how we found out about that).

[anonima]

Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28).

I would've taken you to be much younger, as seen in that one photo of you. And no, I'm not trying to be flirtatious! ;) But to get back on topic, I was also around 8y/o when I started. I'm 34 now. *Ouch*...I'm an old fogie here.

My first computer was a TRS-80(Tandy) Color Computer 2, known as CoCo2. We are talking the age of cassette tapes, program paks, and 5-1/4" disks. The first adventure game I played was probably Bedlam, which was a text adventure. I still have my CoCo2 & CoCo3 with all accessories and programs. I learned to program in BASIC, ASM and used OS/9 on this computer, and typed in hundreds of programs from a magazine called "the Rainbow".

But you probably want to know about my first PC adventure games. They were the Space Quest series and Ultima Underworld. I had a friend in my college dorm that bought a new 386DX, and he was responsible for getting me into PC gaming. Oh and can't forget some of my favorite "adventure-type" games... Lands of Lore, Kyrandia, Blade Runner, etc by Westwood Studios.

[anonima]

i was 6 :D full throttle was the first i think, or sam and max cant remember
im 16 now :P
was good ol days back then, i cant wait for Sam and max to come out, bone was hilarious, ive only tried the first ep of bone though, gonna get bone ep 2 soon i think :)

[anonima]

My first computer was a TRS-80(Tandy) Color Computer 2, known as CoCo2. We are talking the age of cassette tapes, program paks, and 5-1/4" disks. The first adventure game I played was probably Bedlam, which was a text adventure. I still have my CoCo2 & CoCo3 with all accessories and programs. I learned to program in BASIC, ASM and used OS/9 on this computer, and typed in hundreds of programs from a magazine called "the Rainbow".


Blimey! - I remember doing those back in the early eighties - We had a magazine called Computer & Video Games which used to have listings for Speccy & Commodore systems every month... I generally had no idea what the hell I was typing in - just followed the code as printed. Another in a long line of diversions I created to avoid learning any kind of social competence.... happy days :D

[anonima]

Yay! - Makes me feel young :p
Pfft! A four-year difference! Not exactly what I'd call a generational divide! ;)

Hey! - I'll take what I can get! :p

[anonima]

Not exactly an adventure game, but the first game with adventure elements I played was Alone in the Dark, which came free with the first PC we bought at home (I was about 14 years old). It was the first game that really absorbed me, making me stay up until late and scary hours.

Then, I bought the Lucasarts Archives Vol. I, which included Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis, among others (what a collection, now that I think!), finishing to turn me into a fan of the genre.

I'm 28 now. Like others have said, I also didn't speak english at the time, but much of the english I know now, I thank it to the adventure games I played in my youth.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

Well, I was 6 years old (I'm 22 now),
my cousin had his super 286 while I was still stuck with my good old C64.
It was Indy and the last crusade, I remember it well, it was love at first sight!
There was a REAL story to lead everything, and the characters even talked to each other!
I had never seen some like that before, I didn't know Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken for C64.
It was the first half of 1990, and some months later my cousin told me: "Hey, got to show you a game better than Indy3!". My answer was "No way, that's just not possible! What's its name?". "The secret of Monkey Island.".
I'll let you figure out the rest ;)
That's how I became a proud supporter of graphic adventures.

[anonima]

Wow, it's been not all that long. I guess I've been playing adventure games for a while, had Hugo's House of Horrors years ago, but I didn't really pursue or appreciate them as a genre until I was about sixteen, I suppose. I'm turning nineteen in a couple of days, so yeah, I'm a n00b to the genre. It's quickly become my favorite genre, though I'd like to make several changes to how the formula works. Too many game designers change in such a way that loses the spirit of the old games, and too many leave alone a formula that could use a lot of improving.

Then again, what would a n00b know? ;)

Oh, and sorry for taking over the forum like this. I'm kinda used to a much faster pace.

[anonima]

I started when I was three. Beat that! [\:D/]

[anonima]

about 6, and I'm 17 now. i played sam & max a lot during my formative years. because of it, from kindegarten to 10th grade all i wanted to do was make video games, but my interests kind of fell elsewhere after that.

[anonima]

First adventure game I remember playing was "The Never Ending Story" on the Amiga.

That would have been back in about 1984, so I would have been about 7.

(For those of you who are slow at maths, that makes me 29 :D )

[anonima]

I started when I was three. Beat that! [\:D/]

I started when I was a fetus - Everybody loved the fetal gamer!

[anonima]

13, Maniac Mansion was my first one on the Commodore 64. I pretty much quit playing when Lucas Arts quit making them. Out of all the Adventure Games I've played only Lucas Arts was ever able to make me laugh.

[anonima]

Let's see...first game I played was on the Commodore 64, it was that one with the mystery on the riverboat (no idea what the name of the game was), and I must have been ten or eleven, I think. First one I finished was probably either Myst or Connections, and I must have been twelve or thirteen (back in '96 or '97). Now I'm twenty-three.

I guess I started to seriously get into video games with Riven. On one of the Riven disks there was a demo for Journeyman Project III, then I got Beyond Atlantis for Christmas (I can remember the sequence, just not the dates). I played Curse of Monkey Island, Escape, and Grim Fandango in high school, but never played MI 1 or 2 until my junior year of college.

And that's officially more information than you wanted to know, I'm sure.

[anonima]

yeah maniac mansion was pretty cool...but i think my first pc adventure game was swiss family robinson on the commador (age 6)...then freenet came into existence...then eco quest...every kings quest... wolfenstein(age 10)...dust myst so on

arghhhhhh !!! and now i am 20

[anonima]

yeah maniac mansion was pretty cool...but i think my first pc adventure game was swiss family robinson on the commador (age 6)...then freenet came into existence...then eco quest...every kings quest... wolfenstein(age 10)...dust myst so on

arghhhhhh !!! and now i am 20

[anonima]

Let's see...first game I played was on the Commodore 64, it was that one with the mystery on the riverboat (no idea what the name of the game was), and I must have been ten or eleven, I think.

Was that Cruise for a Corpse?

[anonima]

We got our first computer, a C-128, when I was around 7 years old. But I remember playing (or watching my brother play) "Maniac Mansion" a while earlier on my uncle's C-64 (with a monocromatic green screen), so that's probably my first contact with adventure games. So, after a few years (when MM wasn't scaring me too much anymore) I played it and Zak McKracken on our C-128, really loving it. By that time friends of our family got their first PC, so I was drooling about the "fantastic graphics" that Zak (in EGA) had on that computer. Every time we gave them a visit, I wanted to play on the PC, or - again - watch them play, since most of the games ("Leisure Suite Larry II", "King's Quest 3", "Police Quest") were in English, and I was too young to understand them. I still remember the image of the Grog-machine in "Monkey Island" being something that fascinated me...

I remember that more adventure games came into my life when my brother bought his first Amiga500... I think this was the first time I actually played "Fate of Atlantis" and "Monkey Island". Later, with his first PC (he, being 3 years older, was of course always ahead of me technology-wise) he got the first German talkie-game, which coincidentally was "Sam & Max Hit the Road", and I was absolutely captivated by it. Having my adventure characters actually TALK?!? Awesome!!!

Well, now I'm 25, still loving all those games, though I still haven't played Larry 1 - 3 or the King's Quest games in their entirety, since somehow the point and click of LucasfilmGames/LucasArts appeals more to me than Sierra's text-parser. But now that the point-and-click remakes of KQ 1-3 and Larry 2 (Larry 1 being official) are out, I might give them another shot.

[anonima]

We got an IBM PCjr when I was in 5th grade, so that would be about 12 years old. When you bought it you got three free programs. I begged my Dad to get King's Quest, but he wouldn't. A friend in my Boy Scout troop had it, and I went over to his house all the time to play. We ended up going through the first five before he graduated (he was four years older). We also did Space Quests, LSL, and Hero's Quest, as well as Bard's Tale and the Ultimas. I played some LucasArts stuff later on.

I'm 32 now, so 20 years ago...

[anonima]

I've first seen Monkey Island on a friend's pc when I was 14 (now I'm 30). He was trying to master the insults sword-fight... and, of course, I completely fell in love. ;)

Shortly after I got my own pc and started to dig for previous LucasArts (well "LucasFilm Games" at the time) adventures: Zak, MM, Indy, Loom. I played also Sierra titles, but not with the same appreciation. As an alternative to Lucas I preferred Delphine ones (Future Wars, Operation Stealth, Cruise for a Corpse... until Another World and Flashback distanced themselves from the adventure classical canon, while still being masterpieces imho :) ).

[IronCladChicken]

Was that Cruise for a Corpse?

Try;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_for_a_Corpse

There are a couple of better links if you Google 'Cruise_for_a_Corpse'

However, since allowed you to download the game I thought it safer not to publish them here :)

[Donar]

I am 21 years old ... with 7 years i get a box with Monkey Island 1+2 ... that was funny ... but to hard for my Age ...
1993 i get "Sam & Max: Hit the Road" and "Day of the Tentacle" ... I love it and because the Speech I dont have to read ... ;)
S&M and DOTT are my favorites also today.

some other People in my age don't know this Games ... but now they will see the new Sam & Max and they will play ... i force them to play ;) ;) ;)

If you understand only pieces of this text,
you must admit that a German release of Sam & Max is necessary! ;)

so far
Donar

[ensignyu]

The Journeyman Project. I was probably 10-ish years old, mid 90's. And then some text adventures and Curse of Monkey Island a few years later. I didn't play Sam and Max until just last year, though.

