I am obsessed with VGA point-and-click adventure games. Help feed my addiction please

[guavajellyfish]

I'm caught in this retro childhood nostalgia timewarp where all I wanna play is those old point and click adventure games from the early 90s. OK-- I admit it, I suck, I have no hand-eye coordination and those are the only computer or video games I have ever played. I discovered torrenting recently and have been on a 3 month binge of every p&c adventure game from my youth. Now I am ready for new games... Any suggestions for any good ones?
My all-time favorites are Monkey Island 1 (of course) and Gabriel Knight 1... the VGA graphics rock and make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :wub: ...the bluescreen & 3d rendered graphics in the later games in the series suck huge.
Anyway I am fiending for oldskool gamy goodness. Suggestions please! What's your favorite?

[brokenfridgehinge]

Fredy the Fish, represent, YO!!

[bluseychris]

Depends what you're like with emulators. I've pm'd you bet the way.

[Alex6969]

Any of the Mists, Sam and Maxes, Freddy the Fish, Pajama Sam, the list goes on

[Wasabi]

Ah yes. I bring you Lucasarts!
Monkey Island 1,2 and 3, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle and good old Sam and Max: Hit the Road. My favourites, in any case.

[siggs]

TBH, you can go wrong with the old Lucasarts ones, any of them will be great. :D

Wow, deja vu from the point and click adventure thread...or copy and paste:rolleyes:

[lskennedy]

IS THE NODE CONDONING TORRENTING?!?!?!?


Lol, dont ask dont tell :X

[BahamutBBob]

I'm caught in this retro childhood nostalgia timewarp where all I wanna play is those old point and click adventure games from the early 90s. OK-- I admit it, I suck, I have no hand-eye coordination and those are the only computer or video games I have ever played. I discovered torrenting recently and have been on a 3 month binge of every p&c adventure game from my youth. Now I am ready for new games... Any suggestions for any good ones?
My all-time favorites are Monkey Island 1 (of course) and Gabriel Knight 1... the VGA graphics rock and make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :wub: ...the bluescreen & 3d rendered graphics in the later games in the series suck huge.
Anyway I am fiending for oldskool gamy goodness. Suggestions please! What's your favorite?
Nice avatar.

I've only played point and click games in the Myst series, though I guess that my helping my niece play Freddy Fish years ago counts too.

[Cobra951]

How about Grim Fandango (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Fandango)? Not old-school enough?

[guavajellyfish]

Hey thanks for the suggestions, sorry if I'm reposting S.O.S. but I did run a search and didn't find anything. Grim Fandango seems sweet for the ten minutes I can play without it crashing.. I'm actually really bummed about it. Do you think if I got a SCUMM emulator it would run more smoothly? (it's from LucasArts so I'm assuming it uses SCUMM...) I also had some serious graphics issues with it.

[lskennedy]

ya know it goes for like 4 bucks on ebay right? maybe paying for things has there benifits...

[guavajellyfish]

Really? I have never been able to find it for less than $30! More than it cost when it came out!
Anyway the problem is a conflict with my directx driver, I don't think this would be solved by getting the licensed disk. I also got a patch for it which helped somewhat, but I'm scared to downgrade to directx6 because then none of my newer programs would run... I though perhaps an emulator would help? Can anything be done about this? Short of getting a second PC to get directx6 on?


ya know it goes for like 4 bucks on ebay right? maybe paying for things has there benifits...

[vincian]

The only point-and-click games I ever got into was the Myst series. Love 'em to death. (only played the first 3, and the Uru series, I suppose if I wanted to get back into IV and V, I'd need to replay them all first)

[The Hylden]

TBH, you can go wrong with the old Lucasarts ones, any of them will be great. :D

Wow, deja vu from the point and click adventure thread...or copy and paste:rolleyes:

Heh, it's the former for me, as I'll just say The Longest Journey again.
I'd recommend the sequel, Dreamfall, again also, but guavajellyfish said he/she has no hand-eye coordination for games other than point and click, and that one delved into 3D movement and searching, sneaking and lame, imprecise fighting:p

[Disc0]

A great little-known gem is The Last Express. It places you on the Trans-Siberian Railway, around the turn of the 20th century, has a real-time pace in which different things are going on in different rooms/cars at the same time, and people go about precise routines...

Go look up reviews and find a copy of it however you can. It's a work of art and right up this alley.

[Jacob]

Get Pac-Man 2 for the SNES. It's puzzling and complicated, but also fun. Making him angry is so fun. :D

[samzala]

Machinarium. It's a new release though, but it's a point and clicker. Not many of those being made anymore. Demo seemed pretty good, the visual and audio style is spot on perfect.