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[kad3t]

If I absolutely had to choose best adventure games (in my opinion we're talking about point'n'click games here), I'd go for these as THE best:

1. Secret of the Monkey Island

I don't think I have to explain what lies beneath the choice of this one. Many people before me had done it and I use all of my limbs to sign underneath their opinions. ^__^ In short though: Humor, story, humor, characters, humor, setting, humor, interface, humor, riddles, humor, humor & most of all humor.

That's probably one of the very few games I never minded playing in EGA before I got a working VGA version, as even though being nicely drawn, graphics actually played second role in this AWESOME game.

2. Day of the Tentacle

Great improvement on already good game (Maniac Mansion).

If I hear that there's been a mad scientisc who created tentacles that after mutating went on a quest to take over the World, I'm sold. ^__^ Remeber those old, crappy B-class sci-fi movies of the 70's & 80's that everyone knew that they were rubbish but just couldn't stop watching anyway? This game is all that and more. Especially, since in difference to those movies it is NOT rubbish.

3. Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge

It's same as part one but with better graphics. Some people find it to be better than the predecessor but since I played part one more times than this it holds a special place in my memories.

4. I couldn't decide here which game to side with, so it's a tie. Maniac Mansion and Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis.

First, as it was one of the first games to offer typical LucasArts-style hilarious sense of humor and SCUMM interface. Actually MM and Zak McKracken were the first two games to ever use SCUMM AFAIR. Second, even though I never completed it, for being "the missing movie" from Indy series. I realize it's a game but having to take part in the story and spending time on all the riddles actualy made me feel back then as if I was taking part in a movie.

5. Full Throttle

It may be weird that I'm placing this game here. Even more that not only I haven't completed it but also I did not play it a lot either. But, I did spend a good hour on it and WILL play it to the very end as soon as I get more free time. When I saw the intro for it I felt right at home. LucasArts have done it again! And they've done it well (or that it seems at least after an hour of gameplay)!

Right, you might have noticed by now, that all the games on this list of mine come from LucasArts. Coincidence? I don't think so... I belive that for me LucasArts is synonimous to Point'n'Click adventure games. In fact when I think of LucasArts game I don't think of all those Star Wars based games, I can only see their adventure titles before my eyes. Anyway, there's few other games I'd like to give a shout out to & these are: Loom, Zak McKracken and the Alien Miindbenders, Grim Fandango & Sam & Max Hit the Road. They're all good games as well, but either not as good or I just never got around to play them as much as the earlier mentioned ones or even at all. I really wanted to give Grim Fandango a try but first I had no access to it to check it out and then later I found myself with not enough time - and the state sort of continues to this day, I'm affraid. Obviously one would think, that I could play it an hour here and and hour there until I completed it. That's wrong! Whoever played LucasArts games in the past knows that they're so involving that when you start playing, you just can't stop until you find yourself half-sitting half-sleeping in front of the screen. 5am in the morning with three cans after Redbull spread all over your desktop trying to figure out just how to go about that last riddle before you go to bed. ^__^ And the thing is... It's not the last riddle, it's the fifth or sixth or whichever further after the one you thought to be "the last one"... ^__^