How old were you when you were first introduced to Monkey Island?

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  • edited April 2010
    1991. Amstrad 8086.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    I need to find that poster, along with the other ones I bought (I know I have the Maniac Mansion and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe posters somewhere...)

    I still have my SoMI poster. So good.
  • edited April 2010
    I was 12, home 'puters were becoming more affordable so it wasn't just that kid in school whos dad worked in America who had one anymore. My friend came into school with this box full of floppy discs and some wheel thingy telling me I had to play this. It was LeChucks Revenge, my friend next door and I plowed through it after our homework everyday for the best part of a week
  • edited April 2010
    Thirteen when I played Escape, several years after it came out (my parents wouldn't let me play a rated T game until I was technically a teenager). Then, hunted down the--nigh impossible to find--other three at used game stores.
  • edited April 2010
    5 years old, Secret of Monkey Island on Amiga 500 1990
  • edited April 2010
    12. As in, last year. I bought Strong Bad a while back, then Sam and Max, then Monkey Island. While waiting for it to come out, I bought MI:SE. Hooked.
  • edited April 2010
    it was ca. 1993 when i played mi2 on my first pc (a 286 processor with 12 MHz, 640 Kb ram and a 20 Mb hd)... i was totally blown away, the games i played before were nes and c64 games, i was awestruck by the animations, the graphics and even the intro music with pc speakers. and of course the story and characters. Guybrush was such a hero for me (and still is).
    oh, before i forget: i was 12 back then.

    ps: too bad scummVM doesn't support PC speaker music and sound effects for this game yet.
    pps: first post :D
  • edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    I remember my first computer. It was an apple, and we had floppies with teaching games. My parents try to teach us stuff with these, and know I loved playing them, although I can't remember what they were about. I know that much later we gave that computer to my primary school.
    We also had a NES. I used to watch my dad play the first Zelda. Man, I must have been a baby back then.

    My dad had an Atari before I was born, and I remember getting my NES, and later my Genesis, then my first Game Boy (a Color), and then my N64, and then in October 2000, we finally got our first computer, which sat in the box until my 13th birthday on November 14th, the day after we had our dog put to sleep. It was a Dell Dimension (4400, I think) with Windows ME. And I got it just in time to be able to buy The Curse of Monkey Island when I spotted it at the store a few months later. If we'd gotten it any later, I might not be the Monkey Island fan I am today.

    And I kept that damn thing alive until about two years ago. It'd still run if I hooked it up, but we've finally gotten another computer and moved on.

    So yeah, I pretty much know nothing about this "Amiga" thing, except that it was apparently some kind of computer way back when.
  • edited April 2010
    I was around 10 when I got Curse. Didn't understand so much of it back then, but it had some pretty pictures. It was one of many illegal copys from some "nerd" at my mothers job. Still got it, the crime is barred now... :D atleast in Sweden... :confused:
  • edited April 2010
    7. I played a demo of Escape from Monkey Island and really liked it, then I saw CMI in a shop and picked it up a while later. I found the Bounty Pack after that (a bundle of the first three games) and played MI1 and 2. Later still I got EMI for the PS2.
  • edited April 2010
    So yeah, I pretty much know nothing about this "Amiga" thing, except that it was apparently some kind of computer way back when.

    I know we also had a computer-like thing that was called Alice, like me.
  • edited April 2010
    12. CMI was new then, and it was actually my first adventure game. I could barely understand enough English to play at the time and 2-3 of us actually played separately and helped each other when someone was stuck at a point someone else had passed.
    I got the first two in one of LA's packs, the year after.
  • edited April 2010
    My CMI was in Portuguese, why do you guyz keep saying you couldn't understand English so you couldn't play if the game was translated to almost every major language out there! You illegal copiers!

    Just kidding
  • edited April 2010
    1997 was my first relationship with monkey island series which is ofcourse curse of monkey island, love from the first sight, i was born in 1987, so 1997 - 1987 = 10 years, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap, now you know the truth :D
  • edited April 2010
    I think I was ten or eleven when I first played MI2, but I remember playing with the code wheels when I was much younger.
  • edited April 2010
    About 12 or 13... Something like that... Born in '83...
  • edited May 2010
    I was 3 or 4 years old. My dad got the game from one of his students and brought it home and played it while I watched in the chair next to him. All I remember is that I always wanted to get my turn at using the mouse and moving Guybrush around, but I usually just yelled out commands to my dad if I wanted him to look at something. :P And then I played it again myself a few years later.
  • edited May 2010
    Amazing how young some of you were ... and can still remember it! When I was six I think I only played with Matchbox cars and this miniature fortress thingy with cowboys & indians.
  • edited May 2010
    I would have been probably seven years old when I first played SOMI, probably in 1990, on my parents friends computer way back in the day and made them get it for me. I was pretty young at that time and didn't get to far. I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out how to find the sword master by following the store keeper. However, I was unwise to playful humour in games and didn't realize that the tree stump puzzle was actually a joke and thought I had to order the rest of the game and gave up on it. I don't think I would Have beat it regardless so I'm not too bothered by it. On top of that my dad lent the game to his friends kids and when I got it back it was missing the code wheel to start the game. It wasn't until Curse came out about seven years later that I got hooked again and have been ever since.
  • edited May 2010
    15 or 16. Bought the "Bestseller Games"-versions at a computer fair (either in '95 or '96). I've been a huge fan of adventure games already, and had played Indiana Jones 3, Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle, but that was the first time that I stumbled over those old classic (which weren't sold in regular shops anymore). And that was the time before the internet, ebay etc., so it was rather difficult to get your hands on one of these games. But I loved them ever since.
  • edited May 2010
    I was 5. My dad was on a Lucasfilm Games mailing list of some sort, and he got a demo version of Secret of Monkey Island back in 1990. I loved it and he got the full game, and over the next few years we played through all the classic Lucasarts point 'n clicks.

