Adventure games

Explore, find the key, open the door: action adventures with maps worth getting lost in.

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• The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1986, Nintendo): Link explores the open land of Hyrule with sword and shield, braving nine dungeons to gather the Triforce of Wisdom and face Ganon.
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super Nintendo, 1991, Nintendo): Link crosses between the Light World and the Dark World to rescue the Seven Sages' descendants and stop the wizard Agahnim from freeing Ganon.
• Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): A young dolphin searches the oceans for his pod, swept away by a strange storm, using sonar to solve puzzles on a quest that leads through time.
• ToeJam & Earl (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Two funky aliens crash on Earth and search its random islands for the ten pieces of their rocket, opening presents and dodging earthlings, together or alone.
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64, 1998, Nintendo): Young Link draws the Master Sword and travels between childhood and adulthood to stop Ganondorf, in the first 3D Zelda.
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo 64, 2000, Nintendo): Link has three days to stop the moon from crashing into Termina, living them over and over with masks that change his form.
• Pokémon Snap (Nintendo 64, 1999, Nintendo): Todd rides a rail cart through Pokémon Island taking photos for Professor Oak, luring wild Pokémon with apples and Pester Balls for the best shot.
• Adventure (Atari 2600, 1980, Atari): Guide a square hero through castles and mazes with a sword, keys and a magnet to bring back the enchanted chalice past three dragons. It hides one of gaming's first easter eggs.
• The Battle of Olympus (NES, 1990, Brøderbund): Orpheus crosses ancient Greece to rescue Helene from Hades, trading with the gods and fighting mythic beasts in a Zelda II-style quest.
• Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES, 1988, Konami): Simon Belmont roams Transylvania by day and night, buying whips and holy water in towns and gathering Dracula's remains to lift the count's curse.
• Faxanadu (NES, 1989, Nintendo): A wanderer returns to find the World Tree dying, climbs its towns and dungeons, and buys the swords and spells to reach the Evil One.
• Maniac Mansion (NES, 1990, Jaleco): Dave and two friends sneak through the Edison mansion to rescue Sandy, solving point-and-click puzzles with the game's famous choice of characters.
• Metal Gear (NES, 1988, Ultra Games): Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, avoiding guards and cameras instead of fighting them, in the game that invented stealth action.
• StarTropics (NES, 1990, Nintendo): Mike Jones island-hops the South Seas with a yo-yo, finding his missing uncle in dungeons of jumping puzzles, in a Zelda-style quest made for America.
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1988, Nintendo): Link crosses Hyrule on an overworld map and fights side-on through palaces, leveling up sword, magic and life, to set the six crystals and wake Zelda.
• Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (NES, 1994, Nintendo): Mike Jones travels through time, from the Ice Age to the Old West, chasing Zoda's clones and the Tetrads in the StarTropics sequel.
• Harvest Moon (Super Nintendo, 1997, Natsume): Inherit a run-down farm and get two and a half years to till, plant, raise cows and chickens and court a wife, in the first Harvest Moon.
• Illusion of Gaia (Super Nintendo, 1994, Nintendo): Will travels the ancient wonders of the world, from Inca ruins to the Great Wall, changing into the knight Freedan and the spirit Shadow to beat the dungeons.
• Soul Blazer (Super Nintendo, 1992, Enix America): Deathtoll has sealed every living soul away; Blazer clears monster lairs to release them, rebuilding each town and its people as the world returns.
• Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis, 1991, Renovation Products): Four heroes, one or two at a time, cross isometric dungeons full of spells and swordplay to stop the sorceress Castomira's return.
• Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis, 1995, Atlus): On his fourteenth birthday Corona takes up his father's sword and learns, with the animals that join him, that the monsters have a side too, in a Zelda-style quest.
• Home Alone (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Kevin has twenty minutes to rig the neighborhood's five houses with traps before Harry and Marv arrive, then lead them through the gauntlet.
• Shadow of the Beast II (Sega Genesis, 1992, Electronic Arts): Aarbron, half-beast again, searches a gorgeous and merciless land for his kidnapped sister, in Psygnosis's puzzle-filled sequel.
