How old are you? [Archive] - Adventure Forums

Luckylooks

03-29-2008, 10:32 AM

I'm asking the question because I'm curious to know who is actually playing adventure games. I'm 24, none of my friends play, my younger siblings have no clue as to what adventure gaming is... Only some of my older coworkers know what it is, and they only know about stuff like king's quest or monkey island. I'm under the impression that the demographics right now is from mid-20s to mid-30s maybe? I don't think any teens or children are playing adventure games right now, they seem to be more focused on action oriented games. When I was a kid I used to play both and I have a feeling that it helped me develop certain parts of my brain that I wouldn't have developed if I had only played games like mario or what not.

I have a feeling that the reason why adventure gaming is on the ''decline'' is that adventure gamers per say fit in a certain type of personality, i.e maybe a bit introverted, and I think, I'm not sure, that introverts are less in quantity than extroverted people and maybe that's why adventure games are less popular, does that make any sense? what are your thoughts on this subject?

misslilo

03-29-2008, 10:54 AM

Mid-20s to mid-30s? Well, I can't say if that's true or not.
I would have thought most adventure gamers today to be around my age(in the 40s) and older, lol...
As for being either intro- or extroverted... isn't there a middlething, because I wouldn't call myself either.

I have to say, that I don't meet many - if any - adventure gamers here in denmark.
My coworkers are mostly family people, with a busy life after work.
I'm guessing, that if they DO play PC games, they prefer something they don't have to think too much about.

When I mention my taste in games, they look at me with this weird expression on their face, as if they don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
They definitely don't understand my passion for it, lol :D

Of course I too remember the golden age of adventure gaming and cherish the memories from back then.
But that doesn't mean I don't keep up with the newer games. Just don't expect me to feel the same as I did then :)
The time from you were young will always have a special place in your heart - to me it was the 80's for music and (mostly)90's for adventure games.

Squinky

03-29-2008, 11:38 AM

I'm 22, and I'd say that probably about half of the people I meet these days have at least some passing familiarity with some of the more well-known adventure games (though far fewer of them are actually avid "fans of the genre"). However, I skew from the average quite a bit because I'm a programmer, and the types of people I know tend to be more familiar with gaming in general than most people are.

Regarding personality, we've actually had this discussion before (http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21610).

Milad241

03-29-2008, 11:53 AM

I am 22 and living in Iran.i only know 3 or 4 people familiar with adventure games and they all age more than 20!

Jelena

03-29-2008, 01:24 PM

I'm 43 and started playing adventure games in my late 30s.
I'm the only one in my circle of friends and family as well who plays adventure games. That's why it was such a relief to find this forum to get to know others who share the same passion.
Just as misslilo I get these weird smiles from my coworkers if I ever tell them about my adventure gaming. They have heard about computer games, but never about this genre.
I've tried to get my husband and children to play games with me but they refuse vehemently. My son likes to show his friends my collection of games and they all think I'm such a strange mum. :D

ShadeJackrabbit

03-29-2008, 02:48 PM

Teen here. I have one friend who would probably play an adventure game if it was good enough. One friend I have enjoys them, but rarely has enough time to play them. Another of my friends doesn't think the genre is going anywhere very good right now. Another is an amateur adventure developer. Another has only played Day of the Tentacle, and loved it, but finds the genre boring right now. I have another friend who loves any type of game, and last I checked was getting some new speakers so she could play 5 Days a Stranger.

My mom loved Myst, but has a lot of trouble with adventure games right now (discerning hotspots mostly). My uncle plays tons of games, from Half-Life 2 to Syberia. My Dad has very little time for games, but will play on occasion. My grandmother has only played the Myst and URU, but enjoyed them.

starla9

03-29-2008, 03:36 PM

I am 25, female, maybe on the lower end of the general adventure game demographic, as I was in single digits when Sierra was still making adventure games. I've met very few people my age with the same passion. They might have played an adventure game kinda by accident here or there, but don't really know what they are, or think they are all like Myst. Now I like Myst, it was made in my hometown and forced my parents to buy a CD drive, but arrrrrgggghhhhhh!

I got my start with King's Quest V which my computer expert uncle bought for me when I was 8. He'd shown me how to type in DOS commands when I was 6 so I could play Battle Chess and it went on from there. (I must admit my favorite thing about Battle Chess was seeing all the death animations (my grandmother was horrified), I'd willingly use the cheat functions to facilitate this). I've always loved books, and I think adventure gaming can be a natural extension for many people who love books. Both things require patience and slow-burn thinking, which I think the action game oriented market do not really want in their games (not that action-intensive games don't require strategy, quick thinking and patience as you die over and over and over again...just not my kind of patience :P)

My little brother, now 21, also started playing them with me. He has much broader tastes (he will willingly die in an FPS over and over until he gets his strategy right...I just like to watch in admiration and/or filial concern for his sanity) but I think we are similar...maybe a little introverted, detail-oriented, people that like good stories.

I met a great group of people through our shared love of the Gabriel Knight games, and at the time we ranged from our teens to the 40s. I had a non-any-kind-of-gamer friend play GK1 once. She immediately got frustrated at the first dialogue tree. "Which one do pick? Which one do I pick?" she kept asking, feeling faintly insulted that the game hadn't given a hint as to which answer was the right one. "You pick whichever one you want, you can choose them all," I told her. I don't think she understood (or liked) the idea that the point of the dialogue was to gain more information about the story and characters...not pick choice C off a multiple choice test and move on. ;)

Gazzoid

03-29-2008, 04:01 PM

I'm 20. I played only a few adventure games in the middle of the 90s (about 4-5 i think) but i had a blast playing them. I would have loved to have played a lot of the old classic adventures back then that i've played now (especially from LucasArts). I do enjoy reading, even though i don't read as much as i'd like. I used to read a lot of Goosebumps books when i was younger; now it's mostly fantasy. I'm like my mum and enjoy a good story.

I, to, play a mixture of games and if i find a game good fun then i'll play it regardless of graphics. If it has a good story and characters etc. then that's a bonus! :) I've only recently got into Half-Life 2 but so far i love it and found myself quite attached to the characters. I definitely won't play any sports/racing games though. :r And i'm not really a fan of tactical/war FPS, RPGs (with the exception of a few) or strategy games. The FPS i like are normally different, unusual or have a horror theme.

I have mentioned some adventure games to people in the past but big surprise they've never heard of them. Unfortunately, i don't have many friends. ;( But the friends i do have don't play adventures. There's only 2 that do/have. One of them, I'm not sure what games he plays now, plays all sorts and he even lent me Riven years ago and a few years later i lent him Broken Sword 3. He's in his late 40s i think. And my other mate has done/does occassionally but doesn't so much anymore. He's kinda getting sucked into all these next-generation action games, which is quite sad in a way. He played the likes of Sam & Max Hit the Road, Broken Sword 1 & 2 and Day of the Tentacle years ago and he has played some recent adventures too.

My other mate and his brother don't and never will. They're also into more fast paced action games and sometimes seems to be all about the graphics for them. There aren't many old games they play or re-play, normally the graphics put them off and if there's puzzles they'll just give up as they can't do 'em. My mate even struggles with the puzzles in the new Tomb Raider games. :P There aren't many old classic games from the 90s they play now, either on PC or PlayStation.

My sister occassionally plays some but normally gives up. It's annoying when she pesters me to install some on her computer but then never ruddy plays them. :shifty: Again, she prefers action. Failed getting my dad to play any games let alone adventures, my mum would never touch a computer if she could help it and even if she learned how to control a game, she'd just forget the next time she plays lol. And as for my brother, well... he's 24 but he won't play anything he's never done before. :crazy: He's afraid of getting stuck on the puzzles and he can't control 3D games. Not that he'll practice though. It took me years to get him into Broken Sword 1 & 2 and when i did, he couldn't stop playing them, which kinda became a bit annoying after a while.

Whew, rambled on a bit there. Sorry if i bored anyone.

Lady Kestrel

03-29-2008, 05:03 PM

I'm about to enter my 6th decade, and I have only one friend, half my age, who loves adventures as much as I do. I've been playing them for about 9 years now.

Kazmajik

03-29-2008, 05:21 PM

I started playing Infocom text adventure games around 1985, when I was 15 or 16. Although I got into them by myself at first, I found that they were more enjoyable to play with other people sometimes. Adventure games are some of the only games that allow for a group of people to gather around the same computer and share in the experience. I moved on to Sierra adventures in the 90s like many others here, which I still consider to be the golden age of the genre.

I think that when I got into the games, there weren't a whole lot of choices available back then. Nowadays, it seems more like the newer games are all about showcasing the latest developments in graphics technology. And we've been inundated with many, many choices but far too little quality.

I don't play adventure games exclusively, so I don't know what to make of the introverted question. Like I said before, I've had some great times playing adventure games with friends. The games lend themselves to that. It's not as much fun for the other person to just watch someone play, say, Bioshock, because they can't participate as much, whereas any of the Gabriel Knight games can be very succesful shared experiences.

mgeorge

03-29-2008, 08:47 PM

Well as much as I hate to admit it, I'm over 50. Yikes!

