Anyone ever beat an Adventure game?

[BoosterBronze]

I never used a hint-book or website until fairly recently (originally so I could find more ways to beat Maniac Mansion). I figured if I couldnt beat a game, I didn't deserve to see the end. Several games I used to play have never been beaten.

'Eric the Unready' took my YEARS to beat, because I gave up, and would occasionally come back to it. A puzzle about reading a girl the newspaper so she would cry had me stuck for well over a year. Finally I solved it by accident.

[woot52]

only beat all the trilby games by Yahtzee (trilby the art of theft, 5 days a stranger, 6 days a sacrifice, 7 days a skeptic, trilby's notes)

[Jared]

Nice thread for me, this - as I have to say I'm completely ashamed by my status as a walkthrough junkie. Even so... I completed Broken Sword 2, Discworld 2, Sam 'n Max Hit the Road, Discworld Noir and Day of the Tentacle without a walkthrough. I came very close to completing COMI without one, though, and I am quite proud of completing Runaway 2 by only using the walkthrough in Chapter 5 given how atrociously designed the game was. All the other games, though, ground me down until I just read the walkthrough through. Curse Discworld 1!

[Revan]

Since the age of 15 (22 now) I have never used a guide, no matter how stuck I have got. This included all the Myst Games (didn't even use the in game hints...)

I think one of the last games I used a guide on was The Dig, and it was a crap Japanese translated pile of mumbo jumbo... I remember one section in the guide:

Spoiler

"Touch the 'it' and it will disappear"  meaning Touch the 'Statue' and it will disappear.

[close]

lol.. good times... Soo, too many games to count... Erm I would include Monkey Island 1 and 3 (Never played 2 or 4), and Space Quest 1,2,3,4 (still have to do 5 and 6) and of course all the Myst games (not any of that online rubbish tho). And probably lots of other Adventure Games...

[n00bie]

i remember when i was a kid and i got stuck on grim fandango (this was before i had internet). i was seriously stuck on the part in the forest, before rubacava, you know, when you've got to drive the truck over the electric lines to get the pumps moving simultaneously...anyway, it was driving me loco so i walked half a mile away to the nearest phone box (mom wouldn't let me use the house phone) and wasted £3 phoning the lucasarts helpline. unfortunately, the phone wasn't a touch tone one, so all my pocket money was wasted sticking coins in as i was kept waiting to be directed to talk to somebody else on the other line.

i ended up with all my pocket money gone and no nearer to escaping that damn forest.