[Maratanos]

Myst, when I was somewhere around 5 to 7

[dloeke]

I remember watching my older brothers play the good old adventure games back in 95-96, and at that time I must have been about 7 years old. I started playing them for myself too, but at that time I didn't really know how to play it all that well. The games that were my definite favorites, were Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max and Monkey Island 2. About a year later, in 1997, I think, Monkey Island 3 was released, and when I purchased and played that for the first time, I really fell in love with it. I think it was the same year I purchased Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within, and although it was sort of cheesy, I fell in love with the characters and the storyline. A year or two later the third installment in that series was also released. Gabriel Knight 3: The Blood of the sacred, The Blood of the damned became one of my ultimate favorites immediately. :D

I was about to say that they don't make games like those anymore, but you guys at Telltale Games do, so I guess there is still hope. I rarely play games at all, because I really can't see what all the fuzz is about regarding WoW, CS and other games like that. I've missed games that are actually funny, but it appears I should miss them no longer. I am reaaally looking forward to getting myself a new graphic card so that I can play the new Sam & Max! :D

[AGA]

LSL3, on a monochrome laptop my dad brought back from work. I was about 6 or 7 or so, I think. I played all the early Sierras on pirate copies my parents got from friends of friends. I remember I got FPFP and LSL6 brand-new one Christmas though, which must have been 1993. I would have been 8 then. So... pretty young :D

I'm 21 now.

[Erwin]

1993 i get "Sam & Max: Hit the Road" and "Day of the Tentacle" ... I love it and because the Speech I dont have to read ... ;)

I just realized that Hit the Road was the first talkie adventure I ever played. I kinda remember how surprised I was when characters actually started talking.

--Erwin

[balloftwine]

I think the first adventure games I remember were on the spectrum and amstrad, no graphics as such just type in words and the computer reacts, dont remember what they were called though. I must have been about 8 then the Lucasarts stuff really got me into it though when I was about 12, S&M HTR especially.

[Viz79]

Hmm.. well if you count text based adventure games (north, south etc, use item on x), it was 'Eric the Viking' on the BBC Micro and I was 6 years old :)

Otherwise I think it must have been LucasArts and Monkey Island 2 - I was 11 or 12? All started there ;)

[PinkPanther]

I started computer games with 8 years on our company´s computer. It was called "Superbrain" with two big floppy-drives. Two games are still in my mind:
the first was some shoot´em up-game with ascii-symbols. (that one nearly killed the space- and arrow-keys) KLACK - KLICK - KLACK - KLICK ... etc.
The second was some kind of text-based space-adventure.
You just typed, in wich direction you space-ship should travel and then some evil alien of some sort attacked you and by typing in angle, distance and speed you tried to kill him.
Too bad we gave that computer away.. it looked that great, nearly like something wich was taken from the old classic Star trek-Series.

Here you can see it: http://www.tonh.net/museum/superbrain.jpg

Late we got the first Personal Computer from IBM. There we got graphic ! and a harddisk. Wow ! I mostly played spme Pacman-clone on it.
With our first 286-Computer I started to play "real" games. The first one was flight simulator. My first adventure I played on the C64 of a friend. I think, I was about 12 or 13. It was Maniac Mansion. I loved it. Also, it was still hard to understand english.
It was somewhat hard the first years, even to find new games in germany - just a few companys did sell them and none of them was near to our little city. My first visit to a game-store was like entering the gates of Paradise.
I envied all freinds, who got a Commodore or even an Amiga in that time.

My first monkey Island came a bit later... I think about a few months, after it was released. And - shame on me - it wasn´t an original. Well.. in that time, it took some time and you needed good connections to get new games.
I was about 13 or 14 years old. But i´m not sure anymore.
Im 29 now - it´s all that long agom but not forgotten.
Monkey Island was the first real adventure, I could play at home on my own (or better the company´s) computer. Before i got just that flight-simulator. But Flight Simulator showed me.. hey ! it is possible to play with that thing and not just writing basic-crap-programs.

[Reno]

The first adventure game I ever played was Leisure Suit Larry 1 with Amstrad.
I was about 6 or 7 years old (22 right now) and I didn't understand anything about that game (since english isn't my native language). I thought the whole point of the game was just to walk around. I remember having nightmares of that scary guy in the alley who beats up Larry if you don't get away from there quick. Usually I went to my friend and watched his older brother playing those Sierra oldies. He had the original boxes and I remember that I thought that the cover art of Space Quest 4 was very creepy, scary & disturbing (it's the one with Vohaul getting plumbed).

Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis was the first adventure game I've ever finished (with a walkthrough of course). I didn't understand english but I learnt some words when I played it. I got Lucas Arts Classic Adventures Collection (the one with Monkey Island 1, Indiana Jones 3, Loom, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken) as christmas present and I fell in love with Monkey Island. (I still have the box, manuals, disks etc!). I completed Indy, Monkey Island 1 and Loom, but I never touched Maniac Mansion after Edna put my character in jail. I thought it was too scary game for me. Zak McKraken was a bit too weird for me, or that's what i thought. Hmm.. I still haven't finished Zak McKraken and Maniac Mansion, maybe I should give them a chance, they can't be THAT scary and weird.

Day of the Tentacle & Sam & Max Hit the Road:
These two games are the greatest adventure games I've ever played.
They were not scary at all and there was lots of visual humor.
I played those two games countless of times with walkthroughs and I still remember every puzzle solution. Sam & Max Hit the Road became my favourite adventure game and that's what it still is. Now I understand the wacky humour and I love it!

1995-2001 I played pretty much every adventure game coming from Sierra or LucasArts and some others I heard would be good (Blade Runner, etc.)
I also stopped using walkthroughs and learnt some more english as I played.
After Grim Fandango & Gabriel Knight 3 I haven't played any of the newer games. Gory Ultra-Violence, 3D, lack of storytelling/humor. These are the major problems of the games nowadays (that's just what I think), so I thought I should just stick with the oldies. Until..

Today:
After Grim Fandango I thought the whole adventure genre was dead & buried.
A little sparkle of hope came from Lucas Arts (Freelance Police) but it got cancelled. Few years later I heard about Telltale games and that the company would make a new Sam & Max game. I was very happy about the news, but I was also worried. The feeling, humour and atmosphere of Hit the Road would be hard to reach and I have this nostalgic thing with Hit the Road. I really hoped that the return of Sam & Max will be successful. I tried the new Sam & Max demo and I thought it was the greatest thing since Sam & Max Hit the Road. I felt the same sensation as I did when I played Sam & Max Hit the Road for the first time 13 years ago. I really hope that Telltale will continue with the same quality and I hope the company will get the credit they deserve for doing such a great job. I will buy the whole season when it's complete. Keep up the good work! ;)

[curryhano]

I started playing KQ1, LSL1, PQ1 and SQ1. All the original AGI versions when they just were released so I was about 10 or 11 (I am 32 now). I loved every second of it. I think I learned a lot of english from these games... And I remember playing on a AT with EGA graphics. And no sound card!

I was introduced to Monkey Island until LeChuck's Revenge. Immediately I played Secret of Monkey Island too because I really liked the jokes, the storyline and the fact that you couldn't die! Then I got into the other LucasArst games.

The Quest for Glory (or Heroes Quest when I played it first) series of Sierra is also one of my favorites. I played for hours to get better at everything. and killing all creatures in the forest of QfG1. Great storyline and lots to do, also because of the RPG part in the game...

Later Sierra adventure games like Gabriel Knight and SQ>4, PQ>3, LSL>5 and KQ>5 didn't interest me. I don't know why exactly, probably because the series were going on too long and the gameplay changed during the series.

I think in the older games gameplay and stories mattered more than the graphics because the ability to create extreme realistic graphics just wasn't there.

Lucasarts adventures always remained to capture me. And now the new Sam & Max and Bone, they make me really happy again. Although I am plaing the oldies with help of sarien, freesci and scummvm...

One last note: I think the engine you are using is great and should have been the way Monkey Island 4 should have been created. In 3D but with the point and click interface. Keep up the good work!

[thom_h]

I started playing Day of the Tentacle when I was about 7 because a friend of my Mum's had it and it wouldn't work on his computer so he gave me the disk.
Then I installed it, and cheated my way through the whole game thanks to an FAQ! But still thoroughly enjoyed it :)
Then I found a friend who was into the Monkey Island series and I've been hooked to adventure games ever since! (I'm 16 now)

[Mel]

I started playing adventure games when I was 29. The first one I played was Myst. Maybe I technically started earlier. When I would visit my aunt and uncle, I played Oregon Trail on their computer when I was 10 or so. I had a Vic-20 as a kid but never played adventure games on it and didn't get another personal computer until 1996. I hadn't even heard of Lucas Arts or Sierra until I started posting in forums in 2004. :o

I'm 38 now. :eek:

[Mack Daddy]

My parents bought me my first computer (A C-64) in September of 1982 and I've been hooked on computers (Especially Gaming) ever since. I hate to say how old I am now....but in September of 1982, I was '11'...

