What was your first point-and-click adventure game?

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#1 homegirl2180
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Mine wasn't for PC. Here's a shot of it.



Scooby-Doo Mysteries for Genesis (different than the SNES version). Anyone else ever play this one? Also, what was your first? :)

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#2 capaho
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Myst on an Apple Performa.
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#3 lozengez
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Space Quest on 286.

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Windows 95.

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#5 capaho
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Windows 95.

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What was the game?
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#6 Gallowhand
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I believe it actually was Secret Of Monkey Island.  ;)

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#7 homegirl2180
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I believe it actually was Secret Of Monkey Island.  ;)

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I meant any Monkey Island game. They're not all prefixed by "The Secret of" :P
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#8 LordBrew
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The Secret of Monkey Island on the Atari ST was my first.
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#9 unrealtron
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I think it was a Pink Panther game or something.
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#10 LoG-Sacrament
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it was the longest journey.

honestly, i wasn't really a big fan and never ended up finishing it. maybe it comes together later, but i didn't feel any real connection between the story and me piecing together non-conductive fishing rods.

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#11 johnd13
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Monkey Island(can' t remember which one). I remember that I was just a kid with no sufficient knowledge of the english language so I had a hard time finishing it.

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#12 Black_Knight_00
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Amiga 500+

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#13 Buckhannah
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Myst, with it's then awe inspiring use of full motion video. I could never make heads or tails of the puzzles, still can't, but I dug the lore. Read every book that could be read, in the game, and here in the real world with the novels that fleshed out the full story.
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#14 DJ-Lafleur
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the first and only (as far as I remember) was Maniac mansion on the NES.

never did get far in it.

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#15 Gallowhand
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[QUOTE="Gallowhand"]

I believe it actually was Secret Of Monkey Island.  ;)

homegirl2180

I meant any Monkey Island game. They're not all prefixed by "The Secret of" :P

Yes, I know.  I meant my first point'n'click was Secret of Monkey Island. :)

Sorry for the confusion. :P

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#16 coasterguy65
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King's Quest

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#17 rragnaar
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I was going to say King's Quest, but it wasn't point and click style until what King's Quest V or VI? I can't remember. It was definitely one of the Quest games from Sierra though. They started as text based for interactions and arrow keys for movement. I don't remember the first one I played that was a proper point and click. F*cking loved all of the Sierra adventure games. So good.
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#18 Bigboi500
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It was some old NES game and I can't quite remember the name... Shadowgate maybe? Not sure.

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#19 JML897
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My first point-and-click adventure games were probably those Putt-Putt kids games They're simplistic as hell and clearly aimed for kids but I was like 4
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#20 Comic_Capers
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The first one that I remember playing was Day of the Tentacle, which my cousin introduced to me to back in the late 90's, although I didn't actually get to complete it until 2002 when I bought a combined DOTT and Sam & Max: Hit the Road combined CD-ROM for £10.

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#21 coasterguy65
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I was going to say King's Quest, but it wasn't point and click style until what King's Quest V or VI? I can't remember. It was definitely one of the Quest games from Sierra though. They started as text based for interactions and arrow keys for movement. I don't remember the first one I played that was a proper point and click. F*cking loved all of the Sierra adventure games. So good.rragnaar

Well I'm getting older, and the mechanics of the games are sort of lost on me now...lol. I'll go with whichever King's Quest was the first point and click then. I think it may have been KQ5 after all. I do remember that it was the first adventure game I played with a mouse. Just like I remember that 7th Guest was the whole reason I bought a CD-ROM for my PC. 

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#22 Euaggelistes
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Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure. I bought it because I thought it was a rhythm game. I do not do point and click. It turned out to be an alright game though.

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#23 Fat_Boy_PT
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How much wood would a woochuck chuck????? Monkey Island baby!!!!!!
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#24 andmcq
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[QUOTE="andmcq"]

Windows 95.

capaho
What was the game?

Windows 95. I could never get past the Control Panel boss.
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#25 capaho
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[QUOTE="capaho"][QUOTE="andmcq"]

Windows 95.

andmcq
What was the game?

Windows 95. I could never get past the Control Panel boss.

Clever. Have you tried Windows 8? It has an even bigger and badder Control Panel boss.
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#26 Gallowhand
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How much wood would a woochuck chuck????? Monkey Island baby!!!!!!Fat_Boy_PT

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck had a chainsaw?  ;P

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#27 andmcq
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[QUOTE="capaho"][QUOTE="andmcq"][QUOTE="capaho"] What was the game?

