Rule #1 says it's okay to choose less than 20 Dar.
My head already hurts from trying to come up with 14.

Candy

OH Sorry Guys...I thought 20....

Ignore me...

Agon: The Mysterious Codex
Alida
Amber: Journeys Beyond
Beyond Atlantis (Atlantis 2)
Feeble Files, The
Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Morpheus
Myst III: Exile
Myst IV: Revelation
Obsidian
RealMyst
Rhem
Riddle of the Sphinx
Riven
Space Bar, The
Starship Titanic
Timelapse
Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
Zork Grand Inquisitor

Thanks for the changes, barbarosso. And for the evocative expression.

Thanks Barbarossa!
And thanks to the muckys for changing the year - must have been me that was tired and emotional
And I will count Uru Online as a seperate game as proposed.

Look me straight in the eye when you call me mucky.

It is an endearment, right?

Mucky?

Hi

Mucky MaG ....

DOES have a sort of ring to it

[Sorry I'm such a cheeky disgrace .... Can't help it ]

Cheers.

Mad

My list of favorites, no particular order (although, I must say Grim Fandango has got to be my all time favorite)

1. Grim Fandango
2. Return to Zork
3. Riddle of the Sphinx
4. Nightlong
5. Syberia
6. The Curse of Monkey Island
7. Rhem
8. Broken Sword The Sleeping Dragon
9. Amerizone
10. The Last Express
11. Riven
12. Broken Sword 4
13. Black Dahlia
14. Shivers
15. The Longest Journey
16. The Omega Stone
17. Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths
18. Jazz and Faust
19. Conspiracies
20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Final Cut


This was fun to look back and remember some of the fun I have had!


Koalanut

Guilty, Marian (Crystal Skull) One of the funniest games I've ever played. Actually I included several that didn't get good reviews - they were wrong of course.

Don't think I have 20

1. Post Mortem
2. Still Life (I dearly hope there will be a third one)
3. Syberia
4. Grim Fandango
5. Gabriel Knight I
6. Gabriel Knight II
7. Broken Sword I
8. Broken Sword II
9. Secrets of DaVinci
10. Cameron Files I
11. Cameron Files II
12. Obsidian
13. Runaway
14. Longest Journey

thanks Flotsam

Gabriel Knight #2 Beast Within
Broken Sword Circle of Blood
Broken Sword Smoking Mirror
Simon The Sorcerer #1
Simon The Sorcerer #2 Lion,Wizard,Wardrobe
Discworld
Discworld #2 Missing Presumed
Sanitarium
Runaway Road Adventure
The Longest Journey
The Black Mirror
Syberia
Tony Tough Roasted Moth
Secret of Monkey Island
Curse of Monkey Island
LeChucks Revenge
Longest Journey #2 Dreamfall
Ankh
Grim Fandango
Syberia #2

Nickie, I'm all for funny in games! I did load up The Crystal Skull a LONG time ago. The sum total of my recollection consists of having been bitten by a snake (?) and seeing Edward James Olmos in a loincloth. It was an interesting first impression.

If I can get the game running, I will give it another try this year.

Well yes, I could have been unduly influenced because of the loincloths. I sometimes like to have a game that makes me laugh the whole way through, and not many do (the four that did on are the list). I'll sure be interested to hear what you think Marian.

My problem is deciding which games not to include. I'd like to list all the old LucasArts adventures, but that would take up too many slots. I hate leaving out The Dig, with its wonderful soundtrack, the one of a kind Loom, and Day of the Tentacle, probably the funniest game I've ever played. So I decide by using criteria like "TLJ, Riven, and Syberia don't need my help because several other people are sure to recommend them."

I also wanted to list a variety -- humorous and not, puzzle-oriented and not, and most importantly, new as well as older games. Generally I only listed one member of a series, though you can see I have 2 or 3 exceptions. (I assume someone who enjoyed GK1 would seek out the other two GK games. But I know of people who enjoyed Zork GI but not Zork Nemesis and vice versa...)

Here are the older (pre year 2000) games I'd recommend (minus those I didn't have room for)

Amerzone
Secret of Monkey Island
Curse of Monkey Island
Gabriel Knight 1
Grim Fandango
Morpheus
Myst/RealMyst
Myst III: Exile
Obsidian
Sanitarium
Shivers
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor

And below are the newer ones:

Aura
Dark Fall
The Egyptian Prophecy
Keepsake
Return to Mysterious Island
RHEM 2
Tunguska

Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't have a separate list of games that are generally easy to get running on newer computers without needing DOSBox or fussing with compatibility mode, etc. But Microsoft's patches have made this difficult to predict even with relatively recent games, what with needing to run them as administrator and such. The LucasArts games may actually be easier to get running than some of the new games now, thanks to ScummVM. And GK1 and GK2 now have the fan-made XP installers.