Adventure Games History
Adventure games history really begins in video gamers terms in the 1970s. This decade saw the creation of the first adventures games as we know them. The focus of this kind of game is to bring the game player into it by making them control the main character and then to guide them through challenges and quests.
For many people adventure games history really begins with the Adventure game itself. This was created by William Crowther and was a major breakthrough in games history. The game name was also used to give this particular genre its name. Adventure was primarily a text based puzzle adventure game which was also often known as Advent or Colossal Cave.
The richest period in adventure games history is probably considered to be the 1980s and 1990s when the genre really took off and classics such as Zork were launched. The early 1980s, for example, saw the launch of adventure games that used graphics as well as text. This may look fairly primitive nowadays but it was leading edge technology at the time. Mystery House and The Wizard and the Princess were held to be the leaders in this field.
The 1990s saw the launch of one of the best known products in adventure games history -- Myst. Myst probably did more to open up the adventure game genre than any other game of its time. From this point video gaming wasn’t just something that kids and hard core fans did, a lot more adults started to get interested in the sector via Myst.
The appeal here is considered to be the puzzle and problem solving elements of the game which were relatively unusual for the time. This game really did make landmarks in adventure games history. It held a record as a top selling game for seven years, selling over 9 million units. It continued to be a major player in the sector until the mid 2000s although it is still popular in both video game and online forms with adventure game fans.
Nowadays adventure games history may well be made on smaller video consoles such as the Nintendo series. Game players here can find a lot of adventure games to play and developments within the company’s other products could also see a resurgence of global interest here.
Many games aficionados will tell you that the US is not the home of adventure games any more even though US developers often played pivotal roles in adventure games history. The industry tends to be led nowadays by games developed outside of North America which are then adapted for this market.