Is that old??

[Vesh]

My family started me off right. Started at 4 playing Zork on an Apple2c.

[Mack Daddy]

At '4' ? Ha! Nice!!

[Sacharissa]

But I had to add my two-pennies. My earliest adventure game was an adaptation of The Colour of Magic, a classic in full CGA, on the Speccy. I can't recall how old I was at the time, must have been about 7 or 8. My father was the CEO of the company that held the exclusive licence to develop and produce titles for the Spectrum (Prism Software Ltd). This was closely followed by The Hobbit (again in full CGA glory).

I was then given an Amiga 500 for my 8th (or 9th) birthday and with it came a games pack. One of my favourite games was Rainbow Islands (remember that) because my best friend at the time and I used to compete against each other (as in who could get the furthest). This led me into graphic adventuring in a roundabout way, as I'd heard about this game called (yep, you guessed it, the one that nearly everyone played first) Monkey Island and I persuaded my parents to buy it for me for Christmas. Well, that was it, I was hooked. I eschewed all forms of nourishment as I learnt how not to "fight like a cow" and I used to save up my chore money so I could buy more (I have a whole cupboard full of Amiga titles - mainly LucasArts and Sierra - though I'd played at least a half-dozen LA titles before I discovered Sierra - I can't recall what my first Sierra game was; it may very well have been the first King's Quest, or, indeed, the first Leisure Suit Larry. The only games I had, AFAICR, that weren't either LA or Sierra, was the Kyrandia series. )

I really miss the Amiga days. ISTR that a 100MB HDD was something like £300 and I pestered my parents for one so that I didn't have to keep swapping discs, but they never relented. Monkey Island 2, if memory serves, was on about two dozen floppies and I was devastated when I got about halfway through and one of the discs was faulty. Took LA nearly 3 months to send me a replacement.

The Amigal did have its own 'talkies' - does anyone remember the Valhalla games? Okay, so the 'speech' was digitised and sounded like Stephen Hawking's voice synthesiser, but it was still speech. ISTR that the company (the name of which completely escapes me) made a full proper speech version available on CD; but, as Amiga CD readers were completely proprietary and, therefore, expensive, they never sold many and I doubt very much whether they are still in business.

I remember I bought the first Kyrandia game from an advert in the back of Amiga Action magazine and my mother grounding me for a fortnight and making me return it (I think my grades must have been slipping!). The girl I bought it from refused to take it back and I kept it (and sneakily played it when my parents were out - and at night (the computer was in my bedroom).

I remember going babysitting at the age of about 12 and discovering that the husband had the PC version of Monkey Island on CD with voices! I remember pestering my father for months for a new PC so that I could hear my games speak.

When I got my mitts on my first PeeCee some years later, I was heavily into IF (that's Interactive Fiction for those who don't know). I had the full Zork series, Planetfall, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Enchanter, The Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy, and one or two others the names of which escape me.

Sorry, I've just re-read this and realised how jumbled it is; but it's nearly 3:30am here in the UK and every fibre of my being is crying out for sleep and I really can't be bothered to put it into any kind of order.

Solstice blessings,

Sarah

[Lurie]

I do not remember exactly, but I started my video-game career the same christmas that Super Mario Bros. came out for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and I'm 22 now.

Someone who knows when that came out, do the math for me. Feeling lazy tonight. :cool:

[RMJ1984]

Then around 9-10 years old. First game was offcourse. Day of the tentacle. And its still is one of my favorite along site Sam & max hit the road and the new ones..

[schuubars]

Hmm i don't remember anymore, i am 24 now, played most(at least the good ones IMO) adventures, and other games, but i do remember my first one from lucas arts was loom at 1990 i think, ah and roger wilco./SpaceQuest)


btw happy Xmas and happy new jear.

[barrel-rider]

My first Games where Sam and Max, and Goblins Quest 3, and the other Goblins games. I'm not sure how old I was, but it was the year those games came out.
I am 20 now.

[Evil Penguin]

I think I started playing adventure games when I was around 10 (I'm now 24).

Monkey Island (1) was one of the first adventure games I played, and I've since played most of the classic Lucas Arts adventures (Sam&Max Hit the Road being one of my favorites, but I played that one a fair bit later).


Some of the games I find memorable (that I can recall at the moment):

Lucas Arts:
Monkey Island 1,2,3
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max: Hit the Road
Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
Full Throttle

Sierra:
Police Quest 1
LSL 1
Gabriel Knight 1,2

Revolution:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword 1,2(,3)

Other:
Runaway

[basd]

Well, i am 27 now, living in germany, my first Adventure was ManiacMansion on C64 when i was 9 or something like that ... I even finished that game with a friend (same age). After that I played Zak and later (using an AMIGA) Indy 3,4 , Monkey Island 1,2 .... much later i got an PC ( year 1998 or so) ... then I tried the Sierra stuff, played Larry and some Kings Quest versions but i prefered the LucasFilm / Lucas Arts stuff - i played all of their point and click adventures.

Sam and Max Episode 1 was short but great! I hope there will be many Seasons !

[Puckstar]

I haven't posted for sometime so I am probably pressing all the wrong buttons and I apologise in advance for the incorrect use of smiley's :confused: and the likelihood that my picture has come out as some incomprehensible blocky image!:eek:

I am very proud of my gaming history, especially as girls often weren't into games when I was younger.

I guess my first adventure game was 'Adventure' on the Atari and following this it would have been the Hobbit on the Spectrum 48k. The consoles I had in later years I don't recall having any adventure games for (Nintendo Famicom, Sega Mega Drive) as I don't think they were available. It was only when I got my first PC that I started really getting into the point and click style games which I truly love, and I was happy that Playstation accomodated a few of these too, even if they play better on a PC. My list would be as follows (from memory which is bad!):
Zork
Myst
Gabriel Knight
Noctropolis
Phantasmagoria
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Grim Fandango
Broken Sword

There are quite a few nice games which can be found on the channel 4 games website for any of you that are interested.

I will await the next episode of Sam & Max...

[Josh151]

I started when I was four or five with a LucasArts package that included Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I didn't really like the latter as much as the first two, and I didn't really understand them for a couple years, but I least I tried.

[Nocturnal_XVIII]

Sam and Max was my first ever game, my dad bought it brand new when I was 5 and it had just come out. I used to sneak onto his computer and play it. That and Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
The cool thing about the first game was as I got older I kept finding new jokes whenever I played it again.

[Screaming Gamer]

I got into Adventure gaming very young. It was back when Monkey Island just came out on the Amiga and PC in the year 1990/91. My older brother (11 year gap) bought the game and we used to play it together. Then out came Sam n Max, DOTT, Full Throttle, DIG, Broken Sword and many others! I'm 18 now and I am a true hardcore Adventure gamer :D It's a shame I can't afford to buy them all!

Heck, I even write music for games I think of haha!

[Derwin]

Hrmm... I cannot remember...

I assume it was Maniac Mansion on the NES, so I would be between 7 and 10. Then Sierra adventure games (I think one of the Space Quests was my first). Then LucasArts (all of them hehe). Leisure Suit Larry made me feel very naughty and rebellious. I remember shutting off the computer if my parents walked by while I was playing it.

I am 21 now. Still so young... but I feel so old. And still playing adventure games... please don't ever let them die!

[Lapino]

My first adventure game was Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer, because it was on disk my dad had gotten from a friend. I was about 12 years old at the time, and we had just bought our first PC. I hadn't even heard of the term "Adventure games", but I got hooked immediately. After that, I played Larry, Police Quest, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandago, Broken Sword, Sam and Max of course,...

22 now, but still playing and enjoying them!

[abdallah]

I was 10 when I started playing adventure games, The Secret of Monkey Island on the Amiga 500 was the first one. Im 26 now.

[glo_kidd]

Wow... this Might be a long post :)

I think my first experience with an adventure game was probably when i was four or five, i cant quite remember the game but i think it was the agi kings quest. I remember my mom and older brother playing zak mckracken around that time.I would sit for hours and watch them move thier little character around the screen clicking/typing away trying to figure out what they need to do to advance thier way through the story. Often i would bug them to go back and continue playing so i could know what happenes next.

The first adventure game i atually "played" to completion was LOOM. I used to play that game over and over, my mom had already finished it and was constanly giving me a lot of pointers.

The game that made me fall in love with adventure gaming though was The Secret of Monkey Island. That was the first game i completed without any help. I tend to think in silly ways and the warped logic of the game really just clicked. I actually finished the game before my older brother (8 yr's older) which really ticked him off. I was hooked

Now Im 24... and habitually(maybe obsessively ;) ) play through the monkey island series once every month or two :D

Thanks Dave :D :D :D

[NHJ BV]

I was going to say that Day of the Tentacle was my first, when I borrowed it from a friend 10 or so years ago. Then I remembered that my parent's first computer, an XT 8086 (16 colours baby :cool: ) they bought in 1990, also had an adventure game on it. I was four then, though I think I didn't play that particular game until I was a bit older. I think the name of the game was Mother Goose or something similar. It was about returning items from 18 different children's stories to their owners so they could jump over the moon again and such. I guess that was my first adventure game, all the other games on that computer were things like Digger, Pacman, Xonix and such. I' m 21 now by the way.