Yes yes, I'm a very old man. Never even had a computer l until I was over 40. The first computer game I ever played was Amber Journeys Beyond that I picked up at Staples. I liked the box art and have always loved a good horror story. I remember it was 5 bucks and took me over a month to finish it. Why so long you may ask? Well, I sucked at puzzles then and still do!

I then bought a game called Lighthouse, that had a crying baby as part of the plot. Very freaky. But it was just to hard for me and I gave up on it along with AG's in general.

I then found Half Life about a year after it came out and got hooked on FPS's. Problem was, I never did find anything as good as my first real love, and as far as straight shooters go, still haven't. I then found Thief, Deus Ex, System Shock 2 and more recently Vampire Bloodlines and even more recently Bioshock, all of which I've played multible times. I now play many Thief fan missions because of the lack of good quality games nowadays. (plus FM's are free!). But as much as I love Garret and his world, I needed something new so recently turned to AG's.

So far I've enjoyed the change of pace. As to my real life friends, they consider computer games childish and make fun of me for playing them.

Foolish friends.

VOLKANA

03-30-2008, 01:31 AM

I'm 26 and i've playing adventure games since i was 17. I don't know any people in my age playing adventure games (mostly RPG). But i'm sure that this is the reallity...

skeeter_93

03-30-2008, 02:08 AM

I'm 30 this year, and a girl. Been playing adventure games since I was little (6ish), Micky Mouse space adventures and Murder on the Missisippi on the Commodore 64. But I think getting the LSL/SQ/PQ pack at about 10 years old really did it.

Fien

03-30-2008, 02:58 AM

I turned 60 this month. :7

This may sound strange to some of the younger posters here, but I was absolutely mesmerized when in the mid-80s a friend showed me this little black-and-white guy (I later found out his name was King Graham ;) ) walking across the screen of his brandnew Atari computer. And when the little guy fell into the ocean and started drowning, you could type SWIM and he would start swimming!! Incredible. :D I've been playing all kinds of adventures ever since.

Jelena

03-30-2008, 03:01 AM

I turned 60 this month. :7
:) :) Congratulations Fienepien!
:) :)

Melkor

03-30-2008, 03:35 AM

In two weeks I'll be 24, don't know how that happened, but I guess I had it coming (I'm sure most of us do). Been playing since I was a toddler, pretty much. Learned my first DOS commands before I could walk (or so they say), and when I was a kid I used run back and forth between my dad and his computer, asking him about the meaning of all the weird English words.

Sadly, I don't play as many adventures as I used to, but when I find the time I sit down with one. And that's an important aspect of it for me - actually sitting down with a game, much like you do with a movie. It's much more fun letting yourself getting really immersed.

I'm confident there will be a new awakening in the genre, I have confidence in people like Telltale and Autumn Moon, and all the small houses popping up here and there can only be good. Adventures are such an efficient format, and seeing as the gaming industry has gone the way of the movie industry, I'm sure quality games will soon pop up more than ever before out of smaller businesses.

Oh, yeah, congrats with the big sixty!

colpet

03-30-2008, 04:08 AM

I'll be 50 in the fall.
I started gaming in 2001 with Riven and fell in love with Myst-like games. Since then I've played close to 200 PC adventures. The type of games I like are not being developed much right now, consequently my game playing has lessened over the past 2 years.

Max Gruber

03-30-2008, 04:08 AM

I' m 15, and I' ve already played 21 Adventure games.

Lucien21

03-30-2008, 05:57 AM

There was a survey last year that showed the age spread.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/blogitem.php?id=21

I'm in the 35-39 range myself.

I thing Adventuregamers skews to the younger end of the adventure market. Some of the other websites have a older membership (I think)

RLacey

03-30-2008, 06:44 AM

I'm 21, and know quite a few people my age who used to play adventure games. That they don't anymore is probably revealing of the general quality of games in the genre as compared to other genres. And that's where they haven't simply stopped gaming entirely.

I'm not sure that it's necessarily about how old you are. I can't remember not having a computer, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s there were a lot of adventure games, so it doesn't surprise me that I played them.

Terramax

03-30-2008, 08:32 AM

22 - UK.

Scary. I once knew an R Lacey at my high school, same year. Is that your real name, RLacey?

Ksandra

03-30-2008, 09:02 AM

I'll be 24 in just over a month's time. I started playing adventure games in the mid-1990s (Myst was my first), so I missed out on quite a few of the 'classics' from the late 80s and early 90s. I only just played the first two Broken Sword games a couple of weeks ago!

D.C.

03-30-2008, 09:15 AM

I'm 23 and started playing adventure games in the early 90s. I think I started with Maniac Mansion or The Colonel's Bequest. Good times. Only one of my friends is an adventure game fan and I don't think they've played one for a long while. My sister (25) loves adventure games too which is great, but my brother (24) who loved adventures growing up has moved onto FPS and hasn't looked back. (Although he sometimes gets nostalgic about Sierra and LucasArts classics.) I don't exclusively play adventures either. I like pretty much any game that is immersive and has a strong story. (BioShock, System Shock 2, Psychonauts, Mass Effect and KotOR being some recent favourites.)

As other genres have evolved they've most definately picked up some adventure traits.

Gonchi

03-30-2008, 10:50 AM

I'm 24. I've been playing adventure games since I got a PC back in 1992, and I've never actually met a fan of the genre (not online, I mean). I'm currently living in Uruguay, though I've lived in several countries, and at the most I've been able to get some recognition from people when naming Monkey Island or King's Quest.

My sister has played a couple of adventure games (Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, 7th Guest, Blackstone Chronicles... and that's about it), but she not really into computer games. My niece on the other hand loves games, she spends hours playing free java-based online games and constantly asks me to let her play my games. I installed EcoQuest for her and we played a bit, she enjoyed it, although she doesn't understand English all that much (she's only 4 by the way).

I've played a whole lot of Adventures, particularly from the late 80's up to a couple of years ago. I haven't been able to keep up with recent releases since moving back to Uruguay. Never tried IF's, but I won some of Infocom's games on Bastich's last trivia tournament so I plan to give them a try eventually.

cwapitm

03-30-2008, 10:53 AM

I'm 22 and I've been playing adventure games since I was at least 7. I'm an introvert yes.

MoonBird

03-30-2008, 12:20 PM

I'm 25

RLacey

03-30-2008, 02:36 PM

22 - UK.

Scary. I once knew an R Lacey at my high school, same year. Is that your real name, RLacey?I think I'd have to ask what your high school was...

Fien

03-30-2008, 05:32 PM

:) :) Congratulations Fienepien!
:) :)

Thanks, Jelena!

Gonchi:
Never tried IF's, but I won some of Infocom's games on Bastich's last trivia tournament so I plan to give them a try eventually.

I've probably said it a thousand times before, and I also know IF is not for everybody, but the Infocom game Trinity by Brian Moriarty is a masterpiece.

Maivor

03-30-2008, 09:45 PM

I'm a woman of 76 years old. I've been playing adventure games since 1985 and never stopped loving them.

I think it is sad that some TV programs here in Sweden that deals with what they call video gaming, never talks about adventure games. If there was more written and talked about them in television and other media, I'm sure more people would play them. I mean, how could they resist?

I'm currently playing The Lost Crown, Nostradamus and Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin. When there is a dry season for adventure games I play Hidden Objetcs game to tie me over until a new AG appears on the horizon.

I had a friend 10 years younger than me, who also played AG, but she has stopped playing them. So it is a lonely passion I have.

Some favorites over the years are Gabriel Knight, Tex Murphy and the Ultima Series.

AlleyCat

03-30-2008, 11:05 PM

I'm 22 and female, been playing since I was about 7, (Kings Quest and the Black Cauldron) I don't really know HOW, since english isn't my native tounge, but there you go.

I am the only girl I know who play computer games, except for my sister and whenever I have a conversation with a guy, and the subject (SOMEhow) turns to gaming, they say I'm the only girl they've met, who plays. Very strange. Or maybe I'M the strange one!

Gabe

03-31-2008, 04:46 AM

I'm a woman of 76 years old. I've been playing adventure games since 1985 and never stopped loving them.

OMG! You 're a legend adventurer,playing ags over 23 years and just posted 3 times,you should post once aday atleast.sure you can share more with community due to your my life time gaming experience.
For me ag long gone i dont remember the last new ag I've finished in past year.(probably a Sam&Max)
I was really enjoying the genre between years 96-02 but then all years past and ag had nothing new to offer,transition to 3d taking awful long and copycat titles flowing on market, so hard to expect something exciting from ags today but we'll see..

pilou

03-31-2008, 05:19 AM

I'm 30 and I really started playing with the best AG: The Secret of Monkey Island. I will be 31 next April.

It was incredible what characters made from a few pixels could transmit. I was amazed by the lenght, development and fun of the storyline. I think I was expecting too much from AG since then, as I found most games after MI aren't as good even if they have better graphics.

I live in Chile now, but I was living in Brasil in the beginning of the 90's when I started playing adventure games. I enjoyed playing in my Amiga 500. I consider my self somewhat introverted, but I also have a social life. After that I got the PC and could play a lot of other AG that weren't available for the Amiga like Day of the Tentacle and later Grim Fandango.

