Full Throttle.
'Nuff Said.
Autoduel, baby. And Seven Cities of Gold.
That’s right, I’m old-school.
Wait til I break out the Hunt the Wumpus. 
More recently, it was hard to believe how good Deus Ex was.
Eh, I don’t know why but Deus Ex just didn’t do it for me. I mean, I can see why a lot of people like it, but I just couldn’t get into it.
Now Morrowind, that game’s freakin’ brilliant!
any of Sierra Online’s adventure games (SQ, and LSL mainly), Full Throttle (Can’t wait for the sequel), Wolf3D defintely. And as for console, probably Super Mario Bros. 2.
Any Lucasarts adventure game
Any Blizzard game
[Starts waving Fanboy Insignia wildly]
Yep, Lucasarts aka Lucasfilm Games. (Hard to believe, but back in those days a lot of gamers had no clue the company was connected to George Lucas. I mean, duh!)
I mean Sierra pretty much invented the genre, but Lucasarts perfected it. Up until EfMI Lucasarts didn’t put out a single stinker, which is more than can be said for Sierra and its tendency to beat good franchises into the ground.
Lordy. King’s Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Police Quest, Manhunter…
I loved SierraQuest games.
Sorry, but I just had this memory. I believe it was Manhunter 2, but I remember this one place where you had to go over to this rock band promoter’s office and look for clues. The scene in his office was of a desk, and a door with what looked like a poster on it of (presumably) a band called “vomit bat.” I couldn’rt figure out what to do. I saved the spot, and revisited it numerous times. I spent days on it. Finally, in a flash of inspiration, I realized that the “poster” was a glass door with the promoter’s name on it, but seen from the back.
tad timov. :smack:
Stuff like that happened all the time. It was great.
Civ II? Why, you young whippersnappers!
Civ I, of course.
Shout out to:
X-Com (the first, the only)
Star Control II (has anyone played the remake project? I understand there’s an alpha build for it)
Prince of Persia
I still play Doom and Doom 2 like crazy. Don’t know why, but I always get drawn back to the crappy graphics and total lack of plot it offers. Great for starting up and playing while waiting for a download to finish. 
On the other hand, Planescape: Torment is hands down the best game ever created for any platform.
Pool of Radiance…after exploring a huge city, which was full of monsters and dungeons and yet felt somehow realistic, you reach the city gates and realize there’s a whole map of wilderness you can explore, and a dozen or so more locations. It was the first time a game managed to impress me and suck me in with it’s sheer size.
I cheated and played the NES version (which had some weird typos from where the notes in the anti-cheat book were copied into the game), but it came out on PC first.
Ah, Prince of Persia!
I also have fond memories of adventure game frustration, days spent wracking my brain over a single puzzle.
The worst was Zack McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, a game that took me three years to beat. (off and on of course, I didn’t play it every day.)
Second worst was Curse of Monkey Island. I spent a whole week going nuts over a puzzle involving a gold tooth before inspiration finally struck!
Good times, good times . . .
Prince of Persia… God, did I ever suck at that.
SimCity, the original. Mac System 6.0.7, and SNES.
SimAnt.
SWOS - Amiga version.
Laser Squad - Forerunner of the X-Com series.
Jetpac and Tranz-Am on the ZX Spectrum.
Both of them. Also SimCity, and Heroes of Might and Magic
Mean Streets starring Tex Murphey, a private dick with a flying car, a nasty trigger finger, and a cool trenchcoat.
Along the same lines, The Colonel’s Bequest was a great game. I guess I just like murder mysteries.
Ahhhh…Colossal Cave Adventure.
“You see a terrible snake.”
release bird
“With a dramatic flurry of wings, the bird chases the snake away.”
look
“You see a vicious fire-breathing dragon.”
release bird
“With a dramatic flurry of wings, the bird is turned to ash.”
fight dragon
“You want to attack the fire-breathing dragon with your bare hands (Y/N)”
Y
“You defeat the dragon!”
Oh no, wait. I can’t possibly have played that game. And I certainly couldn’t have been an adult when it was new! That would make me ol…not young.
So maybe I’ll mention Atari 2600 Adventure. Ehhh, no, I played that before Colossal Cave Adventure.
Paradroid? Boulderdash? Bureaucracy?
Um, I’ll just say, “Sim City 3000 is the first game I remember playing. I’m too young to remember anything else.”
Escape Velocity and Marathon.
Man, Boulderdash kicked the ass. My dad had it for his Commodore 64.
We also played Elite. Buy the military laser, screw those stipid tribble wannabees.
Apache. SimEarth was the greatest time waster ever… it was great.