• Wonder Boy in Monster World (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Shion sets out to free Monster World from the Biomeka, buying armor and spells in towns and exploring castles and underwater caves, in Westone's action RPG.
• Haunted House (Atari 2600, 1982, Atari): A pair of eyes explores the dark mansion by matchlight, finding the three pieces of the urn while ghosts, bats and spiders snuff the matches.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari 2600, 1982, Atari): Indy trades for a whip, a shovel and the ankh across Cairo's marketplace, the Map Room and the Well of Souls, in Atari's two-joystick adventure.
• Riddle of the Sphinx (Atari 2600, 1982, Imagic): Walk the desert as the Pharaoh's son, trading treasures with Isis and Anubis and braving thieves and scorpions to reach the Sphinx and answer its riddle.
• Harvest Moon GB (Game Boy, 1998, Natsume): Restore your grandfather's farm by growing crops, raising animals and gathering from the mountain, season after season, in the first handheld Harvest Moon.
• James Bond 007 (Game Boy, 1998, Nintendo): Bond punches, shoots and talks his way through a Zelda-style adventure from China to the Pyrenees, with a casino of blackjack and baccarat to play.
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy, 1993, Nintendo): Shipwrecked on Koholint Island, Link must wake the Wind Fish by gathering the eight Instruments of the Sirens, in a Zelda with a secret at its heart.
• Metroid II: Return of Samus (Game Boy, 1991, Nintendo): Samus hunts the last 39 Metroids through SR388's caverns, gaining the Spider Ball and Space Jump, and leaves with the hatchling that starts Super Metroid.
• Ninja Taro (Game Boy, 1991, American Sammy): Taro, a ninja in training, roams a top-down feudal Japan taking missions, buying items and fighting assassins, in a small action RPG.
• Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (Nintendo 64, 1999, Konami): Cornell the werewolf hunts his sister's kidnapper through Dracula's castle, with the first N64 Castlevania's quests remade and added as extras.
• Harvest Moon 64 (Nintendo 64, 1999, Natsume): Take over your grandfather's farm in a 3D town, grow crops and livestock, befriend the villagers and marry one of five girls across three years.
• Mega Man 64 (Nintendo 64, 2000, Capcom): Mega Man Legends on the N64: Mega Man Volnutt digs for treasure on Kattelox Island and fights the Bonne pirates in a 3D action RPG.
• Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (Nintendo 64, 1998, Konami): Goemon and friends chase the Peach Mountain Shoguns across a 3D Japan of towns, castles and giant-robot Impact battles, in a Zelda-style adventure.
• Resident Evil 2 (Nintendo 64, 1999, Capcom): Both discs of Leon and Claire's Raccoon City nightmare on one cartridge, with the full-motion video kept, in Angel Studios' landmark port.
• Shadow Man (Nintendo 64, 1999, Acclaim): Michael LeRoi crosses between Liveside and Deadside to stop the Five, in a dark, voodoo-steeped Metroid-style adventure.
• 007: The World Is Not Enough (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 2000, Electronic Arts): Bond tracks Elektra King and Renard from MI6 to an oil pipeline and a nuclear submarine in a top-down spy mission, mixing gadgets, stealth and shootouts.
• Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (Game Boy Color, 2001, Infogrames): Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac search a haunted mansion on Shadow Island in a survival-horror adventure whose painted rooms push the Game Boy Color to its limits.
• Bomberman Quest (Game Boy Color, 1999, Electro Brain): Bomberman crash-lands on Planet Phantomia and explores it from above, bombing monsters and the Hige Hige Bandits to win back his ship's missing parts.
• Conker's Pocket Tales (Game Boy Color, 1999, Rare): Conker the squirrel explores woods, mines and castles to rescue his girlfriend Berri and his birthday presents from the Evil Acorn, in his debut adventure.
• Grand Theft Auto (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 1999, Rockstar Games): Steal cars, run jobs for crime bosses and stay ahead of the cops across Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City, seen from above like the PC original.
