AGS facts

[Peder 🚀]

So, I was thinking to make some sort of AGS facts feature on AGSArchives.com that will show a random fact about AGS on the website.

So why am I posting here?
Because I would love for some peeps on here to help me add some facts!
It could for example be things like:

"As of 2010 there has been made over 1500 games with AGS"
"The Adventures of Fatman is the first AGS game going commercial"
"The first AGS version was released in XXXX"

Basically anything AGS related, either funny or just informative.
Any help with this would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Peder Johnsen.

[GarageGothic]

"Chris Jones' middle name is... [connection terminated]"

[Igor Hardy]

"AGS stands for Adventure Game Studio" 

"(Unless it stands for American Girl Scauts)"

[Igor Hardy]

"Yahtzee makes games which titles start with a number. His reasons for doing this remain shrouded in mystery."

[Baron]

"Yahtzee makes games which titles start with a number. His reasons for doing this remain shrouded in mystery."

He clearly did it to be on page 1 of the games database  .

Regarding AGS facts.... "The AGS forums are 93% more likely to go down when CJ isn't around to fix them."

[GarageGothic]

"Yahtzee makes games which titles start with a number. His reasons for doing this remain shrouded in mystery."

"Addendum: Urban legend has it that two men, Ben and Vince as some sources call them, unknowingly came close to discover Yahtzee's secret by coincidentally starting their game titles with symbols rather than characters or numbers. According to more gruesome variants of the tale, these men are now on the hit list of the (almost certainly) mythical "6 Day Assassin"."

Edit:

Regarding AGS facts.... "The AGS forums are 93% more likely to go down when CJ isn't around to fix them."

"This usually happens during CJ's attendance of Mittens where, through strange synchronicity, 93% of the forumites are likely to go down on him!" 

[LimpingFish]

AGS is...

is...

Wow, I know nothing about this program.

Some facts about the AGS awards or something?

[Dualnames]

People people!

"We all know that the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are called Fountain of Youth, Run Hot, The Legend of the Lost Lagoon and The Legend of Leitor's Edge. When you see any of them appear, you know that hell has frozen over and the end of time is nigh."

-SSH

The single most remarkable and best QUOTE in the AGS forums.

[Radiant]

AGS used to run in DOS until version <foo>
AGS runs in Linux since version <bar>
The editor sometimes inserts lines that say "DO NOT EDIT OR MODIFY THIS LINE" but nothing bad happens if you do.
The Make My Game For Me button really works!
The empty game template isn't entirely empty.
The AGS game with the most rooms is <qux>
The AGS game with the least sprites is Vector Vendetta.
The standard "poster" and "blue cup" items are hand-drawn by Chris.
The standard "Roger" character is a handmade attempt to duplicate Roger Wilco pixel-by-pixel.
The standard font is also from Space Quest.

...afaik

[Dualnames]

QFG2 is the game that reached the limits of the engine.

[Radiant]

QFG2 is the game that reached the limits of the engine.

Which limits would that be? Because there's several limits, and most of them have been changed once or twice in the past decade.

[Dualnames]

Statistics. Well, not a nice fact come to think of it. Doesn't make much sense.

[Fitz]

304, the Number of the Ben might refer to:
- a Sri Lankan card game
- the most common type of stainless steel
- Peugot 304
- a fictional class battlecruiser in the Stargate universe
- 19 x 16

[Dualnames]

It refers to the paganist recitation in Judas Evangelion (a powerful mech).

"The man who shall make 304 games, shall gain boobs, asses, and stamina. And eventually will end the world."

COUNTER:
286 or so to go.

[m0ds]

Nice! Not sure if it's a fact, but I'd like to find out:

The first trilogy in AGS was The Book of Spells by Spyros. In fact after research, if that's the case, it'd also qualify for first quadrilogy.

[Dualnames]

Nice! Not sure if it's a fact, but I'd like to find out:

The first trilogy in AGS was The Book of Spells by Spyros. In fact after research, if that's the case, it'd also qualify for first quadrilogy.

The only franchise that ends in four parts is Book of Spells and Lone Case, which surprised me when I figured out. I think also Demon Slayer by Squinky ends in 4 parts.

[Ponch]

AGS wants you to enjoy Christmas with your family.

The Princess Marian series saved SSH's marriage (I don't know if this is true or not, but I say let the tabloids sort it out).

Bill Cosby was the first celebrity to appear in an AGS game (I think).

The Barn Runner series has never won a single AGS award. (Shocking I know).

And that's about all I can think of at the moment.

