I know what you mean about the graphics. There was a fiddle that you had to pickup at one point in KQ1 and I couldn't figure out what it was the graphics were so fuzzy.

Wow, what memories, Jenny. Thank you for that link.
BTW, MYST has come a long way, such as "REALMYST"
Sandy

Is the difference between Myst and Real Myst just updated graphics.

Myst. I was hooked [probably played around 300 games]. Recently playing room escape games [last year or so], but I miss the immersion of a longer game, so I'm back sort of looking for the next Myst...

Cattitude, the next "Myst" should be "XING". I just hope it stacks up with the original MYST games.
Space Quest Fan, I LOVE those updated graphics and the game engine as well. I still play it at least once a year.
Sandy

My first adventure game was "Castle Adventure" (DOS) which I used to play at school on lunch breaks in 1985 and then a long break until "Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None" which I played in early 2007. It set up the spark which has lasted through some 150 games so far.

Timo

Believe it or not (BUT) I got interested in adventure games with playing the first Tomb Raider games.

Myst for me. It was recommended by a friend and I remember exploring that island and getting lost. Good times

My first game was also Myst. My sister got me started on adventure games and we played together over the phone. We talked as we played and helped each other that way. It was fun. We spent hours on the phone and would save in the same place and continue!

zookeeper,

I forgot all about Shivers. That game was scary and I remember it had some creepy mucic too.

Its kind of hard to remember so far back, but Im pretty sure my first adventure game was Maniac Mansion.

My fist video game was King's Quest (one of the first) it was all green and we played on a PC AT with a hard disk of 10MB could you believe it hehe!. My friend and I, we made all sorts of written coloured design plan trying to decipher it. What a lot of fun we had. I bought all kind of fairytales books to make researchs as a walkthrough.

My first adventure game was Hugo's House of Horrors, you had to type in just the right words to go forward, it really was a "horror" to play. Kings Quest seemed so 'high tech' after that!
Copper

Leisure Suit Larry back in 1987. After the very first scene, it was clear that adventure games was my new favourite game genre.

My first adventure game (without knowing it at the time) was Adventure from 1976 or 1977. In 1981, I think, my dad's business got a computer. And with the computer were this game. This text adveture. I couldn't go on and neither could my father . Now we move forward to 1998 where I got my first computer. And I think my first adventure gamer were Urban Runner or a game where I was in a museum and fell through a hole in time and landend in the middle ages. It was game that's involved templars an such. Great times

I vaguely remember Urban Runner. Wasn't it full of "you can die" parts ??

It's hard to remember that far back, but I think it was Space Quest 4 that was the first game I really enjoyed and played to completion. I can't tell you how many times I got blown up in that game. (Those darn ordinances.) Then King's Quest 6 and Gabriel Knight, Sins of the Fathers. It's really all burred together but those were my early on favorites. There was Prophecy and an Elvira game that I tried to play as well... Somewhere in there Tex Murphy, Under a Killing Moon came along and that became my all time favorite - except for the next Tex Murphy games.

My first computer game wasn't adventure. It was from SSI (Strategic Simulations Inc.)It was a trilogy from 1991 called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1: The Champions of Krynn, 2: Death Knights of Krynn, 3: The Dark Queen of Krynn. After that it was all Sierra until I found GameBoomers & found out there were a lot more games out there that I would love, & the rest is history because now I'm an addict.

CountZero,

I loved Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle.


Anybody remember:

The Kyrandia series
Altered Destiny
Countdown
Les Manley
Rex Nebular
Clara Bow

I remember all of those, and some of them are now sold on GOG.

I remember most of them - and still re-play several.

I have original and GOG versions.

[Just can't bring myself to part with the originals !! ]

Never heard of that last one, though I've played both Laura Bow games.

The only Clara Bow I know of was a movie actress of the 1920's.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001966/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
What a horrible life she had -- nothing at all like the carefree "It Girl" she played in the movie.
Imagine having your mother try to slit your throat the way hers did.

My first adventure game was Nancy Drew; Message In A Haunted Mansion. I have been hooked ever since! I have all 31 games and I am anxiously awaiting delivery of # 32 which should be delivered today or tomorrow.

Hi space quest

Like I wrote my fist game was King's quest (don't remember the title, it had "rumplestliskin" in if as a puzzle) the second was Rosella. I was a great fan of Sierra Luca's art.

That makes 2 of us - good times back then