Infamous Quests
Public Forums => Banter and Chit-Chat! => Topic started by: Lupin on July 15, 2012, 02:07:01 PM
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So what was the first Point and Click Adventure Game you ever played and how old were you when you played it.
For me, I was 18 (I know, started late), and it was Curse of Monkey Island. Whilst I did play the old school text based adventure games when I was really young, the first real point and click was the third Monkey Island game. A friend in college introduced me to it, I brought it that weekend and completed it and then tried to find other ones.
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Let me see. My first adventure game was Zork and its brethren, followed by the Sierra parser-based games. As far as actual PNC adventures, though, I'd probably have to say Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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King's Quest I, baby. Well, I did play Wizard and Princess on the Apple II a few times, but not a whole lot before that. KQ I, II and Space Quest I were my earliest games. I was absorbed in them.
Bt
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My first adventure game was KQ1 on the PCjr. The first point and click....probably KQV
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At the age of late 16 / almost 17. Here is my answer from a similar post in another Sierra-related forum:
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I remember the first time I saw Larry -- the summer of 1988. My brother was at the local ball fields for a Little League game, so I took the car to a friend's house near the game.
My buddy was the type of kid who was really into computers and modems/BBSs. While helping the local bank get rid of viruses, he would collect and store them on 5-1/4" floppies... just in case he needed to use them (!).
Anyway, he showed me Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards on his PC Clone. Not having a PC myself at the time (I'd have to wait until my Freshman year in college -- the CoCo would have to suffice for my Senior year in high school), I was amazed by the game. We must have played through at least half of it before I had to pick up my brother...
Got a copy of it in my Sophomore year in college from a friend who was a huge Sierra fan. He had an original Tandy 1000 machine back in the mid-'80s, and as such, had just about every good Sierra adventure/quest game (including the original KQ).
Ah, memories. :)
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My first true all-PnC was Space Quest IV.
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The first time I ever played an adventure game was when I was about 12 or so...it was at a friend's house and it was LSL 1...I couldn't get into it for the longest time because of the dang questions at the start. But once I did, I was hooked. Then we got busted by the parentals & banned. :)
1st point n' click was KQ5, which my uncle bought for me. Never been the same since, after that I was irrevocably addicted to adventure games.
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Kings Quest 1 on Tandy 1000 EX, I got KQ1,2 & 3 for Christmas 1987. Happy times :) First point n click though? Monkey Island.
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My first adventure game was Castle Adventure--ASCII GRAPHICS FOR THE WIN.
First point and click game was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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I love ASCII and ANSI art! Oh man, the old BBS's I used to go to had some great "door" games with ANSI graphics.
Bt
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My first point and click was Kings Quest V.
My first adventure game was Hero's Quest. I loved, and still love, that game to the ends of the earth. I would go as far as saying that it is perfect.
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I'm not even quite sure what game it was I played first as I was very young when we got our first ICL workstation but my earlier memory is of the first King's Quest. However, back then I never knew what I was doing as I was about 4 or 5 at the time and I would just walk around typing 'pick up carrot' and walk around with a goat not realizing I had to actually do something with it! This was the same with Police Quest as well, I would just drive around for ages and load saved games my brother has created and piss about really, never thinking I had to follow a plot because nobody told me! After that I played other Sierra titles from SQ2 to KQ5 but never completed them by myself. I pretty much watched my brother play them half the time as he hogged the computer.
It wasn't to a few years later I played and completed my first adventure game which was The Secret of Monkey Island. Bloody loved that game. Infact, I've got it ready to play on my iPad for my journey to Cardiff.
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I actually can't remember my first real click and point experience.. propably Monkey island 2 or Day of the tentacle.. but it also might've been Mother goose vga on a friend's computer. Yeah, that's right; a friend's computer! ::)
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You know, I just realised that my first answer is completely wrong. My first Point and Click wasn't Curse of Monkey Island, it was Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards. I remember my mate's older brother had it and I went round to his house and played it when I was...., well I properly shouldn't say how old I was.
But I remember finding it funny though that in order to play the game, you had to pass a test to prove you were the right age, but it was multiple choice, so it just took restarting the game a few times before we got in
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First point and click game was Black Cauldron. Great game, actually played it again the other day. Have video of me playing it.
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I played black cauldron pre KQ I think, but was it point and click? :)
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I played black cauldron pre KQ I think, but was it point and click? :)
The original wasn't, I don't think--but someone made a nifty point and click remake of it several years ago that's still floating around.
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I played black cauldron pre KQ I think, but was it point and click? :)
The original wasn't, I don't think--but someone made a nifty point and click remake of it several years ago that's still floating around.
Someone made a PNC remake of Black Cauldron? You don't happen to know the link, do you? I'd love to give it a try.
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I have it, and here it is, to share with the world!
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/qfi/bc_remake.zip (http://www.infamous-adventures.com/qfi/bc_remake.zip)
I did find the author's site for it, the game is there too, but I put it on my server just to be sure. "Dream Master" is his name.
http://tg_comics.tripod.com/bc.html (http://tg_comics.tripod.com/bc.html)
Bt
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Yeah that's true, it wasn't point and click.
Here's another link http://sciprogramming.com/fangames.php (http://sciprogramming.com/fangames.php)
Anyway I guess my first P&C game would have been KQ5 then.
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Yeah, the remake is sweet--it uses all the original graphics, but adds just a few enhancements here and there. The P&C controls make the game much more enjoyable to play in my opinion--I hated using the F-keys in the original.