Windows 95. I could never get past the Control Panel boss.

Clever. Have you tried Windows 8? It has an even bigger and badder Control Panel boss.

Played Windows 8 for 15 minutes. Couldn't even find the Control Panel level.
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[QUOTE="andmcq"][QUOTE="capaho"][QUOTE="andmcq"] Windows 95. I could never get past the Control Panel boss.

Clever. Have you tried Windows 8? It has an even bigger and badder Control Panel boss.

Played Windows 8 for 15 minutes. Couldn't even find the Control Panel level.

Windows 8 is basically malware
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One of those dracula games on the PS1.
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#30 JML897
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[QUOTE="andmcq"][QUOTE="capaho"][QUOTE="andmcq"] Windows 95. I could never get past the Control Panel boss.

Clever. Have you tried Windows 8? It has an even bigger and badder Control Panel boss.

Played Windows 8 for 15 minutes. Couldn't even find the Control Panel level.

dat complex level design
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#31 Darth_Kane
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Discworld II for PS1

Discworld 2

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#32 Teuf_
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My dad got me a CD-ROM drive for my PC back when they were really new (it was one of those old drives where you had to use a caddy), and it came with the CD-ROM version of The Secret of Monkey Island. I remember having a really hard time with the puzzles back when I was a kid. :P

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#33 thom_maytees
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I think it is a game called Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom for the NES. For the PC, it would be Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

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#34 Celldrax
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Not sure. My first encounter with a point and click was probably Return to Zork (I never owned it though). But I did also play a few Sierra games, Such as Kings Quest V, Gabriel Knight, and Leisure Suit Larry.

EDIT: I completely forgot about 'Dare to Dream'. That was most likely my first encounter with a point n click.

Dat wave of nostalgia, man ;_;

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#35 Buckhannah
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Having grown up in the eighties and reading this thread, I obviously missed out on something because I had no idea the NES had this genre on it at all, yet I've seen NES mentioned several times.
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#36 MonoSilver
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I think it was the first Broken Sword game.
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Putt Putt save the zoo. I remember a part that really freaked me out though, when you have to ride an piece of ice down a river, and you have to quickly choose which path to take. I chose one that lead me to some spot in the middle of no where, and strange growling noises came out of no where, I was scared shitless, and quickly shut off the game. I just wonder what would have happened, maybe I should look it up.

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720866-7027_boxshot_laura_bow_1___the_co

This.

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#39 Kemonojin
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It was "Maniac Mansion" for NES.
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#40 jcopp72
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maniac mansion NES
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#41 sukraj
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monkey island

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#42 AtotehZ
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A Danish kids game called "Magnus og Myggen"(Magnus and the Mosquito), back in '95. Maybe I played something earlier, but that one is the first I remember.

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Maniac Mansion on c64. 

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#44 jun_aka_pekto
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Mine wasn't for PC. Here's a shot of it.



Scooby-Doo Mysteries for Genesis (different than the SNES version). Anyone else ever play this one? Also, what was your first? :)

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That looks very similar to Day of the Tentacle:

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But, my first was Sierra's Gold Rush

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#45 Celtic_34
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how old are you?  surprised you've played games that old.  Mine was police quest I think.  I played old infocom and text based adventure games though.

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#46 edgewalker16
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Myst.

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Myst

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#48 yellosnolvr
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[QUOTE="JML897"]My first point-and-click adventure games were probably those Putt-Putt kids games They're simplistic as hell and clearly aimed for kids but I was like 4

same here. great games for kids, i'll admit.
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#49 Grieverr
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Mine was probably Return to Zork. I also played Simon the Sorcerer around that time, as well as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

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#50 lamprey263
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the CD Rom version with the voice acting... or maybe it was Myst, one of those two. But basically just played the Lucas Arts stuff through the years, like The Dig, and Full Throttle. I thought the genre was dead until I came across Circle of Blood / Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, found it in one of those jewel case bargain spindle at Electronics Boutique years down the road and loved it, then came across the sequel a couple years later, loved that too. It's by far one of my favorite point and click series, though never did get into the 3D sequels. I got the third game on GOG but never finished it. Nor the 4th game, but I want to get through those because I hear they're returning to their 2D roots for the next game. Machinarium would be the last point-and-click I played, and absolutely loved it. Also liked the two Samorost games, interesting design. I really wish this was a more popular genre, these games can be so much fun.