What adventure games did you start with?

[Armageddon]

I don't know why but when I woke up today I started thinking about why I like adventure games. And honestly I don't know, but I did reminisce about the first adventure games I played and where I played them. I started playing adventure games just before the genre pretty much died, I was somewhere between 5 and 8 years old. I remember this old library I usually went to had just installed these 'new' computers, they must have been running Windows 98 but I thought they were amazing. They installed some 'educational' games which I had no idea how to play. And there were also these very few games that actually sounded fun, Spy Fox: Dry Cereal. I must have played that for hours and still to this day never beat it, but it was fun and wacky. Another game on those old comps was Pajama Sam. This game was just all out fun, I believe the library actually gave me a copy of the game so I wouldn't hog the computers all day. From there I played games such as Freddi Fish, Putt-Putt and of course, who could forget, Fatty Bear. So I pretty much played every one Humongous Entertainment's games and recently I found out that Ron Gilbert started the company, which is pretty cool. Years after that I went across the lands of eBay looking for Grim Fandango and Day of The Tentacle. And Now I'm here wanting to make my own adventure game.

So yeah, what's your story?

[Babar]

Pretty traditional for an adventure gamer: I started with Sierra (Space Quest and King's Quest) and LucasArts (Monkey Island 1 and 2 and Fate of Atlantis)- All thanks to my father, who wanted that I play thought-provoking, mind-exercising games rather than button mashing violent action games .

For comparison, my computer lab at school at the time had games like Dangerous Dave 2, Jetpack, Prehistorik and Lotus 3. They weren't very big on edutainment or thinking games, although to be fair, those were probably just the games the lab guy had decided to install to pass his time.

I guess I'm a whole mini-generation (in the computer sense) older than you .

[poc301]

King's Quest 1, Space Quest 1, essemtially all the old Sierra games around the 1984ish timeframe.  I was a little kid, but my parents loved me using the computer (which is what I do for a living today, so a hearty thank-you to them).  I remember I was allowed to play Leisure Suit Larry for a brief time until my parents watched me playing one day in the den and decided it was a no-go

The game that really pressed a big foundation into video games for me though was Heroes Quest (then renamed Quest For Glory).  The RPG elements of that game really kicked it up a notch, and I fell in love with video games.

I liked the next generation of games as well, when graphics took that giant leap.  I am speaking of course of the late 80s / early 90s with games like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.

-Bill

[Bogdan]

From what I remember, the first adventure game that I played was Pink Panther's Passport to Peril. And that is probably the only one adventure game that I played until I found AGS. Before that I played other genres(shooters, rpgs, mmos, etc.). When I found AGS I fell in love with adventure games. And I'm sad because I didn't play games like The Dig or Full Throttle when I played Pink Panther's Passport to Peril. But it probably wouldn't have been fun for me then because I was quite young then. In fact I wasn't even born when most of the cool adventure games came out. Ouch.

[Radiant]

King's Quest 1, Space Quest 1, essemtially all the old Sierra games around the 1984ish timeframe.

Ditto. KQ3 and SQ2 were my first, it took me a little while longer to find the predecessors. Not that I ever completed any of them at that age, mind you. Since walkthroughs weren't readily (or at all) available back then, I think I eventually got through most of them on my own and with friends, although never with full points.

My parents never had a problem with LSL1, although they strongly disliked Wolfenstein, apparently on grounds that seeing a swastika can magically brainwash you into becoming a nazi, or something. Come to think of it, LSL1 doesn't seem to have any content that a child would be bothered with; it has some content that a child won't understand, but that's not the same thing.

[Xionix]

Well my story is a little different, my 1st adventure game was Syberia (yeah I started pretty late). I was a console player so you dont see much of that stuff. I really liked it but I did not know much about the genre. Then years later I play Snatcher and that was the game that got me hook on adventure games. Before that I was a RPG player, now I play bot genres. I also play action and other stuff but not so much, I like more the brain than the reflexes.

[monkey0506]

The Secret of Monkey Islandâ,,¢ and "Brian Moriarty's latest masterpiece," LOOMâ,,¢.

No, seriously, those are the only ones I ever had growing up. Well, I did get the other MI games eventually, but my game selection was always a bit lacking to be honest.