I also must say that adventure games is one of the reasons why I can speak fluid English. I don't know any adventure gamer here in Chile and I don't know if it is a coincidence but most people here don't speak English. Who say games can't be educative? Also I think that AG helps develop other thinking abilities beyond pressing buttons like in action games.

I am really a fan of old Lucasarts games like MI, MI 2, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Indy & the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle. Never got in Sierra games really, but I enjoyed Space Quest V and consider it one of the funniest games ever.

What I am enjoying now mostly is Sam and Max episodes. It's made by some of the most talented adventure creators out there. It has cool puzzles, is incredibly funny, looks great and is showing that the genre is still very much alive.

I also play all kind of games and if they have good storyline and characters all the better. I enjoyed or I'm still enjoying Bioshock, Half-Life 2, KOTOR, Civilization 4, The Sims 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Audiosurf, Portal... There's quite a few great games out there to enjoy while we wait for adventure games.

The only thing that puts me down a bit is the fact that Lucasarts pretty much abandoned the genre.

I really expect that adventures come reborn, making full use of the new technologies and with new storytelling techniques. I think that while not only adventure Mass Effect is a good example of great storytelling and how good the future can be for adventure games.

Nelza

03-31-2008, 05:21 AM

I'm 23 and have been playing Adventure Games since I was five. My first few were 'Granny's Garden', 'Where's Baby Bear', and then 'Leisure Suit Larry'. Bit of a jump there! :D

It's seems that we've all discovered Adventure Games through family, friends, or by accident. I guess it's because they've never been advertised. Not that I've seen anyway?

misslilo

03-31-2008, 07:58 AM

@AlleyCat
I am the only girl I know who play computer games, except for my sister and whenever I have a conversation with a guy, and the subject (SOMEhow) turns to gaming, they say I'm the only girl they've met, who plays. Very strange. Or maybe I'M the strange one!

Your nickname sounds familiar somehow to me.
I remember meeting a girl in a train here, who played Neopets with that nickname. That shouldn't by any chance be you? :)

usman

03-31-2008, 08:10 AM

I am 27 Years and have started playing games when I was just 10 - 12 years old. I have built up a great collection of over 400 games for PC and PS.

lordoflight7

03-31-2008, 11:15 AM

I'm 123 years old i have started playing ags from 1940 2nd world war.Now i still play games from the grave.Ohhh god please cut the crap some of you

Melanie68

03-31-2008, 11:49 AM

I'm 123 years old i have started playing ags from 1940 2nd world war.Now i still play games from the grave.Ohhh god please cut the crap some of you

This was uncalled for. No one is forcing you to read the thread if you don't like it, but you won't tell people to cut the crap when they are posting sincerely. :shifty:

Merricat

03-31-2008, 02:24 PM

I'm 123 years old i have started playing ags from 1940 2nd world war.Now i still play games from the grave.Ohhh god please cut the crap some of you

So many replies leap to mind, but what a waste of grammar that would be. :Z

WRMW

03-31-2008, 02:53 PM

I'm 19 and have nursed my passion for adventure games for well over 10 years now.

rtrooney

03-31-2008, 04:18 PM

Turned 60 this past October 4th. Been playing adventures forever.

Although I probably try to play more golf than adventure games these days.

nightingayle

03-31-2008, 04:27 PM

I beat you all.. I a 58 years old and been playing games for a few years. My favorite game is Oblivion.. Almost like being there, and the graphics and scenery is fantastic.
Nightingayle

Age is in your mind..I don't look my age and I don't act my age..

AlleyCat

03-31-2008, 10:25 PM

@AlleyCat

Your nickname sounds familiar somehow to me.
I remember meeting a girl in a train here, who played Neopets with that nickname. That shouldn't by any chance be you? :)

I'm afraid not, certainly would have remembered meeting another girl who played, seeing as that NEVER happens ;)

Guess it's just shows my lack of originality in nickname-choosing !

AndreaDraco83

04-01-2008, 02:32 AM

I'm 24, from Italy...

My first game was, back in 1994, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Ah, such, such were the joys... :D

lordoflight7

04-01-2008, 04:03 AM

This was uncalled for. No one is forcing you to read the thread if you don't like it, but you won't tell people to cut the crap when they are posting sincerely. :shifty:

i was intrested into reading this topic its not that i didn't like it but 72years old and 68 come on.

lordoflight7

04-01-2008, 04:06 AM

So many replies leap to mind, but what a waste of grammar that would be. :Z

as for you smartass there are some people that doesn't know your language very good smarty.

Gazzoid

04-01-2008, 04:12 AM

i was intrested into reading this topic its not that i didn't like it but 72years old and 68 come on.

Hey, i think it's possible for people of that age to play video games. I mean, there are still people who are in there 50s-60s who still go to metal festivals. What's wrong with people who are 68-72 years old playing adventure games (or any games for that matter)? It's very rare for people of that age to play video games and that's pretty cool lol. It would kick ass if my grandma played video games hah hah.

Fien

04-01-2008, 05:28 AM

i was intrested into reading this topic its not that i didn't like it but 72years old and 68 come on.

Hehehehe... :D
Why don't you go pay a visit to another adventure forum, called Gameboomers and ask the posters there how old they are? Brace yourself, cause I bet you're too young to know what a babyboomer is. :devil:

Dale Baldwin

04-01-2008, 05:57 AM

as for you smartass there are some people that doesn't know your language very good smarty.
Quit the namecalling.

patterntangle

04-01-2008, 06:05 AM

Merricat

04-01-2008, 06:07 AM

Well, smartass is my middle name. Some of us codgers are just like that. :D

pedram_pd

04-01-2008, 08:15 AM

I am 22 and living in Iran.i only know 3 or 4 people familiar with adventure games and they all age more than 20!

woow:)
I am 19 and i live in iran too !! . I have never seen an adveture gamer in iran before .

tsa

04-01-2008, 09:23 AM

I'm 39, and I've been playing adventure games since 1984 or so. All that time I have had to explain to people what adventure games were, and got the typical responses like: "So you don't have to shoot anything?" I've met maybe five people who like adventure games personally. We're a niche market, and that will always be so.

tsa

04-01-2008, 09:24 AM

I'm 37. First adventure game The Hobbit on the Commodore 64. Then Zork and other infocom games.
stopped for ages then played Myst and Riven. Then stopped for ages. now longest journey and syberia. LOVE IT!!!!

Wow you're about my age. We're the ancient ones! I never stopped playing, however. Always liked them :)

ShadeJackrabbit

04-01-2008, 05:47 PM

It would kick ass if my grandma played video games hah hah.

Mine does, when I can get her too. (I was surprised when she liked Uru.) She's older than the "ridiculous" age of 72. Come on, the old statement "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" isn't true. It differs from person to person.

When I reach my old ages, I'm going to still be playing adventure games. Even if I have to snap at an annoying nurse to hurry up and read the stupid descriptions so that I can figure out what to do. (That would be an interesting situation... idea! Muhahaha...)

autowil

04-01-2008, 06:05 PM

I'm 28 this year.. And adventure game is not popular in my country.. Singapore.. Have play this since 13 years old when my first pc come on 1994. My first game is Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis.. and since that, have love Adventure game till now..

skeeter_93

04-02-2008, 04:25 AM

My Dad is nearly in his 60's and plays adventure games. It's cool because I can borrow his games for free ;o) Hey, it was Dad who showed me how to play adventure games when I was young....he still reminds me and my brother of the time he worked out how to get the guy out of jail in MI after we'd given up weeks before!

Gazzoid

04-02-2008, 04:44 AM

Mine does, when I can get her too. (I was surprised when she liked Uru.) She's older than the "ridiculous" age of 72.

Nice. My family are boring and would never play video games (apart from my sister but nothing beyond 'different'). They're too afraid to try anything different, or they just don't 'get' them or see the point in them. I think they (my mum and dad) don't like the idea of getting hooked and spending hours on them. Any 'weird' games i play (like Portal recently) and the likes of my sister says things like: 'i don't like that game it's weird'. Not that she's ever played it though. :shifty:

When I reach my old ages, I'm going to still be playing adventure games. Even if I have to snap at an annoying nurse to hurry up and read the stupid descriptions so that I can figure out what to do. (That would be an interesting situation... idea! Muhahaha...)

Damn right. The same thing applies to me liking rock or metal music. I'm gonna keep listening to 'em (and playing video games) even when i'm an old codger. :D My dad used to like the same music, but said to me and my sister that when you reach a certain age you 'grow out of it'. That's not strictly true, i mean, if you're that compasionate about something, like music, art, video games etc. then you'll always love them. That's been proven here already and like i mentioned above about 50-60 year olds still going to metal festivals.

