I mean what really got you hooked

I mean he had a serious addiction and in my mind he needed . On occasion I would stand behind him and watch him over his shoulder as he played Alien vs Predator online. I would think to myself theres no way I could play I mean it was just a blur !

Then one day we were talking and the subject came up and I said to him that all these games were just for kids, and that he needed to grow up a bit. He vehemently denied this and said how can you make that statement when you have never actually played a game before. Well, I said after watching you on the computer and my son on his Nintendo. I said there's just no way! I mean, I don't have the manual dexterity or the co-ordination (plus the ole eyesight and reflexes just aren't what they used to be) to play those games. Ah he said, but there are games that I could play that didn't require all that stuff. He said all I needed was just my mind to play and to prove it he said he had a game just for me.

Well, the year was 2000 and the game was Myst!

By the time I finished Myst I was hooked I mean it was beautiful, it was challenging and it required me to think in ways I never dreamed of before. I went on to play a few more games .

Now it's my wife's turn to say to me. "When are you going to stop acting like a kid and grow up."

That's My Story and I'm Stickin to it!!!

My sister got me hooked on the adventure games. She kept talking about how much she loved to play them--they sounded too difficult for me--so she offered to play one 'with' me--So we played Amerzone 'together' via the phone and email--we live several states apart--and that was it, I was hooked

I started playing with my kids when they were young and my husband won an Intellivision console (My personal favs are Night Stalker & Pitfall). Years later I got a used computer from one of my daughters for Christmas and she started me on Myst. The rest is history.

My dad, my brother and I picked up this game called Riddle of the Sphynx at a store over 3 years ago just to see what the game was all about. We loaded it up and started to play. We couldn't stop playing it because it was so good. We have been playing adventure games together ever since.

My sister in law brought over a Nancy Drew game. We played it together, and I have been hooked every since!!! Thanks JK!!!

Your very welcome, Sis!

I got started after I had surgery and was off work for six weeks. I was bored to tears, started surfing the net for games, ran into a demo for Pandora's Box and enjoyed the game so much, I purchased the full version at Media Play. After I ran out of puzzle games (Contraptions, and Even More Contraptions), the store clerk recommended adventure games. My first was Riddle of the Sphinx.

Introducing SS to adventure games has made it even more enjoyable. Always more fun to game with her! So many laughs and so much discussion! This past weekend we played Echo together (though she had already played through it once solo). I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much if I played it on my own. She even forgave me for the expletive I blurted out in front of my nephew after getting eaten by the bear the first time!

LOL!!!!
How many times in the Nancy Drew games did we injure or kill ourselves??!!!! LOL! So, what's a bear attack??!!! Right?! :kiss:

I don't know if my favorite Nancy demise was when she fell off the balcony or when we electrocuted her!

Both of them were hilariously unexpected...and the sound effects priceless!

Thank God for the Second Chance!!
That was so much fun, how could anyone NOT get hooked?!

My first computer was a Commodore 64. At that time I really wasn't into any type of computer gaming at all. I was however a big Douglas Adams fan (go figure )and when I came across the text adventure "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" based on the books I had to buy it. I enjoyed reading so it really wasn't difficult for me to become "immersed" in the game even though it was just text. That was really the last time I played anything like that. Then a couple years later I upgraded to a 386 (woo hoo! can't you just feel the power! ) and picked up MYST. I played it for a very short period of time, but was way too busy with work and school to really get into it. Maybe a year later, after building my first 486 (we're getting better ) I picked up MYST again and it was an instant hook. Then of course came Riven and then the 7th Guest and so on, and so on...been hooked ever since. Problem is that darn thing called a career keeps getting in the way of my gaming now!

When we bought our laptop, it was going to be used strictly for work. I didn't have time for frivolous games. I would take the computer with me to do paperwork at my school, and my husband would use it on evenings and weekends if I wasn't tying reports.

That worked out very well for over a year until he read me a blurb in one of the gaming magazines about a game concerning a wayward spaceship and a crazy parrot that was written by Douglas Adams. He wondered if I might like to try it. Being a great fan of Adams and lover of parrots, I said yes.

Soon after, we bought another computer for him.

