BlueKronos: I hope to become independently wealthy and give myself a job playing through my backlog at some point :-) Maybe playing games will be my retirement.
I've always dreamed of getting shitloads of money and retiring early, but unfortunately I'm not driven enough to make that a reality. ;)
My current backup plan is to buy a Bay Trail Windows 8.1 tablet and hope it plays adventure games well.
I started playing adventures seriously on my Commodore 128. Had a few encounters before that, but the C64 had many adventure games, including cheap indie ones. The one I found most memorable of that era's adventures is Nine Princes in Amber. The it was Amiga adventures and then the PC. I still collect them, just don't play them much. Last adventure game I finished was Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars on Android.