Action games fans may think of adventure game fans as eccentric people who like to think hard during their leisure, when, as everybody else knows, it's time to release all the primal emotions suppressed during the rest of the day (or life). But that just shows how unaware they are about some of the main ingredients that constitute a true adventure gaming experience: instant dangers, hidden traps, fist fights, explosions, running away from angry mobs… So what if many obstacles standing in the way demand the usage of some basic wits to get past – it's there just to spice up the adventure.
Cultured Vultures: We’ve taken into account every monkey, every eye patch and every undead pirate, so without further ado, here are the Monkey Island games across the franchise’s history ranked from worst to best.
Escape From Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and more.
Outlaws was a truly awesome game! And man, that soundtrack, nothing has beat it yet. It’s the game that created the western genre in gaming. RDR would of been nothing without this.
I imagine it probably hasn’t aged well but my god what a game it was for it’s day. I put in hundreds if not thousands of hours into that with my mates.
Star Wars Racer? That's awesome, the only way I could get it to run on a 64 bit pc was through emulation.
I played the bones off of some afterlife back in the day. I was hoping to see gladius but it wasn’t on there. I dug out the ps2 to play gladius like a year ago and it still holds up to this day. Such a fun game.
Cool but as the article mentions, you could get all these games from GOG already, which means there's a DRM free digital option too.
The hubbub around Nintendo's SNES Classic announcement this week had us wondering: what would an equivalent, retro PC look like if it released today, and what games would you put on it?
Command HQ
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
King's Quest
Zork
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Silent Service
Doom
Quake
Wolfenstein
Duke Nukem
Half Life and all the spin off games
Fallout
Thief
Deus Ex
Theme Hospital
System Shock
Dungeon Keeper
The Secret of Monkey Island
Civilization
SimCity 2000
The Sims (All Expansions)
nice list. the OG Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem are musts.... I know there were a lot of others I can't recall so off the top of my head the only thing I can think to add would be Arkanoid. that game was so much fun with that stupid bouncing ball and bricks. Then more recently games like Starcraft, Diablo, etc. I'm think OG PC though like late 80s early, early 90s.
The orignal Sims was awesome.
On topic, I wish a PC classic would exist somedays.
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Unreal Tournament 2004
Quake
Half Life 1 & 2 (&3)
Far Cry 1 & 2
Crysis
Portal 1 & 2
Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Day of the Tentacle
Alone in the dark
Lands of Lore 1 & 2
Witcher 1 & 2
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Gothic and Gothic 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Thief 1, 2, 3
Deus Ex & Invisible War
Desperados
Commandos 1 & 2
Diablo 1 & 2
Siege of Avalon
Throne of Darkness
Command & Conquer and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2
Age of Empires 1, 2, 3 & Age of mythology
Empire Earth
Warcraft 3
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Black & White
Worms Armageddon
GTA 1 and 2
Total Annihilation
Elite/Elite 2
Doom/Doom 2
UFO Enemy Unknown
Dune 2
Quake
Diablo
Starcraft
