I bought my first home PC in 1990 just to learn how to use one. DOS 3.3 with 386Max anyone? Whoa, hot stuff! I don't remember how I started playing games, a lark probably, but I started off with things like F19 Stealth Fighter, M1 Tank Platoon, and Wing Commander. Pretty much all strategy/simulation type games. It didn't take long to fill up the 65 meg (yes, that's MEG, not GIG) RLL hard drive, so I started looking at options. About this time there was a new gadget called a CD-ROM drive coming out. CD software was fairly rare and expensive at the time, so a common marketing tactic was to offer CD bundles with the drives at a reduced price. Then I saw saw one with a Gamer Pack, four games including Wing Commander which I was playing at the time. So I bought a state of the art 1X CD drive as a way to keep stuff of the hard drive and free up some room. Well, one of the games in the bundle was The Secret of Monkey Island. Never heard of it, and probably would never have bought it otherwise. Then I played it. The wit, the humor, the exploration and story instantly had me. I've been an avid adventure gamer ever since and never looked back.
Albert