What was the first point and click adventure game ever?

History of P&C games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_Scepters maybe...

Wikipedia seems to suggest Mystery House as first adventure game.

Doesn't seem at first glance,
but this question is hard to answer.
I will do some research, but I'm sure there will be a lot controversy about the "first" one.

Probably not the first-first I played, but to me it was the first great colorful one, since I learned of good old Lucasarts through it :

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It was one of their first full adventure games after all (well along with some indiana jones ones) before the barrage of 90s masterpieces.
It was kinda short though. :P Check the above answers for further back in history however. If you go as back as text adventures go, keep in mind that you are looking at b&w early 80s mostly. Sierra etc. Or even further back if you remove graphics completely

The original King's Quest, from 1984 would be a good contender for it. It's considered by many as the father of modern adventure games.

The first one that i saw: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_Mansion (1987)

Enchanted Scepters (1984) by Silicon Beach Software on the macintosh.
Some info on it here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/01/history-of-graphic-adventures/

Well it was my first game altogether and it was Hollywood monsters, it was a demo i think but it was awesome

I would say maniac mansion in the top of my head, it was the first game with the SCUMM engine...

Brings back very sweet memories - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Madness - for me this was the one :P

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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

I can assume something like this :)

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Which game invented the genre, and which game is the first will give you two different answers. Point & click adventures grew out of text parser games, and for a not insignificant amount of time, there were hybrids (in fact, hybrids existed well into the 90's, with games such as Larry 7 still keeping a text parser). Even when we get to the first purely mouse driven games, such as the Macventure series & Enchenter Scepters (might be wrong on the later as I've not played it), they still kept a lot of the text parser things, but instead of typing "go door" you would click on the word "go" and then click on the door. Games like King's Quest are still text parser-based but are closer to point & click games in how they play than the earlier text parser games, and thus mark an important step in the evolution of point & click games.

So really, what I'm trying to say is that while we can point you to the earliest P&C game, it's questionable if it will really give you the answer that you're looking for, as adventure games existed before, and would be recognized as adventure games by someone who only know P&C adventure games.

Dracula: The Resurrection. It was fun back then, could not play it now.

The first one I played was Myst 1993. Not the first to be made, but it was pretty popular.

I was reading all the replies and I would like to thank you for everyone who replied. I've learned a lot. Big respect to you all!

You've already gotten a lot of good info, but I just wanted to weigh in that the history and roots of P&C adventures really lies with text parser / interactive fiction games, and one of the most notable games that kind of set the whole genre in motion is the Zork series by Infocom in the late 1970's. For those interested in video gaming history, this is a title that you should definitely know about.

In the mid 80's, Sierra kind of took the torch lit by Infocom and started combining text parser interactive fiction with graphics to huge commercial success, and games like King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Heroe's Quest were born. In the early 90's, they abandoned the text parser and switched to the full mouse controls -- perhaps somewhat inspired by the entry of LucasArts into the genre with titles like Maniac Mansion in the late 80's.

I, for one, was always a little sad that the text parser had just been almost completely abandoned from a large, commercial standpoint. In my opinion, the text parser gave the games a very unique illusion of freedom and non-linearity. It allowed one to connect more deeply and insert your own kind of personality into the characters and narrative. I really hope that at some point in the near future text or voice parsing makes a return to mainstream gaming -- and I think it may be possible with such things as VR units and better voice recognition and natural language parsing starting to become more usable.

Adventure(1976) was the first adventure game. That's the origin of the genre's name.
Mystery House(1980) was the first adventure game with graphics.
Enchanted Sceptres(1984) was the first with graphics and a mouse pointer.
Below the Root (1984)(arcade adventure) introduced the graphics on top with selectable words below with joystick control
Manic Mansion(1987) brought in the point and click with mouse or joystick to control both movement above and word selection below.