Graphic Adventure Games

[NeoVenom]

Does anybody like them? I do. :D

Here is a list of all the Graphic Adventure Games I have.

Maniac Mansion
Day of the Tentacle
Zak and the Alien Mindbenders
Loom
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Monkey Island 1 thru 4
Grim Fandango
The Dig
Full Throttle
Leisure Suit Larry 1 thru 7
King's Quest 1 thru 7
Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth
Laura Bow : The Colonel's Bequest & The Dagger of Amon Ra
Broken Sword : The Smoking Mirror
Toon Struck
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
Spyfox : Operation Ozone
Tony Tough and The Night of the Roasted Moths

I think that'z it. If I find anymore, I'll post it up.

[digitalpress]

Here are some more:

http://66.92.250.36:8080/DP/cmf/listing.cmf?style=62

[Daria]

My favorite point and clicks are:

Quest for Glory ***
Quest for Glory 2 *****
Quest for Glory 3 ***
King's Quest 6 ***
I have no Mouth and I must Scream ****
AMBER: Journey's Beyond ****
Blade Runner *****
Syberia ****
Grim Fandango *****
Full Throttle ***
Myst ****
Titanic ***
Longest Journey **
Sanitarium *******************************

* - Grade of Favoritism (:
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[NeoVenom]

I not familiar with some of those games, but it'z ok. I heard some people are making a Zak McKracken II, so I'm gonna wait on that. I saw the new Leisure Suit Larry game, but I though it was going to be after Love for Sail.

[Azazel]

King Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest were some of my favorites.

[portnoyd]

All great titles listed. I *still* need to track down a copy of Grim Fandango.

One title not listed is Black Dahlia. Not completely a graphic adventure, more like a straight puzzle adventure on 7 CDs... all FMV, but the acting in the FMV is SUPERB. Really makes the game.

dave

[digitalpress]

My favorite point and clicks are:

Quest for Glory ***
Quest for Glory 2 *****
Quest for Glory 3 ***
King's Quest 6 ***
I have no Mouth and I must Scream ****
AMBER: Journey's Beyond ****
Blade Runner *****
Syberia ****
Grim Fandango *****
Full Throttle ***
Myst ****
Titanic ***
Longest Journey **
Sanitarium *******************************

* - Grade of Favoritism (:

Daria,
I was wondering if perhaps you might MARRY ME AND BEAR MY CHILDREN.

Grim Fandango? Sanitarium? You're not supposed to enjoy those games. You're supposed to get annoyed when you hear about those games.

I look forward to raising our children on point and click adventures. This would be the beginning of the next uber-kin, the race of gamers that take over the planet. It is your destiny.

:)

[NeoVenom]

Isn't there a Sam & Max II and a Full Throttle II game already out? I don't know for sure. I think Graphic Adventure games will make kids smarter. Even Spy Fox, which is a graphic adventure (point & click) for little kids, had me thinking. LOL Oh yeah, you can probably find Grim Fandango in Best Buy. That'z where I found my copy.

[portnoyd]

Sam & Max II.... canceled. :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

dave

[Daria]

Full Throttle 2 was canned as well. :/
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[calthaer]

"Who is this fat man, I wondair, and what does he have to do with this sinistair plot?"

Grim Fandango is a great story...probably as good as adventure games get, although...

I like the Dig myself - also very good. Lucasarts > Sierra any day of the week.

[Flack]

A couple I didn't see mentioned ...

Dark Seed I and II (featuring the art of H.R. Giger)
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Indiana Jones

There was another one I remember playing where you were trying to escape from a mental institution. I remember that if you got caught they gave you a lobotomy and sent you back to your cell. I can't remember what that one was called though ...

[NeoVenom]

Oh yeah, I forgot I had an Indiana Jones graphic adventure game. I forgot the name though. I can't play a lot of Graphic Adventure games now. :o Once my computer got updated, I'm not able to play a lot of games that run on MS-DOS. It's the damn Sound Card we got. Suckz that they cancelled Sam & Max II and Full Throttle II.