[Igor Hardy]

First adventure game I played (and owned): Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Soon followed by Myst, Discworld and Buried in Time + some titles I played briefly when visiting friends

The genre struck me then as the most brilliant thing since the invention of cheese and I've thrown out all my Super Mario games, deciding they're too primitive in comparison.

[Mehrdad]

Curse of enchantia

[Ponch]

Leather Goddesses of Phobos.  8)

If you mean games with more than just text on the screen, the Bride of the Robot on my old Amiga. Or possibly Scary Mutant Space Aliens From Mars. I honestly can't remember which one of those I played first.

[William S]

My first adventure game was Monkey Island 2. I played it on an Amiga hooked up to a large speaker system. Wow!
The atmosphere was simply amazing, and I was hooked on the genre ever since.
Then I immediately played Monkey Island 1.
Then just around the corner was Fate of Atlantis. I knew I was going to love it, and sure enough, I did!

[poc301]

My first adventure game was Monkey Island 2. I played it on an Amiga hooked up to a large speaker system. Wow!
The atmosphere was simply amazing, and I was hooked on the genre ever since.
Then I immediately played Monkey Island 1.
Then just around the corner was Fate of Atlantis. I knew I was going to love it, and sure enough, I did!

I don't know why, but this made me think of "Legend of Kyrandia: The Hand of Fate".  I liked all the Kyrandia games, Malcolm's Revenge being one that really sticks out due to the 3D animations, but Hand of Fate is one of those classics that really holds a dear place in my heart.

Again, no idea why your post made me think of that, but I had to share it

-Bill

[Ali]

Monkey Island and Riven.

And it is just a coincidence that those are also the best adventure games ever. A COINCIDENCE, I SAY!

(Discworld and Cruise for a Corpse as well, and they have their issues...)

[William S]

My first adventure game was Monkey Island 2. I played it on an Amiga hooked up to a large speaker system. Wow!
The atmosphere was simply amazing, and I was hooked on the genre ever since.
Then I immediately played Monkey Island 1.
Then just around the corner was Fate of Atlantis. I knew I was going to love it, and sure enough, I did!

I don't know why, but this made me think of "Legend of Kyrandia: The Hand of Fate".  I liked all the Kyrandia games, Malcolm's Revenge being one that really sticks out due to the 3D animations, but Hand of Fate is one of those classics that really holds a dear place in my heart.

Again, no idea why your post made me think of that, but I had to share it

-Bill

I still haven't played any Kyrandia games... It's on my list, though.
Been working my way through the old classics I never got to play back in the day.
Played Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen for the first time a few months back.
I must say I'm glad I took the time to play them. Especially Flight of the Amazon Queen!

[m0ds]

DOTT originally, but only through co-playing it at my friend's house. He really enjoyed it - and always spoke highly of LucasArts. That's probably half the reason I never played Sierra adventures. As most of my gaming was at friends houses to begin with, I pretty much sided with their opinions. I would have been about 9 or 10 then.

I started thinking about why I like adventure games. And honestly I don't know

Perhaps it was just curiosity. I think it was for me, and a spot of luck. I didn't know or feel I was into adventure games until I'd gotten a PC at home and was really able to sit down and play. My family didn't have a PC until the late 90's. DOTT was pretty much the first adventure game I would recognize as being the one I first saw, but not my first major influence - it didn't bring about my love of point & clicks. Being young we were more thrilled playing spaceships with AMSTRAD tapes in normal cassette players for sci-fi sound effects at the time  

It was actually when my family got our own PC that my friend gave me a multi-CD from Bangkok with DOTT, Sam & Max and FOA on it. Months before that, I had been watching my friend play Myst. I had no major expectations of the multi-CD when I was given it. But it was a bit of luck because it was hard for me to get games at that time, my friend's dad often went to Bangkok with the airline and brought lots of games back, god knows why a BA chief steward would pick up a DOTT/SAMNMAX etc CD I have no idea But they did. And everything happens for a reason I guess! They also got me Sam Neil's autograph so I'm not complaining.

That then was my first cherished adventure game CD. I think I've bought FOA about 5 times since that CD got broken. So although DOTT was the first game I experienced, it was certainly FOA that got me thinking about adventure games. I'd also add Amazon Queen (first game I bought, mail order) and Hugo's House of Horrors (cos a lot of my early gaming was thanks to PC magazine demo CD's) to my "start" list.

Good times! Nice topic.