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oracrest · Aug 9, 2009

Old point and click adventures were some of my favorite games growing up (especially their high quality of art), and It is nice to see so many of them become available to purchase and play again one way or another recently.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Wii, Secret of Monkey Island on arcade download, Simon the Sorcerer for IPhone, and remake of Broken Sword on Wii. I am sure there are more too, but even in just the last few months, all these games have emerged again, and are available for the first time in years.

It seems with interfaces like the wiimote, and iphone touch screen, the hurdle of adapting a mouse based control scheme to a home or portable console is going away.

I hope the trend continues, because there are plenty more still locked up in the vault that would be fun to play through again.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
(unlockable in new Indy and Staff of Kings Wii game)
unlock code: In the Staff of the Kings main menu (indys office), while holding down the Z button press: A, U, U, B, D, D, L, R, L, B.

Alternate Wii cover

via steam

I always considered this one of the best.

The Secret of Monkey Island
(downloadable on xbox live arcade. Original version accessible by select button in game)

Broken Sword: The Director's cut
(Wii, DS. Wii supports voice dialogue)

Simon the Sorceror
(download to iphone)

These next games aren't currently available to purchase anywhere that I am aware of (other than perhaps steam) But would be nice to get them onto a console somewhere:

The Legend of Kyrandia trilogy
(rights owned by EA) I always thought the art was especially well done in these.

The Day of the Tentacle:
(lucasarts)

The Dig
(lucasarts)
via steam

The Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
(lucasarts)

King's Quest series
(Sierra)
via steam

King's Quest death montage

Full Throttle
(lucasarts)

LOOM
(lucasarts)
via steam

Nostalgia time, go!

(does anyone know what the game is that fred savage is playing in the beginning of BIG?)

EDIT (more games added..)

Grim Fandango
(lucasarts, commonly considered one of the best written and executed adventure games)

Broken Sword series
(original, PC GBA)

Sanitarium
(pc, still available in bargain rack?)

Shadowgate
NES, Gameboy color

Deja Vu
NES, gameboy color (GBA has sequel as well)

The Uninvited
NES

Companions of Xanth
(Legend Entertainment)

Space Quest series
(Sierra)
via Steam

Inherit the earth

Leisure Suit Larry series

Maniac Mansion
(lucarts, prequel to Day of the Tentacle)

Discworld series
(pc, Ps1)

Beavis and Butthead in virtual stupidity
(win95!)

Putt Putt series

Quest for Glory series

Beneath a Steel Red Sky
download for free!

Black Cauldron

Myst

Riven

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

The Chzo Mythos
Free to download!

Amazon: Guardian of Eden
Free to download!

Gobliins series
(sierra)

The Shivah
buy online

Flight of the Amazon Queen

Toonstruck
(Virgin)

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Shurs · Aug 9, 2009

oracrest said:
(does anyone know what the game is that fred savage is playing in the beginning of BIG?)

I think you mean to say The Princess Bride.

oracrest · Aug 9, 2009

Shurs said:
I think you mean to say The Princess Bride.

ooh, now that I think of it, it wasn't fred savage, but the actor who was young tom hanks...

BobTheFork · Aug 9, 2009

:/

The Neverhood:

Otherwise, great thread

Castle Doctrine · Aug 9, 2009

Loved a game called Shadowgate I think for the NES. Not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about.

Shurs · Aug 9, 2009

Shurs said:
I think you mean to say The Princess Bride.

My bad.

Orobi · Aug 9, 2009

Darkseed
Dark Seed is a computer game in the adventure game genre. It was developed and published by Cyberdreams in 1992. It exhibits a normal world and a dark world counterpart, which is based on the artwork by H. R. Giger. It was one of the first adventure games to use high-resolution (640 pixels wide) graphics, to Giger's demand. A sequel, Dark Seed II, was released in 1995. The original game was released for Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Macintosh, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The Saturn version was released in Japan and was compatible with the Sega Saturn Mouse. An unlicensed version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in Chinese. There was also a version planned for the Sega Mega-CD, but it was cancelled.

The main character, Mike Dawson, is named after lead designer and producer Mike Dawson, who also appears as the character's sprite. The fictional Mike Dawson is a successful advertising executive and writer, who has recently purchased an old mansion in the small town of Woodland Hills. As soon as he moves into the house, he falls asleep and has a nightmare where he finds himself in a place called the "Dark World" where it is inhabited by inhuman creatures called "Ancients". They forcefully hold Mike down and use an alien machine that implants an object called a "Dark Seed" into his skull. After Mike wakes up, he has three days to solve the mystery of the town before the "dark seed" erupts from his brain and the "Ancients" take over the real world.

