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Graphic adventure is the most popular genre of adventure games. In this type of adventure, the player can see the game world on the screen, thanks to graphics and animations. The main character is usually visible, and the game is played from a third-person view. The hero can interact with the environment, collect and use objects, and talk to other characters. All the actions performed and their effects are shown on screen. This does not happen in text adventures with graphics, where the pictures are still images.

The first graphic adventure was Mystery House, created by Ken and Roberta Williams in 1980. Their company, Sierra On-Line, would go on creating many other adventures, including the series of King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and the hybrid adventure-rpg Quest for Glory.

But the name that defines the genre of graphic adventures is LucasArts, with a long list of point-and-click masterpieces: after the success of Maniac Mansion, the game that introduced the SCUMM engine by Ron Gilbert, the studio continued with Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, and the fantastic Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (later followed by Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis). Still, the game that reached the highest popularity is the story of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, The Secret of Monkey Island. But LucasArts masterpieces include Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and many others.

It's not only LucasArts; let's remember Simon the Sorcerer by Adventure Soft or Revolution Software's adventures like Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. Special mention for Star Trek 25th Anniversary, a fantastic graphic adventure for Star Trek fans, or Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet if you like Lovecraft novels.

The genre of graphic adventures reached its peak in the '90s, and there are a lot of quality titles out there. For sure, you have yet to play them all, so browse the list and have fun!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 and 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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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon dosamiga

Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon is the third game, and one of the most appreciated, in the Space Quest series. It was developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989 for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS.

Year: 1989 Genre: Adventure

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