Hamham Chan

04-02-2008, 05:07 AM

32 years old and I've been playing adventure games since 1989 when I discovered Zak McKracken. I've been hooked ever since.

colpet

04-02-2008, 05:41 AM

I'm gonna keep listening to 'em (and playing video games) even when i'm an old codger. :D My dad used to like the same music, but said to me and my sister that when you reach a certain age you 'grow out of it'.
Apologies for going OT.
Didn't happen to me. I've always like alternative rock and listen to a radio station that constantly plays new music ( http://www.edge.ca/ ). Current favorites:
Raconteurs - Salute your Solution
Queens of the Stone Age - make it wit chu
Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

Draco2.5

04-02-2008, 07:57 AM

I'm 19. In the early-mid 90's my family bought a Packard Bell Legend 760 Supreme. (just went into the basement to check actually) The computer came with several games, our favorite was King's Quest 5. So I pretty much grew up playing adventure games.

chapter11studios

04-02-2008, 09:55 AM

I'm 32. I've been playing pretty much nonstop since my brother brought home an early King's Quest game for his Tandy 1000!

RPGCrazied

04-02-2008, 08:53 PM

im 30.. 31 this july.

I grew up with them lucasarts/sierra adventures(Sam & Max, Kings Quests, Space Quests, Full Throttle, DIG, Day of the Tentacle.. etc.) I remember gettin stuck in those, and callin the phone hotline. :P good times, good times.

pj23h

04-03-2008, 07:52 AM

I'll be 34 years old in August. Great to see that adventure gaming interests people of all ages!

pj23h

04-03-2008, 07:54 AM

Sandman

04-03-2008, 08:32 AM

26 ... 27 in august

Jehane

04-03-2008, 09:32 AM

Turned 34 in February. I discovered adventure games four years ago, right after I had finished my dissertation, graduated and didn't know what to do with my spare time - I just couldn't stand reading any more books at that point so I went out and bought some computer games. Lucky me: The first adventure game I ever bought was Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. I still love that game. Of course, I missed the "golden days" - I didn't even have a computer back then. It's not easy getting my hands on the classics but I do my best :)

As for the "ridiculous" age of 70+: I know I'll be playing adventure games when I reach that age - provided I haven't ruined my eyes by then :D But I don't see any valid reason why one should give up a hobby just because one has reached a certain age. It's like parents telling their grown-up children that they're "immature" because they're still listenting to heavy metal instead of "decent" music. I know my boyfriend's dad used to think that way, always hoping that "the boy" would finally grow up and listen to something else than screaming guitars. Alas, he has lost this hope after he has seen his son performing on stage with an Iron Maiden coverband *g* But that's a different story. The point is: Some things seem to be connected to young(er) people in a way that people react surprised when they find out that heavy metal and computer games are also something held dear by people who have long left their teenage years behind :) I know there are people my age out there saying "Oh yes, I used to listen to heavy metal/play computer games when I was younger but I don't do that anymore because I'm grown up". What the..? If you enjoy something, why give it up just because you think it makes you more "mature"? I'll never understand this.. :)

Squinky

04-03-2008, 09:49 AM

The point is: Some things seem to be connected to young(er) people in a way that people react surprised when they find out that heavy metal and computer games are also something held dear by people who have long left their teenage years behind :) I know there are people my age out there saying "Oh yes, I used to listen to heavy metal/play computer games when I was younger but I don't do that anymore because I'm grown up". What the..? If you enjoy something, why give it up just because you think it makes you more "mature"? I'll never understand this.. :)

On one hand, I agree with you; when I was younger, I kept wondering why most adults suddenly turned boring after they reached a certain age. Is there some sort of switch they turn on that suddenly turns people into corporate clones? I keep waiting for this to happen to me, now that I'm technically an adult, but alas, I still have child-like hopes and dreams that don't seem to be going away any time soon.

On the other hand, there's the fact that the majority of games are designed with immaturity in mind, and if the desire for constantly killing things and objectifying women actually is something that lessens over time, then I think the world is better for it. Of course, the real problem here is that people see all games as "immature" for this reason, when it's clear that not all of them are.

Lasus

04-03-2008, 09:57 AM

I am 62 years old. I got my first computer in 1978. The first adventure game I played was called "Adventure". It was text based and very difficult.

I guess I have played all of Infocoms games, all the text based Zork games, and every adventure game that Sierra created. Their first graphics based one was Mystery House.

I really think the 90's were the golden age of games but we can hope that the adventure Genre will survive.

Oh and for the naysayer that does not believe that us older ones play games. Go to WWW.QRZ.COM and enter my amateur radio call sign KB4BLU and you will see my picture and know I am an older gent :)

Gazzoid

04-03-2008, 02:55 PM

Alas, he has lost this hope after he has seen his son performing on stage with an Iron Maiden coverband *g* But that's a different story.

I would have been more jealous if it was the real band. :P Not meaning to sound like a typical child (which mentally i am lol), but if my parents, or anyone for that matter, moaned about what i like then that just makes me like/play it all the more just to wind 'em up. :devil:

ThePillarOfLight

04-03-2008, 04:45 PM

I'm 22, and started my adventure gaming with the original Myst and Journeyman Project back in the mid-90s. Been gaming ever since, though I very few others who play, and generally if I get someone to try one, they play it for a while or solve it then never go back. "Too much mental work after working all day" and the like. Ah well. I've always found them wonderful in many ways. Immersive worlds, stories, characters, atmospheres, sounds, music, the intrigue of puzzles and mysteries and figuring things out, or the draw of simply learning more about a character. Always fun, whether in the form of ancient text adventuring, older 2d, or in more recent 3d AG worlds. Beneath a Steel Sky, Myst, Space Bar, Obsidian, Journeyman Project, Blade Runner, Still Life, and the like have been my favorites.

Fien

04-03-2008, 06:13 PM

The Space Bar! Obsidian! Wow, great taste. ;)

tsa

04-03-2008, 09:31 PM

Gabe

04-03-2008, 11:24 PM

Looks like this topic title urging elderly for become a member of
adventure forums.

cw2381

04-04-2008, 02:34 AM

I am 26. My favorite games were GK1 and QFG4 and I remember being devastated as a Teen when Sierra's Redwood studios shut its doors. As a result I bought Leopold McGinnis's book GameQuest and get a little weepy everytime I open it up.

Yeah I know. Sad, but true.

Jehane

04-04-2008, 04:48 AM

On the other hand, there's the fact that the majority of games are designed with immaturity in mind, and if the desire for constantly killing things and objectifying women actually is something that lessens over time, then I think the world is better for it. Of course, the real problem here is that people see all games as "immature" for this reason, when it's clear that not all of them are.
You're right; I didn't have those games in mind when writing my original posting. Those games do have a right to exist as well; I just don't want to be thrown in with your average FPS-player because an adventure is a lot more complex than a shooter. At least that's what I have experienced. Shooters usually don't have much of a story; it's a matter of going in and kill everything that moves. I remember that I thought these games were cool when I was younger - about 10 years ago, maybe earlier. So maybe some people lose interest in these games when they grow older? I don't know. I just find it pretty hard and annoying to explain to people what it is I am playing because most people - usually those who have never played a game at all - think it's childish. One guy even told me once that he didn't approve of me playing games because he thought it was a waste of time. Well... *that* killed the last tiny chance he might have had of becoming more than just an acquaintance but that's a different story :D

@Alucard: *lol* Well... he actually *met* the real band once after one of their (Maiden's) gigs ;)
As for feeling childish: I hope I'll never lose that. Technically, I'm grown up and I can act and behave like an adult. But in my heart, I'm still a child *g*

Gazzoid

04-04-2008, 05:25 AM

@Alucard: *lol* Well... he actually *met* the real band once after one of their (Maiden's) gigs ;)
As for feeling childish: I hope I'll never lose that. Technically, I'm grown up and I can act and behave like an adult. But in my heart, I'm still a child *g*

Now i'm jealous lol. I'd settle for just seeing them live means i never have... or any band for that matter. :frown: I'm ruddy determined to go to a gig before i die.

I haven't got to worry too much about loosing my childish side. After all i am a guy. :P

AdoC

04-04-2008, 09:01 AM

I'm 32. I started playing adventure games on C64 and Amiga 500....it seems so long ago now

Terramax

04-04-2008, 09:17 AM

I think I'd have to ask what your high school was...

Did you ever go to a high school in Surrey?

Lasus

04-04-2008, 12:01 PM

You have a lot of info about yourself there mister. Aren't you afraid of someone misusing that?

No. Since I have an Amateur Radio License all that info is public record. Required by law.

rtrooney

04-04-2008, 04:38 PM

Hehehehe... :D
Why don't you go pay a visit to another adventure forum, called Gameboomers and ask the posters there how old they are? Brace yourself, cause I bet you're too young to know what a babyboomer is. :devil:Major wager that he won't get past the second message.

dgolds

04-04-2008, 06:34 PM

I'll be 53 this month. My first adventure game was "The" first adventure game according to Wikipedia. I started playing this strange Interactive Fiction game called "Advent" which had been ported to our CP/M based computer. That was early 1980, I've never stopped playing adventure games.

