One way to look at point-and-click games is that they’ve become a lesser genre since they hit big in the 1990s. Another way to look at them is that, in modern gaming, they’ve evolved into and combined with different genres, from adventure and puzzle games, to “find and search” experiences and walking simulators. I’ve long…
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Unforgettable: The Interactive Intro of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
When I first started playing video games in earnest, words like “Atari” and “arcade” were commonplace. “Nintendo” and “Mario” soon followed, and with them came a chasm-like leap in video game technology. After spending countless hours with relatively simple (but not simplistic) games like Pole Position and Defender, I was utterly wowed by what would…