EDIT: found it in Wikipedia eventuelly, the game was called Mixed-Up Mother Goose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-Up_Mother_Goose) , published in 1987 by Sierra.

[witchy2k1]

My 1st adventure was probably The Hobbit on the Commodore64 when I was 13, I moved onto the Amiga and was treated to some of the best games I've ever played, then Lucasarts announced that they would no longer support the Amiga due to piracy issues and they moved their support to IBM PC compatibles (as though piracy was any better on the PC!), so I sold my Amiga and built myself a PC waaaay back in 1993 because Lucasarts were just about to release Day of the Tentacle on the PC and i HAD to have it.

I'm now 36 and I still love them. :-)

[wefeelgroove]

My first exposure to video games in general was when I was three, and my parents were working on King's Quest 4. I didn't play, I just watched them, and I used to think the fairy's castle was so cool. :D

The first game I played was either Mixed-Up Mother Goose or Mixed-Up Fairy Tales when I was 5 or 6. I think I eventually played Mixed-Up Fairy Tales so much I used each "character" at least once.

I was middle school/early high school aged when I really got into adventure games, though. This was when I played most of the big names, like Monkey Island, The Dig, Gabriel Knight (protip: 12 year olds should not play GK O_O), King's Quest, Zork, the Journeyman Project, and Myst/Riven (even though I never beat actually beat Riven). This is where most of my favorite adventure games come from, with Journeyman Project 2 and Zork Nemesis topping the list.

I'm 22 now, and I just recently started playing adventure games again, mostly because I got a new computer last summer so I can play new games now without my computer overheating and dying. I actually didn't play Sam & Max Hit the Road until very recently, either, but I figured with Season 1 coming out that I needed to track it down on ebay (which I did). Of course, it's a given that I'm playing Sam & Max and BONE. :D

[sokuni]

Ookay...let's see. :)

I was very very young when I bumped into PC adventure games for the first time. I think I might have been in the age of 7-9 years. I started gaming with NES in the age of 5 I believe, but we didn't have a PC in our house until I was 8 years old. Anyways, I tried games like King's Quest and Police Quest, but since those games use parsers and are otherwise very difficult as well, we just tried them out as much as possible. :rolleyes:

With a later age I bumped into point 'n click -adventure games. There were these classics like The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle and of course, Sam & Max: Hit the Road. Once again, I was still about 10-12 years old so those games had a bit too tough puzzles for a young brain. :eek:

Anyways, as I grew older I managed to acquire most of those games I never finished. So I played them through one by one. Sam 'n Max was very memorable, because of its graphics and mystifying 'n sick dialogue. It's one of the rare games I still might play even today if I need to have a good laugh. :D

Okay, so that's a piece of history in a nutty shell, and I consider myself fairly influenced by adventure games. :cool:

And as a top of this, I'm 20 years oldies at this moment.

[Welshy]

Started playing adventure games (Monkey Island on the Amiga 500) when i was about 6.
Im 21 now and still love the old game just as much as i did then, if not more.

I think one of my favourites has to be 'The Dig', great game


(many many years ago when i played S&M hit the road, when i was young, i never even knew there was voice acting in that game, it obviously never worked on my pc at the time lol. First played the game with voices about 2 years ago)

[sokuni]

Started playing adventure games (Monkey Island on the Amiga 500) when i was about 6.
Im 21 now and still love the old game just as much as i did then, if not more.

I think one of my favourites has to be 'The Dig', great game


(many many years ago when i played S&M hit the road, when i was young, i never even knew there was voice acting in that game, it obviously never worked on my pc at the time lol. First played the game with voices about 2 years ago)

Oh yeah, The Dig. It's very beautiful. But I never played it through, maybe I should. :)

[Josh]

I started when I was around 6 or 7 (I'm 23 now) with The Black Cauldron, which led to other Sierra games: Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. Around 1995, a friend loaned me Monkey Island, which I loved, and then borrowed Day of the Tentacle from another friend. I picked up the Lucas Arts Archives vol. 1 around that time too, which introduced me to Sam and Max. Quite possibly the most endearing adventure game of all time.

If we want to get technical though, the first thing I vividly remember playing was The Ancient Land of Ys, I had to launch it out of PC Tools, anyone remember those? (Oh, I was about 5 at the time.)

[fatjoem]

My first adventure game was Indiana Jones 3, which came as a bundle with an Amiga 500. I was 10 years old.

In that time I did not know what an adventure game was. I played Indy3 for about a year, without making any progress. I just visited the same starting areas, interacting with the same items over and over again. I loved it. It was when I got to the Venice location that I realized "wow, this is a story telling game you can make progress in" (I did not know the movies). I finished it very fast then (well a month or so).

After finishing Indy3 I looked for more adventure games. The genre was called "Nimm-Benutze-Spiele" (german for "Pickup-Use-Game") around my friends.

I soon got MI1+2, Indy4, Zac, DoT, Loom, Simon the Sorcerer and so on. My friends and I competed in finishing Pickup-Use-Games as fast as possible. For every single title I needed more than a month to complete (which was the average for my friends, too).

This was approx 15 years ago. I am 27 years old now.

[Kentaurus]

I was about 5 (24 now) when I played King's Quest I. Actually, I can't say I really played it as I didn't know English at all (I'm Italian!). The only words I knew were "open the door" to enter the castle and I remember I spent days "talking" to the king who always replied me he "couldn't understand" or "couldn't do that"... Also, when trying to do something else I was just getting killed by someone or something! I clearly remember a guy standing on a bridge and a witch.
As it was my first one, I don't know why I didn't grow up hating adventure games!

[fhqwhgads]

Ah, memories...

I got a IBM XT system with 650k ram, 20meg HDD(!!!) and a CGA screen when I was 10-11 years old. I learned dos by myself, also using the trusted 'try-every-command-ending-with-exe-or-com" method. I learned what the 'format' command did the hard way!

My first ever game was Alley Cat, and my first Adventure game (or Quest games as we called them) was SQ2. I loved the humor. I eventually got and played all the Space Quest games.

During this time a friend of mine introduced met to Leasure Suit Larry. Talk about bad influences! ;) I can still remember his mom scolding us for the type of games we play, but ending up helping us with the puzzles!

Then came the Monkey Island. I was shocked and awestruck. I remember I played it on 9 double-density floppy disks (which made the stump joke very amusing!). I could not believe my XT could render such graphics and the (pc speaker!) music blew me away. I remember replaying the intro just to hear the theme song over and over again.

After that I was pretty much hooked. I played almost all the Lucasarts games (Indy and the fate of Atlantis being one of my favourites) and then, years after its release, discovered Sam&Max HTR. I thought the humor was insane and it won me over, still being one of my favourites to this day!

Today I am 26 and still an addicted gamer!

[ThomasMink]

Wow.. that's asking me a lot to go back that far... I've played a lot of adventure games when I was young.. I have no idea how old I was. My parents tell me that I started playing computer games at the age of 2 tho.. with Pac-Man. I think it's funny.

But anyway.. the ones I remember are.. hmm..
King's Quest
Fairytale Adventure (I think that's what it was called.. might also be RPG instead of Adventure)
Leisure Suit Larry (this first one)
Uninvited
Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego? (Commodore 64 memories!)
Dragon's Lair (Amiga version.. this count as adventure? :o)

Possibly a few others... I list all of those because I was too young to remember my exact age when playing them. Any one could have been my first.

After those, the Lucas games caught on when my dad started buying them. Monkey Island 2 was cool, but I never finished it.. wish I still had it too.. undead pirates are awesome. Day of the Tentacle was the first adventure game I finished (with two other people, so I can't take full credit), and I still play it to this day and get fond memories.. Hoagie is awesome. Sam & Max: Hit The Road was the last one I played, and I needed to use the included hintbook to get through it.. some of the puzzles were just too.. I dunno. About 85% of the ones I couldn't get involved using Max (the wooly mammoth being the only one I can remember offhand). Guess I didn't think to use him on every object in the game enough. :p

Haven't played an adventure game since.. until I got in a mode and did some research on Sam & Max.. felt an urge to play Hit The Road, and I remembered hearing about a sequel a few years ago. blah blah blah, yak yak yak, yakkity yakkity yakkity, blah blah blah.. that's when I found Telltale and the new Sam & Max games.. played the demo, bought the season, and am quite pleased.

