Posted February 03, 2011
Anyone else read this? A pretty good article about adventure game history.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/01/history-of-graphic-adventures.ars/
As a note, though, they've seemed to have missed Sierra's The Black Cauldron, which was among Sierra's first tries to more accessible gaming as it was aimed to kids. While it was done with AGI enine, it had mouse support and you gave the commands via function keys (from F1 to F4 if I'm not mistaken), which made gameplay a bit easier.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/01/history-of-graphic-adventures.ars/
As a note, though, they've seemed to have missed Sierra's The Black Cauldron, which was among Sierra's first tries to more accessible gaming as it was aimed to kids. While it was done with AGI enine, it had mouse support and you gave the commands via function keys (from F1 to F4 if I'm not mistaken), which made gameplay a bit easier.