Alpha_eX · Aug 9, 2009

The Broken Sword Directors Cut deserves no place in this thread, the original is a much better game.

oracrest · Aug 9, 2009

The-Warning said:
Loved a game called Shadowgate I think for the NES. Not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about.

YES!

I loved Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and The Uninvited. They were all done really well, and I blew tons of money calling the nintendo players hotline because of them....

edit: moved to first post..

pulga · Aug 9, 2009

Oh God, I've been on a point and click binge the last couple of weeks. I've already run through Monkey Island 1-3 (I started 4 but it's horrible), Sam and Max: Hit the Road, Strongbad on Wii, and will be playing trough Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Fate of Atlantis and possibly Grim Fandango and Beneath a Steel Sky.

Classic Lucas Arts <3

magicalsoundshower · Aug 9, 2009

Why is it that the Quest for Glory series is usually forgotten about whenever a thread like this pops up? :/

I think they're among the adventure games that have held up the best as they contain a large dash of RPG elements which makes them extremely replayable -- I always had a blast doing all sorts of training to max my stats. Quest for Glory 4 is maybe my third favorite game of all time and I vastly prefer it to every single Lucas Arts adventure game I've played, no matter how much funnier they may be, they're no match for it. Plus, the CD version is narrated by John Rhys-Davies, best narrator in any game, ever!

By the way: I read a Let's Play of Dark Seed a while ago and while the creepy graphics were neat, the puzzles and story struck me as plain awful and the sequel, while a bit prettier, seemed even worse.

randomwab · Aug 9, 2009

Alpha_eX said:
The Broken Sword Directors Cut deserves no place in this thread, the original is a much better game.

Yeah, can't agree more with this. Too many things rub me the wrong way with the Directors Cut.

"As I picked myself up, all I could hear was the ceaseless drone of traffic. Life went on around me, but the explosion was to change my life forever."

So good.

GhaleonQ · Aug 9, 2009

1 too many of these topics recently, I think. But I'm posting, so I'm part of the problem! Can people at least post something besides Monkey Island and King's Quest, like...

BobTheFork said:
:/
Otherwise, great thread

THANK you! I'm counting Skullmonkeys, too.

Or The Feeble Files or Toonstruck or Machinarium or indendent stuff or Syberia or even the Jules Verne games?

Edit: Now that I think about it, someone should make a Japanese-style adventure game topic. Pax Softnica, Ace Attorney, Famicom Detective Club, Retro Game Challenge 2, Moon/L.O.L./Endonesia/Chulip/Giftpia, Nanatsu Kaze No Shima Monogatari, and so on...

Enk · Aug 9, 2009

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196955

An amazing thread that every adventure game lover should check out. Tons and tons of free adventure games!

DMczaf · Aug 9, 2009

You can't post King's Quest without the deaths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDTYKwmYEM

CTLance · Aug 9, 2009

Simon the Sorcerer (1/2/3D) is also available on gog.com, for all five of us that don't own an iphone yet it may be a good alternative.

We should probably list IHNMAIMS, since it's one of those classics that always somehow get mentioned.

And the Space Quest collection that's really just a shoddy dosbox bundle but may still be worth it for those of us that played them in our youth. Space Quest 4ever!

And of course the fact that Beneath a steel sky is distributed with some SCUMMVM distributions.

...Also, Kings Quest and its inofficial remakes.

wRATH2x · Aug 9, 2009

There are many games in this genre that I would like to try out, the awesome Monkey Island remake made me want to try other lucasarts point and click adventure's. Other than that who wants to hear about my adventures with put-put?

GhaleonQ · Aug 9, 2009

CTLance said:
And the Space Quest collection that's really just a shoddy dosbox bundle but may still be worth it for those of us that played them in our youth. Space Quest 4ever!

The one before that one (that whole series of collections, actually) did them right. Awesome manual recreations and everything. You bought the wrong one, unfortunately.

Nachkebia · Aug 9, 2009

Excellent thread, I love point and click adventure games, I hope at one point we wil have them on xbla or psn...

Castle Doctrine · Aug 9, 2009

oracrest said:
YES!

I loved Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and The Uninvited. They were all done really well, and I blew tons of money calling the nintendo players hotline because of them....

nostalgia pics

:lol Holy shit you just reminded me. I think I called the hotline too. Wasn't the phone number on the back of the manual? lol

I just wish we had more modern and big hd games on consoles in the spirit of these games. I mean obviously it's going to be more than just pointing and clicking, but something where you have to figure out stuff from clues and things like that. I'm know there are games on PC like this but I don't play on pc though...

abstract alien · Aug 9, 2009

I really would love a Shadowgate/Uninvited remakes for ds, its one of my fav games ever.