    It was my first video game. <3
  • edited May 2010
    I think I was 10 when I first 'played' SoMI, and by 'played' I mean 'watched my older cousin play it', this would have been sometime in 1991. I didn't get my own copies of the games until I got my Amiga 600 for Christmas in 1992. (the Amiga was a special present because I'd had spinal surgery in October)

    The first thing I remember about SoMI was that I thought it was great that the Swordmaster was a girl. I don't think I knew that Elaine existed until I got my own copy...
  • edited May 2010
    I played it when the first game was released, in 1990, so I would've been 16. It was the first graphic adventure game that I played to completion... I'd tried other games before that, like the King's Quest series, but found the interface too aggravating. Up 'til then, I'd stuck to text adventures.

    I just found out that Telltale has picked up where Lucasarts left off, and I'm really looking forward to trying out the games here!
  • edited May 2010
    I have always been an apple person, so I found out about it when EMI came out for the mac. I was...I have no idea...maybe 8? I stopped playing after about 3 months, picked it back up 2 years ago, finished it, never tuched it again.
  • edited May 2010
    13. Curse of Monkey Island had come out fairly recently.
  • PsyPsy
    edited May 2010
    Somewhere between 5 and 7
  • edited May 2010
    I was at the top of my game at the tender age of 97. Those where the time the good adventure games where made. WillyBeamish, Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantic, Lemmings man howi miss those days!
  • edited May 2010
    Well, when TSOMI first came out, I played it on my 20mhz 80286 PC (1 whole mb of RAM and a HUGE 20mb HD, WOO!), and I was born in 1976. So that would have made me about, oh, 14 at the time? I had the EGA version. Upgraded to VGA once that was available.
  • edited May 2010
    I'm starting to feel old again. I was 18 when Curse came out. When I was 6, there were only two King's Quests, and I'd never even heard of computers :D

    If you're old, I'm older. When I was 6 there hadn't been a King's Quest game out yet. The first one came out when I was 8. I couldn't play it at first because it was for PCjr only, and I ONLY had a C64 and a TRS-80 CoCo 2 at that time (non computer side, I had an Atari 2600, a ColecoVision, and a Home Pong machine, but I digress)... :(
  • edited May 2010
    7 years old... SOMI... four disks plus a save disk on the Amiga 500.

    Had no idea what a pulley was.

    Called Lechuck Lenchuck for some reason.
  • edited May 2010
    41 in 1998 geez just call me gramps :D
  • edited May 2010
    Somewhere between six and nine. My dad brought home a copy of Curse of Monkey Island, and the whole family gathered around the computer and played it together in the evenings.
  • edited May 2010
    I think I was seven or eight. One of our first CD roms was called 'Night Owl' with a bunch of sample software and it had the demo for Secret of Monkey Island on it and it whole 16 color glory and pc speaker music. It was so hard to forget we picked up a copy of the whole game.
  • edited May 2010
    Well, when TSOMI first came out, I played it on my 20mhz 80286 PC (1 whole mb of RAM and a HUGE 20mb HD, WOO!), and I was born in 1976. So that would have made me about, oh, 14 at the time? I had the EGA version. Upgraded to VGA once that was available.

    Wow, 1 MB? Mine only had 640k!

    'Twas a gift from my parents for my 11th or 12th birthday, along with a state of the art dot matrix printer and full colour monitor. Loaded on it was a primitive version of DOS, Windows 1.1, and GEOS. And, along with that, were a few recent releases, including this new-fangled SimCity and the Secret of Monkey Island.

    I still remember, all of the boxes for the machine took up most of my room before everything was hooked together.

    Ah, but adventure gaming was a full time job back then. Took me months just to reach Chapter 2. And I'm pretty sure I didn't even understand half of the jokes. "Mom, what does, 'It's not the size of the ship...' mean?"

    Those were the days.
  • edited May 2010
    I first played SOMI when I was 3 years old =] im 18 now and being raised with Monkey Island I do have a certain fondness for this game...or more like a obession >w<
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