With around a half century behind the video game medium at this point, it's clear that it is taking after other forms of entertainment media in at least one point: no idea that was ever bankable will stay dead forever. Genres wax and wane, creators leave their beloved IPs and return, companies collapse and get bought up by the next ambitious up-and-comer, and franchises thought to be rendered toxic by a low quality installment or five can spring back to life with incredible force. You can't stop this train we're on, even if you wanted to. Like many other genres, point-and-click adventures were declared dead a long while back, a condition which never really stopped them from going about their (substantially reduced) business anyway. It's not that they ceased to be released altogether, but it's certainly arguable that changes had to be made to accommodate survival. If you liked them just fine the way they were" Well, you were out of luck. When Western gamers talk about "the way they were", they usually mean the adventure games that came from LucasArts during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Loom, and so on. If you weren't there at the time, you may not realize that these were the games that opened the genre up to a lot of people. Accessible, funny, and clever in both writing and design, LucasArts adventures completely reinvented the general wisdom about what an adventure game ought t...