I am a bit surprised that the demographic is not older

Marian

04-04-2008, 06:43 PM

I just turned 53. I started adventure gaming back in 1982 on my Apple 2+ with its 48K of memory, playing Zork and the Wizard and the Princess, and I've been hooked on adventure gaming ever since!

dgolds

04-04-2008, 06:45 PM

Two in a row! Cool.

dgolds

04-04-2008, 06:48 PM

Thats over 50 years of gaming!;)

fruithead

04-04-2008, 07:15 PM

Collector

04-04-2008, 10:31 PM

I am a bit surprised that the demographic is not older
I would have guessed older, too, but keep in mind that this is in no way a scientific sampling. How close to the genre's demographic does Adventure Gamers users come and of those how likely are they to post in this thread? Some older members might have been discouraged from posting because of a certain immature rant earlier in the thread (no one wants to be around an ill mannered child.) It would be interesting to have a better idea of the true demographics. I think that one thing that this thread has shown is how wide the spectrum is, though.

Terramax

04-05-2008, 12:02 AM

One thing I've noticed from The Escapist forums I hang around, a lot of people are getting bored of the same FPS and RTS games and are looking into other directions. I presume adventure games are one of those.

cw2381

04-05-2008, 12:41 AM

does anyone else on here remember playing Indiana Jones : Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari? just curious ........... that is the first gaming experience that I remember really enjoying.

GombeTo

04-05-2008, 01:00 AM

20.

ttomm1946

04-06-2008, 08:01 AM

62..I'm old.:crazy:

Ascovel

04-06-2008, 09:23 AM

I'll be 24 in May. Almost every person my age I knew here in Poland has once played some of the most famous adventure games titles from the 90s. However, I don't know anyone else, who's primary interest in games would be in adventure games. ;(

In Poland stores are always full of new adventure games dubbed by popular actors, so I guess they sell quite well.

springhaze

04-06-2008, 09:59 AM

Hello, I'm a newbie here.
I'm 30 (female). The first adventure game I played was a French point-and-click game called "Mortville Manor" on Amstrad CPC6128, back in 1988 (wow, do I feel old). Has anyone heard of it?
Then I discovered "Loom" and "Monkey Island" on PC and never stopped playing adventure games since then. :)

BenjaminBunny

04-07-2008, 08:26 AM

I'm 21, and I've been playing adventure games since I was around 13.

blueskull

04-07-2008, 10:41 AM

I'm 28 ,i have been playing since i was 16. my first adventure game was chronomaster, my mom saw how much i loved computers and thoughtfully picked this game up for me, even though she knew nothing about computers let alone games, she just thought the cover looked nice i guess. I loved computers but had never played computer games , i just liked how you could do so much with them. The only other gaming experience i had was from consoles and i must say i was pleasently surprised at how the story and graphics in chronomaster grabbed me and never let go. I have since played quite a few ag's though not nearly as many as some of the veteran players.

Austruck

04-07-2008, 06:58 PM

I'm new here but not new to AGs. Been playing since some of the Zork text games, but more seriously since discovering Myst in the mid-90s with my four children (then ages 10 to 6 months). I was a newly single mother at the time, and we had a computer with a CD drive that my parents bought us. We'd gather around the computer, with the older boys taking turns at the keyboard, and we'd all try to work our way through that fascinating game. It's a bonding experience with them that I'll never forget.

Since then I've amassed a large amount of adventure games -- many from The Adventure Company/Dreamcatcher, and a bunch of others, including some real oddities (Physicus, anyone?). I haven't played them all, but I do maintain one older computer in the house specifically to play older games that didn't get ported to XP. Now I'm playing AGs offline (The Awakened and Obsidian right now, plus a few others I've started and need to finish -- The Black Mirror, Dreamfall, Amerzone, etc. etc.) ... and also am getting into Guild Wars (which amazes me -- I'm shooting stuff and collecting bling!).

I'm going to be 47 next month, am a mother of four (two grown), and have loved alternative music since the mid-90s. My kids borrow MY CDs, go figure. ("Jeremy, when will I get my Pearl Jam CD back??") I was probably the oldest person at the Nine Inch Nails concert here a few years ago, but so what? Trent's almost my age anyway. :)

I've been online for over twenty years now (1987) and look forward to gaming for the rest of my life.

MikaelS

04-11-2008, 07:01 AM

It's very good to see AG'ers of all ages. It doesn't surprise me though, I see many adventure games like good books ( interactive books ;) ) and you'll never bee too old ( or too young) for them.

I'm 28 myself. I was 13'ish, could somehow barely speak and understand English and the game was Secret of Monkey Island. I was so fascinated by it.

alkis21

04-11-2008, 07:38 AM

I'm 33.

rtrooney

04-11-2008, 03:42 PM

I'm 123 years old i have started playing ags from 1940 2nd world war.Now i still play games from the grave.Ohhh god please cut the crap some of youI'm a bit late replying, but I agree with others that the statement was uncalled for. It's a fact that solving puzzles, be they crossword or adventure game puzzles, keep the mind active.

Why is the 60+ year old gamer incomprehensible to you? We only do what you do. Except we've been doing it a hell of a lot longer, and probably have forgotten more about the history of gaming than you've ever learned. Lighten up. Give the codgers their shot at glory.

We're a damn smart lot!

Kazmajik

04-11-2008, 08:30 PM

does anyone else on here remember playing Indiana Jones : Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari? just curious ........... that is the first gaming experience that I remember really enjoying.

You bet I do. The first adventure game I ever played was Adventure, on the Atari 2600. That led to Haunted House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Swordquest, Dragonstomper, any adventure game I could get my hands on before I had an actual computer. That Lost Ark game was tough. It took me a couple of weeks to get through it.

nikolas

04-14-2008, 11:19 AM

30 (born in 1977). Virgus! Male!

I play games since 1987 (with my first computer, an Amstrad 1512). Never had an Amiga or Atari (so take THAT Alkis! :D:D:D) hahaha! Always a PC user! Always!

nazao

04-16-2008, 11:35 PM

I think that the answer greatly depends on the country we are refering.I mean i live in Greece and only a small percentage of peaple play ANY game at all...let alone adventure games..
No i dont agree on the introverted part.I am very outgoing BUT i am indeed very introverted as far as EXPRESSING my feelings about gaming is considered.I mean NOONE here talks about them...So i keep to my self in my gaming part ;)That also means that when i spend long hours at home playing a game my friends DONT understand why i do that...so i guess they think i am introverted :P But let me assure you...If i had friends that i could talk to about adventure gaming or gaming in general i would love discussing about it all the time...I also like rpgs ,strategies,action adventures and sometimes some action-platform games.
Oh by the way i am 24!

Nautilus

04-17-2008, 07:08 AM

38 yo :)
Here in Brazil adventure games are very popular among people of all age groups, even if they don't know that the genre name is "adventure".

Trader

04-21-2008, 06:26 AM

Started on the NES system Legend of Zelda 1988 think I was about 21ish, [maybe not an adventure game] then I use to hire the 3DO system [fantastic gaming system] 1993 think was about 21,I discovered Myst and was hooked from then on, I am now 37 and still loving it.Myst was the only game I have never used a cheat on,there where none I could get my hands on, that makes Myst my most satisfying game every played.

jacklacey

04-22-2008, 01:15 AM

17, can't remember exactly when I started playing point and click adventure games, but it was a few years ago, I was probably under 13 and the game was the first Broken Sword, soon got on to Monkey Island and later Grim Fandango.

DEMON

04-27-2008, 02:57 AM

I am the only girl I know who play computer games, except for my sister and whenever I have a conversation with a guy, and the subject (SOMEhow) turns to gaming, they say I'm the only girl they've met, who plays. Very strange. Or maybe I'M the strange one!

My ex played Fifa, CS and NOLF and another ex played Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Also I know a few girls that play NfS or Tomb Raider. So you´re not that strange ;) .

Anyway, I´m 23. First AG I played was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in about 1997, then there was Larry 1 and PQ 1.

sue3737

04-27-2008, 11:37 AM

45 here, got hooked on adventures many many many years ago :)

MdaG

04-27-2008, 11:44 AM

27
Played my first adventure game (Zak McKracken) on the Amiga 500 when I was 13.
It's still my favourite hobby.

threerings

05-02-2008, 08:57 PM

I'm 28. My first adventure game was King's Quest 2, played when I was really young, with my whole family on our first PC.

I don't know anyone except some of my longtime friends who play adventure games. In the early 90's we would all get together and play.

Ah the good old days...

crazyindian

05-03-2008, 02:02 AM

Hi,
Im 16 and Im from India. Nobody even plays computer games much here , so Im pretty sure theres practically no one interested in adventure games in India.I started playing adventure games 2 years back , and since then ive been hooked onto these games.The first game I played was Grim Fandango.Im new here , and its nice to be a part of the AG community.
Looking forward to make friends with all of you here.
Crazzyyy Indian.

Boblebad

05-05-2008, 11:12 AM

I'm 29 (today actually) and have been playing computer games since I was 7-8 years old. I've played most of the genres there are out there (Car/Racing, Shoot'em Up, Strategy, Sports, Platform etc etc), but it was the release of LSL1 that really got me into adventure games. The concept of being able to TYPE what a character should do was, at the time, simply amazing. "open door"... AAAAH! HE DID IT!!! Then the puzzles emerged... what to do, what to pick up, where to use it, and of course... how to spell everything.