I did my 'first' gaming while I was teaching in 1987 in an alternative school that had computers hooked to a system that was then called "Plato". A very difficult student refused to do any work (these were dropouts and the 'rejects' from regular schools). Not all bad kids, just different needs than the regular school setting. So as an incentive I said he could game on the computer the same amount of time as he did real school work for me. That was a total success UNTIL he upped the ante to "I'll only do my school work if YOU learn this game I'm playing". Ugh...I was totally computer illiterate but he became the 'teacher'. In no time I was hooked on an interactive game called "Avatar". No graphics, just invisible mazes and little icons that you moved around and killed monsters, got goodies, upped your health points. Sort of like dungeons and dragons, but on a local scale, and you could 'chat' in real time at the bottom of the screen with others who were playing. Actually you had to to be successful, since you had to 'join' your character to theirs to kill the really big monsters. It was so addictive. I got one of my fellow teachers hoooked too. And the happy ending...the kid who started it all did his school work, gained valuable social skills from all the chatting with others and GRADUATED! And of course I've 'graduated' to full color graphic Adventure Games. Wow...I'm still hooked, thanks to that kid who said, "Aw, you can do it, I'll teach you". Role reversal? Yeah.

This is going to give my age away.I started adventure gaming with the Level 9 series.Can't even remember the name of the game now but it was sited on a space ship.It was in the days of text adventures only.There was very little in the way of clues and input was e.g. pick up screwdriver or go north.But it got me hooked and then I found the text Zork games.Love at first sight !Here I am however many years later and I still get stuck on a regular basis.
minibramble.

Vely Intelesting !

I used to notice all these computer games whenever I'd go to Best Buy or Comp USA. The boxes and pictures always grabbed my interest. When I bought my first computer, a small Compaq laptop, I decided to try one of those games and I bought Beyond Atlantis. That was "it"! Nough said.

joe

The pre-release articles discussing the first Myst game were so inviting that I even bought my first home computer just to play it. There weren't any wt's back then so it took 3 months of my spare time to happily wallow through it. It gave me such a wonderful respite from a demanding job that my second career called "baags" was launched.

Now THAT'S got to be the earliest case of acute BAAGS syndrome I've ever heard!

I'm one of the ones who was hooked by Myst--there are a lot of us, it seems...

I had no idea these games existed. I thought the only games were Nintendo and such. One day while watching Oprah, believe it or not, a lady mentioned she had been playing a Nancy Drew game for 3 months. I had to find out what this was so I bought my first game. Secrets Can Kill.
Well now I've played them all and can't wait for the next.
Now Playing Lights Out.

Sorta Blonde, what a wonderful story! Heartwarming to hear you made a difference in this young man's life. And through gaming yet!

I knew about nearly ten years ago that when I visited my 60 year old mother she had just replaced her Sega Mega consul with a Play Station! (it was my sister's fault she got hooked!) My mother insisted on showing me what she was playing - it was Caspar - I went home after the weekend,ordered a portable TV and a Playstation from a catalogue (monthly payments - I didn't have the money otherwise)and found Caspar! (I was hooked!)After that I came across Broken Sword and that was it! I've now found most point & clicks that were made. Bought a PS2 but was disillusioned with the lack of adventure games and moved onto PC. I don't know what anyone else thinks but I prefered playing a game on consol - you can make yourself more comfortable and you don't have all the installation problems etc!

I found all the extras in Caspar without any need to cheat if anyone is interested.

My husband was into Myst and Tex Murphy and a few other games but I never really got interested until one day I decided I'd try a game, so I bought Syberia and played it and enjoyed it so much I've got a couple of boxes of games that I've completed and two shelves full of games to play plus what's on two computers. And I still wait for the new games, so I guess you might say I'm hooked!!!!

I started after buying my first computer. I bought it for school and just used for that. Then one day I decided to stop at best Buy. Normally I just looked at music but one day I wondered down a game aisle. Saw some games and was curious. Then I went to Office Depot just to pick up ink pens. Again I was drawn to the few games they had. I purchased Myst. I t was hard and I didn't get too far but I loved being able to use logic. I had always enjoyed logic problems. Then I found Grim Fandango at Best Buy. I haven't looked back sense.

One of my son-in-laws gave me a "Kings Quest" after I bought my first computer in the early 90s. The rest is history. I have pretty much bought everything adventure since then and enjoyed every minute of the gaming. Have two closets full and thinking of buying a lot of shelving so I can organize and find some of the older ones to replay in all the stacks.

My first was Riddle of the Sphinx... got stuck in the tent and some kind soul at the R.O.T.S. forum told me to use a walkthrough and gave me the link for gameboomers. Well that was many games ago and lots and lots of printed walkthroughs later and I can tell you, the thrill ain't gone yet.
I used to hear how I was cheating with a w/t until said persons started using them too... you still gotta do everything by yourself, you just have someone telling you where to go.
I followed R.O.T.S. with the Cameron Files and Amerzone and there was no turnin' back.