If anyone is interested in the Zak McKracken II game in progess here are the links:

http://www.zak2.de.vu/

http://www.zak2project.de/

There are two different versions, so I'm not sure which is still in progress.

[Aussie2B]

I love a good point-and-click game. :) I'm a big fan of the simple NES ones like Maniac Mansion and Shadowgate. Most of my other favorites are Japanese-only, and they tend to be just the structure for a game within another genre (like dating sim/hentai games and raising sims). Out of those, the Wonder Project J series is my very favorite. Those two games are among my top favorite games ever, period. :)

[hydr0x]

A couple I didn't see mentioned ...

Dark Seed I and II (featuring the art of H.R. Giger)
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Indiana Jones



and some more:

Legend of Kyrandia 1+3
Secret of the Rain Forest
Jack Orlando
Orion Burger
Floyd
Broken Sword
Westerner
(ah damn it i can't remember the name, one of the most recent ones)
Simon the Sorcerer 1-3

[NeoVenom]

Aussie2B, if you like the NES Maniac Mansion game, you'll like the C64 version. The NES version is censored (for some crazy reason). I want to get a lot of old Graphic Adventure games like Neverhood (I'm not sure if this game is considered one), Legend of Kyrandia 1 & 3, Disc World I & II, and some others.

[digitalpress]

Full Throttle 2 was canned as well. :/

I know that this is "YES" in code.

Excellent.... excellent.

:P

[Crush Crawfish]

The only one I've ever played was princess tomato for the NES. It's pretty fun, and allows you to smack anyone you meet. :)

[Daria]

Full Throttle 2 was canned as well. :/

I know that this is "YES" in code.

Excellent.... excellent.

:P

Persistant aren't you? :P

And yes as far as I'm concerned Sanitarium has to be one of the best video games ever made. Or well it rocked anyway. The village full of children... and the school house... *shudders*

If you haven't played it I'd recomend AMBER, it's a myst clone but it's got a couple of really great ghost stories woven into the storyline and it can get downright creepy at times.

You know what I left Frankenstien Through the eyes of the Monster off my list... that was a good game too. And it had Tim Curry in it. >.>
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[Arqueologia_Digital]

mmm...maybe this thread must be in the vintage PC forum...

[anagrama]

There were 2 different LucusArts Indiana Jones graphic adventures - The Last Crusade (subtitled 'The Adventure Game', as opposed to the god-awful 'Action Game' platformer) and The Fate of Atlantis.

Oh, and 'Beneath A Steel Sky' was pretty spiffy too.

[anagrama]

The NES version [of Maniac Mansion] is censored (for some crazy reason).

That'll be because the old 'hamster-in-microwave' trick. It was taken out of some versions, though I *think* it's still in the US NES game.

[hydr0x]

There were 2 different LucusArts Indiana Jones graphic adventures - The Last Crusade (subtitled 'The Adventure Game', as opposed to the god-awful 'Action Game' platformer) and The Fate of Atlantis.

Oh, and 'Beneath A Steel Sky' was pretty spiffy too.


yeaaah that was one of the games i couldn't remember when i posted my reply, and it lets another one come to my mind: 'Guilty'

btw Fate of Atlantis is far superior to The Last Crusade

[anagrama]

btw Fate of Atlantis is far superior to The Last Crusade

Undoubtably so, though I've got a soft spot for The Last Crusade, since it was the first graphic adventure I ever finished :)

[NeoVenom]

That'll be because the old 'hamster-in-microwave' trick. It was taken out of some versions, though I *think* it's still in the US NES game.

They took it out. They also took out that part when you put the tentacle mating song in the Green Tentacle's room and "something" happens which causes you to die. They also censored "For a good time, Call Edna."

Here is an interesting document about the NES Maniac Mansion:

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html

By the way, I was playing Maniac Mansion a while back for the C64 and I always have problems going into the huge telescope room. You know the hole on top of the man-eating plant (I think that'z what it is called). Everytime I make it to the top, I can't enter the room. Does anyone else encounter this same problem?

[anagrama]

They took it out.

