what adventures exist on consoles?

[Shrooin]

I'm talking about straight point and click adventure games only. I include non point and clicks but that is just so people that don't know exactly what an adventure game is don't get confused. reply to this thread if you know any more console point and clicks / adventure games.

here is the list so far (not including computers, handhelds or newgen)

Amiga CD32
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Beneath a Steel Sky
Labyrinth of Time
Simon the Sorceror

Fujitsu FM Towns Marty
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Monkey Island 2 (japanese only)
Secret of Monkey Island, The (japanese only)

Nintendo 64
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Shadowgate 64 - Trials of the Four Towers

Nintendo Entertainment System
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Deja Vu
King's Quest V
Maniac Mansion
Shadowgate
Uninvited

Panasonic 3DO
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D
Myst

Philips CD-i
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7th Guest
L’Affaire Morlov
L'Ange et le Demon (french only)
Laser Lords
Lost Eden
Myst
Secret Mission

Sega CD
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Adventures of Willie Beamish, The
Dracula Unleashed
Jurassic Park
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Rise of the Dragon
Secret of Monkey Island, The
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volume II
Snatcher
Space Adventure, The

Sega Master System
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King's Quest

Sega Saturn
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D
Discworld
Discworld II: Missing Presumed?
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Myst
Riven

Sony Playstation
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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
D
Discworld
Discworld II: Missing Presumed?
Myst

Turbo Grafx-16
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Space Adventure, The

Turbo Grafx CD
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Beyond Shadowgate
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volume II

[jajaja]

Add Deja Vu and Uninvited, both for NES.

[FantasiaWHT]

Myst made it on to PS1, Saturn, CDi & 3D0
Riven made it on to PS1 and Saturn
Shadows of Destiny on PS2?
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey on Xbox

[Trebuken]

MYST III + IV for Xbox
Syberia I + II for Xbox (Think these qualify, haven't played them)
I ususally think of Flashback but I suppose that has some mild action...

[c0ldb33r]

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I ususally think of Flashback but I suppose that has some mild action...
Then we'd have to include Out of this World too. It was on Super NES, Genesis and 3D0 (and others?)

I would choose to include Out of this World. Although it did have some action elements, it was mainly focussed on puzzle solving (and is still one of my favourite games of all time).

[chrissylas]

Escape from Monkey Island - PS2
Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon - Xbox
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - PSX, GBA
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - PSX
Blazing Dragons - PSX

[Keir]

CD32:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Labyrinth of Time

Playstation:
Discworld
Discworld II

[mrmark0673]

How about A Boy and His Blob for the NES? I'd say it is in the same light as Out of this World and Flashback as these is some action involved.

[ubersaurus]

Nintendo DS:
Hotel Dusk
Trace Memory

Game Boy Color:
Shadowgate
Deja Vu 1 & 2

The Sega CD had a monkey island game, too. I think it was the first one?

[BocoDragon]

Phoenix Wright 1 and 2 perhaps?

[blissfulnoise]

If you really mean no action what-so-ever, you're going to exclude a lot of console games that do fall in the adventure game genre. For example, Jurassic Park includes some "action" sequences just like Snatcher, but they're both clearly adventure games.

Additionally, games like Shenmue and Indigo Prophecy fit the "adventure game" bill while a game like Out of this World wouldn't. It's difficult to quantify, but if you look at a game like Flashback, agility is a core element of the game. Making jumps, dodging attacks, etc. This puts it in the action-adventure camp. Seems like a minor distinction, but it’s fundamentally a different type of game than a true adventure game is. Ditto for A Boy and His Blob.

A game like Shadowgate or Deja-Vu may have timed elements in them, but at their core, they are point and clock adventure games. Likewise, a game like Snatcher has very rudimentary action sequences (you can even us a light gun for them) but the game's core is traditional adventure.

Then you have genre-straddling games like Panic! which would most closely match a true adventure game as a genre, but it doesn't have any obvious watermarks that would qualify it.

Anyway, this should be comprehensive for the Sega CD. You have some games that "might" make the cut like Wirehead, but that would open the door to games like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and no one wants that...

Sega CD:

The Adventures of Willie Beamish
Dracula Unleashed
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Rise of the Dragon
Secret of Monkey Island
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volume II
Snatcher
The Space Adventure

[blissfulnoise]

Phoenix Wright 1 and 2 perhaps?

Yep. Adventure all the way.

[exit]

D - PSX Saturn 3DO

There's also Enemy Zero (Saturn), but that does contain action bits.

[c0ldb33r]

...Additionally, games like Shenmue and Indigo Prophecy fit the "adventure game" bill while a game like Out of this World wouldn't. It's difficult to quantify, but if you look at a game like Flashback, agility is a core element of the game. Making jumps, dodging attacks, etc. This puts it in the action-adventure camp. Seems like a minor distinction, but it’s fundamentally a different type of game than a true adventure game is. Ditto for A Boy and His Blob.
Out of this world isn't concerned primarily with agility. Instead it's "how do I figure this out" and "what do I do know". Not jump, dodge, shoot shoot shoot, jump jump. It's a real brain teaser in parts (at least it was when I first played it).

[blissfulnoise]

Out of this world isn't concerned primarily with agility. Instead it's "how do I figure this out" and "what do I do know". Not jump, dodge, shoot shoot shoot, jump jump. It's a real brain teaser in parts (at least it was when I first played it).

That's not true. Out of this World is an evolution of the platforming of Prince of Persia. Make that very first leap on the vine to avoid the panther. It is agility.

