Comment by g-b-r

3 days ago

I never heard that the Adventure term came from Colossal Cave Adventure, really ? It's true that it is/was the other term commonly used for this kind of games, anyhow.

Myst was better categorized as a puzzle game, you wouldn't recommend it to someone looking for games similar to Monkey Island

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marginalia_nu  3 days ago

It's a well established term, and puzzle games like Myst are generally considered a subgrenre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game

  • g-b-r  3 days ago

    On the magazines I used to read Adventure was a synonymous of Point and Click.

    I definitely don't trust Wikipedia on these kind of things, anyhow it could be that the terms were different in different countries or just different magazines