Here's 6 classic, brilliant games that come to mind for me:

Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender benders ( 1992)

Realms of the Haunting (1997) This game was pretty long from what I remember.

Labrynth of time ( 1993)

Another World ( first adventure ever played,also known as 'out of this world')

Flashback ( sequel to AW/OOTW)

Alone in the Dark

[After a brisk nap]

Isn't "really old 90's games" an oxymoron?

[JohnGreenArt]

Willy Beamish

[NcroManiac]

Future Wars: Time Travellers. A nifty little gem that came out early 1990 in english.
And Loom of course.

[rtrooney]

It's like asking to name your favorite songs from the 70's. There weren't many.

[NcroManiac]

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there rtrooney, or did you mean the 80's?

[courderoy guy]

To the person who asked about 90's games being old - yeah, we're old (i'm 32 myself, and never thought of the 90's as old until my wife's younger sister mentioned she listened to classic rock - like nirvana).

that said, besides giving my - agreed - to Flashback, i'd add:

Myst - started a lot, and sure was something when it first came out.

Phantasmagoria 1 (and to a lesser extent 2): Sex! Real People doing stuff! And spooky to boot! My buds and girls used to hang out and sit around while someone played these games and the others watched (sounds so kinky, doesn't it?)

Actually, the first 3d Castle Wolfenstein was quite something when it came out. And yes - i've played the apple version, too.

[rtrooney]

Originally Posted by NcroManiac

did you mean the 80's?

Each of us has their own decade of doom as music goes. But there are always a few bright spots in every era.

[Captain Blondebeard]

Ugh.... Rex Nebular? I really disliked that perverted BASS wannabe. You all know that by now though dont you?

[rtrooney]

Originally Posted by courderoy guy

yeah, we're old (i'm 32 myself, and never thought of the 90's as old until my wife's younger sister mentioned she listened to classic rock - like nirvana).

Then you can appreciate how someone who is 58, ME, might not look at at 90's game as being old. Early 70's text games are old.

[Hammerite]

Originally Posted by NcroManiac

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there rtrooney, or did you mean the 80's?

the alternative rock back then was cool.
and yeah, realms of the haunting was very long, but a lot of the four disks was movie sequences (and a neat making of video!!)

[Thief]

Here is a list of some of the first adventure games which I played during the 90's and which I liked most:

Escape from Delirium
Teen Agent
IGOR : Objective Uikokahonia
Shadow of the Comet
FLight of the Amazon Queen

and Obviously,

Monkey Island 1 and 2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Day of the Tentacle

These old golden times.

[Steve Ince]

Originally Posted by rtrooney

It's like asking to name your favorite songs from the 70's. There weren't many.

Hey, all my favourite songs are from the 70s.

[CrimsonBlue]

Most of LucasArts best games came out during the 90's, same with Sierra. So they're a given.

Another World and Flashback also made an impact on me. Same with Sensible World of Soccer, but seeing as this is in the Adventure sub-forum, it doesn't count.

Legend of Kyrandia was great, and all of the Revolution games were excellent, even their first effort, Lure of the Temptress had good stuff going for it. BASS is my personal favourite for nostalgic reasons, but Broken Sword 1 comes close second. Then Lure of the Temptress, then Broken Sword 2.

The 90's was what I would call the golden age of adventure gaming. And the first half of it was Amiga's golden years to me. Ironically, because the Amiga officially died in '94.

[Number6]

Hi everyone.

Games I fondly remember, hmm..

Top of the list would be GK1 - I don't think any other adventure game has given me the same feeling of achievement at solving the puzzles.

Loved all the LucasArts games, of course.

Broken Sword 1, The Riddle of Master Lu, Shadow of the Comet.
Sanitarium for the haunted house sequence.
Toonstruck, though possibly mainly for cutscenes.

There are many others that I enjoyed at the time, but that didn't make a lasting impact.

Outside of adventures, well...

Ecstatica, for the joy of being torn to shreds by the world's cutest werewolf.
Terminator: Future Shock - never experienced such an immersive environment before.
Realms of the Haunting - actually, I've only recently finished this after a 9 year hiatus! (Anyone else think that this would be a great candidate for a remake on the Nintendo Revolution?)
The Incredible Machine (what I played of it) - inspired.

#6

[bysmitty]

I guess I don't really see the point of this thread. I can think of hundreds of great adventure games from the 90s. I would list them all but what the heck would that accomplish?

...bysmitty

[JemyM]

1996-2000 was the experimental era in which pretty much all games should be 3D or FMV, both with really crappy results.

Most of the good games in this era was therefore released around 1990-1995.

[After a brisk nap]

Yeah, I don't see the point either. Given that one of the "really old" games was from 1997, this is a time period that includes almost every great graphic adventure ever made, from The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) to Bad Mojo (1996). And games like The Last Express (1997) are recent when you consider that King's Quest came out in 1985 and Zork in 1980.

As for music, the 70s gave us great music by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, The Stooges/Iggy Pop, T-Rex, The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, and all the music in Quentin Tarantino films. (That's not even getting into disco, which despite its reputation produced some damn catchy tunes.)

The 80s produced The Cure, Joy Division, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Beastie Boys, U2 and The Pixies. Artists like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen kept producing great work through both decades. So if you think the seventies were all prog rock and disco, or the eighties all synthesizer pop and poodle rock, you're forgetting an awful lot of great music.

[eriktorbjorn]

Originally Posted by rtrooney

Then you can appreciate how someone who is 58, ME, might not look at at 90's game as being old. Early 70's text games are old.

Well, if you go back to the early 70's, that won't leave many adventure games. Even Colossal Cave didn't appear until the mid-seventies, as far as I know. The only adventure-like game I can think of from the early 70's would be Hunt the Wumpus, but no doubt there are several that I haven't heard about.

Originally Posted by After a brisk nap

Isn't "really old 90's games" an oxymoron?

Not really, an oxymoron is two words contradicting each other like 'deafening silence'. I was just suggesting games which are old, in particular from the 90's. And dos based games are really old by todays standards. And the point of the thread is to name some games which you remember fondly from that era. Why are you and bysmitty questioning the point of the thread? It's just a throwaway topic to get nostalgic about games that made a lasting impression above many others from that era.