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

Yes, and the magnifying glass in the Colonel’s Bequest was a more advanced version of that. Since you had to place the red-lensed magnifying glass over the finger prints that you had to identity to start the game, you couldn’t copy that either. I also think that this was the reason that Sierra changed their hintbooks. The first version used invisible ink that you had to use a special marker pen to reveal hidden text with. In the later hintbooks, you used a red transparent decoder card to reveal the hints. With the marker pen you could copy the books once the hints were revealed, but it wasn’t possible with the later version.

I was first captured by Myst, wandering through great artwork an design, having to figure things out with no walkthru and taking forever to finish. I miss the art, the wonder, the magic that it held for me. For me, the story was secondary, and, I guess that's why I made my game somewhat that way.

You just didn't get to play the game, flotsam !! 😒

I can remember reading posts from very angry people who had bought/traded games from other gamers and only afterwards found out that, to play the game, copy protection items were required and they HAD NOT been included in their parcel.

But the deal was done and they had no comeback