[arj0n]

So you want some AGS facts?
Here you go [only AGS games facts though]:

CATEGORY	GAME TITLE	AUTHOR	COMPILE DATE
First ever Trilogy	Rob Blanc [1-3]	by Yatzee	2001-01
First ever Quadrology	book of spells [1-4]	by Spyros Soldatos	2001-08
First ever Pentology	Barnrunner	Ponch	2005-01
Game with the most episodes [11]	second moon Second Moon Adventure [11]	by dasTobi-AS	2002-05
Game with the most episodes [11]	Adventures of Princess Marian	SSH	2003-01
First ever Commercial Game	The Adventures of Fatman - Toxic Revenge	Ionias	2003-05
First ever Parody Game	Night of the Hermit	Roy Lazarovich	2000-10
First ever game that used the Windows editor	Gorthor of the Cave People	Layabout	2004-04
First game ever with Speech.vox	Little Willy's darts game	Spyros	2001-08
First game ever with Music.vox	Tulle's World 3 - The Glorious Realm of Thendor	Andail	2002-01
Biggest Speech.vox file used in a game ever [92,8 MB (97.359.505 bytes)]	Osher Bli Gvulot - Boundless Osher	Jonathan Yalon and Ori Wachtel	2007-09
Biggest Music.vox file used in a game ever [95,5 MB (100.149.649 bytes)]	The Treasured Medallion	by Anne Hemenway	2009-04
Game with the most awards ever [7]	Apprentice II: The Knight's Move	Herculean Effort Productions	2004-07
Smallest [non-compo & non-joke & non-training] Adventure Game [Disk-size] Ever [1,53 MB (1.609.714 bytes)]	6 Day Assassin	by Mr Colossal	2002-02
Smallest [non-compo & non-joke & non-training] Non-Adventure Game [Disk-Size] Ever  [836 KB (856.309 bytes)]	AGS Black Jack (Dos Version)	Anton Ulvfot aka Vargtass	2001-08
Biggest [non-compo & non-joke & non-training] Game [Disk-Size] Ever [1,58 GB (1.706.705.136 bytes)]	The Treasured Medallion	by Anne Hemenway	2009-04
Biggest compiled exe file ever	The Treasured Medallion	by Anne Hemenway	2009-04
First compiled game [any category] ever	Alles Euro/Everything Euro [Original version]	abstauber	2000-02
First compiled training game	Space	Peter(Mr.Genius)Tomov	2001-09
First compiled joke game	Red Flagg and the philosophers stone aka Red Flagg, Professional Fisherman In - "Don't call me blue"	Scid	2000-11
First compiled demo	Cosmos [demo]	Joe Kent	2000-03
First compiled short game	Alles Euro/Everything Euro [Original version]	abstauber	2000-02
First compiled medium lenght game	Ace Duswell: Where's the Ace?	Greg Hurst	2001-01
First compiled full lenght game	Book of Spells, The - Chapter 1	Spyros Soldatos	2001-08
First non-english games:
-Italian	Lupo Inutile [demo]	byManu79	2002-04
-Spanish	Indy y la Abadia de Effel	Ubik	2002-10
-Galicia [NW Spain]	Proxecto Percebe (DEMO)	Alejandro Fandiño	2005-04
-German	Der Verschwundene Husky	Floyd	2005-12
-Catalan	La Gran Castanya	Arnau Bernat	2006-09
-Israeli /Hebrew	Osher Bli Gvulot - Boundless Osher	Jonathan Yalon and Ori Wachtel	2007-09
-Spanish	La LlavLa Llave y Fabian Shonese	Mariano Cirigliano	2009-07
-Turkish	Forgetten Death [Demo]	Mert Kýlýç	2010-09
Longest game title for non-episode games	Wooly Rockbottom and the Quest for the Golden Beard of Thor!	ProgZmax	2006-08
Most odd game title	IWWHIIWWHITOMIROTPG - The Game!	monkey_05_06	2009-11

Most used noun in [database and non-database] game titles	"Quest": in 142 AGS game titles.
At 2010-09-28 the AGS database contains 1188 entries.

If something is incorrect, let me know

EDIT:
And a brand new AGS fact:
First geek ever that read this whole list: Radiant  

[arj0n]

Most used noun in [database and non-database] game titles   "Quest": in 146 AGS game titles:

