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If anyone's looking for any original adventure games, I'm selling mine. Brings a tear to the eye. I had good times playing all these, but as times move on, I have decided to also.Ã, 

I know some of these are quite hard to get these days, so if you're interested:-

(Hopefully to real adventure game fans btw).

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sanitarium_W0QQitemZ8224910477QQcategoryZ11047QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Click on view other items to see them all.

Including Discworld Noir, Toonstruck, Myst, Riven, Curse of Monkey Island, Sanitarium, Broken Sword, Broken Sword 2, Grim Fandango and Blade Runner.

Games like Sanitarium are quite hard to get.

All original, in pretty good condition. Thought I'd let fellow adventure game fans know first, before anyone else got in.

If anyone who hasn't played the game is interested:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8224696300

Or if you're a collecter.

I'm also selling other old adventure games, in pretty good condition.

[Secret of Monkey Island]

Since the internet has become a world wide phenomenon, it has been much easier to cheat if you become stuck at a game, by giving in to the temptation to look at the various walkthroughs available.

Then at the same time you start living in denial by trying to convince yourself ‘I'm only getting a bit of help, this doesn't count. It's not cheating'

Ring a bell?

In 1996-2000 I never had the internet, so when I was playing games like Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2 or Grim Fandango, it was much more difficult and at the same time, much more fun.

Before the internet, if I got stuck, the only options I had to find the answer to the certain puzzle, was to look at the back of the instruction manual and hope there was one of those premium line telephone hint facilities that various companies used to have, or hope that a walkthrough came up in one of the magazines I subscribed with.

I'd sometimes go days and days, sometimes weeks without an answer, only when I finally discovered the answer to the puzzle, it was jubilation. I'd feel on top of the world.

I'll never forget the day - I think it was in about 1997, when I first played Secret of Monkey Island and not being able to progress from the game after exhausting every area. Then all of a sudden, I found the tin in the Scumm Bar kitchen, which lead to me being able to progress through the circus tent part of the game.

It felt a great sense of achievement.

These days, I don't really get that feeling because of the internet and the if I wanted, I could cheat with no problem at all.

In a way, I feel the internet has contributed to my lack of enjoyment of recent games. I thank god I got all of the classics out of the way before I ever got internet access.

I've just read in another post that someone doesn't do walkthroughs. I think this is an interesting approach and I might follow the same method. No matter how stuck I am, I'd make sure I will never look at a walkthroughs.

How do you feel the internet has affected your gaming, enjoyment, and what method you adopt with regards to walkthroughs?

[Star Wars]

I was just looking on the LucasArts site and noticed it really does go out of its way to promote the Star Wars genre.

Look at the main page http://www.lucasarts.com/

It's like it's forgotten or abandoned any other kind of game, focusing solely on the Star Wars franchise. Everything else seems to have been swept aside.

Out of interest, I clicked on the classic PC games section, to see it still mentions games like the Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango, Outlaws, Full Throttle, Sam & Max & Indiana Jones to name but a few.

Do you think this situation is just temporary due to George Lucas making Episodes 1, 2 and 3 from 1999-2005.

Do you think this is why they've hardly focused on any other genre?

Do you think that now the Star Wars trilogy has finally come to an end, theyll get back to what they were good at and thats making top notch adventure/point & click games, or do you think the days of playing such games are well and truly over?

Whats your opinion on this situation?