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“Ooh! Does this mean we get to kick some puffy, white, mad scientist butt?” There’s probably nothing quite as painful as failed humor. This has been my experience with quite a few amateur games that have attempted to channel the spirit of LucasArts, and also some of the Leisure Suit Larry games, among others. When […]

“Sorry for the wait, Mr. Flores. I am ready to take you now.” I have spent most of this countdown justifying why a certain game ranks as high as it does. Somehow I have a feeling that with Grim Fandango, I’m going to be justifying how I could possible rank it so low. The adventure […]

“Alright Jones, how you gonna find that statue in all this junk?” After three successful (but rather mediocre) game adaptations of the Indiana Jones movies, LucasArts struck out on a new direction for the game informally referred to as “Indy4” and wrote a new original story centered around the famous Lost City of Atlantis. The […]

“Did you dream about the fire and the hanged guy and that lion thing last night?” The graphic adventure was peaking in 1993, and Sierra was hard at work on sequels to their established dynasties: Police Quest 4, Space Quest VI, King’s Quest VII, Quest for Glory 4, and Leisure Suit Larry 6. In the […]

“The city holds many memories for me, of cafes, music, of love…and of death.” Generally, we tend to divide adventure games into three categories: Sierra, LucasArts, and Other, and for good reason; no companies have ever been able to duplicate the productivity, or the success of the two adventure kingpins. Over the last five years, […]

“Alexander, here you are! You’re not still thinking about Cassima, are you?” The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line parallels the rise and fall of graphic adventure games, for obvious reasons, because Sierra was a major part of all the genre’s stages. They gave birth to the graphic adventure, nurtured it to its peak level […]

“My name’s Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!” Never has a company produced such a magnificent run of great games as LucasArts did during their golden era, from 1990 to 1995. But they weren’t always pumping out the hits in rapid-fire fashion. After the release of Maniac Mansion in 1987, the SCUMM […]

“But now, I know that I must go…back to the mansion!” This Top 20 list has been through multiple drafts and revisions over the last four years, as I try to somehow come up with the perfect list, or at least the most fair. Through all the revisions, as you can imagine, games have been […]

NOTE: this Top 20 dates back to 2001. For more current lists of top adventure games, please visit:       So how does one come up with a list of the Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time? Would you believe darts and a bulletin board? Okay, maybe not. But I would be foolish to […]

This was our april’s fool joke of 2004, still archived here for your amusement. #20: The Dark Half #19: Tender Loving Care #18: Traitor’s Gate II #17: Yoda Stories #16: Softporn #15: Halo #14: Tetris #13: Simon 3D #12: Daikatana #11: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace #10: The Orion Conspiracy #9: Knowledge Adventure #8: Down […]