First adventure game played?
Perhaps a question more for general forums but it's nice in here so I will start the ball rolling by saying I actually got into computers and gaming by playing a text only Scott Adams (not the dilbert guy) game that came out in 1978, on the vic-20 in 1980ish called Adventureland and had the bug from that day on. This was released in cartridge format and you had to type sys32592 when the vic-20 started up to load the cartridge! After this I went on infocom and some nice adventures on the zx spectrum like The Hobbit and some Vampire game I forget the name of.. Sold all computers and took up guitar then many years later discovered Monkey Island and King's/Space Quest and here I am now.
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From there I got every Lucasarts adventure except Zak Mckraken, which was really hard to track down.
I played some of Sierra's games, but never got hooked on them like with the SCUMM ones.
Well that's the first one i "owned"... Some guy my mom knew came to help set up our very first comp, and he brought a bunch of games along which he copied on the hard drive.
At first i was too excited about being able to finally play star wars's jedi knight to care, but a few months later i ended up at his place and played Day of the tentacle. I loved it and wondered if it was among the crap he had given me...
I was pretty disapointed not to find it, and i decided to see what this monkey thingie was about
telltale , please make some zak mckracken episodes
I didn't know about walkthroughs back then so I had to solve it with the help of my parents, it was fun. Walkthroughs are a double edged sward. They make the game easer, but they also take away some of the challenge which is part of the fun. Also at first I didn't know you could save so I was trying to play the whole game in one sitting. I found out about saving after the first game, but didn't find out about walkthroughs till years later. Also one of the many really great thing about those games was that every time you played the game some of the puzzles were different.
Man, looking up those screenshots really takes me back.
(It was started by the lovely Emily, btw).
Mine was Discworld for the PS1. I only got to try it out for a few minutes (the PS & TV set were set up on the shop counter, and the shop was particularly small), I wasn't allowed to play it with sound and I didn't really have enough time to figure out how to put up subtitles.
Although when i grew up, I played leisure suit larry 1 AGI version, and I remembered that i actually played it as a 6 year old back in 1990, so you may say that it is actually my first adventure game. I didn't know english at the time, but I remember my brother showed me what keys to press to advance in the game and i memorized them. Until one day i forgot a key, and i kept getting killed by the cab driver
My first real adventure was The Secret Of Monkey Island.
That must have been in 1992 when I was 10, because MI2 came out that year and I remember watching the intro to both and deciding I really wanted to pick them up.
Do I have to officially feel old now at 32?
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You can't even imagine how surprised I was when I tried out the SMI couple of years later, because you didn't have to write what your character will do.
* The Curse of Monkey Island
* Pink Panther's Passport to Peril
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* Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico
Ooh almost forgot about those gems. hope they are still available somwhere.
loved that game but hard as nails back then (i was only 11) but i did complete it, in fact one of the first games that i finished!
play it here lol!! -
http://www.zxspectrum.net/
Great game (bugs galore though) - I was apparently one of the first to complete this when I lived down in Cornwall - remember the bulbous eyes.. in those days the graphics were very good!
yeah!! lol!! the spiders and getting drunk in the barrel!! lol!!
i just played a little now!!
open door>go east
Years later when I were getting better at english I tried it again, and had no clue what was going on except I kept getting run over when I managed to type a command making me wander out onto the street. Years later I learned what pub crawl meant.
First graphical adventure game I played I think was magic land Dizzy, platform adventure thingie. First proper adventure game would be Maniac Mansion, which I by the way still haven't managed to complete.
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I didn't play Monkey Island 1 & 2 until last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade_%28NES%29
Not very many people ever know of it when I talk about it though..... It was very similar to Monkey Island with its humor actually but instead of wanting to be a pirate he wanted to be a superhero... There was real time fighting though so it was pretty easy to die.