Don't confuse an action game with action-adventure. I know they seem like hairline distinctions, but they're not.

[chrissylas]

Dracula- Lynx

One of my favorite Lynx games (although the whole no save/start over if you die thing kinda limits enjoyment)

[FantasiaWHT]

Gotta remind you the OP said no handheld or PC games ;P

[NickmasterX]

Nightshade for NES
Cosmo's adventure for genesis/nes (point and click + platforming)
Shemue (Dreamcast) and Shenmue 2 (xbox)

[8Ways2Tuesday]

I'll just second (or third) Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories for PS2.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Anyway, this should be comprehensive for the Sega CD. You have some games that "might" make the cut like Wirehead, but that would open the door to games like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and no one wants that...

Sega CD:

The Adventures of Willie Beamish
Dracula Unleashed
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Rise of the Dragon
Secret of Monkey Island
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volume II
Snatcher
The Space Adventure
I would add Dune. It has some resource management sim aspects, but by-and-large it's all story-driven adventure. Quite a bit like Snatcher, in fact.

Just looking trough my Dreamcast collection, I also see Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Stupid Invaders. Actually, there's dozens more on the Dreamcast and hundreds of similar games across all platforms if you consider the (generally) Japanese-only adventure game genre, which is a huge genre over there.

Also surprised that no one has mentioned Animal Crossing. Maybe there's not enough "adventure" to it for it to be considered an adventure game, but it fits all the other criteria for the genre, I'd say.


...word is bondage...

[Flack]

I guess I am showing my age when the first thing I think of is Bard's Tale and no one else has mentioned it.

[shoes23]

The Broken Sword series had at least two games on the PSX. Not sure if another was released on the other side of the pond though.

[Cornelius]

I guess I am showing my age when the first thing I think of is Bard's Tale and no one else has mentioned it.
There are a bunch of versions of this game, so maybe there is one I don't know about, but I thought it was strictly an RPG, in the D&D sense even. While RPGs don't usually have much in the way of twitch gaming, they are considerably different than adventure games

[Shrooin]

thanks for the replies. I never knew there was that many adventure games! I checked out the games mentioned and updated the list according to what I think an adventure game is. a little bit of action like in jurassic park is ok because it is mostly adventure. out of this world is definately not adventure but action-adventure.

[blissfulnoise]

I would add Dune. It has some resource management sim aspects, but by-and-large it's all story-driven adventure. Quite a bit like Snatcher, in fact.

Just looking trough my Dreamcast collection, I also see Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Stupid Invaders. Actually, there's dozens more on the Dreamcast and hundreds of similar games across all platforms if you consider the (generally) Japanese-only adventure game genre, which is a huge genre over there.

Also surprised that no one has mentioned Animal Crossing. Maybe there's not enough "adventure" to it for it to be considered an adventure game, but it fits all the other criteria for the genre, I'd say.


...word is bondage...

You know, you're right. I own Dune on Sega CD, but I've never actually played it. I have, however, played the PC version of it and it's definately adventure-ish. I think that there's some troop management in it too, but it should go under the adventure camp.

Animal Crossing though I wouldn't include. There's no real story goals in that game that would help solidify adventure game status. It's more a collection of minigames than adventure even though none of them are particularly twitchy, though fishing might qualify. It's interesting to consider though.

[tom]

Adventure (VCS)

[FantasiaWHT]

Is anybody else depressed that so many people don't understand what an adventure game really is? hehehe

[vaportransmitter]

some additions
Heart of the Alien (sega cd)
Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom (nes)
Still Life (xbox)

and for the sake of it, the handhelds:

DS//
Hotel Dusk
Phoenix Wright
Phoenix Wright 2
Phoenix Wright 3 (unrelased in NA, so far)
Touch Detective
Trace Memory

GBC//
Deja Vu 1 & 2
The Fish Files (europe)
The New Addams Family (europe)
Shadowgate Classic

[NickmasterX]

Young Merlin (Snes)

[vaportransmitter]

and another

City of Lost Children (PSX)

[mezrabad]

How about Indigo Prophecy a.k.a. Farenheit for the Xbox? I haven't played through it all yet, but it seems very adventure-like despite the freedom of movement.

Oh and what I consider the first adventure game for a home videogame platform, Haunted House for the Magnavox Odyssey. You played a character who moved through their environment picking up clues and avoiding obstacles. Okay, it's a stretch . ..

[NickmasterX]

Blazing Dragons for PSX and Saturn

[j_factor]

Saturn had another one in Europe only, called Atlantis something. Must be pretty rare, as I've never seen it. IIRC, it was originally developed as a 32X CD game, the only game in the universe to begin development on that platform.

Also, Scooby-Doo Mystery for Genesis.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Saturn had another one in Europe only, called Atlantis something. Must be pretty rare, as I've never seen it. IIRC, it was originally developed as a 32X CD game, the only game in the universe to begin development on that platform.
Are you thinking of Shadow Of Atlantis? Development actually started on the Sega CD, but it was never released on any platform. I don't think it actually even got all that far into development even though it was in development for like three or four years across three platforms.


...word is bondage...

[j_factor]

Are you thinking of Shadow Of Atlantis? Development actually started on the Sega CD, but it was never released on any platform. I don't think it actually even got all that far into development even though it was in development for like three or four years across three platforms.

No, I'm actually thinking of Atlantis: The Lost Tales. Perhaps my recollection of it having been a CD 32X game was me mixing it up with Shadow of Atlantis.