From there on it only escalated as the games became more and more advanced in the terms of graphic and humor. I still enjoyed the genre, and to this day, those type of games are my no 1 favorite games. I will always hold dear the era of 1990-1997 where the old AG's from Sierra On-Line and Lucas Arts ruled the market.

TezChi

05-11-2008, 11:39 AM

21. Been playing videogames since I was about 4 years old, with the original Sonic on the Master System! lol.

The comment from Greece was interesting, I often wonder about different countties attidues to gaming. The attitudes in the UK where I live are alright, though the mainstream media are COMPLETELY out of touch with anything to do with computers or technology. Basically every game is evil and destroying our childrens minds bla bla bla. I would love to show these people a real good adventure game been played and show them what fools they do sound like!:crazy:

youfightlikeadairyfarmer

05-11-2008, 04:00 PM

I'm 20. I got hooked on adventure games at a young age, I want to say I was 9 or younger. I started with King's Quest V and Journeyman Project Turbo, unless you want to include any of the C64 games I played when I was 2. Anyway, I've always loved the genre, and I've never been too great. I honestly can't think of any games I've finished without using a walkthrough for some parts, though it's still an enjoyable experience even with a hint now and then. Or in Gabriel Knight, for everything because I can't tell what anything on the screen is supposed to be.

bulldog

05-11-2008, 04:39 PM

I'm 31 and I've only been playing adventure games for about 3 years. My first game was a Law and Order game, and I've been hooked on games ever since.

rtrooney

05-11-2008, 05:15 PM

27
Played my first adventure game (Zak McKracken) on the Amiga 500 when I was 13.
It's still my favourite hobby.Not to doubt the veracity of an age statement, :devil: but the last Amiga 500 was shipped in 1992. That would mean, other considerations aside, that you are bordering on, gasp, 29.

broken sword lover

05-12-2008, 08:14 AM

Im 14 :]

But i lovee adventure games.

Tell by my name hehe

>Dj-Lil-Ste_

Len Green

05-12-2008, 02:30 PM

I’m only 83¼ and if that guy (probably a kid) doesn’t believe me also, I’ll scan my birth certificate and 1 or 2 other credentials for his approval.
He can have a photo of my great-granddaughter as well if he likes !!

I programmed my first mini-game in machine code & assembler & published it in a USA (Chelmsford MA) magazine called “Micro” in 1981 … I’ll send the abovementioned disbeliever a copy of that as well if he insists !??!

At present I’m beta-testing 2 Quest/Adventures, and I posted my latest walkthrough just over a month ago.

Cheers to oldies & youngies alike. ………… Len Green.

rtrooney

05-12-2008, 04:55 PM

ozzie

05-12-2008, 07:12 PM

I'm 20.
Introverted, probably, not the most outgoing person.

Some of my friends are interested in adventure game, for the story and world, but hate the all too usual "read the designer's minds" puzzles. Floyd (aka Feeble Files) basically put them off the genre.
I showed one of them a Sam & Max episodes (Abe Lincoln must die!). He liked it, but he rarely buys games, only pirates them, so.....I didn't get him hooked on that either. ;)

I'm not that interested in the genre since innovations are few and rare, the genre stagnated.
But still, adventures are most likely to give me a believable world and deep characters.
I could do without the arbitrary puzzles, though.

Kick the vending machine three times? What?? Give the guard a toy box? This makes no sense!!! Grrr...

So, I always played all kinds of games, but in recent times I tried to get a bit more into RPGs. But except for Planescape: Torment and Fallout none seems too intriguing. The makers of those seem more interested in implementing the AD&D rulebook than making an interesting game...

In recent times my interest in adventure games rised again a bit as I discovered the old Legend adventures. They are a lot of fun and well designed.
They also made me realize why I am often bored by 3rd person adventures. I mean, I love the LucasArts games, but sometimes I want to yawn. It's not because the games have a slow pace and aren't full of action, instead it's the Point 'n Click mechanic. You know, click on the place where you want your character to go to. While he does that you do nothing! Yawn! It's the reason why I prefer direct control, it gives me a greater immersion and feeling of doing something. But direct control does work seldomly in 2D adventures (see Grim Fandango for a negative example), and 3D adventures are rare.
I wish developers would go more in this direction, but then, I guess the development budget rarely allows it. Hm.

Len Green

05-13-2008, 12:34 AM

~~ rtrooney ~~... If that statement is meant for me, no need. I've already admitted to being 60 earlier in the thread.

Certainly not!
What gave you that idea?

It was meant for some facetious person who called him(her)self "lordofflight.".

Ascovel

05-13-2008, 01:42 AM

In recent times my interest in adventure games rised again a bit as I discovered the old Legend adventures. They are a lot of fun and well designed.

If you haven't yet, I recommend trying Death Gate. It's my favorite of theirs and has very straight-forward, sensible (but still fun ;) ) puzzles.

Ascovel

05-13-2008, 01:50 AM

Not to doubt the veracity of an age statement, :devil: but the last Amiga 500 was shipped in 1992. That would mean, other considerations aside, that you are bordering on, gasp, 29.

What's so strange about it? Not everyone has the luxury of always playing on brand new hardware.

Lee in Limbo

05-13-2008, 08:15 AM

I'm 37 this year, and I didn't really discover adventure games until my mid twenties. My cousin introduced me to them on his first home PC, where I discovered Space Quest IV.

I didn't really get hooked until my friends Gary and Wendy bought their first computer, and started collecting all sorts of computer games in the mid-90s. All three of us were pretty avid Adventure Gamers back then. However, they separated, and neither of them has really been into AGs since then.

My wife plays a little, and really liked The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, but she's not a fan of the genre, preferring MMO's. I'm the only AG fan I know around here (Hamilton), although a friend of mine was a pretty avid fan of the Quest For Glory series, and gave me a copy of the entire series, which I confess I still haven't played.

ozzie

05-13-2008, 02:15 PM

@Ascovel: It's the first one I played of the bunch! I continued with Mission Critical, which was good, but the beginning was a bit lacking. But it picked up toward the end.
I still wait for my copy Shannara. I'll try this next. :)

Kolzig

05-24-2008, 01:48 AM

I'm 25 and half and I'm losing my interest in gaming more and more every day.

It's a weird feeling. Really weird.

EDIT: Well actually I'm losing interest in playing games, but talking and reading about games is still on a higher level, I think.

kitkatrpn

05-31-2008, 10:37 AM

I'll be 40 this summer UGH and have been playing adventure games for quite a while now. I've played other genres but I always seem to gravitate back to what I love the most, that being adventure games. No other genre quite like it!!

QDream

06-04-2008, 06:35 AM

20.. been introduced to advanture gaming since Syberia 2 I think :)

rtrooney

06-09-2008, 05:01 PM

I think it's quite clear that some of the "codgers" including myself, have been around since the concept of an adventure game began.

I may have been older when I started.

My first real graphic adventure game was Sierra's "Iceman". The second was KQ1. Both played on 5.25 floppies w/obscure copy protection. I must have been in my 30s at the time.

It elates me that there are so many 25 and under people that have joined the group.

I hope that trend continues. It's the future of adventure gaming.

Nigel Danvers

06-09-2008, 07:58 PM

45 and my son is 12. We've been playing adventure games for about a year.

jfcwilson

06-13-2008, 11:39 AM

I'm 13. This is also my first post. I've played about 26 graphical games, and about 10 freeware text, and written 5 text.

Terramax

06-13-2008, 02:17 PM

To the two above, I envy you. As you're relatively new you have a whole wide number of great adventure games to play that you've not played before.

I wish I could relive my first time playing Broken Sword or Discworld Noir...

I'm 25 and half and I'm losing my interest in gaming more and more every day.

It's a weird feeling. Really weird.

I can sort of relate to that. I don't think I've lost interest in gaming as a whole, but I'm certainly more choosy and less fanatical about video games.

Ten years ago, I HAD to own every major games console no matter what and HAD to own all the most hyped game of the time.

Now I can settle with buying one game for the PC once every blue moon, so long as it has a relatively good plot or gameplay.

I've played other genres but I always seem to gravitate back to what I love the most, that being adventure games. No other genre quite like it!!

Agreed. Every so often I reload saved games of Myst IV: Revelation or Broken Sword and just wonder aimlessly around the scenery, admiring the views. Very few other genres allow me to do that, as it's all about jumping around in a timely fashion or shooting things in a frenzy. What I mean is, many games don't allow you to sitback and appreciate all that work that's put into them. Adventures, with their usually slower pace, do so.

scribeswindow

06-14-2008, 06:39 PM

I'm 35 and I've been playing Adventure games since my early twenties. Great question! I've always been interested in the demographics with regard to gaming. :)

Trumgottist

06-20-2008, 03:42 AM

29. Been playing since '95.

Thom_

06-24-2008, 11:43 AM

I'm 18, and my first adventure games were in 2 Virgin compilations given to me. One comprising of Sam & Max and DOTT, the other comprising of MI:I and II. Brilliant days! That must've been around 96-97.

My-mu

06-26-2008, 01:36 AM

I'm 32... I am don't know any other person who likes adventure games, well... maybe apart from my wife who sometimes plays with me - especially the horror adventures :)

KasiaD

06-26-2008, 02:59 AM

I am 27 and played an adventure game in high school for the first time

I started to because a friend gave me a game as a gift - because he knew I liked Terry Pratchett novels.