Current age: 24

[Plan3]

Ok, hmm... I remember we had some Indiana Jones game on our 286 computer, I was 8 years old then (1993'ish). Later I played Sam & Max, Leisure Suit Larry (all of em), 7'th guest (loved that game!), DOTT and lots of other great classics =p (Loved Carmen Sandiego)

22 years old now, played Situation: Comedy a few days ago, playing Voyage Century Online on a daily basis and is so looking forward to get my Nintendo Wii as soon as they get it in stock to play Zelda - Twilight Princess and Rayman Raving Rabbids =p Playing as much as I can now because I'm getting a son/daughter in august and must start being responsible and stuff like that =p (Of course, Im still going to play around after that, but not in a lazy lifestyle kind of way like now =)

Btw, anyone of you playing Voyage Century Online? =)

[sokuni]

Bleh, it's very odd that I seem to be one of the youngest ones (20 years old) here. :D

[bashar]

I'm curious to know how old everyone here was when you started playing adventure games. (And, how old are you now?) I have a hunch that many of the people who post here started with LucasArts games, but I'm curious to find out if that's really true.

Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28). The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1. :)) After that I moved on to King's Quest games. I never even heard of LucasArts until years later (2001 or so) when I started posting on forums. Not sure how I missed those games, because I used to go into software stores all the time to buy Sierra games, but it could be that I was so focused on Sierra that I never looked at what else was on the shelf. [:">]

How about you?

Evil Sierra spirit :p . It was a total pain to start the game on Commodore with 1 MB of RAM. I can't believe how we used to switch disks in and out all the time to see a person walking few steps. and then we might have taken the wrong steps and die, and start all over again!

Anyways, sorry it's a too late reply. I started playing adventure games at around 1990, I was 10 at that time. My first game was Monkey Island. My uncle bought it for his son and it was a lot of talking for a 10 years old kid who's native is Arabic! USE means cut that out in our local language, and we used to think and use it as the VERB :P

Pretty stupid. Now I am 26, in the past few years I played Syberia, Broken Sword, Longest Journey was too long and buggy for me to finish, and what else... ohhh yes, Bone and Sam & Max :D. This is when I knew why adventure games haven't been so fun lately... they aren't as good as you make them :). My 1 year old kid loves watching your S&M trailers by the way, so you don't have to close your business anytime soon. You have one potential customer :D.

[Mat]

my first best experience was monkey island. it had a superb music & catchy tunes. the dig was also very cool.

i'm 30 now!

[John-pieter]

I was about twelve [21 now] when i got an old laptop from one of my father`s friends.
An ibm 386,fully loaded with old adventure games.
My first game was leisure suit larry,followed by where on earth is carmen sandiego and monkey island.

I used to struggle with those age restricted questions at the beginning with larry.
I`m from the netherlands ,so most of those questions meant nothing to me.
Adventure games hold a special place with me now .

[ShaggE]

I can't remember exactly, but I think I was about 11 when I truly played an adventure game (By which I mean, I didn't give up after the first few screens), and that game was Shivers 2: Harvest Of Souls. It remains one of my favorites. (I'm 20 now)

If you count adventure games I gave up on, my first was Myst when I was about 7.

[Landhow]

I think I was 12 or something when I first tried Monkey Island. After that, I was hooked.

[Fancy Worm]

I happen to remember spending a lot of time with Leisure Suit Larry, and one of the Space Quest games (whichever one had the Energizer Bunny in it). I'm 21 now, and as far as adventure games go, I played a lot of Abandonware (including Hit the Road and a few more of the Space Quest games), and I picked up the Monkey Island game for the Playstation, thought that was pretty nifty.

[doom saber]

Being the youngest of four, I played adventure games ever since I can remember (despite my teenage appearance, I am 23.) The first was King's Quest I. I think I was playing kq 3 or was it 2? by the time I was in Kindergarden; I recall telling my teacher about the game and how I would ask help from my brothers on how to spell a certain word like "Pick up rock."

Other than Indiana jones 3(the EGA version,) I played mostly sierra games (from king's quest to Leisure suit arry) during my childhood up until Sam and Max came out where I decided to try some of the lucasarts games. At the time, my cousins introduced me to Sam and Max (they gave me their old talkie version to me after they got an extra from the archives pack,) Day of the tentacle, Fate of Altantis, and Full Throttle demo. My brothers and I later got Full Throttle at a used music store. I actually got into the rest of the lucasarts game a year or so ago after hearing so many talks about Monkey Island.

[HeidiRLynn]

I was 10 when I started playinng Space Quest VI. I am now 22 years old.

[Greg4cr]

My first computer was an Apple II, so my first experience with adventure games were with the Carmen Sandiego series and various interactive fiction games. When we got our first Windows box, I got hooked on the LucasArts and Sierra titles. That's how the story goes.

I'm twenty now, and still just as addicted as ever.

[Jake]

I've never thought of the Carmen Sandiego games as adventure games. Weird. I guess they sort of are. In hindsight, they're probably a lot closer to Phoenix Wright than any other adventure game that I've personally played.

[Greg4cr]

I've never thought of the Carmen Sandiego games as adventure games. Weird. I guess they sort of are. In hindsight, they're probably a lot closer to Phoenix Wright than any other adventure game that I've personally played.

I normally wouldn't consider them adventure games either, but someone else in this thread mentioned the series, so I figured it was fair game. :)

[Hakkzpets]

I was four years old I think. Maniac Mansion was the first Adventure Game I can remeber anything of. Couldn't understand anything though. Just sat with dad while he played/helped me play.:o

[Waterbottle]

The first adventure game I played were day of the tentacle, I were about 6 at the time, quite obviously didn't understand much of it. Didn't complete the game before I were about 12. Didn't even get to play as Hoagie before I were about 12 actually, seeing as I at the time didn't have a legit version of the game hence didn't have the copy protection solution, I figured it out eventually though. ^_^

However the game that really got me started with adventure games were CMI, I got the game from an uncle and instantly fell in love with it (this were also at around age 12). After that I found the DOTT diskettes and played through that then moving on towards all the other lucasarts games and the leisure suit larry games.

I'm 16 now.

[jannar85]

How often should we have this discussion... Really :p
Anyway, I tried playing Leisure Suit Larry at the age of 9-10, but I didn't fall in love with adventure games before I was 11-12 I think. Which was when I played Monkey Island 1!:D

[maximmortal]

I must have been about 8-10 years old when I first played Monkey Island. I had an Amiga 500 and Monkey Island 2 was on 13 floppy disks or something like that! I've been into adventure games ever since and have played soooooooo many! I'm now 22.

[Chuck]

Hey, I wanna play! (Especially if it means I can put off working for a little longer).

The first adventure game I ever played was "Uninvited" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninvited_(game)) on a Mac Plus in 1988. I was 17 then. The one that first got me hooked was the "Citibank" demo of Secret of Monkey Island, which I played on an Amiga around 1990.

[Johnny Walker]

I was 10 when I started playinng Space Quest VI. I am now 22 years old.

Have you finished it yet?

[Badwolf]

Warning: Wall of text / life story.

The first point n click adventure game for me was Discworld 2. I was 6 at the time, but managed to get through it mostly without a walkthrough (I had a bit of trouble in Death's domain).
It was probably way too old for me, and most of the jokes went way over my head, but it got me hooked to the genre.

After that, I got into Broken Sword (another game I was way too young for) and then played the Curse of Monkey Island at a New Year's Party a couple of years back, about 1999 (about 9 years old at the time).

A few years later (aged 12 by now), I found the Monkey Island bounty pack by chance in the local game shop, and played the first two for the first time.
Not long after, I found Sam and Max: Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle, and got really into them.
Then the same friend who got me playing CMI got me playing Grim Fandango too (great game, but I still prefer pointing and clicking).

I'm glad the genre's still alive and kicking, after spending more than half my life with it, and looking forward to getting the money sorted to buy the new Sam and Max games.

[HeidiLynn84]

Have you finished it yet?

Only in my dreams.

[baron_calamity]

I'm 37 and I played my first adventure game was in 1981 when I was 11/12. It was Pirates Adventure by Scott Addams for the Commadore Vic 20.

[Johnny Under]

I started with Maniac Mansion for the NES. I think I was around 8 or 9. I was instantly hooked.

Not much later, I stayed at my Uncle's house for while where I discovered the PC Adventure game scene with The Adventures of Willy Beamish. It was a downward spiral from there.

My family never owned a PC while growing up. I remember spending long hours in Software Etc. in my very early teens playing demo versions of new Lucas/Sierra games for ages. DOTT floored me. The characters could talk! The graphics looked EXACTLY like a cartoon! I begged and begged for a PC for years.

I'm now 26, and have spent the years since I finally acquired a PC making up for lost time ;)

[genuineparts]

Anonyme Adventuregamers? *gg* So i startet gaming around 1991 (sweet 7) ;-) Advernture Games caught me late 1993 and as far as i remember it was Leisure Suit Larry 6. I was hooked up on Sierra Adventures. I still have the Original disks of the LSL and the PoliceQuest series. 1997 i got my hands on Monkey Island 3... my addiction got worse since then...

[Shauntron]

I'm 20 now.

When I was four, I used to watch my dad play Space Quest IV and then run out of the room screaming when something scary happened. When the Lucas Arts Archive Vol. 1 came out, I was maybe six or seven and me and my twin sister burned through pretty much all of it.

