Once upon a time, adventure games were the proverbial kings of PC gaming, entertaining gamers everywhere with a heavy focus on well-written stories and strong, realistic characters. Adventure games had their best run during the late 80’s and early 90’s, before suddenly dying out.

So what happened to the adventure games, and where are they now?

In this three part series, we’ll be taking a look at the history of the adventure game and possibly try to predict a future for them as well. We begin, obviously, with the early development and subsequent rise of adventure games.

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...

Almost every kind of fiction is based off of something else, and the adventure games were no different. In the mid 70’s, before gaming was an actual term and computer hardware would cover an entire room, the first seeds of the adventure game genre were sown by way of Interactive Fiction.

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Fans of sexual puns and double entendres rejoice, because Larry Lovage, Larry Laffer’s nephew, is returning in yet another game of strange and humourous adventuring.

Game studio Codemasters have picked up the license to “Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust”, which is to be released during spring of 2009 according to the game’s official website.
“Box Office Bust” was originally going to be released by Vivendi, but was dropped during the merger with Activision Blizzard, July 2008.

Larry Lovage travels to Hollywood to help his uncle run a film studio, which should lay ground for a gallery of celebrities never seen in a game.

Larry will once again be a mixture of exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle solving. In addition the game will be sporting its own director mode where the player can make their own movie about Larry Lovage. More details have yet to be revealed.

“Box Office Bust” will release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Gamefront has noticed that Revolution’s point-and-click classic, Broken Sword, has been listed on USK, a German rating site. The game will see a rerelease on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii.

Apparently, this is not the first time the game is ported to handels. Some might remember Broken Sword on the GBA, but most of us probably don’t.

If they had just visited Videogamesplus, and the details would have been there already.