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Sierra and LucasArts' games were my vindication for getting an "IBM PC" instead of the Commodore Amiga I had been lusting after in magazines.

I'm glad there has been a resurgence in point-and-click adventure games lately (like Thimbleweed Park, Broken Age, Samorost, Machinarium etc.) and I hope they become more popular again.

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You might be surprised to find how popular they still are, even if they don't get much love from the large game development studios. There are many smaller companies or groups (Wadjet Eye, Phoenix, King Art, Infamous Adventures) who make adventure games for the love of the genre and many indie developers. For instance, check out the yearly Adventure Jam, (which ended 2 weeks ago) to see what motivated people can do in just 2 weeks time. The site is https://advjam.com/

Disclaimer: I participated both last year and this year.

I happily played Sierra and LucasArts' games on my Amiga 500. Here is a list of Amiga Games on wikipedia showing the King's Quest series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amiga_games_(I%E2%80%9...

I know, but as far as I could tell, Amiga had the better music, while PC/VGA had the better graphics (and sometimes more content).

It depends on your time frame. The Amiga got lots of nice stuff in the beginning, and got a whole bunch of great developers, mainly from the UK, but over time the PC market was much bigger and PCs were always getting more powerful.

For me the turning point was Wolf3d. After seeing it running on all the PCs on the tables in the old computer shows at the Cow Palace, my days on the 500 were limited.

Amiga 500 had great graphics and music for it's time (1987-) Is there even a comparable PC at that time? I believe we had the Atari ST, Apple IIgs, and Acorn around the time.

I had to make do with a Commodore 64 until around 1993 I think, by which time PCs were comparable with Amigas or exceeded them.

I think tablets have paired extremely well with Point and Click adventures. The Journey Down was very enjoyable, for one.

Agreed. I have been revisiting a lot of these old school adventure games and even playing them in their entirety through ScummVM for Android. Haven't had that much luck with ResidualVM which tries to emulate 3D adventure games like Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, here's hoping they get it to a more stable state.

For what it's worth, DoubleFine put out a great version of Grim Fandango for mobile.

I highly recommend Broken Age, from Grim Fandango/Full Throttle's Tim Schafer:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/broken-age/id887649233

This was great on the Apple TV, where I first played it, and you get the iPad version too for just 5 bucks.

You might be interested in the Irony Curtain [0], which came out fairly recently. And though it's a bit debatable if their games could be considered point-and-clicks, I still hope someone pops up to fill the void left by Telltale Games as well -- Tales from the Borderlands was truly an awesome experience.

[0]: https://www.gog.com/game/irony_curtain_from_matryoshka_with_...

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