She plays absolutely no modern games. Just Nintendo, and Lucas Arts point and click on ScummVM. But she's been begging me to play the Sam & Max episodes on my fast computer!

[IronCladChicken]

I'm 37 and I played my first adventure game was in 1981 when I was 11/12. It was Pirates Adventure by Scott Addams for the Commadore Vic 20.

Scott Adams! - Now there's a name that reminds of the eighties - or Dilbert - depending on how I'm feeling at the time :)

[CharlyTrippo]

I`m 24 now.
I was around 5 or 6 years old when I had my first adventure (on the `puter that is). And that was on the commodore, afer that I stepped to the Amiga.
I don`t know which game it was tho.. seen too many titles fly by in time.

It still amazes people that I was able to understand most of it, even though it`s english (I`m Dutch by origin.) actually, I`m better at english than my own language, they never did make any good dutch movies or games.
And they never did many translations either, so heck, I`ll just learn the most used language then. Always been a computer Wizzkid. But nowadays I`m a computer Wizzdude, soon to be Technomage. (I can almost sense the troubles that a computer has, go figure, intuition, experience or magic?)

[Certifiable]

I began (amusingly) with Al Lowe's...Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood!

What do you mean it doesn't count? You used a map, you had goals, chats to the characters and most things that counted. I was around eight...or ten...under eleven definitely.

My first OLDER and more serious first game was Sam and Max Hit The Road, so they have a place in my heart as my first true Point and Click Adventure Game (uh, word of warning, don't take the Sam and Max manual's middle-of-the-book board game's rules LITERALLY. I won, punched my sister in the shoulder, and she wasn't too pleased, blubbering to mum. OOPS.), followed by Day of the Tentacle and the Larry series. I plan to find Space Quest A.S.A.P, but the new Sam and Max and BONE episodes keep blocking my path. :D

24 and still playing adventure games. Soon it'll be MY 20th anniversary playing these things!

[Buuga]

I'm 23.today is my birthday!

well.. It all started from Maniac mansion and the platform was Commodore 64 . My brother got it from our aunt who visited Disneyland in early 90's. I got a stupid Donald Duck toy :D

First I watched my brother play, but soon I wanted to play, and I always asked him "how do I get the key under the carpet?" I didn't try Larries or other games of Sierra, 'cause I didn't know english, but games of Lucasarts offered click opportunity for me

Actually I learnt first english sentences and phrases from adventure games.
So I should blame Lucasarts for my bad english :D

[ShaggE]

Happy B-day!

(your english isn't bad at all, by the way)

[Armakuni]

Hey Buuga we have much in common! I turned 26 just some days ago (19/3) and I also learned English through playing adventure games. It really helped me out later on when I studied English. My native language is Norwegian and I think that made it easier for me as the sentence structure is pretty similar in both languages.

However, I suck at actually speaking English as I've never really done that.

[Buuga]

hehe, thx..

Well, Ironic and humoristic phrases can be categorized as bad english :)

[Buuga]

However, I suck at actually speaking English as I've never really done that.

Yep, I think, it's (or was) a very common way to learn english via games, and adventure games improves your vocabulary more than shoot'em ups.

I don't speak english so well :) and neither do many Finns.
It can be proved by listening the F1 driver 'Kimi räikkönen' :D

[Shauntron]

I just dug up the first adventure game I ever played in my entire life: Mixed Up Mother Goose, when I was four.

The fans in my computer are so loud I can't really hear the PC speaker :o

[Jake]

For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?

[Harald B]

It's a while ago, but I'd say the dialog was definitely more important than the few verbs typical adventures used; though probably the fact that appropriate nouns appear when you hover your mouse over an object or inventory item was even more important.

[Armakuni]

Yeah the dialogue was important. Also, in older Sierra games you had to type commands yourself.. even though they were very simple, that also helped.

And I didn't only learn some English that way, I learned a lot.. I didn't know a word of English when I started except "I love you" and "fuck off" and stuff like that but after I'd been playing adventure games for a year or two I could understand most English on TV without subs.
My mother bought a dictionary for me that I used a lot while playing, that was very helpful.

[Haggis]

Yep, it was definitely the dialogue. It helped me to expand my vocabulary, and to learn some typical expressions. I also found that playing the German version of The Secret of Monkey Island was quite helpful in improving on my German - for instance, I'd never known that cinnamon was 'Zimt' before playing the game in German. 'Guybrush liebt Zimt.' :)

[Buuga]

For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?

It was the demand of using "the point and click interface" 'cause otherwise characters wouldn't do anything.
I couldn't follow the storyline or make locigal solves from characters' speaks. I just randomly tried everything.

I remember, that I used to play police quest 1 by just remembering sentences as "pick up the radio" and I used command "op" which meant "open door" without understanding it's meaning :D

[Buuga]

haha, I just remembered, how difficult it was to tell the accusation for the jail keeper (in police quest)

[Armakuni]

Yeah haha :D

[genuineparts]

Oh yeah that was friggin hard for an 10 year old. I was very good in my english class. But Driving under influence of drugs and homicide didn't appear in my english book ;-)

[fhqwhgads]

No no no...

"administer test" or "perform sobriety test"

That one took me months to figure out...

[Leviathan]

ah, old adventure games... typing, reading, virtual imagining.
while with new adventure games... reading, listening and virtual splendors!
typing is an abandon "way" now, I guess players will buy a point-and-click games rather than typing ones (if there's any nowadays).

[ToXic]

I think I was about 7/8 when I played my first adventure game (it seems such a long time ago now.) My first adventure game was The Secret of Monkey Island back on the Amiga 600, I still remeber that half the time it would crash on your way to meet the swordmaster, due to an item not being in a room or something like that.

typing is an abandon "way" now

Typing isnt that abandon now, Typing of the Dead was only released in 2000. Granted its not an adventure game but it still is typing.

[Meowzy]

Oh dear... How old was I when I started?
I know that the first Lucasarts adventure I played was Monkey Island 1. I think I was around... 6 or 7 years old. (I'm 18 now)

And yes, as Dutch person I'll have to say... I think it was both the dialogue and the interaction that helped me develop my English.

[NatsFan]

I played the early Humongous Entertainment games (which were made by Ron Gilbert!) when I was about 4, but I stumbled upon my first real adventure game when I was about 10. One of my older brother's friends lent him a classic games disk that came with a PC Gamer magazine, it happened to have The Secret of Monkey Island on it. I've been hooked ever since. :)

[Steve2000]

I can't believe I haven't posted in this thread yet. Well maybe I did, I am having a deja'vu moment here. Anyway - in 1989 I got a brand new PS/2 computer with a 20 MB hard drive and 640kb of RAM. It rocked - and I believe that either the Black Cauldron, or Kings Quest 1 was my first game. Wait, I didn't answer the question - 1989 would make me 10 or 11 years old.

I know I quickly moved through the Kings Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest series as they came out. Gotta love those old AGI text parser games. I still have a couple of those games and fire them up in Dosbox every now and again. I think I can beat Space Quest 1 in about 20 minutes.

[schuubars]

For those of you who learned some English via adventure games... Was it just that the characters spoke in written English that helped, or was it the fact that you had to use the point and click interface to form sentences like "Pull lever," "Use match with love bomb," etc?


I guess it was both(but a long time after that i learned much more by Mod. Development).(because all Dev-kits(SDK ect.) are english, and many times Mod. Team members are scattered all over the World, but have to communicate with each other.)

Thats something i love about Sam and Max, even if i did not fully understand the dialogue sometimes, i had mostly anyway a little laugh because the gestures are made well.
Btw. And then the learning effect takes place because i have to check Leo.org. ;)
And after that i play the Episode again.
I would call that; "zwei fliegen mit einer klappe geschlagen"
Don't know if it's correct( i guess not) "two flies slain with one swatter"

[Derwin]

I really think this could be a great new territory for TTG! Sam & Max teach English! People could learn the names of multiple firearms, as well as odd words and phrases they would never hear in a normal English class.

[fhqwhgads]

Sam & Max Typing Tutor!

[schuubars]

heh, my greatest fault yet was to read a 27+ page Thread about politics, i won't do that again! (don't like that, but it was interesting so many funny conspiracy theories). ;)

[Jennifer]

I do not remember exactly, but I started my video-game career the same christmas that Super Mario Bros. came out for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and I'm 22 now.

Someone who knows when that came out, do the math for me. Feeling lazy tonight. :cool:
Seeing as Super Mario Bros. came out in 1985, and your current age of 22 would have meant that you were born in 1985, you had extremely good motor skills for a months-old infant. :p

[maximmortal]

Sam & Max Typing Tutor!
Haha, like Mavis Beacon touch typing! Anyone remember that?

[IronCladChicken]

Haha, like Mavis Beacon touch typing! Anyone remember that?

I think they still make it...

The adventures of Mavis Beacons nimble fingers (http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemID=4815&itemType=CATEGORY)

Though Mavis looks excatly the same age as she did back in the ninties... I think maybe she died and they had her stuffed?

