Here, I'll start. When I was 8 years old, my parents went to a dinner party and plonked me down in front of the host's computer so I'd stay out of their way. The game they booted up to keep me occupied was Space Quest II. Little did they know what impact that would have on me...
We played around with it for a while, aimlessly moving rocks and pulling up carrots, until I one day typed "bow king" in the throne room. A quest was given! The game had a purpose!
The the road went to Lefty´s Bar and strange planets in the Space Quest universe. It was a wonderful time to be a kid in a CGA universe
For 8 year old me it was Kings Quest V. Graham gives the wand a good shake, but it only fizzles and dies. I don't even want to know how many times Graham had to die before I finally beat the game.
To this day, it’s one of my favorite games of all time. I haven’t played it in a while, so thank you for making me remember! I’m definitely going to go for a new playthrough when things settle down here.
Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest. Mostly because it was the first two I ever got copies of and I'd never seen anything like it, but there was another thing about them:
Whatever they may be as we look back on them in retrospect (neither have stood up spectacularly well in terms of their politics), both games were set in the 'real' world. While I'd played a ton of fantasy games in make-believe worlds, something that made me feel like the world was something I could relate to socially helped immensely. To this day I TEND to prefer "real-world" games, set in the modern day or the past. That's probably in part due to these two games.
I didn’t play it until a couple of years ago when I did my video on it. I imagine I would have had a lot more fun with it if I was a kid and had all the time in the world to explore the world. Sadly, my first KQ game was KQ3, which stopped you from having any fun every 2-3 minutes with the sudden appearance of a bossy wizard.
I didn’t play that until 18 when I bought the King’s Quest collection. I think if that had been my first experience, I wouldn’t have ventured into the adventure games world at all.
Somehow my friend from school had gotten wind of the “bye bye wizard” cheat code, and we STILL couldn’t get anywhere in the game. I’ll take falling off a space station to my death, thanks. 😂
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