1. Faust
2. Myst
3. Gabriel Knight II
4. Zork Nemesis
5. Riven
6. Blackstone Chronicles
7. Amber - Journeys Beyond
8. Morpheus
9. Obsidian
10.Shivers
11.Timelapse
12.Exile
13.Riddles of the Sphinx
14.Secrets of the Luxor
15.Rama

Whew!

1. Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
2. Temujin
3. Zork Grand Inquisitor
4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Nightlong
6. Egypt 2
7. Exile
8. Monkey Island 1
9. Day of the Tentacle
10. Faust

These are the some of the ones that stick in my memory, even though I haven’t played some of them in ten years. There are many other worthy candidates mentioned in other’s lists, and some yet unmentioned that I haven’t completed yet.

1. Broken Sword : Circle of Blood
2. Byzantine: The Betrayal
3. The Dig
4. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
5. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
6. Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
7. Grim Fandango This one made me upgrade my video card and buy a new joystick.
8. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis I played the floppy version. The CD version talks now.
9. The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
10. The Longest Journey
11. Monkey Island, The Secret of My first adventure game. Although dated, it will always have an honored space on my game shelf.
12. Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon I bought a new computer to play this one. It was worth it.
13. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
14. Tex Murphy: OverSeer The first DVD game I know of.
15. Torrin’s Passage

The Tex games are my favorites of all time. I’m also pleased to see that many of the games in my To Play Pile (I’m only a semi-BAAGer, about 25) are somewhere in these lists. It will be interesting to see what the list looks like next year.

Albert

My first four votes all go to Monkey Island games cause it is my all time best game series.
Monkey one
Monkey two
Monkey Three
Monkey Four
Discworld one
Discworld two
Les Manley Search fot the King
Simon the Sorcerer
The Beast Within
Longest Journey
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender
Space Quest four
Kings Quest seven
Day of the Tentacle
Countdown

I had to defer posting my list of 15 top games until I had a chance to do enough of MYST EXILE to know whether it would get in the list. Yes, although I have only completed the Voltaic Age, I am sure that it would make it. Since only the presence or absence on the list counts, i.e., no weighting as to order of merit, I will list them alphabetically.

BLACK DAHLIA
BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES
BYZANTINE
CYDONIA
FAUST
MYST
MYST EXILE
OBSIDIAN
RAMA
REAH
RING
RIVEN
SHIVERS
TIMELAPSE
ZORK NEMESIS

Ah, it is hard to stop there. The trouble is, I have enjoyed almost all the games that I have played, thanks to taking advantage of the recommendations of knowledgeable Boomers. Thank you kindly!

Hi,
Allowing for a small margin for errors, there are 138 games recommended so far.
48 have at least 5 recommendations,, 18 have at least 10 recommendations, 10 have at least 15, and The Longest Journey, GK 2 and Myst all have 20 or more.
As an indication of the eclectic nature of the list, 58 games have a single recommendation.

flotsam

Well, I haven't played that many games, but out of those I've played the ones I would definitely recommend are:

1) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
2) Broken Sword 1
3) Broken Sword 2
4) Monkey Island 1 (and probably the others, but I haven't played them yet!)
5) The Dig
6) GK1
7) GK2
8) GK3

And that's probably it: I have played other games which I enjoyed, but they weren't nearly as good as the ones above - and I suspect there are many games out there which I haven't played which I would have enjoyed more than the ones I have played but not listed here ... if you seee what I mean...

Without considering the following games that I have on the 'to play' shelf (TLJ, GK2/3, Broken Sword 2, Byzantine, Nightlong & Noir) and Exile which I haven't purchased yet, here is my list in the order that I played them:

Myst
Voyeur
Last Express
Zork Nemesis
Sanitarium
Riven
Titanic:Adventure out of Time
Black Dahlia
Dark Side of the Moon
Pandora Directive
Grim Fandango
Traitors Gate
Broken Sword 1
Amber
Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion

Titan

Here are some of my favorites:

Shivers
Neverhood
Timelapse
Beyond Time
Karma
Black Dahlia
Reah
Lighthouse
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Jewels of the Oracle I and II

Karen

1. Myst III: Exile
2. RealMyst
3. Riven
4. Curse of Monkey Island
5. Escape from Monkey Island
6. The Longest Journey
7. Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
8. Beyond Atlantis
9. Timelapse
10. The Neverhood
11. Ring
12. Amerzone
13. Zork Grand Inquisitor
14. Morpheus
15. The Last Express

June Twisty List Resolution: By this time next year, I will take a break from playing new games and finally try Grim Fandango and Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive.

Circle of Blood
Gabriel Knight 2
Grim Fandango
Longest Journey
Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Monkey Island 4
Discworld 1
Discworld 2
Zak McCracken
Maniac Mansion
Day of the Tentacle
Kings Quest 7
Simon the Sorcerer

This was not easy and I had to leave off a bunch of what I thought were great games. But here in no particular order are the ones that made it:

Grim Fandango
Discworld 1
Discworld 2
Discworld Noir
Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive
Dracula:The Last Sanctuary
Obsidian
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2
GK1
GK2
Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood)
Broken Sword 2 (Shadow of the Templars)
The Longest Journey

Secret Of Monkey Island
Monkey Island II
Curse Of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Gabriel Knight II
KQ7
Circle Of Blood
Simon The Sorcerer
Simon The Sorcerer II
Sanitarium
The Longest Journey
Discworld
Discworld II
Dracula's Last Sanctuary
Day Of The Tentacle

WOW! Is all I have to say!

I already did my list of recommendations a long time ago. I keep looking back at the updated post and find games recommended that I have never even heard of. Can anybody tell what Day of the Tentacle is about? It sounds interesting.

Mac Day of the Tentacle is Maniac Mansion 2 and is a crazy cartoonish style game. Very funny with excellent puzzles. At http://gamesdomain.com/gdreview/review_archives.html there is a great review of the game.

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