Fond Memories in Adventure Gaming.

[Renzokuken12]

hmmm what about Exile that was a alright game except for the part when i kept on dieing in random battles

 

[Fallofthetyrant]

Loom, Graphical adventure game that came out in 1990-91 (I cannot remember)
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/945063590-00.jpg

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1170901616-00.jpg

King's Quest... The whole series was amazing

 

[Falloutfan]

Loom... a classic. Don't think anything like it has been seen since.
Wish they made more innovative games like that.

Respectfully

Falloutfan

 

[hima]

  I LOVE Adventure games!! Too bad , they're not popular in Thailand at all :S  I remembered dying so many times in Space Quest lol.(I think it was 6 or 7, can't really recall. The one that you have to cheat the exam before becoming a ship commander.) I started playing this game when I was so young that I couldn't understand English that well, and I misunderstood that all of them are just spooky horror games. (Well the atmosphere gave me a creep, you know?) And because of that... I never beat any of the game haha, not until 7 - 8 years later , I think.

    My favourite would be  : Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle and Phantasmagoria.

    Especially Grim Fandango...I think I almost cried when the game was over. I mean, I really attach to the characters! I was hoping that there'd be a sequel...but oh well

  As for Day of the Tentacle, it was the first adventure game I play. But I got stuck and couldn't finish the game. It was so many years later that I found a walkthrough and decided to finish it once and for all haha.

  For Phantasmagoria...I just wanted to see how scary it was. I mean, I've read so much about it in Thai computer game magazine, but they never given me any pictures or screenshots at all.  Fortunately, one of my friend own the copy and gave me the game because he no longer play it.

  I also like Broken Sword (well, the first one anyway. I don't like the 3D one ) , I Have No Mouth and I must Scream, and Gabriel Knight, although I didn't finish Grabiel Knight 3 due to something that I don't understand.
The newest one that I found it entertaining is Secret File: Tunguska. It's pretty easy.

I really need to get myself a copy of Monkey Island. I remembered reading the walkthrough over and over in Thai game magazine, and looking forward to buy the game but couldn't find it anywhere :S

People should play 5 days a stranger and its sequels too   It's an independent point and click adventure game that is very high in production. The best part is, it's free!

 

[Anonymous]

phantasmagoria was fucking bonkers. i loved that game so much.

rip sierra

 

[Sic Semper Tyranosaurus]

1. King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!: This was an incredibly beautiful game. It was made in 1990, and it was the first of the King's Quest games to get the point-and-click interface instead of the typing "Look at ___", "Take the ____" dialog boxes. Everything was beautifully hand-painted, the music (for 8-bit MIDIs) were awesome, and the story was incredibly fun. I've played it about 20 times, especially the final castle! The characters were strong and loveable and it played like a storybook, with clever sight-gags and intuitive uses for every item.

I loved the bejesus out of this game, and never finished it. I funneled an entire summer down the drain, trying over and over to get to the end. Every time I found the wizard, though, my PC made a horrible shrieking sound, and the game crashed.  :'( It made me a sad little raptor indeed.

Come to think of it, most of my early game collection was from Sierra. Rest in peace, old friend.

 

[Venetia]

phantasmagoria was fucking bonkers. i loved that game so much.

rip sierra

OMG, I always wanted Phantasmagoria so f'ing much. My computer at the time couldn't run it (yeah, it was lower than 486 DOS and had a 2MB memory card. WHEW, classicness). Man, I shoulda asked for that for xmas. Why couldn't you people have mentioned it earlier ;_; It's all your fault ;_;

Also, Sierra's still alive and kicking?
http://www.sierra.com/en/home.html

They own Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, F.E.A.R., Switchball ... Granted, they're not as renowned as they used to be. But I wish Ken & Roberta Williams would pop out a few more adventure babies ;_;


@ Sic: Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I had that exact problem. I actually had written Sierra about it waayyyyy back in the day. I can't recall what they said exactly, but it had to do with the fact that I was trying to play it on too new a version of DOS. If you get DOSBox, you'll be able to run it okay--depending on the version. It wasn't so much a bug as something they couldn't have foreseen at the time since they didn't have the OS to test :'P

Anyway Sierra released a King's Quest Compilation (here), that'll run on Windows 2000 and XP without any DOS emulation. It's 20 bucks there but I saw it at Circuit City for $10. I woulda bought it except I already own all but # 7 :'P

P.S. lol, the name is 'Venetia', not 'Valencia' o_O

 

[Anonymous]

Also, Sierra's still alive and kicking?

oh sweet jesus christ that is the single most disturbing sentence i've ever read

sierra died with oakhurst.

 

[Venetia]

Oh, you mean Sierra On-Line.

You're right, Sierra lost a lot after Oakhurst closed down. I wish Josh Mandel and the Williams'es and Lowe had started their own project--unless they did and I don't know of it? But I didn't even think about that, it happened like 8 years ago. Memories ;_;