10 Best Point And Click Video Game Adventures Ever
2. The Secret Of Monkey Island
The Adventure:
In 1990, gamers were whisked off to the fictional town of Melee Island, where a hapless hero going by the name of Guybrush Threepwood embarked on a mission to become a pirate, vanquish a ghostly foe and win the girl. The result was an adventure like no other. Conceived back in the eighties by LucasArts other creative megaforce, Ron Gilbert, The Secret Of Monkey Island saw Gilberts newly tinkered SCUMM programming language set sail, culminating in a game that was effortlessly simple to play so much so that the 2009 revamp bafflingly featured an overly complicated control system dialogue to die for (Thats the second biggest monkey head Ive ever seen) and swashbuckling puzzles. Guybrush, Governor Marley, LeChuck and the rubber chicken with the pulley in the middle would go on to feature in numerous other adventures, but this one remains the gleaming jewel in this franchises treasure trove.
Puzzling Par Excellence:
A wannabe Guybrush is tasked with three quests required to become a pirate, thus kicking off the games sublime first act, which sees our hero scrambling around the woods for buried treasure, raiding the governors mansion and, famously, battling other seaswabs in the games still awesome insult sword duels.
Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing.
He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.