[Jennifer]

Though Mavis looks excatly the same age as she did back in the ninties... I think maybe she died and they had her stuffed?
Maybe Dick Clark supplied her with some of his youth potion. :p

[Nocturn]

I'm not sure about the name of the game but it was on a cromenco and it was a text adventure. Not the fancy version you see in sam & max reality 2.0 where you could type things like go north, use ..., etc ;) There was text and you had to choose between option a, b or c.

I think I was about 6/7, I'm 30 now.

[Grim Reaper]

My first game was Indy and the Fate of Atlantis. I played it when it was first released. So I guess I was 12 by then. I am now 27.

I did not learn any english from them because they where all dubed and translated and I played them in the local language (wich was either spanish or german).

Soon followed last crusade, Monkey island 1&2, Sam & Max HTR and day of the tentacle. Of course all of them where perfectly pirated and I even had a printed copy of dial-a-pirate. But back then I did not even know what piracy means. I thought they where just free because some friend allways handed me the newest copy of the latest LucasArts crazyness.

Of course now I am a proud owner of legaly-in-store-purcased-originals of Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango, The Dig, CMI and Full Throttle. I also have the Leisure Suit Larry Collection. I am still wating to find original Sam & Max HTR, Monkey Island 1&2 and Day of the tentacle. I would buy them inmediately.

[doom saber]

Seeing as Super Mario Bros. came out in 1985, and your current age of 22 would have meant that you were born in 1985, you had extremely good motor skills for a months-old infant. :p

In the '80s, console games moved a lot slower in terms of release. I remember getting the nintendo with mario and duckhunt when I was 5 in 87. I remember because l recall playin it when I was in kindergarden and my family exchanged a transformer figure(a hundred dollar fortress maximus figure) for a nintendo at toys r us. I regretted the trade ever since.

so to defend the poster you commented on, he probably bouht the system after 85

[jmm]

and my family exchanged a transformer figure(a hundred dollar fortress maximus figure) for a nintendo at toys r us.

Ouch.

[doom saber]

Ouch.

Tell me about it. The nintendo is like 10 bucks right now while fortress maximus is 100-700 depending on the condition he is in. At least I got the repaint version that came out a few years ago for a hundred.

[Kaldire]

It all started with a c64 and wishbringer from infocom, Which came with an egg shaped glow in the dark stone, aka wishstone. I then moved on to the zork series and any other game infocom could lay on me. (yes FYI most infocom games came with odd items, for hitchhikers it was lint :P) I was 7 at this time. Tass times in tone town came a little later and still remains one of my favorites for the era. Moving to my apple II le I found a version of kings quest that I still own today.
I am shocked to hear that emily never heard of lucasarts but hear of sierra!
They were direct competition!
After I found sierra it was over... I found lucasarts and was hooked.
I still remember the day.. It was zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders that hooked me. Now I had heard of maniac mansion but never played it until after zak. Mckracken is still in my top 10 advent games :P
Soon after of course the monkey island and sam & max etc .. also later grim fandango caught my eye.. still also on my top 10.
Im now 29 living in Sacramento Ca and love mainly the adventure company for advents... since no one else seems to make them ! I love what most consider dumb comedy but also love a good plot line and interesting characters.
Soo.. Infocom to sierra to lucasarts to the world.. then watched it all fall apart and now glad telltale exists :P

[RogerXY]

Was around 12-13 when I started and it was "Leisure Suit Larry" on Amiga and soon thereafter "Monkey Island". So I started to play adventure games from "the great 2" at the same time.
Always liked the Lucasarts ones a liiiiitle better because you couldn't die or discover that you forgot something 4 hours ago and must reload from there. Today I'm 25 (:()

[Kaldire]

I loved sierras deaths! .. I think early lucasarts just had alot more humor in the standard overall script. I found myself dying any way possible in sierra games just to see the deaths ! Great fun with sierra. But yea overall early lucasarts seems way more developed. Of course I dont want to debate point n click vs typing... I soo miss the typing. Maybe a nice oldschool toggle for pressing space bar and typing examine bookcase. Kinda like the text based part in 2.0 but with standard graphics lol.

[Sparklechick]

I can't remember exactly how old I was but probably around 10ish I guess. I'm 32 now. My first adventure type game was on the Commodore 64 and was called The Secret of Bastow Manor (or something like that). It has graphics (very basic) and was text based. It was one of the first games where you had to solve puzzles to get further. It was so hard that I never did finish the game!

[SamExplorerBoy]

I've listed this on my gamer list of events so I know the dates.
1) I started at 8
2) Now I'm 12

It's been 4 years and I'm still not bored of this.
;););)

[Jokieman]

I'm curious to know how old everyone here was when you started playing adventure games. (And, how old are you now?) I have a hunch that many of the people who post here started with LucasArts games, but I'm curious to find out if that's really true.

Me, I started at around age 10 (I'm now 28). The first game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1. :)) After that I moved on to King's Quest games. I never even heard of LucasArts until years later (2001 or so) when I started posting on forums. Not sure how I missed those games, because I used to go into software stores all the time to buy Sierra games, but it could be that I was so focused on Sierra that I never looked at what else was on the shelf. [:">]

How about you?

36, started with Maniac Mansion for the commodore 64 and was hooked. Was probably 13-14 or so. Paid $200.00 for the commodore 64. wasn't out too long. Lucas Arts released their first game (only then they were known as Lucasfilm Games) called Maniac Mansion. It was 1 5 1/4 disk (664 blocks worth of space) I spent days playing it before I finally gave up when I got near the end and a couple of the puzzles were just insane. I was logging on and off bulletin boards all over the city trying to find help with some of the puzzles and ended up helping others out more than I got helped out. I loved the game though and eventually finished it.

From there I bought pretty much every single other Lucasfilm/Lucas Arts adventure game they made. (Never bought their star wars games, I thought they all sucked) Also played a lot of the Sierra adventure type games but never liked them as well.

The C64 I think really pioneered the gaming industry. Before the C64 games were better on the old Atari 2600 than they were on computers. But the C64's graphic processor changed all that and games literally exploded onto the market. It took PC's a LONG time to catch up and finally surpass the C64 in terms of graphics and games. I Think the Commodore 64 was pretty much responsible for the demise of the Arcade, because for the first time you could play games that were better than what you could find at the arcade, right at home.



The games had more substance back then. People couldn't rely on just graphics, they had to rely on good scripting and excellent story lines. Action games back then largely played 2nd fiddle to adventure games because they had very little substance to them. They (AGs) were the equivalent to what Sudoku is today. A thinking man's game. (often with humorous results, in the case of Lucas games. :) )

Until Wing Commander that is. Wing Commander revolutionized Action games, and IMO it was the beginning of the end for Adventure Games being on top. Though it took several more years to see them drop off. They eventually did when Doom propelled First Person Shooters into the top spot. Lucas Arts soldiered on for a while because they were still making a profit, and their star wars games were still doing ok, but shortly after they ramped up their star wars titles and slowed down on their adventure games. Still, they didn't want to give them up just yet because it was their hallmark. Wing Commander was the beginning of the end, and Doom was the final nail in the coffin though, even if Lucas Arts didn't know it yet.

FPS's now share top spot with MMORPG's and Strategy Games, but adventure games never made the come back that a lot of people had hoped for. Adventure games have to compete not only in the game world but with books and movies too, and I think that's hurt them some. They were hurt more though by a multitude of posers who produced really BAD adventure games that turned a lot of people off of the genre completely. (and I'll admit I got so frustrated I stopped buying all but Lucas Arts adventure games because for a while all the rest just plain sucked).

Adventure Games and AG companies now survive via a cult status with a small but loyal segment of followers. Much like fans of those underground or low budget movies that reach cult status. (like Star Wars, hah. Or Pulp Fiction, or Attack of the Killer Tomato's or Elvira. etc). And they often have a much bigger following overseas than they do here in America because America is too fast paced and suffers from too much ADD to be able to handle an Adventure Game of any substance or length... Mostly. AG Games also suffer from the same ills that movies do. If the story sucks, then the game is worthless. Whereas even a bad FPS game still has some value as long as the core mechanics work well. The Movie industry is dealing with the same issues that AG game companies have in the past. Too many bad movies are turning people off of movies. This is why you'll rarely see a new/different "good" high budget movie anymore (Like, say, 300). And why we are facing a Summer of almost nothing but sequels to already successful franchises. It's not as if they aren't making money. It's just that they aren't making ENOUGh money to suit their needs, but I digress.

And in the future, gaming companies that want to survive will switch to console platforms exclusively in order to do away with the costs of making their games compatible for a trillon different pieces of hardware available for the common PC today and to further maximize profits by reducing Piracy. This will probably be the total end of the Adventure Game because AG games don't have a high replay value and people don't traditionally want to spend 60 bucks for a game they are only interested in playing all the way through 1 time.

The PC's of today are the test beds of tomorrow's Consoles.

