I'll let you off. Look how small these games are to download! They're smaller than mojo's main page.
I got the shareware versions of the game!
The first adventure game (and also first video game, for that matter) I ever played was King's Quest 3. I had no idea what the main goal of the game was, but I loved it. I think it took me around 3 years to complete that one, but it definitely got me on the path to playing further adventure games.
Those Hugo games were kinda fun. That whole shareware explosion of the mid-to late-nineties still leaves me singin the blues (in the shower [naked ]).
wow....that dos archive site rocks, all the games i played when i was a wee lil kid...now me remember....
First adventure game was Curse Of MI, after that...I was hooked!
my first game was myst.... and it was my first computer game also...so if it was'nt for myst i would never have been into the adventure franchise....
i have not been on the internet in 1.5 months so could any-body fill me in on the games new...
Maniac Mansion on the NES. Goddamn, what a great soundtrack.
Originally posted by BooJaka15m
Sounds eerily like Maniac Mansion, don't you think?
I think that was the general idea ;)
There's also a game that's very similar to Hugo's House of Horror called 'Maddog Williams', and it's actually pretty funny in places - Or it was when I was 11. I remember having them all on one of those cheesy '1000 Games' compilations.
I had a thousand game compilation. What a load of jizz. One thousand games that some useless pillocks made with Klik and Play.
I had quite a few of those! But there was only ever one or two good games out of 50!
Yeah just finished simon 3d have to say not the best of games i really don't like these new 3d adventure games they just don't appeal to me as much!
also just coming to the end of mI4 still what happend after 3 now thats what monkey island should be like!
I think once a game has sequals then it should stay one type like monkey island 1 -3, insted of constantly changing ,
Gim Fandango was a good game because it was it's own story and started out in 3d (i think it would of sucked if it was in 2d) with 2D you can get so mutch more detailed charictures and backgrounds
Guybrush guy: That was exactly what people complained about when MI3 came out though. That it was too much like the previous games, and not different enough.
Yes there was no big change but, going from the point and click 2d graphics to keyboard only, 3d graphics is a MAJOR change, and MI3 was actually a pretty decent game and had similarities to the 1'st and 2'nd MI games. with MI 4 you had more limitations and it took to long to do the simplest thing such as getting something out of the inventory.
But I see your point and I’m just expressing my opinion .
I thought that the 3D interface of Monkey Island was brilliant, although it did lack the atmosphere of the first two games (Not really atmospheric in CMI either).
But anyway, Let's face it. If Lucas Arts didn't step up to 3D, then the section devoted to Adventure Games would slowly gather dust, until BLAM. Star Wars games ruled the world.
The 3D-ness of Monkey Island also worked great on the PS2, and helped to create a whole new Adventure fanbase (although they might not know it yet), and the success of the game means that LEC will be willing to invest in more adventure games, such as Full Throttle 2, Sam & Max 2, Maniac Mansion 3, and those 5 new original titles that they're making (PLZ GOD).
Grim Fandango did come into its own, and worked a lot better than EMI due to sheer brilliance. You could smell the cigarette smoke. But EMI did have its moments, and deserves a little respect.
Viva la 3D gamйs
i agree to something things you are saying about full throttle 2 and sam and max, but you said somthing about maniac mansion 3, i never heard anything about a 3rd maniac manson...
Originally posted by guybrush guy
you said somthing about maniac mansion 3, i never heard anything about a 3rd maniac manson...
I bet you never heard of the 5 original adventure games they were making either.. ;)
..Because they don't exist :)
DOTT 2 (MM3) better happen. I don't care if they bugger up the story, I just love the characters.
I like the idea of a Manic Mansion 3 (or Day of the Tentacle 2, if you prefer) but what would they do about a story?
Originally posted by GendoTheGreat
I like the idea of a Manic Mansion 3 (or Day of the Tentacle 2, if you prefer) but what would they do about a story?
Well, it would probably be the easiest game to sequel-ize really, because there are many many possibilites.
i just hope that it would have better voice acting...
I liked the voice acting in DOTT!!! It was very life like, and the voices of the main characters were hilarious!
I too liked the voices in DOTT. A great deal.
oh i did not say there were bad and i did like them, i just felt they could have been a little better, plus the sound quality was not very good (or it could of just been my sound card)
Originally posted by guybrush guy
oh i did not say there were bad and i did like them, i just felt they could have been a little better, plus the sound quality was not very good (or it could of just been my sound card)
Yeah, next time those lousy actos should try and make their voices sound a little less...compressed. In fact, they should hide in your speakers and voice-act at exactly the right time or be force fed Marmite & Squirrel sandwiches.
:)
My first adventure game was MI1 followed by
KQ5
DOTT
Sam & Max
IJ fate of atlantis
MI2
LSL1
LSL2
Noctropolis
Darkseed II
Hell
Myst
KQ6
Blade Runner
EMI
KQ7
Riven
GN3 Blood of the sacred
I have now finally got EMI
Boris
Adventure for the Atari 2600. 1982..a good year.
