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

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

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! dos

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out is, strangely enough, the fifth entry into the Leisure Suit Larry series created by Al Lowe and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993 for DOS.

Year: 1993 Genre: Adventure

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Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? dos

Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?, released as Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! in North America, is the second title in the Discworld series of graphic adventures based on Terry Pratchett's novels.

Year: 1996 Genre: Adventure

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Discworld dos

Discworld is a fantasy point-and-click adventure game developed by Teeny Weeny Games and Perfect 10 Productions. It was published by Psygnosis in 1995 for MS-DOS. Later it was ported to SEGA Saturn.

Year: 1995 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, the remake of the original Space Quest: Chapter I released in 1986. The new version has en...

Year: 1991 Genre: Adventure

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Flight of the Amazon Queen dosamiga

Inspired by LucasArts adventures, 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.

Year: 1995 Genre: Adventure

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Leisure Suit Larry II dosamiga

Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) is the second adventure game in the Leisure Suit Larry series created by Sierra OnLine. The game was released in 1988 for MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Amiga.

Year: 1989 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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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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The Secret of Monkey Island dosamiga

The Secret of Monkey Island is a graphic adventure game created by Ron Gilbert while at Lucasfilm Games and published in 1990 for the Amiga and DOS. It was ported to other systems in 1991, 1992, and 1993.

Year: 1990 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 remake of the first game in the Leisure Suit Larry series. The graphic...

Year: 1991 Genre: Adventure

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Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis dosamiga

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released in 1992. It was developed and published by LucasArts. The game is a point-and-click adventure. Initially released on MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Amiga, it was later released for FM Towns.

Year: 1992 Genre: Adventure

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