I had the exact same experience (e.g. creating simple point-and-click 'games' that were really just stories with multiple branches).

What's cool is that as I made these games I kept wanting to add more to them (interactivity, sounds, etc) so I ended up doing some scripting as well.

As a 12-year-old, this was amazing - my first introduction to "programming" but I didn't know that at the time.