Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time!!1!

This was our april’s fool joke of 2004, still archived here for your amusement.

#20: The Dark Half

#19: Tender Loving Care

#18: Traitor’s Gate II

#17: Yoda Stories

#16: Softporn

#15: Halo

#14: Tetris

#13: Simon 3D

#12: Daikatana

#11: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

#10: The Orion Conspiracy

#9: Knowledge Adventure

#8: Down in the Dumps

#7: Night Trap

#6: Wayne’s World

#5: Space Invaders

#4: King’s Quest: Mask of Eternity

#3: Deer Hunter

#2: Crime Wave

#1: Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis

So how does one come up with a list of the Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time?

Would you believe darts and a bulletin board?

Of course you would! Because that’s all it freaking takes! W00t!

What factors are at play here? Well, there are really multiple attributes that a Top 20 Adventure must possess. It has to be really cool. It also has to rock. It has to be an adventure, except for the ones that aren’t adventures, but kind of are, and stuff. And sometimes, I just look at a game and say, “You know what? Game X should be ranked over Game Y, because the voices say so.”

I attempted to compile a similar Top 20 list in 2002. But people said mean things and hurt my feelings, so I hated them, and from the inner depths of my hatred arose this new list, refined in the fire, ready to wage war on the forces of Marekedor and his evil minions! Onward, friends!

Um, I mean, it is important for me to emphasize that these are the opinions of Evan Dickens, and only Evan Dickens, and just Evan Dickens, and Evan Dickens alone, and Evan Dickens rules!!!!…and they do not represent the opinions of any other AG staff member or the site as a whole, but they should, because they’re the best opinions ever, and in fact, they’re my #1 opinions of all-time on the Top 20. For reals.

Fear the Top 20. Fear it! I SAID FEAR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!

and, uh, happy adventuring, and enjoy reading, and stuff.

(with thanks to Doug, Dave, Dan, Marek, and Chris for their contributions)