Mutagenic · Aug 9, 2009

DMczaf said:
You can't post King's Quest without the deaths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDTYKwmYEM

Awesome.

nincompoop · Aug 9, 2009

DMczaf said:
You can't post King's Quest without the deaths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDTYKwmYEM

:lol :lol The King's Quest games were so cruel, that's why I loved them

tadcalabash · Aug 9, 2009

The old Lucasarts adventure games (Monkey Islands, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle) are some of my favorite games of all time. Sadly I've never played the Indiana Jones games.

Anyone know offhand if they've gotten ScummVM to work with the downloaded Steam versions that just went up?

McBacon · Aug 9, 2009

I was a massive PnC player as a kid, so I played a bunch of stuff that doesn't come up nowadays. The Gene Machine is one such game, an adventure about Victorian era people who, in a Steampunk-esque world, travel around the world and onto the moon and whatnot to stop some crazy gene splicing dick. Its fun.

Visualante · Aug 9, 2009

There's lots of new adventure games as well.

epmode · Aug 9, 2009

tadcalabash said:
Anyone know offhand if they've gotten ScummVM to work with the downloaded Steam versions that just went up?

The SCUMMVM developers mentioned that they know how to convert the Steam versions so that they'll work in SCUMMVM (it's an easy change, apparently) but they're not going to do it for a while. I'm not entirely sure why but it's not a huge issue, considering that the Steam ports are actually very well-done.

Milk Lizard · Aug 9, 2009

Blade Runner was a great point and click adventure by westwood and often over looked.

Sqorgar · Aug 9, 2009

oracrest said:
The Uninvited
NES

Yikes! You need to play these games in the original BW Mac versions. The graphics are a hundred times better, and in the case of Uninvited, a hundred times creepier.

Nemic77 · Aug 9, 2009

Tacitus_ · Aug 9, 2009

Milk Lizard said:
Blade Runner was a great point and click adventure by westwood and often over looked.

Blade Runner <3

How did GAF feel about The Longest Journey? It's one of the few games in my backlog...

Pakkidis · Aug 9, 2009

http://level2-1.blogspot.com/2009/08/where-is-adventure-genre.html

Where is the adventure genre?

One of my all time favorite genres is the point-and-click adventure games. From the early 80's to the 90's I couldn't get enough of it. Now though this genre is but a shell of its former glory. So what happened? Here is my list of reasons why this genre faded out.

1)Technology- In the early 80's computers were not known for its graphical nature yet adventure games pushed the limits of what could be done. Only having to show a single image it was relatively easy to showcase some impressive graphics at the time. Meanwhile other genres like strategy games, RPG's, and FPS games looked nothing more than a pix-elated mess, difficult to decipher what was happening on the screen. Adventure games looked considerably better than any other genre at the time. The 90's began to change all that though, when graphic cards were introduced, graphics in other genres began to surpass the adventure genre and with the internet starting to take off, the adventure genre was already out the door.

2)Multiplayer- With games becoming more social and able to play with your friends and with technology making it easier than ever before to play online it offered a new way for people to play games something the adventure genre just couldn't keep up with. An online point and click adventure game just didn't work.

3)Fast paced world- Lets face it, you need time and patience to play a point and click adventure game. You need to think things through, look at all the options, experiment, exhaust all options, essentially you had to be a detective to solve these games. Patience is not something the gaming industry is known for today. If your not blowing something up, shooting something, or running from something, most gamers attention is already lost.

4) Value- Dropping 50$ for a game that would only last 10-20 hours with no replay value is something most consumers no longer wanted. Many other games on the market could easily provide much longer replay value for an even cheaper price.

The adventure genre is still kicking around somewhere, but it will never live up to the glory days of when it was king when the game industry was just starting to take off.

szaromir · Aug 9, 2009

Gabriel Knight is the best series out there

How did GAF feel about The Longest Journey?

It's fantastic.

Macho Madness · Aug 9, 2009

Where's Maniac Mansion?

Chaz Ashley · Aug 9, 2009

My favorite genre ever and pretty much the only thing I still play on my own time (currently going through Another Code R on Wii and Eric The Unready via DosBox on my new Netbook).

Shameless plug for all german speaking genre-fans around here: A couple of weeks ago we recorded a big 2 1/2-hour podcast primarily about the Lucas Arts-games, but also talked a bit about Adventures in general.

http://tr.im/g1lucast

Grimmy · Aug 9, 2009

FAIL. How can you mention point-n-click adventure games without GABRIEL KNIGHT???

