Top Ten Adventures @~To register your votes, just send in your choices, number them @~1st to 10th and preferably give brief comments on why you voted @~for each game. 10 points are awarded for 1st place down to 1 @~point for 10th place. ------------------------------------------------------------------ My Top Ten - from John Ferris ----------------------------- These are my Top Ten adventures: 1. Mordens Quest. For me this game had that indefinable something which made me love it. Most of the game had descriptions which conjured up this atmosphere which just got me into it. 2. Dungeon Master. The first game which made me actually jump in fright when a mummy appeared from nowhere and moaned at me. @~Was there anyone who DIDN'T jump? I yelled so loud, Alan came in @~to see what was happening ... Sue 3. Colossal Cave. First came across this on a NASCOM (more prehistory) computer at school when four of us managed to secure the exclusive use of the computer department for a whole afternoon. This game may be old, but it's more fun than revising for a Biology 'O' level. 4. The Bard's Tale. Spent ages wandering around Skara Brae, the catacombs and wherever. Classic quote "Battle! You are attacked by 99 skeletons." or something like that. 5. Pirate Adventure. This oldie from Scott Adams was the first adventure I played and came on a VIC20 cartridge. It took me ages but with just one clue the game was solved. 6. Zork 1. My first taste of Infocom. 7. Black Dawn 2. Very good shareware. 8. Ultimate Doom (aka Doom/Doom 2). The other game which made (and still makes) me jump. Tension, fear and a sense of really being in there. That and blood, gore and violence of course. 9. Raiders of the Lost Ark. This was on the Atari VCS (we are talking the best part of twenty years ago, kiddies) and must have been one of the first "arcade adventure" games ever. It was played with two joysticks, one for movement, one for manipulating objects. I can still remember sitting in front of that old B&W TV transfixed by the player character being on top of the pyramid (higher up the better score) having got the Ark with the opening bar of the theme tune playing over and over again. Those were the days. 10. Larn. I found this PD. game just after buying my Amiga. The gameplay was prehistoric but I played it for months. Some of these games are not necessarily the best/most technically advanced games I have played, but those which are most memorable. There are many good games which tie for 11th place. @~The Top Ten for 1996/97 is, so far: 33 pts Dungeon Master 23 pts Secret of Monkey Island 20 pts Lands of Lore 18 pts Chaos Strikes Back, Civilisation 16 pts Ultima Underworld II 14 pts Secret of Monkey Island 2, Ultimate Doom (Doom/Doom 2) 11 pts Stonekeep 10 pts Gabriel Knight 2, Ultima VII:The Black Gate, Sentinel, Mordens Quest 9 pts Day of the Tentacle, Aliens, Betrayal at Krondor, Descent, Ultima VI, Anvil of Dawn, Prisoner of Ice, Bard's Tale 8 pts Dungeon Master 2, Guild of Thieves, Ultima V, Lords of Time, Colossal Cave 7 pts Ravenloft 2: The Stone Prophet, Lurking Horror, Jet Set Willy, Hammer of Grimmold, Sam and Max 6 pts Ishar 2, Elite, Frontier:Elite 2, Might and Magic:World of Xeen, Discworld, Veil of Darkness, Pirate Adventure 5 pts System Shock, Nord and Bert, Colonization, Ultima Underworld I, Eye of the Beholder Trilogy, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Zork 1 4 pts Ultima 8: Pagan, Populous, Lords of Midnight, Ravenloft 1:Strahd's Possession, The Dig, The Four Symbols, Black Dawn 2 3 pts Little Big Adventure, Wolfenstein 3D, Ishar 1 Simon the Sorcerer, Full Throttle 2 pts Bloodwych, UFO:Enemy Unknown, Sim City, Drakken, Gabriel Knight 1, Death Gate, Eric the Unready, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1 pt Multi-dimensional Thief, Captive, Emerald Isle, Midwinter 2, Larn @~Votes so far by Alex van Kaam, Laura Duncan, Adrian Sill, @~James Judge, Greg Lord, David Stocks, Arnie, Steve McLaren and @~John Ferris. - o -