That's what I originally thought, but the DP Database suggests otherwise:

http://66.92.250.36:8080/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=114596

[NeoVenom]

Ohhh...interesting, but I bet they took out the part where Ed kills you if you give him the cooked hamster. I will never put a hamster in a microwave, even if it'z in a game. LOL

[YoshiM]

Another that wasn't mentioned was "Mean Streets" by Access Software. You took control of Tex Murphy in a futuristic setting that mixed a graphical interface adventure with some action sequences and a mini flight sim as you tried to solve a supposed suicide. It used 256 colors (one of the first at the time to really use the colors) and had a sound setup called "real sound" (if I'm not mistaken) that pumped sampled music, sound effects and voices through your PC speaker.

Pretty cool game.

[NeoVenom]

Personally, I like the whole point & click concept. For games like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island IV, there's no use with the mouse. So far I haven't seem any pointing and clicking in both of them. Also, it'z hard for me to use a keyboard with those games, so I use a controller instead. If Lucasarts ever release another Maniac Mansion game, I hope it has the same gameplay as Day of the Tentacle. But with technology today, it will most likely be like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island IV.

[Jorpho]

I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of Zak McKraken with all of those icky mazes replaced with dungeons full of random RPG battles. With the game's nonlinear structure, it could work out awfully well.

Anyway, if you've tried out Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen already, you may enjoy Teen Agent. It is also freeware, and it has some thoroughly stupid puzzles, but it has some of the best writing I've ever seen in a game of its type.

[hydr0x]

sorry, double post

[hydr0x]

Zak reminds me of this: Zak McKrakken 2 is being made by a group of fans :)

also Broken Sword 2.5 btw, a new 2D Broken Sword (looks promising)

[Aussie2B]

That Maniac Mansion page is really cool. :) I've read that article before, but I've never seen any pictures of the removed things.

[Daria]

They took it out.

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html

Actually that page said they kept it.


In the credits, which are shown after the conclusion of the game, there are two occurrences of the word Scumm, which stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. Scumm is the story game development system which was used to produce Maniac. They understood, and asked "What is NES SCUMM?" That is the version of Scumm that we did for the Nintendo. "Yeah, but it says NES SCUMM. What will people think?"

I don't know what people will think. And we will never know what people will think. I took it out.

They didn't object to the nasty stuff that happens to the hamster. Ron suggested that it was just violence.


Heh. I just think that paragraph's funny. LOL
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[NeoVenom]

They didn't object to the nasty stuff that happens to the hamster. Ron suggested that it was just violence.


I guess I missed that part. :o Sorry, my apologiez. LOL

[NeoVenom]

Sorry for double posting. I wanted to delete the post before this one but I couldn't.

Currently I'm playing Monkey Island 4. Half of the stuff in that game I would have never found out. I hate getting stuck in a Graphic Adventure game without a walkthrough. Has anyone beat a Graphic Adventure game without looking at a Walkthrough? I have beaten a couple without looking at one, but the hardest Graphic Adventure game for me was The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate. I definately couldn't beat this game without a Walkthrough.

[Jorpho]

I almost made it through Grim Fandango without any hints. (Couldn't quite figure out how to talk to the beatniks.)

[-hellvin-]

I love the old school days of Graphic Adventure Gaming. My favorite ones were in the Lucasarts collection I used to have on floppy which included:

Secret Of Monkey Island
Maniac Mansion
Loom
Zak Mckracken
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

Such great times. I'll never forget some of the moments I've had playing such as poor Rusty's fate in Loom. That poor, poor boy! And the dark room with the breathing monster in Zak Mckracken that freaked me the hell out when I was younger.

I really enjoyed a lot of sierra's adventure games as well, such as Space/Police/King's quest. Too bad the King's Quest series ended pretty horribly with that 3dish crap one, eh?

[NeoVenom]

I remember recently I was playing Zak with headphones on. While I was walking thru the jungle (I think all who played Zak will remember), I heard that loud roar and I have to admit, I got scared. LOL I wonder what is in that dark room in the Sphinx. Or was in one of the Pyramids? After I finish up with Monkey Island 4, I'm gonna play Maniac Mansion and Zak again. :D I have to play them on a C64 emulator cuz I lost the cable that connects the keyboard to the disk drive. :o