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Emily · 04/30/2006, 06:56 pm

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 · 04/30/2006, 10:42 pm

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

04/30/2006, 11:24 pm

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 · 05/01/2006, 12:18 am

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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.

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?)

05/01/2006, 02:19 am

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.

05/01/2006, 02:30 am

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..

05/01/2006, 02:37 am

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

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

tabacco · 05/01/2006, 05:27 am

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 · 05/01/2006, 09:02 am

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.

05/01/2006, 10:38 am

Quote:

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.

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.

Diduz (Italy)

Haggis · 05/01/2006, 10:43 am

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 · 05/01/2006, 02:44 pm

Quote:

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.

)

05/01/2006, 04:13 pm

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

05/01/2006, 06:53 pm

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.

05/02/2006, 04:34 am

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 · 05/02/2006, 06:35 am

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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* · 05/02/2006, 05:46 pm

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** · 05/02/2006, 08:54 pm

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 · 05/02/2006, 08:57 pm

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

**Jake** · 05/02/2006, 09:16 pm

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

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04/30/2006, 06:56 pm	#1
Emily Formerly of the Telltale Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco Posts: 4,549	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?

04/30/2006, 10:42 pm	#2
jannar85 Drunk on the pic! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 392	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

04/30/2006, 11:24 pm	#3
Diduz Guest Posts: n/a	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)

05/01/2006, 02:19 am	#5
Junkface Guest Posts: n/a	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.

05/01/2006, 02:30 am	#6
HieroHero Guest Posts: n/a	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..

05/01/2006, 02:37 am	#7
laffer Guest Posts: n/a	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 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

05/01/2006, 05:27 am	#8
tabacco I Feel Fantastic Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Marin County, CA Posts: 2,129	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

05/01/2006, 09:02 am	#9
Pvt._Public Evil Talking Skull Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Zealand Posts: 402	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.

05/01/2006, 10:43 am	#11
Haggis Idealist/Surrealist Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,316	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.

05/01/2006, 04:13 pm	#13
Gersen Guest Posts: n/a	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

05/01/2006, 06:53 pm	#14
Brendan Guest Posts: n/a	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.

05/02/2006, 04:34 am	#15
Mickey Guest Posts: n/a	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.

05/02/2006, 05:46 pm	#17
Heatherlee Heather "TTG" Logas Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Telltale Posts: 139	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...

05/02/2006, 08:54 pm	#18
Jake Telltale Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 5,843	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.

05/02/2006, 08:57 pm	#19
Emily Formerly of the Telltale Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco Posts: 4,549	Is the Hitchhiker's Guide the one that came with a piece of lint?