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Oh! That's a different version that the one I posted Jerm! Yours is made in actual SCI! The one I linked is made in AGS! Wow! Two different versions!
Bt
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Haha awesome! Yea I guess I've been plying the SCI version then. It's sweet!
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Oh adventure talk! Hooray!! Hmm... let's see... my first P&C... I think it was KQV :) An old acquaintance introduced me to it. Gosh, I spent way too many hours playing that game! To this day I can quote pretty much every line word for word, doing the voices too haha. Then I moved on to KQVI and eventually Quest for Glory. Love those games as well, I actually re-bought the collection recently. Good times :D
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Hmmm... I can't remember whether my first PC P&C was King's Quest V, Secret of Monkey Island, or maybe Simon the Sorcerer. However, while typing that sentence, I recalled how early on it was that I played Maniac Mansion on the NES and tried to find every alternate way to handle each puzzle. I think that would have to have been the first by far.
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Hmmm, it was hero quest (and Thexder, I know, not an adventure). My dad came home with a computer from work and his friend had put these games on it. I must have played it for weeks. I have the great memory of myself and my two brothers with my father huddled around the computer, at night, whispering to each other because my father was playing the thief and he was in the middle of breaking into the sheriff's house.
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First point and click game was Black Cauldron. Great game, actually played it again the other day. Have video of me playing it.
You must have had an Apple if it was Point & Click.
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My Story is very similar to Broomie's brothers and all. The first game I remember playing was King's Quest V, I'm sure there were some before that but I very vividly remember just wandering about in the woods and then the witch would come and turn graham into a frog. It terrified me so badly, I would hide under the desk trying to click restore blindly because the image of frog graham staring down the camera was too scary. it was around 15 years later that I beat that game.
The first adventure game I finished was either Full Throttle or Curse of Monkey Island. They were both so easy compared to Sierra games that they made for good starters. When people ask about starting adventure games those two or The Dig are always my recommendation.
What makes them so good is you can play them like interactive stories. I've played Full Throttle start to finish (having a save to skip that weird combat bit) in front of two friends separately just to have them watch it. I played Curse of Monkey Island straight through in two sittings with my niece (11) and she said it was her "Favourite cartoon ever" and she really like how Guybrush was relatively unfunny in a world of crazy characters.
I played The Dig through with my fiance and her thoughts after praising it for hours were "Why isn't this in theatres right now?" now I've got all of those people hooked into my telltale account, because they're also easier games with focus on story and jokes, and I just light up when I get the occasional email about "Oh man, when Homestar races the hurdle the turtle and curdle....d milk it's so good" or, "This New Monkey Island is as funny as the ones you showed me."
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My 1st point-n-click was "The Secret of Monkey Island" on Amiga. Think I was 12ish
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My first point n click game was KQ5. I wasn't very happy with the change over from parser. And I am still not happy with point n click. Half the challenge of the old text/agi games was trying to figure out how to tell the computer what you wanted to do. It taught me spelling and grammar. It also taught me logic. With the advent of point n click halfa the challenge goes out the window.
Like others my first Sierra game was Kq3 on my trusty Tandy tx 1000, way back in 1987. Good times all around.
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My first point n click game was KQ5. I wasn't very happy with the change over from parser. And I am still not happy with point n click. Half the challenge of the old text/agi games was trying to figure out how to tell the computer what you wanted to do. It taught me spelling and grammar. It also taught me logic. With the advent of point n click halfa the challenge goes out the window.
Text adventures and the early Sierra parser-based games helped me immensely with grammar, syntax, and critical thinking. I really do miss those days.
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King's Quest V here, too. It was... frustrating.
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Kings quest 1 VGA
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My family was a bit late to get a computer in our home even though they made sure I was in a school that supported computing classes. I first played KQ5 at a friend's house, and once we got our own computer, my siblings and I devoured the rest of the KQ series and a few other Sierra games. Our computer wasn't quite powerful enough for the latest games, so it wasn't until I was in college that I really got a chance to play everything I'd missed. I also didn't know LucasArts existed, so I hadn't played Monkey Island before then!
I like the ease of playing point-and-click games, but the text-parser ones definitely helped me with my typing. A friend of mine actually learned some English playing them when he first came to the USA!
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kq5 frustrated ya?
aw I liked that one
as for me, gulp, my age here showing
Was infocoms text based advents, wishbringer, zork etc
the originals.. hitchhikers guide which now has like 4 remakes cooooool
but as for the first like non text..
tass times in tone town rocks.. always will, or KQ1 on my apple II LE which came with a cardboard keyboard overlay! kq1 rocked but it was part 2 that hooked me hard, then 3 as i ran around my house making potions out of fargin everything. oh and dont get me started on the phone bills for HINT LINES before the net existed haha
anyone know the game below ? if not .. check it ouuut trust me!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Tassshot1.gif)
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Brother, I was just musing about how it'd be cool if we could remake this. Who knows. Activision owns it and they're "rebooting" Sierra. Just write them an convince them to let us remake it! Love Tass Times in Tone Town.
Bt
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woah not many people even know what tass times is!!!
rock! dude id sooo back that shiiznit!!
leeet us knoooowww
if i can write fan letters begging to them I WILL..
would you make it like same kinda interface or would you point and click advent it?
curious to know
as you might know the new GOLD RUSH! is keeping PARSER interface on the revamp! as well as mouse!!
mc awesome imo
tedious work but.. ooo I love parser... sue me hehe
niiiice to see a fellow tass times fan! it was for sure one of my favs growin up again that wasnt so mainstream and not many even still know what it is hehe
ooo please get this ooo