Ace Quest
Ace Quest 2
Ache Quest
Adventure Quest
Adventure Quest 2 - Winterlong
AL-QUEST 1
Annoying Quest
Awesmoe Quest
Bart's Quest For TV
Beer Quest
Billy B. Star and the Lapaset Travel Quest
Board Quest
Bob's Quest
Bob's Quest II
Bowser Quirk Quest
Brad Bradson I: Key Quest
Bunny Quest
Cabbage Quest - Quest for Knowledge aka Cabbage of the Closest Kind
Cacho Quest
Castle Quest [non-playable demo]
Chalk's Quest
Christmas Quest
Christmas Quest 2: the Yuletide Flows in
Christmas Quest 3: Santa's Little Help Desk
Cosmos Quest I: To Find a Sun
Cosmos Quest II: To Find a Sun
Cosmos Quest III: The Mines of Isagor
Cougar's Quest for Freedom
Crap Quest
Crystal Quest
Dale's Film Quest
Dead Quest
Deat(h)'s Quest
Don Spillacy's Conspiracy Quest
Duzz Quest: An Egotistic Adventure
DuzzQuest2
FBI Quest
Galaxy Quest: The Arkainian Artifact
Gladiator Quest
Glitch Quest
Goose Quest 1 DEMO
Guyver Quest I: Sho Adventures
Guyver Quest II: Cronos
Hard Space: Conquest of the Gayliks!
Henkka Mini Quest
House Quest
House Quest II
Interresting Basket Quest
Island Quest
Isle Quest
Jimm's Quest III, Lesko's Revenge
Kikme Quest
King's Quest I VGA - Quest for the Crown
King's Quest II+ VGA - Romancing the Stones
King's Quest III
King's Quest IX: The Silver Lining VGA (Demo I)
Knight Quest for the Golden Ring
Knight's Quest III - Tides of Merania
Knight's Quest IV - Here Today, Gone to Yesterday
Lassi Quest 1
Lassi Quest 1 Remake
Lassi Quest 2 Teaser Demo
Lowe Quest
Meaning Quest DEMO
Melrin: The Pendant Quest
Million Dollars Quest!
Mom's Quest
My First Quest
NecroQuest 1. The Inheritance
NecroQuest 1. The Inheritance [Deluxe]
NES Quest
Ninja Quest
No King Quest!
Norbi's quest
Norbi's quest 1,5
Norbi's quest 2
Not Another Space Quest
Old Park Quest
Oldman's Quest
OpenQuest
Owl's Quest: Every Owl has it's Day
Palette Quest
Palette Quest 2.0
Paparazzi Prince and the Quest for Headlines, The
Paul Quest Gold Edition
Pester Quest - From n00b to newb
Pizza Quest
Porn Quest
Pub master quest:Demo
Pub master quest.2:shogin crystal part1
Quest Fighter
Quest Fighter II
Quest for Cinema
Quest for Colours
Quest for Glory 4 1/2
Quest for Glory II VGA: Trial By Fire
Quest for heroes, The
Quest for my Raincoat, The aka DickBoy
Quest for Orgy - So You Thought She Is A Virgin
Quest for the Black Diamond
Quest for the Blue Cup
Quest For The Holy Salsa, The
Quest for Yeti
Quest For Yrolg
Quest To Zooloo, The [Full Talkie]
Quimby Quest
Record Quest
Ricky Quest
ROBO-QUEST
Roccio's Quest
Rode Quest
Rode Quest 2: The Sweet Smell of Stenchie
Sammy's Quest
Satan Quest
Satch's Quest
Secret Quest Remake
Sierra Quest 1: Roberta In Love
Slacker Quest
Slime Quest 2 Demo
Slime Quest for Pizza
Smiley's Quest
Smiley's Quest 2
Snail Quest 1
Snail Quest 2
Snail Quest 3
Souls Quest
Space Quest starring Capt. Wiggy Moses aka Space Mail - Return To Sender
Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge - VGA Remake [Teaser Demo] [by Tierra]
Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge - VGA Remake [Demo][byPetreas Faidon]
Space Quest 3 VGA Non-Playable Demo
Space Quest 5.5: Save captain Roger [DEMO 1.1]
Space Quest IV.5 - Roger Wilco And The Voyage Home
Space Quest XII (Russian Demo)
Space Quest: Planet Of The Incredible Menace
Stick Man Quest
Time Quest
Time Quest 2
Trash Quest
TV Quest
Unexpected Quest
Update Quest
Vacation Quest... Thing
WaterQuest
Wooly Rockbottom and the Quest for the Golden Beard of Thor!
World of Warcraft - The IMBA Quest
Zed's Quest

2010-10-01: added 4 ancient hourgames:
Ninja Quest to the Quest-list: Ninja Quest by Ghormak [2002-03].
Kikme Quest [2002-12]
Interresting Basket Quest [2002-11]
Annoying Quest [2003-05]

[Radiant]

First non-english games:

I'm sure there are several games in French, aren't there? If games with translations count, then Portuguese and Czech should be on there. First game using translations? Game with most translations? First game with windows executable? First game that lacks a DOS executable? First game that uses the movie play module?

Also, your "first compiled joke game" predates your "first compiled game, any category".