Disco Elyisum? "Lauren, is this another one of those Freddi the Fish games?" Yes, mom. To this day she (jokingly) refers to any RPG-I guess because they have quests?-as Freddi the Fish. I asked my mother for help a lot, which required me explaining to her how I needed to like find food to distract the fish dog so I could get in the cave or whatever. I wasn't very good at the classic adventure game inventory puzzles back then. The first one I beat was probably Freddi The Fish. Well, either that or Pokemon Yellow but I figure I'd go with the PC game, right? Most of my PC games before the year 2000 were educational-ish games rented from the library. Lauren Morton: Freddi the Fish and the Missing Kelp Seeds. I still have the map that came with the game, too, tucked away somewhere. But I distinctly remember finishing it, years after we bought it, and that was quite a sense of accomplishment. We got stuck for months on the riddles of the stones, and when we returned to the game we definitely printed off some kind of walkthrough to guide us through the far harder later parts of the game. Like most Sierra point-and-click adventure games, it was hard as hell, with obtuse puzzles and dead-ends that would kill you without mercy. So I'm going to go with another game my dad and I played together, which was Sierra's Conquests of Camelot. Later I played tons of Command & Conquer and Warcraft 2 on my own, and I definitely finished those campaigns, but like Harry I think I had to use cheats to do it. But I know we didn't beat any of those games, because they were hard as hell. Zaxxon, Montezuma's Revenge, and some submarine game on our 8086, and then LHX Attack Chopper on our 386.
There were several games I played with my dad as a kid, on a number of PCs throughout the years. I can't remember if I ever finished it, but I sure remember trying to for many, many hours. I'll give a shout out to Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, as well. It's all a little fuzzy, but I recall winding levels, plenty of platforming, and a man in a skin-tight jester's outfit that still haunts me to this day. Jacob Ridley: Pandemonium! The first game I can remember playing from start to finish is Pandemonium! on PlayStation. The trick is to do the opposite of what you think is a good idea as an eight-year-old. I'm pretty sure I made it to the end of The Oregon Trail on my own. (Update: Just asked about that, and yes.) Maybe my mom beat all the games I spent my life thinking I had beaten. That probably doesn't count, then, and I'm betting that she was the one who actually beat Prince of Persia, too.
It turns out that what I remember is my mom finishing it (I asked). Tyler Wilde: At first I thought it had to be Myst, but there's no way I could've finished Myst on my own in 1993, given that I was a kid and I'd give up on its puzzles even now.
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