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Golden Age Graphic Adventure Games (PC)

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LucasArts

My favourite of the companies to produce adventure games during the golden age.
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Maniac Mansion - PC Games
 
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Loom - PC Games
 
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Full Throttle - PC Games
 
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The Dig - PC Games
 

Sierra

The major player in the golden age of graphic adventure games, and a very close second favourite for me.
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Gold Rush! - PC Games
 
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Codename: ICEMAN - PC Games
 
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A list of graphic (as apposed to text) adventure games for the PC, from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, also known as the golden age of adventure games. Working on sorting the list by company, and release date.

Whats an adventure game you ask? I'll let Wikipedia explain:

"An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenges such as combat. The term originates from the 1970s game Adventure and relates to the style of gameplay pioneered in that game, rather than the kind of story being told."

And now a graphic adventure:

"A graphic adventure game is a form of adventure game. They are distinct from text adventures. Whereas a player must actively observe using commands such as "look" in a text-based adventure, graphic adventures revolutionized gameplay by making use of natural human perception. Eventually, the text parser interface associated with older adventure games was phased out in favor of a point-and-click interface, i.e., a game where the player interacts with the game environment and objects using an on-screen cursor. In many of these games, the mouse pointer is context sensitive in that it applies different actions to different objects."

This list is a work in progress.

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Comments

Posted: 4 years, 1 month ago at May 13 10:39
You forgot the original Warcraft from 1994 I think it was, which was a great game even then. Or does it not fit into this category?
Posted: 4 years, 1 month ago at May 13 11:25
Good times!
Posted: 4 years, 1 month ago at May 13 15:59
Warcraft would not fit into this category. Warcraft was a RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. This list is strictly for graphic adventure games (check the list description). Thanks for the comments though! :)
Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jul 1 19:44
Oh yes these are gods in the adventure gaming department.
Thing is though some of them are so freaking hard you need a walkthough for!
Posted: 8 months, 1 week ago at Oct 10 14:53
Amazing list! Absolutely love it!

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