Multiple-choice quiz revisits classic adventure game puzzles
Pcgamer presents a multiple-choice quiz that lets readers relive the brain‑bending puzzles of classic adventure games from the 1980s and early 1990s.
In that era adventure games were often the only place to find a decently written story: RPGs were mostly dungeon crawls or full of "olde worlde thee-and-thou", immersive sims didn't exist and visual novels were rarely translated. Studios such as Infocom, LucasArts and Sierra prioritised characters, settings and themes, but progress was frequently gated by puzzles that made sense to their creators yet could only be solved "by a hivemind of players" or a call to the help line.
The piece says those days are largely behind us, and the quiz is offered as a more convenient way to revisit moments like the Discworld adventure game's notorious challenges; the site also has more quizzes on topics from healthbars to weird currencies and absurd patch notes.