Your first adventure game?

[Ulysa]

I think it was either Maniac Mansion or Loom.

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I can still quote Kyrandia.
"My feet are killing me!"
I can also sing that music.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I think it was either Maniac Mansion or Loom.

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I can still quote Kyrandia.
"My feet are killing me!"
I can also sing that music.

For some reason I've never played the third game, I've heard it is significantly worse. Anyway I suppose 90s "worse" is incline today.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I think it was either Maniac Mansion or Loom.

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I can still quote Kyrandia.
"My feet are killing me!"
I can also sing that music.

For some reason I've never played the third game, I've heard it is significantly worse. Anyway I suppose 90s "worse" is incline today.

It’s not as good as the first two, but it’s by no means terrible; definitely worth a play through if you enjoyed the first two, just go in with adjusted expectations.

 

[Alter Sack]

I think my first adventure game was Zak mckracken on the c64.

 

[lightbane]

I believe one of the first adventure games I enjoyed is Goblins 3, fun stuff. There's also Broken Sword 1 and 2, but I still have to finish them.

 

[AndyS]

Pretty sure it was either Enchanter or King's Quest 2. I think I was playing Infocom games first and then my dad started pressuring me to play games with graphics, probably because he wanted to see what the PCjr. he bought could do.

 

[Ahnx]

 

[Monolith]

First Monkey Island, played it at a friends. Took me some years to get my first PC and play it again.

 

[oldmanpaco]

 

[JarlFrank]

The German translation of the Monkey Island games was done very well - and the guy went on to become a famous game tester, creating his own successful magazine and then becoming the X-Box boss at Microsoft in Germany. Quite a career.

I even remember the Lucas Arts hotline easter egg in Monkey Island 2 referencing how hard it is to translate all those puns to German. The German versions of MI were really, really good quality, especially for the time.

 

[Silentstorm]

I had a PC before, but i distinctly remember The Curse Of Monkey Island being my first, yep, i started with the third one, i remember the visuals being really cool and cartoony to me, and enjoying the game so much i went looking for more adventure games.

This also means i am more forgiving of Ron Gilbert not working on it...i started with a game he wasn't involved with, though i would love Ron Gilbert to come back...if Disney didn't own Monkey Island nowadays.

 

[Daedalos]

Leisure Suit Larry 1, Manic Mansion and Monkey Island 2, I think, were all my first adventure games from roughly the time time period. From there it rapidly expanded to things mostly from LucasArts.

I have fond memories of:

Entire monkey island series
Indiana Jones series
The Dig
Normality
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
Simon the sorcerer 1+2
Legend of Kyrandia all series
Discworld

 

[Daedalos]

The German translation of the Monkey Island games was done very well - and the guy went on to become a famous game tester, creating his own successful magazine and then becoming the X-Box boss at Microsoft in Germany. Quite a career.

I even remember the Lucas Arts hotline easter egg in Monkey Island 2 referencing how hard it is to translate all those puns to German. The German versions of MI were really, really good quality, especially for the time.

You germans and your translation and dubbing. Sacrilegious fuckers, if u ask me! :p

What is it with germany and the hatred of the original langauge of things? Just straight up National Socialism? :X

 

[V_K]

You'd have dubbing too, if spoken Danish wasn't complete gibberish.

 

[JarlFrank]

The German translation of the Monkey Island games was done very well - and the guy went on to become a famous game tester, creating his own successful magazine and then becoming the X-Box boss at Microsoft in Germany. Quite a career.

I even remember the Lucas Arts hotline easter egg in Monkey Island 2 referencing how hard it is to translate all those puns to German. The German versions of MI were really, really good quality, especially for the time.

You germans and your translation and dubbing. Sacrilegious fuckers, if u ask me! :p

What is it with germany and the hatred of the original langauge of things? Just straight up National Socialism? :X

I haven't played a translated game in almost 20 years now.

But when I was 3 years old I didn't know any English so those translations were really, really cool.

 

[Lady Error]

I learned English by translating the purple prose in Wizardry 7. And watching MTV's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes.

 

[Wysardry]

The first adventure game I played was Token of Ghall on my uncle's C64.

The first one I bought for myself was Cave Adventure for the Sharp MZ-700.

 

[warci]

The first one that I remember playing for sure. The talkie version almost made the CD32 a sane buy.

 

[freygeist87]

I don't remember exactly, it was either Monkey Island or the Höhlenwelt Saga.

 

[Moaning_Clock]

Most likely Shivers for point and click adventures.

 

[Robespierre]

The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble on my uncle's PC. Loved the atmosphere of that game.

 

[wwsd]

Probably Fate of Atlantis for me too, not sure. I had lots of these shareware CDs with demo versions on them, they also had one of the Broken Sword games (2?) and some obscure text adventures. So it could have been one of those. The whole thing is kind of a blur. The demo versions of these games are usually just a tiny portion, for FoA part of Crete. I remembered the music very well.