Last adventure game I played that existed in the pre-mouse era was Space Quest 3 I think
I used to hate that shit, though. You'd see some item on the ground, then you'd have to type the command just right to get the fucking thing.
Although given many of the people on this board, they probably would have cried that being able to select the item with a mouse cursor is EZ-mode for casuals and mouse-driven adventure games are ruining the genre, filling it with people who can't spell properly. A smaller group will cry that graphics themselves fucked the genre because before you had to imagine the room...now the developers spell it all out by actually showing you a picture, making the game too accessable to the masses and making it less hardcore because you dont even need an imagination anymore to play.
A developer comes to the board and says he plans to make a good old fashioned text based adventure game. The "die hards" all cheer, the happy childhood memories of Zork dripping from their eyes like rose-tinted tears. The beta is finally released, and half of said people realize that it wasnt as good as they remembered it, spilling out text command spoilers as they break NDA. The developer decides that a total text based adventure game is too lofty a goal, so falling back on the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words", he decides to make it a graphical adventure game with text inputed commands and to reuse the same image in multiple spots, except with different color tints. All the "die hards" cry that he is selling out, making his game closer to Grim Fandango or The Dig. More people chime in, saying the text inputed commands are an old game mechanic and should be replaced with mouse cursors. The developer is eaten by a Groo and never heard from again.
Sorry, couldnt resist ;_;