The game's name was Discworld II Missing Presumed :)

carlotta von uberwald

06-26-2008, 03:13 AM

Ascovel

06-26-2008, 03:16 AM

I'm 32... I am don't know any other person who likes adventure games, well... maybe apart from my wife who sometimes plays with me - especially the horror adventures :)

At least Thorgal fans must be easy to come by :) .

For people who don't know this great Belgian comic book series, I'm refering to the character from My-mu's avatar. There's also an adventure game about Thorgal, so you should know him from there at least.

AFGNCAAP

06-26-2008, 03:38 AM

...although the game, unlike the comic books, better be forgotten.

Welcome to AG, My-mu! :)

My-mu

06-26-2008, 04:16 AM

...although the game, unlike the comic books, better be forgotten.

Welcome to AG, My-mu! :)

Exactly - game was horrible - I didn't make it till the end, and not because of puzzles difficulties ;-)

Ascovel

06-26-2008, 04:34 AM

While the game wasn't great by a long shot, I don't think it was horrible or unrespectful to the comic books. The premise seemed promising at the beginning. The biggest flaw was that the story became forgettable further on. The only part of the game that excited me was revisiting the world of death from the album Beyond The Land of Shadows.

Terramax

06-26-2008, 10:30 AM

As it seems most AG's are over 16. So I wish they'd make more age appropriate games that's why I loved Still Life & The Longest Journey I didn't feel like a kid playing them I'm fed up of cutsie cartoon style AG I'm not 4 lol

Not being funny right, but most AGs of the last 10 years have been dark, mature games aimed at adults. On the contrary, I'm fed up of those games. That's why I'm looking forward to So Blonde and Whispered World.

Also, why is it that cutsie cartoon style automatically brings about images of being a child? When you're grown up, do you really have to spend your whole life surrounded by darkenss, violence and pessimism? Also, have you not seen Happy Tree Friends? Or played 'Duckman'?

Collector

06-26-2008, 09:29 PM

why is it that cutsie cartoon style automatically brings about images of being a child? When you're grown up, do you really have to spend your whole life surrounded by darkenss, violence and pessimism? Also, have you not seen Happy Tree Friends? Or played 'Duckman'?
That is a little bit of a narrow view. It is not either or. Games do not need to be either "cutesy cartoon style" or "dark, violent and pessimistic". They can be dramatic without being dark. They can be humorous and entertaining without being cutesy.

About the cutesy cartoon adventures being for kids, that is the usual style for kids' adventures. Easy to come to that conclusion considering this, no matter how far off the mark that conclusion is. While I am not a fan of the cartoon art style for adventure games, they can be OK.

judithd

02-07-2010, 04:46 PM

66. judithd

DesNalgadOr

02-07-2010, 07:53 PM

im 31 playing since 12 i think. started with maniac mansion on my cousing Commodore 64. i have a few friends with same interest in adventure and logical oriented games but not the same passion.
i didn't think there were many adventure gamers in Argentina until i saw that "GROG XD" joke on Monkey Island last installment and heard some random people talking about it.

rottford

02-07-2010, 08:03 PM

I'm 26. I've been playing adventure games since I was about six years old. My first game was Maniac Mansion on the NES, then Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Hero's Quest (Quest for Glory I) on the PC the same year. I liked them because they were good games -- not like anything I'd played before. I realized I loved adventure games about a year or so later when I played The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Loom.

terhardp

02-07-2010, 11:18 PM

I'm a male and I've just turned 30. I've grew up with ZX Spectrum and Commodore. At that time I've played mostly "action" games and tried some adventure games like "Maniac Mansion". But I got hooked to adventure games much later, when I've got my first PC as a graduate in high school, in 1997. Then I've played "Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror" and "Tomb Raider II: The Dagger of Xian". The rest is history. :)

I always find time for a good game (adventure or some other genre), despite the fact that I have many other interests and activities (playing and composing music, photography, web and graphic design -- I've finished law school but I don't work in the field). My family and close friends were always supportive toward my "gaming passion", but generally, here in Croatia, most people don't have idea what the computer games are all about. Many of them are under impression that the grown-ups who are playing computer games are immature and like Peter Pan (what's wrong with that BTW). However, that don't stop them to hang out all day on the Internet themselves...

I always thought that enjoying a good computer game is allmost like reading a good book, watching a great movie or listening to great music. Unfortunately, most people tend to stigmatize people who are playing games, which is sad, because it's purely due their ignorance. Luckily, that trend will probably change someday, like rock 'n roll music is nowdays widely accepted, while back in the 50's, it aroused mixed feelings among the general audience.

Denaron

02-08-2010, 06:25 AM

I'm 20, male.

The first adventure game I've played was Hell Cab back in 95, I never finished it, actually. Adventure games don't used to turn me on but, about 5 years ago, I was addicted to those "escape from the room" games, it was the awakening my interest in adventures. In 2006 I played Monkey Island(don't remember which one) for the first time and then I fell in love with the genre.

Despite my love for adventures, I enjoy playing all genres.

MystGirl

02-09-2010, 12:40 PM

35 going on 15.

Sughly

02-09-2010, 03:30 PM

Interesting thread, quite a bump a few posts back too. I'm 24, 25 in April. Started at some young age in the single digits with same old Police Quests and King's Quests and Space Quests (at first at other peoples places, wishing I had a PC).

I think it's great to see the age diversity here. In my narrow mindedness I just figured everyone to be from around 18 or so to 40 or so. Boy was I wrong! It's awesome :)

Little Writer

02-09-2010, 10:16 PM

I'm 30, been playing since 13. My first computer games were the original "Prince of Persia", but my disk was corrupted so I never got the play the final level, and "Secret of Monkey Island". Played about half of the Sierra classics (never got into Space and King's Quest, but I've bought the collection of the latter) and all of LucasArts. I'd like to catch up with all the game's I've missed since 1999 or so. Last year I played "The Longest Journey" and "Dreamfall" for the first time. Been having a lot of fun with "Tales of Monkey Island", but not so much with "Sam & Max season 2" (don't really feel like season 1, I already got the first episode but there's just something unappealing about it all ...)

orient

02-10-2010, 12:45 AM

I'll be 23 next month on Saint Patrick's Day, and the first adventure game I remember playing is probably the Game Boy Color version of Déjà vu, when I was about 13 or 14. That was closely followed by Broken Sword on Game Boy Advance, although I owned neither of them and wasn't really sure what genre of game I was playing at the time.

It wasn't until a couple of years back when I bought Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon that my interest in adventure games grew and I started to go back and play the "classics". Before then, I was a big SEGA fan, having inherited a Master System from my Uncle at an early age. Sonic 4 life yo :D

inm8#2

02-10-2010, 12:24 PM

25. Got involved with Sierra adventures in the early 90s. Didn't play many other games, such as the Lucasarts titles.

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers blew me away in 1997, and from there I didn't look back.

Ariel Type

02-10-2010, 01:09 PM

Sughly

02-10-2010, 03:09 PM

Wow, I really admire AGer's. I'm only 25 and I already feel tired of adventure games. Though I've played hundreds of them since Goblins & Kyrandia. Then again, I can never resist some good old retro as well as modern experiments.

Though at times I agree, I would say I feel a lot more tired of just about every other genre. Played a few first persons and RPG's when I was younger, can't bring myself to play more than 5 minutes of either now.

zobraks

02-12-2010, 07:26 AM

Don't kid yourself, life starts in your fifties.
Charles Bukowski

I'm exactly half a century old on this very day. I'm (still) male. It took me a lot of time to buy a computer and it took me even more to find the kind of games I really would like to play - I first heard of the adventure games when I was almost forty - but I was in love with them before I even knew they existed. No, I'm not kidding, I always had that urge to solve puzzles and other problems, explore things, and always were an avid reader, yearning for great stories and adventures (my first favourite writers were Karl May and Jules Verne).

Monty Python's Flying Circus pushed me into a Wonderful World of Adventure Games: in 90's I read in a local popular culture magazine called XZ about a computer game featuring MPFC gang. The title was very provocative - Complete Waste of Time - and being a waster of time I am, I was instantly hooked. Since those were the days without the Internet, and computer games (in my third world European country) were harder to find than dodo birds, it took me five years to grab this title.
Although it's not a classical adventure game (some people would argue it's not an AG at all), it totally mesmerized me - finding the way through the labyrinths, answering silly questions, finding solutions to wacky puzzles - that's it (I knew it)! After CWOT I bought "The Quest for the Holy Grail" and "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" and kept on playing.

After some reading about AGs in computer game magazines (I even used to read PC Gamer - that shows how little I knew about the adventure genre), I dug out some classics (Sam and Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Broken Sword series, Gabriel Knight series,...) and soon I got to know more about the games I loved. A mayor breakthrough in my learning about adventures was the discovery of the Home of the Underdogs, the wonderful online museum of old underrated games (and we all know well how sadly the whole adventure genre is underrated) where I first met the older and more obscure adventure games (like Morpheus, AMBER, U.F.O.s, Duckman,...).
Through the course of a decade I moved from a total noob (I believe that's the correct expression) to "a man who's slightly in the know" (whatever that means). Since February of 2000 (exactly ten years ago) I've played some eighty titles (many of them more than once), bought and found tens of them, read about hundreds of them. I still have a long way to go with this passion for the adventure games (if I manage to live a long life), but almost every single day I learn something new about my favorite pastime.

