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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: jldcat] #193741
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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Darleen03] #193768
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My first adventure game was when I had an Apple IIC back in 1980 and it was a text adventure the name of which escapes me. However the first adventure game that I CAN remember the name of was King's Quest. It hooked me and I played every game that Sierra produced and have been playing adventure games ever since.

(sigh) really brings back fond memories.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: oldman] #193784
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King's Quest 7 - never dreamed what picking that up on a lark would cost me, since then I had to have them all!


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: nickie] #193811
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I am also kind of old when it comes to adventure games. I started playing in 1991 on an old IBM computer that my husbad bought fron his company for like $50, when they were ugrading their systems. The first two games I played were Phantasmagoria(a loaner from a friend).Still disturbs me to this day. The next one which is the one that got me hooked was, The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate. That was back in the stone age when games came on floppies.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: thracia] #193830
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Kings Quest 1 was my first game and I was hooked forever. I purchased every Sierra and LucasFilms game that was available after that.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: thracia] #193831
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My first was Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizzards.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: connie] #193846
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Mine was Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. Still love it! thumbsup

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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: friedmonky] #193852
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It's interesting that so many people are coming up with the Roberta Williams games - Kings Quest, Phantasmagoria,Leisure Suit Larry - I've googled here and there is some fasinating stuff about her on Wikapedia. Maybe I should start a thread in the general forum?


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: looney4labs] #193854
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My initiation into the world of adventure games was with "Wishbringer" by Infocom. I think it took me about three months to get through it but, once I'd finished, I was completely hooked. I'd spend hours in gaming stores browsing through the new Infocom releases until I discovered that other companies, such as Sierra, also put out adventure games.

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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Susie07] #193858
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Old Lady -- yes, start a thread. I agree with you that Robert Williams is fascinating.

Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Becky] #193864
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My very first adventure games were the 'Dizzy' series a cute little egg on legs, on my kid's old Amstrad computer...the games were on tapes and you could not save your game...but we used to leave it on all the time...till we finished one. lol
This was around 1994.

Then my daughters boyfriend got a spiffy new computer and she nattered my soul out to get one...we did, a Pentium 166 with a 2.5gb hard drive and he lent me Phantasmagoria A Puzzle of Flesh which he was stuck on...I was hooked from the moment the game started up and have been ever since. grin


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Tyke] #193939
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Can't remember the very first... maybe Phantasmagoria or Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Carrie] #193942
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I got hooked on The Legend of Zelda for the regular Nintendo system. When PC adventure games came out, it was either Myst or Return to Zork that started me into this "hobby" or obsession or whatever.... grin

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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Koalanut] #193961
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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Becky] #193963
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Myst was my first game too...the next one I played was Syberia and I LOVED it.....I was hooked from then on and I haven't looked back since.

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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Willowstar] #193989
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Played my first adventure game on a Tandy EX1000. The first game was the Black Caulden, based on the Disney movie. After that my family tried the first King's Quest (never finished). Then my daugther brought home Myst and I was hooked for good. After that was Beyond Time, and many more since.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: looney4labs] #194019
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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Barry] #194052
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Like Barry, mine was also the original Adventure (Colossal Cave) which my father and I played for four solid days on an old Apple IIE. (I even remember the keyboard was part of the whole machine! Talk about dating myself :-) We then went on to the original Zork series - all text adventures and I've been playing ever since.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Becky] #194096
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Roberta Williams is my idol. Her story is fantastic. Her and her husband Ken epitomizes the rags to riches story. I was so sad when (for whatever reason) their company was sold to corporate america who then destroyed what they had built. sad mad

Al Lowe has a very interesting perspective on the sale of Sierra but it's been so long since I read it I can't link to it.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: oldman] #194115
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Myst, which of course led me to look for other adventure games which lead me to upgrading my computer over the years so I could look for more adventure games and finally to Myst online! Now I am campaigning for a laptop so I can play MOUL when we go on vacation.


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Dudemom_2000] #194228
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Myst, as I remember, around 1995. A co-worker told me about it, and I still remember how fascinated I became with adventure games. I remember how my computer would freeze up when I had to get in the elevator. How things have changed.

Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Cat in the Hat] #194254
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My first Adventure game also was Myst. Still love playing it!


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Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: looney4labs] #194291
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My very first adventure game was 'colossal cave' back in 1979 or so. I played it wthout realizing that it was a text adventure game, I (and my father) both gave up when he learned that the dwarf? we played couldn't cross a stream. Little did I know that we supposed to go back to the house and dwon under the house through a tunnel. Anyway, then computer games lie dormant for years, until I got my computer, AMD Athlon MMX K64 4MB graphics card, I think, later updated to a voode 32mb graphics cards, in 1998. The very first computer game I played then was an action game, I think of sort, in which you travelled through different time periods and found building blocks to save the world. This simply was too hard, so I sort of quit this game. But I had gotten the computer game bug, and then bought a game called 'Knight's Templar', I think and a game, called 'Urban Runner' and 'Zork:Nemesis.' And then, of course, the Broken Sword games (1+2).

I can't remember if I played 'Knights Templar' or 'Urban Runner' or Zork: Nemesis first. at that time, I just played games. I didn't realize that there were different genres of games, not before colleague of mine talked about and he recommended that I try out a game called 'baldur's gate'. So in 1999, with money I got from my father for my birthday, I bought Baldur's Gate. And was immediately hooked on rpgs to.

Later I bought Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate and was also completely hooked on adventure games...

I also bought the second Gabriel Knight game, and the Blackstone Chronicles. Unfortunately, frown for me, now, I traded them in a used game store frown I also traded the thrid GL game, I also bought, but luckily I managed to find this again some while ago smile

If you have older games, please don't discard them...

edit:

The reason we could play Colossal Cave was this: in 1979 my father owned a small business. He got a Commodore 8080 (I think?)
for this business. On this machine, Colossal Cave: Adventure was installed - without us both knowing that it was thos game. I really didn't know it either untill I asked someone on the internet. Then I found out smile





Last edited by Karsten; 08/28/07 03:52 AM. Reason: added content

Adventure gaming is fun smile

Re: What was the 1st adventure game you played? [Re: Karsten] #194396
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My VERY first was The Uninvited on Super Nintendo -it was the first game I had ever played that was all inventory and no fighting. My first pc game was The Seventh Guest and Myst , but I really didn't get obsessed till Phantasmagoria 2 .

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My first was technically some ancient text-only DOS game we played on our Commodore. I can't for the life of me remember the name; I'd forgotten all about it until I read this thread. It was a murder mystery, choose your own adventure type of thing. And we never did finish it, we kept either dying or running out of time.

My first adventure game with graphics and all was Myst.



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