Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
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Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 128, and Macintosh.
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Doctor Who: The Gunpowder Plot is the last of the graphic adventures featuring the eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith. The game was released for free by the BBC in October 2011.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a text adventure by Infocom, based on the famous novel by Douglas Adams. The book, a comedy science fiction genre masterpiece, was written in 1979.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure was released in 1989 at the same time as the film. It was developed and published by Lucasfilm games (now LucasArts). It's...
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The Adventures of Willy Beamish is a graphic adventure developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 1991. The game is regarded as one of the best Sierra adventures, and with good reason.
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Tau Ceti is a mix of action, adventure, and space simulation initially developed for the ZX Spectrum by Pete Cooke in 1985. The game was also ported to Atari ST, C64, and MS-DOS. A...
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Hand of Fate, published in 1993, is the second episode of the Kyrandia trilogy developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. Also known as The Legend of Kyrand...
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Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction/text-adventure and one of the most popular computer games ever created. It was developed initially in 1977–1979 for a DEC mainfram...
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Deadline is a text adventure published by Infocom in 1982. It was written by Marc Blank, one of the principal authors of Zork: The Great Underground Empire. The game was initially released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and TRS-80.
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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is the second graphic adventure by Lucasfilm Games, after Maniac Mansion, created using the SCUMM engine. The game was developed on a Comm...
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Waxworks is a dungeon crawler and roleplaying adventure game with elements of terror developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade. The title was released for the Amiga and DOS in 1992.
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Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood is an adventure game for kids created by Al Lowe. You probably know this name because he is associated with the famous Leisure Suit Larry ...
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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...
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It Came from the Desert is an action-adventure game by Cinemaware, inspired by 1950s "B" movies, initially released for the Amiga in 1989. Later it was ported to MS-DOS. With Defe...
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