Evolution of All Early 90's Graphic Adventure Games - Every Notable Adventure Game from 1990 to 1993

Evolution of All Early 90's Graphic Adventure Games - Notable Adventure Game from 1990 to 1993 - Vol II
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No commentary. Thanks to all contributors. Adventure games featured in this video are in the "graphic adventure game" sub-genre which doesn't include text-based or other sub-genres of adventure games. While the lines can blur a bit for some adventure game sub-genres, we've done are best to include the most notable by definition.
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More on graphic adventure games (from Wikipedia):
Graphic adventures are adventure games that use graphics to convey the environment to the player. Games under the graphic adventure banner may have a variety of input types, from text parsers to mouse input. Graphic adventure games will vary in how they present the avatar. Some games will utilize a first-person or third-person perspective where the camera follows the player's movements, whereas many adventure games use drawn or pre-rendered backgrounds, or a context-sensitive camera that is positioned to show off each location to the best effect.
More on text-and-graphics adventure games (from Wikipedia):
Text-and-graphics adventure games combine interactive fiction-style text descriptions with graphic illustrations of locations. These games sometimes use a text parser, as in the Magnetic Scrolls games; a point-and-click interface, such as the MacVenture games; or a combination of both (e.g., Tass Times in Tonetown; Enchanted Scepters and other World Builder games).
More on point-and-click adventure games (from Wikipedia):
Point-and-click adventure games are those where the player typically controls their character through a point and click interface using a computer mouse or similar pointing device, though additional control schemes may also be available. The player clicks to move their character around, interact with non-player characters, often initiating conversation trees with them, examine objects in the game's settings or with their character's item inventory. Many older point-and-click games include a list of on-screen verbs to describe specific actions in the manner of a text adventure, but newer games have used more context-sensitive user interface elements to reduce or eliminate this approach. Often, these games come down to collecting items for the character's inventory, and figuring when is the right time to use that item; the player would need to use clues from the visual elements of the game, descriptions of the various items, and dialogue from other characters to figure this out. Later games developed by Sierra On-Line, including the King's Quest games, and nearly all of the LucasArts adventure games, are point-and-click-based games.
Point-and-click adventure games can also be the medium in which interactive, cinematic video games comprise. They feature cutscenes interspersed by short snippets of interactive gameplay that tie in with the story.
More on adventure games (from Wikipedia):
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres. Most adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since the emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. Colossal Cave Adventure is identified by Rick Adams as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include Zork, King's Quest, Monkey Island, Syberia, and Myst.
Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate the player's commands into actions. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands with graphics, but soon moving towards point-and-click interfaces. Further computer advances led to adventure games with more immersive graphics using real-time or pre-rendered three-dimensional scenes or full-motion video taken from the first- or third-person perspective.
For markets in the Western hemisphere, the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1980s to mid-1990s when many considered it to be among the most technically advanced genres, but it had become a niche genre in the early 2000s. Since then, a resurgence in the genre has occurred spurred on by the success of independent video-game development.

