Never was into adventure games until my cousin showed me a Freddi Fish game. I know it's a kids game, but I started getting hooked on it and other Humongous Entertainment games (especially the Spy Fox ones, which I still have). I discovered Monkey Island, as well as old LucasArts a few months later.
Does Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey counts as an adventure game? If it is, then that's my first adventure game.
INFOCOM... anything..
wishbringer mainly .. or zork
then on to the somewhat graphic versions of things like
Tass times in Tone town.
and mystery house..
Hey, Tass Times was one of my first adventure games also!
The very first one was a text based, hardly graphic game called something Valley with witches and whatnot, but for the life of me I can't recall the title.
All on the C64.
First one was Maniac Mansion on the C64. Didn't speak a word English at that time, but still managed to complete the game! After that I started on ZakMcKracken on C64. After that I got an Amiga2000 and bought the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...
And then..
- Fate of Atlantis
- Operation Stealth
- Monkey Island 1
- Lure of the Temtress
- Monkey Island 2
- Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
First Adventure Game... Hmm. I think it might be Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards or The Secret of Monkey Island. The first I finished without any help at all though was Atlantis: The Lost Tales. Love that game.
The first adventure game I ever played (Or more to the point, the first I ever saw someone else playing.) was Leisure Suit Larry 2, over my cousin's house.
The first I ever played on a computer of my own was Maniac Mansion.
Speaking of which, I hope LucasArts eventually does a Maniac Mansion Special Edition.
Also, Telltale really needs to consider working with LucasArts on a Tales of Maniac Mansion (or whatever they'd end up calling it) game.
The first adventure game I ever played was King's Quest Something... I remember a guy sleeping in a tent, and when I got near him he killed me. Also, some deserty place with strange ruins... and I think there was a clockwork owl somewhere in there. It was ages ago when I was a little kid and that's all I remember. I can't even remember how much of that was me playing and how much of it was me watching my uncle's room mate play.
Well, I played Grover's Animal Adventure before that, but I don't think that counts.
Anyway, the first one I remember really well is Curse of Monkey Island... Or maybe it was Myst... I never really got anything done in Myst, so I don't really remember when I played it, just that I did and stopped because it was boring.
The first adventure game I ever played was King's Quest Something... I remember a guy sleeping in a tent, and when I got near him he killed me. Also, some deserty place with strange ruins... and I think there was a clockwork owl somewhere in there.
Sounds like King's Quest V.
Never got to play that one myself. I didn't have a good enough computer to play it at the time and by the time.
LOL!!! I bet you didn't get the real translation.... "and then Larry and the hook...er uh princess played patty cake."
From what I remember it was pretty close, but no, I didn't really understand what the hooker was or did. I understood that it was forbidden, naughty and that you'd have to be naked...
The first one I seriously remember playing through was Broken Sword.
I most likely played a lot of older ones when I was a lot younger on the NES, etc, but I don't really recall them. Broken Swords was definitely the first one I was old enough to appreciate and actually put effort into playing.
I think mine was probably Lost Dutchman Mine on the Atari ST, if you'd consider that to be an adventure game. Otherwise, it was The Secret of Monkey Island... probably on Amiga.
Maniac Mansion, and I loved it. After that Zak McKracken (never get that name right) and then Monkey Island which was the perfection of the genre for me.
I also tried some Sierra adventures after that but never got into them. The only adventures that came close to classic Lucas Arts where the Legend of Kyrandia games from Westwood. Great games.
Mine was either Jungle of Doom, or the CD version of Secret of Monkey Island.
Either way though, Secret of Monkey Island is the one that got me obsessed with adventure games, Jungle of Doom mostly just made me want to punch my monitor.
Wasn't the first one a parser game? How did they do this on a console with 2 buttons on the controller?
I have no clue, the only proof I have seen of its existence is one screencap.. and it looked better than the original game...
Here is some gameplay for KQ5 on NES.. It came out late in the NES's life and SNES had already been released.. So nobody wanted to play it.... only KQ fans would want to and they already owned a much superior copy on the PC... although it could be argued that not actually having to listen to the owl talk is a bonus.
I honestly can't remember. I didn't get my first computer until '97-98 (before that I played games at a friends place). I think the first, or one of the first, games I actually bought and loved was 'Atlantis: The Lost Tales'. Ah, memories.
(I hated dying in MM, by the way. I never finshed on the NES, because in my savegame i did something wrong and didnt realize, that you can get into kinda dead end)
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Does Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey counts as an adventure game? If it is, then that's my first adventure game.
But I think it was either Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders or Police Quest.
Ahhhh happy days...
Hey, Tass Times was one of my first adventure games also!
The very first one was a text based, hardly graphic game called something Valley with witches and whatnot, but for the life of me I can't recall the title.
All on the C64.
Thinking back on it, it would make more sense if MI2 came before Willy Beamish--especially considering that Willy was on CD and not floppy.
And then..
- Fate of Atlantis
- Operation Stealth
- Monkey Island 1
- Lure of the Temtress
- Monkey Island 2
- Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
And so on...
Awww, thank you for being so kind and caring and IT'S MINE!!!
...
I apologise. Don't know what got into me...:rolleyes:
The first I ever played on a computer of my own was Maniac Mansion.
Speaking of which, I hope LucasArts eventually does a Maniac Mansion Special Edition.
Also, Telltale really needs to consider working with LucasArts on a Tales of Maniac Mansion (or whatever they'd end up calling it) game.
That would be awesome.
Well, I played Grover's Animal Adventure before that, but I don't think that counts.
Anyway, the first one I remember really well is Curse of Monkey Island... Or maybe it was Myst... I never really got anything done in Myst, so I don't really remember when I played it, just that I did and stopped because it was boring.
Sounds like King's Quest V.
Never got to play that one myself. I didn't have a good enough computer to play it at the time and by the time.
From what I remember it was pretty close, but no, I didn't really understand what the hooker was or did. I understood that it was forbidden, naughty and that you'd have to be naked...
Kinda strange looking version of that game, btw.:
(enhanced) PC Version:
Same Room, NES Version:
I most likely played a lot of older ones when I was a lot younger on the NES, etc, but I don't really recall them. Broken Swords was definitely the first one I was old enough to appreciate and actually put effort into playing.
Haha, don't worry about it, I'm pretty defensive about Bobbin myself.
Did you know that King's Quest V also made its way onto the NES? With even more varied results than Maniac Mansion.
I guess there is a port for the first game as well but I have never seen it...
I also tried some Sierra adventures after that but never got into them. The only adventures that came close to classic Lucas Arts where the Legend of Kyrandia games from Westwood. Great games.
Although there was this crappy santa claus game for the old Spectrum
No, did never see that one :eek:
The difference between the versions seem to be lot worse then in MM...
I'm not sure, but was their main problem to get everything on one screen? or overall resolution?
crazy stuff
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Wasn't the first one a parser game? How did they do this on a console with 2 buttons on the controller?
Either way though, Secret of Monkey Island is the one that got me obsessed with adventure games, Jungle of Doom mostly just made me want to punch my monitor.
I have no clue, the only proof I have seen of its existence is one screencap.. and it looked better than the original game...
Here is some gameplay for KQ5 on NES.. It came out late in the NES's life and SNES had already been released.. So nobody wanted to play it.... only KQ fans would want to and they already owned a much superior copy on the PC... although it could be argued that not actually having to listen to the owl talk is a bonus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlJX9GrSLY
But I think it looks really good for a NES game.
I like that one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWSKYICmDg&feature=related
(I hated dying in MM, by the way. I never finshed on the NES, because in my savegame i did something wrong and didnt realize, that you can get into kinda dead end)