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A very thorough bit of history on the adventure genre. Worth a read.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2 ... tures.ars/

Nice article and pretty up-to-date too.

My one issue is that whoever was taking the screen shots of older Sierra games used a setting in DOSBox or ScummVM to smooth out the graphics. While it doesn't look bad, it gives a false impression of the original graphics.

It's interesting that more gamers want stories in their games nowadays. It's even hard to find an FPS without a story (granted, most aren't as good as Adventure or RPGs), but the whole "shoot everything that moves for the sake of it" concept has mostly fallen by the wayside.

I think Half-Life helped bring about that change. It's story is very basic compared to modern FPS titles, but it changed the genre. Before Half-Life, the average FPS story was generally "find the key" or something similar.

Great article MI. Thanks for posting it.