Remember adventure games?

[MarkB]

The one I have fondest memories of, and possibly the only one I ever managed to play through without a walkthrough, was Lucasarts' Full Throttle. Great game, felt like playing through an animated movie.

A lot of those Lucasarts games did the neat thing of rewarding failure - some of the funniest moments were what happened when you didn't get a puzzle right, often with extended bits that played out across multiple attempts, so you'd actually deliberately get puzzles wrong sometimes just to see them play out.

 

[Reynard]

Not new, but newer: The Cave is really great.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Side note: did anyone else here play online MUD's ?

I did a lot for a year or so before I joined the Army. Some of my friends were really hardcore on it for a couple of years after that. For the life of me I am trying to remember the name. This would have been circa-1996.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Carmen Sandiego is one of those franchises that I am frankly shocked they haven't reinvented with a new game. Especially when the show came out a few years ago.

 

[sevenbastard]

My favorite Fantasy Adventure Game

 

[abazaba]

I did a lot for a year or so before I joined the Army. Some of my friends were really hardcore on it for a couple of years after that. For the life of me I am trying to remember the name. This would have been circa-1996.

I played a few of them for a while, but cannot remember any names either. Years later, I met a guy at work who actually designed a few "levels/area's" for a popular MUD codebase. ('TinyMUD' ? Can't remember either). I was pretty impressed.

I just did a quick google search, and it appears that there are still a few of them currently active, and you seem to have a reasonable choice of MUD clients as well. Amazing.

 

[GMMichael]

Not new, but newer: The Cave is really great.

I see your Cave and raise you one Truberbrook:

 

[Xenolith234]

I played a LOT of Sierra games in my youth. Their sister studio's Betrayal at Krondor remains one of my favorite video games of all time (although there is a potential no-win state in the game that initially frustrated the hell out of young me). My second favorite was the first Gabriel Knight game, followed closely by the two Laura Bow mysteries.

I loved King’s Quest!

 

[Reynard]

I see your Cave and raise you one Truberbrook:

Aaaaand purchased.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

I loved King’s Quest!

The AGD interactive remakes were really good. Sadly the studio is defunct now.