It's hard to say, because I was very young. Probably Maniac Mansion on the C64, though I mainly just watched my big brother play it. The first one that I personally played through was LOOM, which I got as a two-pack with Monkey Island for Christmas. While I loved LOOM, I beat it on Christmas Day and only then begrudgingly started playing the goofy looking pirate game I hadn't asked for... that ended up being one of my favorite games of all time.
Haha, nice way to bump into Monkey Island, what a surprise it turned out to be for all of us ;D
The Commodore 64 version of Zak McKracken was my first. I'm pretty sure I asked my parents to buy it because of the boxart.
Catchy boxart for a game released in the late 80s. I looked it up and apparently it's come from the main honchos behind Thimbleweed Park ;D
I am pretty sure I played Hugo House of Horrors first, but the first game I personally owned and made my fall in love with point and click adventures was Torin's Passage.
I'm learning about a lot of these adventure games for the first time. Just saw that this was designed by Al Lowe of
Leisure Suit Larry fame.
I really need to get on Black Mirror and finish it to free up some space. It's been weighing on me, and I've been dreading it.
I don't blame you - the reviews seem quite mediocre at best. Big shame, Black Mirror as a property seemed like one of the more interesting names in the horror adventure department. King Art, with the exception of the Book of Unwritten Tales, don't seem to do much good with adventure games.
Monkey Island I. It was from a CD collection with the first and second game. Long ago lost that one, and I can't find pictures of it online, unfortunately.
My mom bought our first PC from the husband of a friend of hers, who sold us his old one, and even gave some PC games away with it (for me presumably). I figured out how to start the game, with the face wheel and fell in love with it. Took some time until I could play the second one, since wheel for that game was missing, turns out the friend had forgotten that one. Was a nice surprise to find it on the lying on the keyboard one day.
So we both started off with MI 1. What a great start to falling in love with the genre. Amazing how you may have gotten into the genre because of some freebies your mom got.
Not really sure, maybe it was Kyrandia, maybe Gobliins 2..Great games anyway.
Wow, Kyrandia was made by Westwood? RIP...
The original Simon the Sorceror for me. I don't think it was ever well known outside of Europe:
I recall hearing a lot about this growing up. Apparently the studio heads formed the (now defunct) studio that not only made Simon the Sorcerer 3D, but the underrated incredible gem Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
What an excellent game to start with. Still one of the best in the genre for me along with LeChucks Revenge.
I remember the first two I played being Police Quest 1 and Leisure Suit Larry 1 on my dads work PC, watched my older brother play them mostly and trying to come up with solutions together.. I was only about 8 at the time and not a native english speaker so it was a while before I could properly play em.. but those games were endlessly fascinating to me. They felt like a whole another living world inside the computer where you could do anything.. loved just playing around and moving around in the land of the lounge lizards. Not too long after got Maniac Mansion on C64 which was somewhat more accessible..
Couldn't agree more ;D LeChuck's revenge's ending blew me away till this day. Like you, I always loved trying to find solutions (and we did not have the internet to help us back then!) plus EXPLORING. I recall playing Police Quest as well and trying to type in every sentence I can think of just to see what the cop would say as a result. That felt like "open world" to me back then.
