What are the best, classic, point-n-click adventure games??

[CellarDoor]

I used to love playing the monkey island series, sam and max, grim fandango, etc. What are some of the other great classic pnc adventure games!? I'd like to bulid up a collection and play them.

 

[Maximus96]

scummvm...sam and max on my psp is fun, so is curse of monkey island.

 

[iamaelephant]

Day of the Tentacle is my favourite (aside from Sam and Max).

 

[nakedfrog]

King's Quest 4 & 5
Space Quest 4 and up
Other old school Sierra games

 

[Dominionion]

Along with the Lucas Arts games, the Sierra games were very popular (King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest etc... ). 'Supposedly' most of the Sierra series are getting reissued in sets retooled to run on XP (but not other wise updated).

 

[pontifex]

Gabriel Knight series
and yeah, pretty much anything by Sierra in the early to mid 90s is good.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Liesure Suit Larry. Ahhh, good times.

 

[NuclearNed]

The Dig was pretty fun. So was Full Throttle (although kind of short).

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Gabriel Knight series
and yeah, pretty much anything by Sierra in the early to mid 90s is good.

Hell yeah. Phantasmagoria was good too.

 

[mb]

Perhaps Scratches might interest you.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/693/693896p1.html

 

[Jikininki]

There was a game I played back in the day called Loom. It was pretty fun to play the first couple times aroud..but not really something you'd want to play repeatedly.

I loved all the LucasArts and Sierra games...they were so awesome. Is tehre anyone to get those games to play again? Shouldn't they be cheap too now that they're outdated?

 

[NutBucket]

Anyone remember games where you'd use the arrows to move between screens but you'd have to type commands to get the character to do something? For example, "Read the wall" or "look in the cave".

Ugh, I remember playing these games in late 80's but I can't remember the frickin' names or even the genre.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Anyone remember games where you'd use the arrows to move between screens but you'd have to type commands to get the character to do something? For example, "Read the wall" or "look in the cave".

Ugh, I remember playing these games in late 80's but I can't remember the frickin' names or even the genre.

You mean games like Zork or Adventure?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Anyone remember games where you'd use the arrows to move between screens but you'd have to type commands to get the character to do something? For example, "Read the wall" or "look in the cave".

Yep, I remember those fondly. The horrible, awful, never fun, 3-hour-total, point-n-click games took over and killed these fun, thought-provoking, months of entertainment games.

 

[Dominionion]

And adventures games are not dead, they are quite alive in the independent market. My top three adventure games of recent years...

1) Return To Mysterious Island EVERY puzzle made sense.

2) Dark Fall: The Journal Spooky fun.

3) The Longest Journey

There are a ton of other new ones that I haven't got around to playing yet...
Voyage
Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
Egyptian Prophecy
Syberia
Syberia 2
Wanted: A Wild Western Adventure

Also... Alot of the Lucas Arts Adventure people have left L.A. and have formed their own companies...
Telltale Games doing the 'Bone' series.
and
The very promising 'Vampyre Story'

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Gabriel Knight series
and yeah, pretty much anything by Sierra in the early to mid 90s is good.

QFT.

I LOVED the first one. My friend and I were just pulling our hairs out trying to beat the game, and it was so rewarding at the end. Damn, that was when I was in 8th grade.

 

[NutBucket]

Yeah, like Zork. Now I just have to remember what the one I played was called. I've been playing games from my childhood lately.

 

[BooGiMaN]

i have played every single lucasfilm games of this genre that they made....to bad they decided to stop that genre

starting with maniac mansion and then zack mckraken and the alien mind benderson the commodore 64....anyone else played zack mkraken?

 

[NutBucket]

Found it!

Hugo's House of Horror's!

Now to either fire up my 486 or figure out how to run it in XP

 

[vshah]

i love monkey island

 

[mundane]

Trying hunting for the Lucas Oldies collection.

 

[iamaelephant]

If you want to run these game in XP have a look for a program called ScummVM (spelling may be different). Worked perfectly for me.

 

[CellarDoor]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I looked in my box of old games and I have all 4 monkey islands, grim fandango, sam and max, phantasmagoria, 11th hour, all the tex murphy games, etc.

I always wanted to try the Indian Jones games from lucas arts but never got to. Hopefully I'll be able to get a hold of them.

Oh, and I read online that apparently on march 30 you can buy box sets of some of the classic games on Amazon. We'll see if that happens. There is also a site that is redoing the Kings Quests games and has them available for download right now. I'll find the link and paste it later.

I guess I'll just have to look for them on ebay in the meantime.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
i have played every single lucasfilm games of this genre that they made....to bad they decided to stop that genre

starting with maniac mansion and then zack mckraken and the alien mind benderson the commodore 64....anyone else played zack mkraken?

i was thinking of maniac mansion, i used to love that game!

otherwise i never got into adventure games much, i have a short attention span and didnt care for the puzzles and such

 

[marmasatt]

I never play these games. I've got a brand new Myst URU) game in my FS thread though.