[purple_monkfish]

lesse.. i'm almost 22... my first adventure game was Monkey Island 2. I remember this only because it was a pirated copy that my dad's friend had. He had photocopys of every single mix'n'mojo combination. I remember it was different to the version I have now, perhaps it was a demo version? the laundry puzzle wasn't in there, the shirt was simply on the bed when you went into largo's room.
*shrug*
Anyway, I got pretty far in that.. all the way to having to find Ripp's grave before I got stumped.. pretty good given I must have been what? about 7 or 8? The following year we went to America and I found the Lucasarts classics box, Bought that and enjoyed a furthur 5 lucasarts adventure games! whooo.
Every year from that point on my father would buy me a new game at christmas, KQ7, Sam & Max (which we got second hand), DOTT etc etc. I still have most of those copies except Sam & Max which a neighbour lost. Gah. Alas though, I no longer have the boxes. My father made me pack everything into jewelcases when we moved to the UK. Ahh well.

[fhqwhgads]

I remember it was different to the version I have now, perhaps it was a demo version? the laundry puzzle wasn't in there, the shirt was simply on the bed when you went into largo's room.
*shrug*


That was Monkey Island 2 lite (easy puzzles)

[CSummerK]

I'm eighteen now, I don't remeber how old I was when S&M HTR came out...I'm fairly certian that was my first adventure game. Then I played Toon Struck and have enjoyed those cartoony games. Now-a-days I go after anything from The Adventure Company.

[unsilviu]

S&M Season one is the FIRST adv. game i ever played, and im 12

[patters]

I seem to remember playing an adventure game in primary school around age 6 on an acorn computer (whatever that is) where you were a dragon called Cedric or something which had a very similar puzzle to broken sword 3 where you had to get corn, a chicken and a fox across a river, can't remember exactly though.

[Agent Calavera]

My first own Adventure was Gene machine, when I was 6 years old .I got into being a really big fan of adventuregames 1997, with Grim Fandango (which REALLY strongly influenced my whole taste of music, art and especially movies back then).. Before 1996, I always watched a friend of mine playing Sam and Max and Monkey Island 2 ^^.. Now I'm 17.

[CSI-gamer]

Just because i have nothing better to do i am asking u how old are u??:D

Im 13 years old.:)

[Badwolf]

I turned 17 a month ago.

[patters]

i am 17

[xChri5x]

22.

[Haggis]

25.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

122... oops... 22

[jmm]

931478400 seconds (plus a few thousands more)

[patters]

931478400 seconds (plus a few thousands more)

i think he meant in years

[Mel]

931478400 seconds (plus a few thousands more)

:D

i think he meant in years

He's making you all work for that answer!

I'm 39 by the way.

[ShaggE]

21.

[Diduz]

30.

[CSI-gamer]

Well that is nice to see you guys bying all ages

[patters]

:D



He's making you all work for that answer!

I'm 39 by the way.

or i could click on his profile and look at the age :)

he is 29 by the way

[CSI-gamer]

:D
He was really making us work

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Just because i have nothing better to do i am asking u how old are u??:D

Im 13 years old.:)

Aren't you a bit young to be a CSI gamer? ;)

[purple_monkfish]

I'm 22, like a few of the others it seems. Whooo

[CSI-gamer]

I am young but i played all CSI games :)

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

I am young but i played all CSI games :)

eheheh we're young too, dude :D

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I am young but i played all CSI games :)

Yes, but the game has a 17+ rating...

[Armakuni]

Old enough not to use u for you :p (26).

[CSI-gamer]

I dont care if it says 17+ it isnt scary or somthing so im gonna have nigthmares:)

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I dont care if it says 17+ it isnt scary or somthing so im gonna have nigthmares:)

I think those age ratings aren't recommendations, but things you have to abide by law.

[ShaggE]

They are just recommended ratings. Just like R-rated movies: There's no law against watching them at any age, as long as you have a parent or someone like that buying the tickets/DVD/whatever.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

They are just recommended ratings. Just like R-rated movies: There's no law against watching them at any age, as long as you have a parent or someone like that buying the tickets/DVD/whatever.

Oh, right. I do apologise CSI-Gamer. :o

[CSI-gamer]

Apology exepted;)

[dloeke]

Tengo dieciocho años. Ehhem, I'm 18 years old, that is. I'm listening to Spanish music at the moment.

[-=[The_Razgriz_Ace]=-]

They are just recommended ratings. Just like R-rated movies: There's no law against watching them at any age, as long as you have a parent or someone like that buying the tickets/DVD/whatever.

Im pretty sure the law applies to parties trying to show said movies...for example, a cinema explicitly cannot show an R movie to anyone under 18 (In Aus anyway, not sure what the deal is in US), at all, with or without parental consent...Im not sure what the deal is for parents showing their kids stuff like that, but Im sure its the same, with a "If we dont see it then we wont do anything about it" tag...

The bottom line is, at least here, they are regarded as law, but really only enforced in business and stuff due to it being too hard to police every household situation...much like beer and stuff...

In other news however, Im 20...

[ShaggE]

My mistake, I didn't check to see what the laws in other countries were.

[CSI-gamer]

Oh man can we pliiiiiiiiissssssss stop arguing???:confused:

[patters]

Oh man can we pliiiiiiiiissssssss stop arguing???:confused:

it isn't arguing it is a discussion

[ShaggE]

Who shot who in the what now? Discussion nothing, I'm feelin' stabby! :D (I keed, I keed)

[jmm]

Im 4830 seconds older after reading this non-sense and I want my seconds back!

[CSI-gamer]

OMG!
Can u stop with the seconds??:D

[Guybrush Threepwood]

OMG!
Can u stop with the seconds??:D

Would you prefer minutes? :D

[Squinky]

I'm ageless.

[patters]

I'm ageless.

is that the same as 21

Would you prefer minutes? :D

nano seconds maybe or decades

[Squinky]

is that the same as 21

Yes, because when you ask a woman her age, it will forever and always be 21. (Or maybe it's 29. I forget. Help me out here, ladies!)

[Erwin]

29. I learned that from watching "The Nanny".

--Erwin

[Zachspyfox033]

14 I'll be 15 on September 22

[Kaldire]

Its really a joke but here in usa at EBGAMES I get carded for games with the M for mature on em. Anything without T for teen gets people wanting to ask you for ID. Hell im 30 and I still cant buy a lighter at a store without being carded... yea yea i know its the law but jebus I just walked right across the street to the liquor store got the lighter no ID. That store sure showed me.
(morale of the story is.. dont lose your wallet)

[ShaggE]

Ain't that the truth. I get carded for cigs every single time, but rarely for alcohol. Funny how our priorities lay, isn't it? :P

[Bruno83]

Hey everybody!
Try to guess how old I am.:D

And to make it a bit easier, my birthday is on september 27.

difficult eh?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Hey everybody!
Try to guess how old I am.:D

And to make it a bit easier, my birthday is on september 27.

difficult eh?

15?

[Bruno83]

nnnno

[Squinky]

82?

[Haggis]

82?

Of course not! He's 83, it even says so in his user name!

[Squinky]

Eh, I know he's really 23. I was just trying to be funny.

[Haggis]

Me too, actually, which is why I said 83 and not 23. But I guess I fail at humour then. :)

[Bruno83]

Hey!
The devil must have told you that.

You've been joking?! Noooo way! oO
^Just a joke

well of course you're right
I am 23

[ShaggE]

I'm going to change my answer and include prenatal time, which boosts me to 22 :D

Better yet, I believe in reincarnation, so add a few zeros after "22". :P

[evilguy12]

Just because i have nothing better to do i am asking u how old are u??:D

Im 13 years old.:)

Same.

[Pvt._Public]

17 come the 21st of this month. Coincidently the last day of this school term for me as well. That's gonna be a hell of a fun day, believe you me.

[Molokov]

Turned 29 yesterday. Meh.

[Mack Daddy]

Well, if I was born in 1973 I would be..?

[Maratanos]

I'll tell you how old I'm NOT.


I'm NOT 2 months old.

[Haggis]

I'm NOT 2 months old.
You type remarkably well for someone who is not even 2 months old...

[Maratanos]

Not 2 month old, not "not EVEN two months old."


But you knew that, so why am I saying this? I don't know...

[Haggis]

I know, but the expression "not 2 months old" can actually mean "not yet 2 months old". ;)

[Pvt._Public]

In 2 and a half hours time I will officially be 17.

[Silly Bob]

I will be 21 on Saturday (the 29th) and despite looking years older than that, I still get carded every where I go.

[Jay33e]

I'm currently 21.

[Kaldire]

its interesting to see this range of age.. I wonder where our graphic artist is to make the graph like we had for the guessing game :P

[Guybrush Threepwood]

its interesting to see this range of age.. I wonder where our graphic artist is to make the graph like we had for the guessing game :P

No problem. (http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/calendar.php)

[Dark_Eagle]

37..

[Croutons]

When I was about 5, I had a demo disc from Lucas Arts. I mostly played 'Dark Forces,' which was far from an Adventure game [though still fun :D] but one day I booted up 'Full Throttle' and fell in love. I instantly begged my mum for the full game, and I ended up having to wait almost a year, but it was worth it! I still have it, and I still love it. I'm now 16.

[Croutons]

16.

[FWZ]

24.

[zozenka]

still 17
in less than 5 months I turn 18
in less than 10 hours I'll be taking a math exam ---> this...blows!