That is a really great explanation — AND it gave me Sim City 2000 vibes to boot 😂

Well... It works, but a couple of notes (mostly to myself, but, experts, feel free to weigh in) for the future:

• Don't lead with the "@adventuregames" tag. It's messy.
• Keep titles short, 'cos it copies the contents of the post as the title.
• Figure out if there's a way to split title and post content in the Mastodon toot, so the post content isn't just a copy of the title.
• I can't edit the post after the fact ('cos my Mastodon user and Lemmy user are, as far as this platform is concerned, two different people), and I'm worried if I edit the toot on Mastodon, it'll just post a new thread here instead of editing the existing one.

Haha! We were just talking in the other reply thread about how if KQ3 had been our first adventure game, we'd probably never have gotten into adventure games in the first place. 😂 Seriously, that game was (and still is) brutal! How did you cope with that?

(coughs in self-promotion) https://www.kickstarter.com/...

The original King's Quest — as in PC Jr, or the DOS conversion? Either way, I would imagine KQ1 kept you guys busy for a loooooong time.

Somehow my friend from school had gotten wind of the "bye bye wizard" cheat code, and we STILL couldn't get anywhere in the game. I'll take falling off a space station to my death, thanks. 😂

I'm Adventure Game Studio all the way myself. Not because I think it's the superior tool necessarily, but it's got a very easy learning curve and it's versatile enough that you can get away with a lot of really cool things.

It absolutely does! The OG adventure game!

I didn't play it until a couple of years ago when I did my video on it. I imagine I would have had a lot more fun with it if I was a kid and had all the time in the world to explore the world. Sadly, my first KQ game was KQ3, which stopped you from having any fun every 2-3 minutes with the sudden appearance of a bossy wizard.

I loved Toonstruck. Christopher Lloyd being in it had me hooked before even booting it up, but it's a solid adventure. Not to mention the voice cast is phenomenal! Tim Curry is the main antagonist and Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson) is your sidekick Flux!

There's a way to cheese the burger minigame in SQ4. If the speed starts getting too fast, go up in the control panel and adjust the game's speed slider. It'll slow the conveyor belt down.

Also, use the arrow keys. It'll make your cursor snap to the ingredients, and hitting the Up arrow makes the cursor follow along with the burger.

The Cliffs of Illogic!

King's Quest III: "occultic." Here, have a game that starts out with a bloodbath aboard a spaceship instead. Good priorities. 😂

Oh, Dave is gonna love the way you spelled "Wadjet..." 😂

Sam & Max taught me more clever multisyllabic words than school ever did.

Visual novels definitely qualify. They are at the very least adventure-adjacent.

I have to recommend Doki Doki Literature Club, although I'm sure most of you have already have the game spoiled for you (it was a pretty big thing a while ago). If you've somehow managed to avoid hearing about it, my advice is to go play it (it's free) and not look up anything about it! This is one that definitely needs a blind playthrough.

A lot of people really hold this one in very high regard. Unfortunately, with regards to a rerelease, the rights situation is a tangled spiderweb of immense proportions.

I've yet to play those. I played Rex Nebular, the "Leisure Suit Larry in space," and it was... not good. I have half a mind to do a very scathing video about it at some point.

Such a nice guy, too. He was super supportive when we did the Synths of the Fathers remix record, and he even let me play drums on his solo album Sequel (and its upcoming sequel, Son of Sequel).

I love Ross' videos. And he hit the nail right on the head: For all its flaws (few and far between), Kyrandia 2 does what a fantasy game should do: make you wish you could actually go there yourself.