My first adventure game was Myst and although it got me hooked on gaming and I enjoyed it, it is not my favorite game today. It's too lonely for me now. I like interacting with people in a game and if it's funny, so much the better.

I bought Myst & Riven, and was given 7th Guest& Shivers all at the same time, so 1st person was all I knew at first. Then came the Broken Swords, Sanitarium, & Kyrandia 2 hand of fate, and I realized I was captivated by all of them. But I have five games as # 1, depending on my mood,
Riven,/Myst/Exile
J.Man 3-Legacy of Time,
Zork Nemesis
TimeLapse
Zork Grand Inquisitor

An interesting thread. It started me wondering how my older games stood up compared with the technically superior new games. I checked my Favorites List. The first 20 with, in parentheses, the order of playing the games are:

ADVPUZLOV COMPLETED GAMES

(Roughly in order of preference) [As of 030914]

01 BLACK DAHLIA (027)
02 SCHIZM (043)
03 MYST II – Riven (005)
04 (MYST III – EXILE) (000)***
05 BYZANTINE (024)
06 SHIVERS I (002)
07 TIMELAPSE (008)
08 LONGEST JOURNEY, The (039)
09 FAUST (029)
10 RAMA (032)
11 OBSIDIAN (021)
12 ZORK NEMESIS (018)
13 LEGEND Prophet&Assassin (048)
14 BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES (011)
15 CYDONIA (LIGHTBRINGER) (013)
16 REAH (015)
17 MYST I (001)
18 LIGHTHOUSE (036)
19 SANITARIUM (016)
20 ATLANTIS II (038)

This is out of a total of 56 games that I have completed. NOTE: *** is because I have not yet finished MYST EXILE, but I am sure that it will be in the top half dozen.

Anyway, note the large number of early games which are still up there. They stand up pretty well. I imagine it will take a number of years before SHIVERS and RIVEN drop out of the top ten.

I definitely prefer first person games since I feel they are more immersive. I am the one who is seeing what's going on. I am not pushing some character on the screen around.

I played Myst first, then Sherlock Holmes: Serrated Scalpel and Kings Quest VII (Princeless Bride). My favorite now is Real Myst.

I like both first person and third person perspectives, maybe because I played them both early on.

The First Adventure game I ever played was Amber Journeys Beyond and I must say it is still my Favorite. Myst was the second game I played and it is also a Favorite.!

Kelly

We had just got our first computer back in 1995 and a friend lent me Lost Eden. Not my favourite but enough to get me hooked.

My first adventure game was Normality and I've been hooked ever since. My favourite games are all the Monkey Island games and TLJ.

Yesssssssssss... 1st game and my fave= Grim Fandango! Can't say this theory applies to girlfriends though!

My first games were the Zork text based adventures. Loved them! I think Zork Nemesis was my first game with graphics and sound. It's definitely still one of my favorites, but I have too many to pick just one.

Interesting. It would appear that in a great number of these posts, the first game played remains the favorite. This is the case with me, too. Myst was my first and RealMyst is my #1 favorite. I still tend to like 1st person, lonely type games. I LOVED Dark Fall.

Hi

My first game was Monkey Island - immediately followed by Monkey Island II

However, although I frequently re-play both, I have to say my favourite game is Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers

Cheers.

Mad

My first adventure game was Under A Killing Moon and to date it remains my favorite.

I think a lot of "first game/true love" depends on the equipment one used to play the first game.

My first adventure game, KQ1, was played on 5.25 disks on an 8088 machine. I loved the experience, and have been playing adventures ever since, but looking back, YUCK!

The first game I ever played on an "advanced machine", i.e., a 386, Freddy Pharkus, remains one of my favorites. The first game I played off a CD, i.e., Shivers, remains one of my all-time favorites. One of the first multi-CD games I played on a P2 machine was Black Dahlia, which I adored.

Perhaps the best question is what game did you most enjoy on the machine you had at the time.

Tim

First game I played: The 7th Guest
Favourite game thus far: Morpheus

Caveat: I know there's much better out there, I just haven't played it yet.

Aside: Advpuzlov, you are so anal! I absolutely love your list, with the additional detail of the order in which you played it. I must really incorporate that into my system, dunno why it never occurred to me. Thx

My first adventure game, Amerzone, like the first love of my life will always hold a special place in my heart. :kiss:

Hi gang!

Well, MacDeedle knows my favorite game as it is the same as hers....goooooo RIVEN! LOL

My husband won a little 166Mhz SONY back in the "olden days" (1996). A few weeks later I was tooling around Costco, while he was shopping for the real stuff. I came across the software table and the Riven game box! Seven years later, I've collected and played literally hundreds of games. Riven is still number one!

Love, Witchen