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0:00 Altered Destiny - 1990 1:00 Black Sect (La Secte Noire) - 1990 2:00 Countdown - 1990 3:00 Earthrise: A Guild Investigation - 1990 4:00 The Final Battle - 1990 5:00 Hugo’s House of Horrors - 1990 6:00 Les Manley in: Search for the King - 1990 7:00 Maupiti Island - 1990 8:00 Operation Stealth - 1990 9:00 Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire - 1990 10:00 Rise of the Dragon - 1990 11:00 Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail - 1990 12:00 Loom - 1990 13:00 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark - 1990 14:00 The Secret of Monkey Island - 1990 15:00 Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls - 1990 16:00 King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! - 1990 17:00 The Adventures of Willy Beamish - 1991 18:00 Alice: An Interactive Museum - 1991 19:00 Castle of Dr. Brain - 1991 20:00 Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood - 1991 21:00 Cruise for a Corpse - 1991 22:00 EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus - 1991 23:00 Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus - 1991 24:00 Fascination - 1991 25:00 Gobliiins - 1991 26:00 Heart of China - 1991 27:00 Hugo II, Whodunit? - 1991 28:00 Les Manley in: Lost in L.A. - 1991 29:00 Martian Memorandum (Tex Murphy) - 1991 30:00 Nostalgia 1907 - 1991 31:00 Police Quest III: The Kindred - 1991 32:00 Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - 1991 33:00 The Space Adventure - Cobra: The Legendary Bandit - 1991 34:00 Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer’s Appliance - 1991 35:00 Timequest - 1991 36:00 Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers - 1991 37:00 Metal Slader Glory - 1991 38:00 Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work - 1991 39:00 Cobra Mission: Panic in Cobra City - 1991 40:00 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge - 1991 41:00 Amazon: Guardians of Eden - 1992 42:00 B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy - 1992 43:00 Bargon Attack - 1992 44:00 The Dagger of Amon Ra - 1992 45:00 The Dark Half - 1992 46:00 Dark Seed - 1992 47:00 Daughter of Serpents (aka The Scroll) - 1992 48:00 Dead of the Brain - 1992 49:00 Dune - 1992 50:00 Eternam - 1992 51:00 Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon - 1992 52:00 Hook - 1992 53:00 Hugo III, Jungle of Doom! - 1992 54:00 Inca - 1992 55:00 Inspector Gadget: Mission 1 - Global Terror! - 1992 56:00 The Island of Dr. Brain - 1992 57:00 KGB (aka Conspiracy) - 1992 58:00 Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 - 1992 59:00 The Legacy: Realm of Terror - 1992 1:00:00 Linus Spacehead’s Cosmic Crusade (aka Cosmic Spacehead) - 1992 1:01:00 The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel - 1992 1:02:00 Nippon Safes Inc. - 1992 1:03:00 The Palace of Deceit: The Dragon’s Plight - 1992 1:04:00 Plan 9 from Outer Space - 1992 1:05:00 The Prophecy (aka Ween: The Prophecy) - 1992 1:06:00 Putt-Putt Joins the Parade - 1992 1:07:00 Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch - 1992 1:08:00 Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II - 1992 1:09:00 Spellcasting 301: Spring Break - 1992 1:10:00 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary - 1992 1:11:00 Nightshade - 1992 1:12:00 Business Wars - 1992 1:13:00 Frederik Pohl’s Gateway - 1992 1:14:00 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - 1992 1:15:00 Lure of the Temptress - 1992 1:16:00 An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends - 1992 1:17:00 Quest for Glory III: Wages of War - 1992 1:18:00 The Legend of Kyrandia: Fables and Fiends - 1992 1:19:00 King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow - 1992 1:20:00 Curse of Enchantia - 1992 1:21:00 Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - 1992 1:22:00 The Adventures of Melvin Freebush - 1993 1:23:00 The Beverly Hillbillies - 1993 1:24:00 BloodNet - 1993 1:25:00 Blue Force - 1993 1:26:00 Cosmology of Kyoto - 1993 1:27:00 Dare to Dream - 1993 1:28:00 Dracula Unleashed - 1993 1:29:00 Eric the Unready - 1993 1:30:00 Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise - 1993 1:31:00 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - 1993 1:32:00 Goblins Quest 3 - 1993 1:33:00 Inca II: Wiracocha - 1993 1:34:00 Innocent Until Caught - 1993 1:35:00 Isle of the Dead - 1993 1:36:00 The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate - 1993 1:37:00 Lost in Time - 1993 1:38:00 Lost Secret of the Rainforest (aka EcoQuest II) - 1993 1:39:00 Pepper’s Adventures in Time - 1993 1:40:00 Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon - 1993 1:41:00 Return of the Phantom - 1993 1:42:00 Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. III - 1993 1:43:00 The Journeyman Project - 1993 1:44:00 Space Quest V: Roger Wilco - The Next Mutation - 1993 1:45:00 Veil of Darkness - 1993 1:46:00 Shadow of the Comet (aka Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet) - 1993 1:47:00 The 7th Guest - 1993 1:48:00 Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! - 1993 1:49:00 Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (aka Maniac Mansion II) - 1993 1:50:00 Return to Zork - 1993 1:51:00 Myst - 1993 1:52:00 Simon the Sorcerer - 1993 1:53:00 Beyond Shadowgate - 1993 1:54:00 Companions of Xanth - 1993 1:55:00 Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure - 1993 1:56:00 Police Quest: Open Season - 1993 1:57:00 Sam & Max Hit the Road - 1993 1:58:00 Star Trek: Judgment Rites - 1993 1:59:00 Gateway II: Homeworld - 1993 2:00:00 Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness - 1993 2:01:00 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 1993 2:02:00 Jurassic Park - 1993 Early 90's adventure games featured in this video are in the "graphic adventure game" sub-genre which doesn't include text-based or other sub-genres of adventure games. Any others you think should be included, please put them in the comments! What early 90's graphic adventure games are the most nostalgic for you?

[@bbertram2]

Earthrise: A Guild Investigation reminds me big time of Space Quest 1.

[@ShawnKavanagh]

Those wonderful days of point & click Bless

[@itzhexen0]

That's how I like my adventures. Graphic.

[@presentperfectgaming]

Quite an era for adventure games-and I'm surprised just how many there were! Many I don't know of. Great work again my friend🤜🤛

[@ClassicGameSessions]

@presentperfectgaming I think the early 90's was the best era for the genre-so many good adventure games right! Plenty to keep one busy. Thanks so much buddy! 🤜🤛

[@presentperfectgaming]

@@ClassicGameSessions Absolutely. Dare I say, the "golden age"?😂

[@ClassicGameSessions]

@presentperfectgaming I think I'd be in agreeance with "golden era" although there's a lot to be said about the EGA text-parser glory days of the 80's and the FMV craze of the mid-late 90's too! 😅

[@presentperfectgaming]

@@ClassicGameSessions Let's just say adventure games for the win!🤣

[@SalveMonesvol]

The secret of monkey island feels like such a pivotal entry, it really upped the bar.

[@ClassicGameSessions]

Absolutely, it was pretty groundbreaking and influential on so many levels, so iconic!

[@mtshark7]

Soo many great point and click titles 😊

[@ClassicGameSessions]

Indeed, there were so many masterpieces from this time. Any favourites of these point and click classics?

[@mtshark7]

Soo many but I'd go with Rex Nebular, the kings quest games, leisure suit Larry, etc.

[@ClassicGameSessions]

Sounds like a great lineup to me!

[@gullpayne]

These are so cool