Rate the Game: Week 113

**M-A-G** · 06-11-2022, 10:25 AM

I instinctively thought of the Hugo series of games when reading Vic's question even though it's clearly not what he was talking about. Those games along with The Secret of Monkey Island were discovered by me almost simultaneously. If I'm recalling correctly, one of the kids I knew from taking the bus home after school had a brother in high school. Our grade would be dismissed earlier than the high school students so he would go to the high school library, chill there and wait for his brother. The library had these games installed on the computers there and one day I got invited to check it out. It certainly helped kill the time waiting for the bus in a much better fashion than sitting under a fucking tree. They were nothing like anything I'd played before, requiring a bit more mental sharpness. If these kinds of games were the Food Pyramid, stuff like Doom and the Konami beat-'em-ups were the junk food from the convenience store.

**Big Vic** · 06-13-2022, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by M-A-G

I instinctively thought of the Hugo series of games when reading Vic's question even though it's clearly not what he was talking about. Those games along with The Secret of Monkey Island were discovered by me almost simultaneously. If I'm recalling correctly, one of the kids I knew from taking the bus home after school had a brother in high school. Our grade would be dismissed earlier than the high school students so he would go to the high school library, chill there and wait for his brother. The library had these games installed on the computers there and one day I got invited to check it out. It certainly helped kill the time waiting for the bus in a much better fashion than sitting under a fucking tree. They were nothing like anything I'd played before, requiring a bit more mental sharpness. If these kinds of games were the Food Pyramid, stuff like Doom and the Konami beat-'em-ups were the junk food from the convenience store.

I probably gotta watch a youtube of "top 20 90s point and click adventure games" or something

View Poll Results: How does The Secret of Monkey Island rate with you?
5 - Treasure, plain and simple.	0	0%
4 - A pirate's life is for me.	0	0%
3 - Some monkey business but it's worth it.	4	36.36%
2 - It plays like a cow.	0	0%
1 - There are no words for how disgusting it is.	0	0%
Haven't played it.	7	63.64%
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06-11-2022, 10:25 AM	#1
M-A-G Higher. Further. Faster. Posts: 21,097	This post is sponsored by 'Downtown' Julie Brown I instinctively thought of the Hugo series of games when reading Vic's question even though it's clearly not what he was talking about. Those games along with The Secret of Monkey Island were discovered by me almost simultaneously. If I'm recalling correctly, one of the kids I knew from taking the bus home after school had a brother in high school. Our grade would be dismissed earlier than the high school students so he would go to the high school library, chill there and wait for his brother. The library had these games installed on the computers there and one day I got invited to check it out. It certainly helped kill the time waiting for the bus in a much better fashion than sitting under a fucking tree. They were nothing like anything I'd played before, requiring a bit more mental sharpness. If these kinds of games were the Food Pyramid, stuff like Doom and the Konami beat-'em-ups were the junk food from the convenience store.