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![]() The popularity of these games was growing steadily and better and better games began to emerge on the market. It was companies like Sierra that really pushed the progress of this gaming genre when they introduced games like King’s Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and Hero’s Quest. The introduction of these popular series’ really opened the genre in a new and exciting way and they can be considered the ones that helped Adventure Games become what they are today. Sierra held the status of controlling the adventure game market from the early 1980s on until a programmer named Robert Gilbert came on the scene with a program called SCUMM. This program brought to life the point and click interface that Lucas Arts introduce in Maniac Mansion. No longer did the player have to type a command into the game to the protagonist. ![]() Instead, all the player had to do was point and click to command the protagonist and progress the story.Īdventure games in the 1980s were one of the most popular gaming genres on the market and much of that was thanks to companies like Lucas Arts and Sierra. The genre became very popular with the birth of CD-ROMS for computer and a game that made full use of this new storage medium - Myst. ![]() Released in 1994, Myst presented an amazing interactive world the character had to explore and manipulate in order to proceed through different “ages” to solve the game. ![]()
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