Now, I don't know a single real-life person that plays adventures (except my daughter who made her first steps in gaming by watching me playing the shiny colorful LucasArts adventures, and some gloomy scary ones like The Dark Eye too), but I know (via the Internet) a lot of people from my country and all over the world (even older than I am) who do play and love them. I don't know whether I'm an introvert or extrovert (feeling like both at some times), but I think that my love for the AGs has definitely something to do with my love for reading, watching good movies, exploring the extraordinary and generally being interested in things (What is this? Who are we? Where do we come from? When is the next payment?).
I do play other kinds of games occasionally (enjoyed playing action games/platformers also when I was younger, and I am playing WoW - not World of Warcraft but Wizard of Wor remake - even nowadays), but I get the most pleasure from AGs and only AGs.

And, yes, I would (hopefully) be someone's "weird grampa that (still!!!) plays the adventure games". :7

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Linque

02-13-2010, 01:23 AM

I'm 24y
Started with Sam & Max and Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Lucasarts adventures the ones I mostly played out of adventure games as a kid
Used to be a competitive FPS gamer, one of the top players in Nordic countries in several games
Wrote game reviews as an assistant to a local kids magazine during the equivalent of high school
Now write reviews and features and part of administration at the biggest Finnish console gaming community
Nowdays consider myself a casual gamer

Nowdays I don't have enough time to play that much, and I'm not that interested in all playing everything anymore either. When I was, I used to play pretty much everything, from Adventure to FPS to RPG to RTS to Platformer to Party games, both on PC and Consoles. I especially loved multiplayer games, Co-op and competitive. Jagged Alliance and Fallout are the games I loved the most, I guess. Atmosphere is extremely important in games, and those two titles had it in droves. Now, Heavy Rain is something that I feel like could push the atmosphere in games even further.

Armin8000

02-22-2010, 05:58 PM

Born in 81, am 20 now. Started playing around age 10 mostly with the known sierra and lucasarts titles. Earliest memories are larry 1 and hero's quest 1.

Of all genres i only got hooked to adventures and still remember a bunch of them, even remember more graphics of games i forgot the name of, and i certainly seen i played many more i forgot both graphic and names now im reading all kinds of sites about AG's.

I just finished day of the tentacle and beneath a blue steel sky and am going to install the neverhood. I am planning to get totally back into AG's as there are still many out there i haven't played. Seeing im 29 i still have time left to play many many more!

Happy to see the love for AG's is still shared.

pointandcliklover

02-23-2010, 12:21 AM

my birth cert says 22 but im really 6

started with simon the sorcerer and never looked back

Intense Degree

02-23-2010, 01:51 AM

Born in 81, am 20 now.

That's interesting, I was born in '80 and am now nearly 30! ;)

Kings Quest games got me into AG's and GK1 cemented me as an Adventure Gamer for life! I go through phases where I don't play adventures for a while but always end up coming back for more!

MoriartyL

02-23-2010, 03:17 AM

I turned 22 on Sunday.

Fantasysci5

02-23-2010, 01:01 PM

I'm 20. :D

Sughly

02-23-2010, 02:50 PM

I turned 22 on Sunday.

Happy birthday! :D

Little Writer

02-23-2010, 11:31 PM

Ah, so many young minds to corrupt ...

Ahem, I mean, move along, this is not the comment you're looking for.

Foozwah

02-24-2010, 03:47 AM

I'm 42. Started adventuring with Zork II, which I used to play at K-Mart, since I didn't own a computer.

I guess before that, I'd owned (and played to death) both "Adventure" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on my trusty ol' Atari 2600. Nowadays I'd have consider both those more "arcade-adventure", so maybe Zork II is still the real starting point, though I must admit I did get a wonderful sense of discovery from "Adventure" at the time (Wow, it has MORE than one game screen! ;)), which is still a large part of the genre's appeal, for me.

Yasdnil

03-04-2010, 06:18 AM

I am 24 and feel old....

Marte

03-05-2010, 12:53 PM

I'm also 24 and feel SO old.

misslilo

03-05-2010, 11:12 PM

Just turned 45 in feb. and can't really feel a difference, lol.

But it gave me an excuse to Gift a few games away from GOG ;)

RPGCrazied

03-06-2010, 04:26 PM

32 :P 33 this July! getting old!

Warthur

03-06-2010, 05:52 PM

27, coming up to 28. My first adventure game was the original Monkey Island when it first came out.

Jelena

03-07-2010, 01:10 AM

When this thread started I was 43. Today I'm 45.

C_Knight

03-08-2010, 08:31 AM

24 here. Started playing AGs when I was 14 thanks to a friend who introduced me to Grim Fandago!

Fma42081

03-08-2010, 04:47 PM

28 but ill be 29 in April....been a devoted gamer/adventure gamer/Collector since the womb lol

davey399

03-08-2010, 06:09 PM

soon to be 43 in 9 more days. first started playing adventure games on old bbc pcs at my school, think around 1980 ish. they were text based adventures, don't remember any of the names though.......that's what old age does to you !!!! :frusty:

[toj.cc]Phantom

03-08-2010, 08:05 PM

I am 21 years old...

or 255 months old
or 1,112 weeks old
or 7,784 days old
or 186,816 hours old
or 11,208,965 minutes old
or 672,537,902 seconds old

and my next birthday celebration is in:
250 days 23 hrs 54 mins 59 secs.

vpsj

03-09-2010, 06:22 AM

hey, Im 16!!! Just started playin Adventure games recently.... hav only played 'Dracula 3' so far, but damn I liked that game very much!:)

Dracula 3 has changed my mind on the type of game I should play. Now I like those games in which my brain is used more than my fingers:D[In short, adventure games]

So, currently Im trying to find a suitable adventure game which suits me(apparently similar to dracula 3).... and Im also downloading GK2(I hope its good:))

and 1 more thing to complete -None of my friend likes to play games which come under this category, but who cares?

and sorry for my bad english........

mohok

03-09-2010, 07:04 AM

i'm 23, 24 in may.

I can't really say what my first adventure game was. the first the i owned a copy of was and remember playing all the way through was grim fandango. it's apart of my life now, i go back and play it almost every year. i also like to go back and play gabriel knight 1 - 3 when i'm in the mood. It really makes me feel abit like crying to think about those games nowadays. it's also very frustrating to try and explain games like these to kids that are growing up on ps3, 360 and wii. it's all about grahpics and stuff now.

I guess i may just be feeling the pain of becoming an adult and saying goodbye to my childhood.

Feel like an ass talking like this when there are people here almost double my age

Luna Sevithiainen

03-09-2010, 10:51 AM

I'm 21, almost 22 (in april). And adventure gaming since I was 5, so basically grew up with it (which is a very good way to raise kids, but let the advantages of growing up playing AGs be saved for another thread).

And basically I plan to play adventures for the rest of my life, simply because they are fun, and puzzeling keeps the mind in shape :) Funny enough it never occured to me that you could be considered 'too old to play video games'. What makes it for children? Many of the stories out there are not for the faint, pure, innocent children's hearts. Just like there are a lot of books you can read as an adult. Basically here we have a book with puzzles. Okay, and with pictures. Maybe that is what makes people think it is childish. But then that wouldn't count for the text based adventures...

Platyphyllum

03-10-2010, 06:53 PM

16 years old over here. I feel so young compared to the rest of you guys :P

I actually played my first adventure game, as far back as I can remember anyways, when I was 6 or 7 years old. My parents bought me a Pink Panther game (the subtitle was Hokus Pocus Pink). I remember enjoying it a lot, but I never did get to finish it which is expected considering how young I was.

That was pretty much all that I got to play when I was younger though as I was mainly an RPG, Platformer, and Action/Adventure gamer back then. My interest in adventure games was only rekindled three years ago in my early teens thanks to the Nintendo DS actually. I tried out the first Ace Attorney game and absolutely loved it. I went on to buy the rest of the series and the rest of the major adventure games on the system like Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk. After realizing that I was enjoying these games more than anything at the time, I went ahead and looked up some adventure games online which is how I ended up finding communities and adventure sites like this one. At that point, my interest in adventure games became much larger and I went on to play games like The Longest Journey and The Secret of Monkey Island (the Special Edition anyways) and enjoyed those very much as well.

I may not have played as many adventure games as the rest of you guys, but if anything at least I'm proof that younger people can still be interested in adventure games.

I also got one of my family friends hooked on the DS adventure games. She absolutely adores the Ace Attorney series and she even played some of Touch Detective. To be honest though, I don't know any people at my school who plays adventure games so the genre definitely isn't as popular with a younger crowd.

Also, I'm an introvert in real life and I'm going to be honest, I think there's some weight to the theory that topic creator stated in which there's some connection between a person's personality and the type of games they would play.