Long before the world of video games descended into the FPS frag-fest that it can sometimes seem to be today, the adventure game market was huge and exciting. At a time when using a gaming headset to insult the mother of a teenager half the world over was but a distant dream, the only peripheral a kid needed to have fun was a two-buttoned mouse. In the late eighties through to the mid-nineties, gamers were spoilt with a seemingly never-ending supply of point-and-click titles from the likes of LucasArts and Sierra. There is a lot to be said for the grit and realism of games like Battlefield 4 and the Far Cry series. Dont get me wrong; I like blowing things up as much as the next gamer, but I dont think Im the only one that finds it disappointing that the adventure genre has been so under-represented in the mainstream this past couple of decades. Adventure games went some way towards moulding my generation of gamers and it feels a little saddening that kids today might grow up never knowing how to properly respond to the insult You fight like a Dairy Farmer! In this article Ill take a nostalgic look at some of the more offbeat adventure games from my own childhood, making the argument for why they deserve to be dusted off and put back into the hands of young uns today.
