I forgot about the “copy protection” 😬 There was certainly some innovative stuff

I do remember that Mikael, and the rebooted Laura Bow Mysteries repreated it!
I think my favorites were the pinwheels where you dialed up the necessary answer (MI2 had one involving mix and mojo voodoo). I have no idea what you were supposed to do if you lost the relevant item.

I think my favorite copy protectipn ever was in Zak McKracken. The symbols you had to enter were on red paper so you couldn't copy it. If you messed it up a couple of times you were taken to a cut scene of Zak in a jail cell where it said you really should buy a legal copy of the game.

I sure do.



And I also miss not having to spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out where the save games are located...

SQF, wonderful memory about Zak McKracken. So many of the earlier great adventure games never lost sight of the fact that we were playing a game...and that a game above all should be fun.

Yes …. Fun !!

And I have never called wasting hours trying work out how “gadgets” work - as in some newer games - to be any kind of fun 🙄

Whilst spending many days creating my own maps in those early (especially Sierra’s) games WAS !!

Go Figure