Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time!!1!

#6: Wayne’s World

Capstone Software – 1993

Here, we have the perfect example of how absolutely any franchise anywhere can be adopted into a brilliant adventure game. We’ve already visited Capstone’s amazing The Dark Half in this countdown, but they weren’t about to stop there. Equally brilliant adventures came in the form of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Beverly Hillbillies, and my personal sentimental favorite, Homey D. Clown.

But what is undisputably the greatest of Capstone’s remarkable lineup is Wayne’s World. Ah, Wayne and Garth, heroes of a stature that makes Gabriel Knight quiver and Roger Wilco cry. It was through this adventure that I really learned how to identify with the main character. Perhaps it was his repeated cries of “Party time! Excellent!”, but I had more than one uncomfortable emotional outburst during this festival of intrigue and tension.

And the plot really, really speaks to us. I know that it seems like I’m saying the same things for every game on this countdown, but seriously, this is the sort of plot that you fall asleep pondering and wake up in a cold sweat over. I can’t speak for everyone of course, but I feel comfortable saying that we’ve all found ourself in a “start a pizza delivery business to raise money to keep our public access TV show going” sort of situation in our lives. That’s why I was personally so moved by this game.

It’s amazing to me how much time is wasted with original ideas, as I’ve said earlier, but it’s even more amazing how companies like LucasArts waste their time with pitiful Indiana Jones and Star Wars licenses, while Capstone swoops in and pulls the rug out from everyone with one of the most brilliant adventures ever. One time, for all…*sniff*…party on!

Bologna.

(E.D.)