Unicorn · Aug 9, 2009

no Rama?

Hard as NAILS!

Deleted member 30609 · Aug 9, 2009

the entire Chzo Mythos series deserve a mention

they are made by what amounts to one guy (Yahtzee, of Zero Punctuation), but they're just so charming/creepy.

Some of the puzzles and the like in the first game are a bit hard to follow, but it's really worth sticking with each one, because the story goes to an absolutely Silent Hill-styled crazy place in the third game, and wraps up really fantastically in the fourth game.

They don't go for too long, maybe an hour or two, maybe three, each, so give them a try.

Download them all here.

Oh the order of the series is:

5 Days a Stranger
7 Days a Skeptic
Trilby's Notes
6 Days a Sacrifice

play them in that order

CTLance · Aug 9, 2009

I just remembered that nice point-n-click game that had the german voice actor of Bruce Willis voicing the main character: The moment of silence. Nice game, shitty DRM, hard as fuck at times. Plus, I'm a sucker for Orwellian settings.

Did I mention the shitty DRM? Because it was shitty and I hated it. The creators of Starforce are one of the few people on this planet that I would perform reconstructive surgery on, without any forewarning, and without consent. Using a baseball bat coated with rusty nails and glass shards of course. Bastards.

StuBurns · Aug 9, 2009

Whenever people make these threads no one says Discworld Noir, that was huge in the UK when I was younger.

Titanic: An Adventure Out of Time, as well, or a title similar to that.

McBacon · Aug 9, 2009

Moment of Silence and Vista don't get along, so I've got an uplayed version of Moment of Silence sat here

Might dig out the old XP lappy.

CultureClearance · Aug 9, 2009

The Dark Eye -
Second creepiest/makes you uncomfortable game I've ever played. Right behind Silent Hill 2. It fails in many ways, but succeeds in ways that games never ever do. Every mini-story is based off a edgar allen poe piece. Yet, it all somehow connects into this house. was never able to "beat it." Not even sure if you can. There's a lot of intepretive things going on with intereactivity that makes it hard to know if you're going in the right direction or in any direction...or if you're suppose to even play like that.

Tacitus_ · Aug 9, 2009

stuburns said:
Whenever people make these threads no one says Discworld Noir, that was huge in the UK when I was younger.

How's the writing on that compared to Pratchett's stuff?

CultureClearance · Aug 9, 2009

Gabriel Knight: Sins of a Father

One of the few non-comical adventure games to have an interesting plot. an interesting cast and great writing. I actually learned a thing or two about voodoo, and the city of new orleans.
the conversations are really well done. Tim Curry is a fantastic voice actor. Too bad the puzzles were sometimes just out of left field confusing. Definitely a must play and a classic, but don't hesitate to look up solutions if you're stuck.
The art was exceptional, as all sierra classics are.

StuBurns · Aug 9, 2009

Tacitus_ said:
How's the writing on that compared to Pratchett's stuff?

I can't remember I'm afraid, I haven't played it for a really long time. I enjoyed it a lot though, as did many of my friends at the time.

CTLance · Aug 9, 2009

McBacon said:
Moment of Silence and Vista don't get along, so I've got an uplayed version of Moment of Silence sat here

Might dig out the old XP lappy.

What you want to do: Play the game.
What you do not want to do unless you plan to wipe the system afterwards: Install the Starforce DRM that gets installed alongside without your consent.

I'll leave it to you what to make of that.

Sanjuro · Aug 9, 2009

Discworld was one of my favorite games from the early PS1 days. Got me interested in the series of books which are simply wonderful. I recommend people not familiar to follow the same course as myself.

EEEEBOOO EEEEEBOOOOO. EGG! EGG!.

Kosma · Aug 9, 2009

Love these kind of threads. I never played PnC games when I was small that much (too hard) but I remember always soaking up the atmosphere in them. Now with Monkey Island SE I finally got a chance to play one for real

StuBurns · Aug 9, 2009

My first PnC was actually Beneath a Steel Sky, and it's coming to iPhone in a couple of months. I can't wait to replay it.

electristan · Aug 9, 2009

Unicorn said:
no Rama?

Hard as NAILS!
-- RAMA Images --

Loved the game, math and logic puzzles are the best. hated the book its based on though.

One of the nes i remember the most is Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge

i never got very far but the art style always entertaind me as a kid, plus you mouse pointer was you played by a fly

I also found Flight of the Amazon Queen to be quite good, and its free to

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