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Best Adventure Games on GamesNostalgia

Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way. Over the years, they have evolved and transformed into immersive and visually stunning experiences. Text-based adventure games, or interactive fiction, emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games relied solely on text descriptions to guide players through a story, allowing them to make choices that would affect the outcome. Computer text adventure games started with Scott Adam's Adventureland, but the most famous one is probably Zork: The Great Underground Empire by Infocom. The company created many other excellent titles, including Starcross and Planetfall, released in 1983.

Sierra On-Line was the first to produce a graphic adventure, with Mystery House, but the first important title was King's Quest, also known as King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown. After this, Sierra continued to create many other great games like Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter and continued for many years, at least until King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride.

In graphic adventure games, the player sees the story on the screen, and the visuals change and reflect his actions, so the graphics are part of the gameplay. Text adventures with pictures are different. In this case, images are just helpful (but not necessary) gameplay elements accompanying the player. Some examples of this genre are Magnetic Scroll's masterpieces The Pawn and Fish!.

Initially, graphic adventures were based on a text parser, just like text adventures, but later they adopted a point-and-click interface. LucasArts legendary titles such as Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Maniac Mansion were the pioneers. Still, the real success arrived with Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis, The Secret of Monkey Island, and many other incredible games.

But the adventure games genre does not include only text adventures and classic graphic adventures. We have many sub-genres, like the adventure-rpg horror titles of Adventure Soft, like Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, first-person puzzle adventure games like Myst, isometric action adventures like Cadaver by Bitmap Brothers, or the ZX Spectrum classic Knight Tyme, or to mention a more recent game, the psychological horror Sanitarium.

In many adventures of the '90s, you can enjoy fantastic hand-drawn animations and terrific 2D graphics; see, for example, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars or Torin's Passage.

There is no scarcity of adventure games out there; it's one of the most beloved genres of computer games. From old classic titles to more modern adventures, you will find enough titles to keep you occupied for years. Happy adventuring!

Dune amiga

Dune is a strategy adventure developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Games in 1992 for Amiga and PC. Based on the famous Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, the game was also ported to CD and released for the Sega CD console.

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games windows

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is a series of graphic adventures in 3D and third-person perspective, based on the famous BBC TV show Doctor Who. The games feature the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amelia Pond.

Year: 2010 Genre: Adventure

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Alone in the Dark dos

Alone in the Dark is a survival horror game developed by Infogrames Europe and published by I-Motion in 1992. It was initially released for DOS but was later ported to several other platforms.

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse windows

Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse is an educational adventure created by Humongous Entertainment. It was released in 1996 for Macintosh and Windows. It's the sequel of the first Freddi Fish, released in 1994.

Year: 1996 Genre: Adventure

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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow dosamiga

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is the sixth chapter in Sierra's King's Quest series of graphics adventures. The series started with King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown.

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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Maniac Mansion Deluxe windows

Maniac Mansion Deluxe is a fan-made revamped version of Maniac Mansion, the famous LucasArts adventure game. it features 256 colours graphics, digital sound effects and continuo...

Year: 2004 Genre: Adventure

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Flight of the Amazon Queen dosamiga

Flight of the Amazon Queen is a point-and-click graphic adventure created by Interactive Binary Illusions and published in 1995 for Amiga and MS-DOS. The Amiga version was written ...

Year: 1995 Genre: Adventure

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Space Quest 4 dosamiga

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is a humorous graphic adventure created by Sierra On-Line. It is the fourth chapter of the popular Space Quest series; a saga start...

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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Leisure Suit Larry Enhanced dosamiga

Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards, also known as Leisure Suit Larry Enhanced, is a 1991 graphic adventure by Sierra. It's the remake of the first game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.

Year: 1991 Genre: Adventure

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Operation Stealth amiga

007: James Bond - The Stealth Affair (aka Operation Stealth) is a spy-themed adventure game developed by Delphine Software and published by U.S. Gold in 1990 for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS.

Year: 1990 Genre: Adventure

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Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter dosamiga

Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter is a 1991 graphic adventure by Sierra. It is the remake of the original Space Quest: Chapter I released in 1986. The new version ...

Year: 1991 Genre: Adventure

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King's Quest I VGA Remake windows

King's Quest I VGA was created by AGD Interactive, as a remake of the graphics adventure King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown. The original game was designed by Roberta Williams and released by Sierra in 1984.

Year: 2010 Genre: Adventure

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King's Quest III Redux windowsmac-osx

King's Quest III Redux is an enhanced remake of the popular point-and-click adventure published by Sierra in 1986. This fantastic remake features hand-painted backgrounds and new c...

Year: 2011 Genre: Adventure

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Myst windows-3.x

Myst is a first-person graphic adventure created by Cyan and published by Brøderbund in 1993 for Macintosh and Windows 3x. The game was incredibly successful, and it was ported la...

Year: 1993 Genre: Adventure

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