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King's Quest III, back when it first came out. I'm 19 so I was probably way too young to get anywhere in it, but it was cool.
Originally posted by tenderbranson
King's Quest III, back when it first came out. I'm 19 so I was probably way too young to get anywhere in it, but it was cool.
Also, I love your nick. Chuck is the win.
My dad's mate from work made him a copy of "Fate of Atlantis" onto some floppies, and he showed them to me. FoA was really a great game, wasn't it?
Then again, it could have been SoMI or MI2...I can't really remember, but I think it was Fate of Atlantis. Sam & Max was tthe very first CD-ROM game we got.
My first and favorite adventure was Dott.
On my first PC. And there were also Andromedas Erbe 1, Goblins 3 and of course MM.
@Hellbeard
Yes. On Christmas 2007 I got Dott in english. :D I wanted it so much!
DotT was my first too, and it got me hooked on the rest of the LucasArts adventure games. Good times. (Grim Fandango is my favorite though.)
Wow, who resurrected this excellent thread? 2002! What a great year for, um, something or other. Wait, wasn't that the year that Sa... (shuts mouth quickly in case he's right)
My first was no foolin' Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. I was 9, it was on the Amiga, and I cheated all the way through. I borrowed it from a mate who had one part of a walkthrough and I had the second part.
The first adventure I'd play properly was Day of the Tentacle in 1997, which started me on the slippery slope of LucasArts Adventures.
My first non-LucasArts adventure was Discworld. I got stuck on the first screen. It would take me years to finish it. Discworld Noir on the other hand was the first I actually liked.
My first was no foolin' Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. I was 9, it was on the Amiga, and I cheated all the way throughSame as me! Only it was a friend's Amiga and we never completed it. Still fun though. Well, as much fun as it can be without being able to understand all the dialogue.
Mine was surprisingly Indy3 (VGA). I don't ever remember getting past Castle Brunwald until years later :P
My first was Full Throttle on an old Mac-- I must have been 10 years old when first playing it through with my brother. We had a friend who had beaten it give us hints once in a while--
I can't believe that CMI and Grim came out so soon afterwards; in 97 and 98. Those first three LEC games I played will always be my favorites.
Wow, who resurrected this excellent thread? 2002! What a great year for, um, something or other. Wait, wasn't that the year that Sa... (shuts mouth quickly in case he's right)
oh nooos
Mine was surprisingly Indy3 (VGA). I don't ever remember getting past Castle Brunwald until years later :P
Lol, I had MM since Iґm 8, but kompleted it, when I was 14 or 15 years old with a walkthrough. :lol:
Wow, who resurrected this excellent thread? 2002!
It was me. ;)
And I was 8 years old, when I played my first games.
That was not my only first pc game. Btw I had Goblins 3 and Andromedas Erbe 2 (very unknow) and Runaway (very unknow, only a demo :( ) too. And other games. (arcade, action...)
And my first non LA-adventures I have buy by myself was Jan Tenner. Anbd later Nibiru, The Longest Journey and Black Mirror. And so on.
my first adventure game was Tomb Raider!
Itґs an action adventure. ;)
And crab. :p Bad quality :eek:
Crab?
Sorry, I mean crap.
Crab was an excellent adventure game, but not my first: my first was Granny's Garden on the BBC computer, and I was three years old.
Gabez, it was a fault of mine. ;)
I donґt know itґs a game.
You never played Crab!?
Best game ever.
Give me a link of screenshots, please.
Yeah, I played Crab when I was seven. Had to call the hint line a few times, it got pretty expensive and eventually I just had to give up. Fond memories though.
When I was 6 or 7, I got an ATARI 800XE, and I remember playing several games, and also a couple of adventures, mostly text based stuff, and in English, so those didn't really catch me back then, also because International Karate, Spy vs. Spy or Supercobra were so much cooler. ^^
That's why my first adventure game that counts was Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade on my Amiga when I was 14.
At one elementary school they had Cosmic Osmo. The next had the early Mac CD with both Fate of Atlantis (Talkie) and Secret of Monkey Island. I'd love to say that I played MI more at the time, but we were competing to beat FoA (and trading saves back and forth on floppies), which of course we never could in the time we had in computer lab. FoA had Indiana Jones and voice acting, it was the obvious choice for elementary schoolers... MI is obviously my preference of the two today, though.
My first real Sierra adventure was The Castle of Dr. Brain (yes, I declare that it was an adventure game, it was an AGI game after all). At one point I was so proud having beaten both The Castle and The Island of Dr. Brain. Early in my computing history my parents were buying a lot of Sierra, Broderbund, et al edutainment titles (they were running a couple of computer learning centers for kids, well ahead of their time) and it wasn't until just about High School that I really started getting into the larger world of adventure games outside of Humongous, but I was just in time to buy many of the late greats before the decline...