• Grand Theft Auto 2 (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 2000, Rockstar Games): Claude Speed works for rival gangs in Anywhere City, earning respect with one by hitting another, in an overhead crime spree full of cars to steal and cops to lose.
• Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! (Game Boy Color, 2002, Nintendo): Hamtaro searches town for his missing Ham-Ham friends, learning Ham-Chat words and using them to solve the problems of the hamsters he meets.
• Harvest Moon 2 GBC (Game Boy Color, 2000, Natsume): Take over your grandfather's run-down farm: grow crops through the seasons, raise cows and chickens and build the farm up until the townspeople come to see it.
• Harvest Moon 3 GBC (Game Boy Color, 2001, Natsume): A boy and a girl share an island farm and work it together, growing crops and raising animals in the third Game Boy Color Harvest Moon.
• Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (Game Boy Color, 2001, THQ): Indy races the Soviets to the pieces of a Babylonian machine across ruins and temples, whipping, climbing and solving puzzles in an overhead adventure.
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Game Boy Color, 1998, Nintendo): Link washes up on Koholint Island and must wake the Wind Fish to leave it, in the color edition of the Game Boy classic with a new Color Dungeon.
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (Game Boy Color, 2001, Nintendo): Link travels between Labrynna's past and present with the Harp of Ages to rescue Nayru, the Oracle of Ages, from the sorceress Veran.
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Game Boy Color, 2001, Nintendo): Link turns Holodrum's seasons with the Rod of Seasons to rescue Din, the Oracle of Seasons, from Onox, the General of Darkness.
• Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 2000, Konami): Solid Snake infiltrates Galuade to recover the stolen Metal Gear Gander, sneaking past guards in an overhead stealth game known in Japan as Ghost Babel.
• Quest for Camelot (Game Boy Color, 1998, Nintendo): Kayley sets out to recover Excalibur from the treacherous Ruber, exploring forests and dungeons in an overhead adventure based on the animated film.
• Resident Evil Gaiden (Game Boy Color, 2002, Capcom): Leon Kennedy and Barry Burton board a cruise ship overrun by a bio-weapon, exploring from above and fighting in first-person timing battles.
• Shadowgate Classic (Game Boy Color, 1999, Nintendo): A point-and-click quest through the castle of the Warlock Lord, where every room hides traps and the torch must never burn out.
• Survival Kids (Game Boy Color, 1999, Konami): A shipwrecked kid builds tools, hunts and crafts shelter on a deserted island, watching hunger, thirst and fatigue while searching for a way home.
• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Nintendo DS, 2010, Capcom): Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth walks the crime scenes himself, gathering clues and connecting them with logic to expose the culprits, in the series' first spin-off.
• Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! (Nintendo DS, 2012, D3 Publisher): Finn and Jake chase the Ice King across the Land of Ooo after he steals their garbage, in a side-scrolling adventure in the style of Zelda II.
• Alice in Wonderland (Nintendo DS, 2010, Disney Interactive Studios): Alice returns to Underland from Tim Burton's film, and the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and friends lend her their powers to get past its puzzles.
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS, 2008, Capcom): Rookie defense attorney Apollo Justice takes his first cases under a disgraced Phoenix Wright, watching witnesses for the nervous habits that give their lies away.
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director's Cut (Nintendo DS, 2009, Ubisoft): George Stobbart and Nico Collard follow a Paris café bombing into a Knights Templar conspiracy, with new scenes and puzzles in the point-and-click classic.
• Cory in the House (Nintendo DS, 2007, Disney Interactive Studios): Cory Baxter schemes his way around the White House, talking, sneaking and playing mini-games, in a game based on the Disney Channel show.
• Dragon Ball: Origins (Nintendo DS, 2008, Namco Bandai Games): Young Goku and Bulma hunt the Dragon Balls in an action adventure retelling the start of the saga, played with the stylus.
• Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (Nintendo DS, 2006, Square Enix): Rocket the slime stretches and slingshots enemies to rescue his town's slimes from the Plob, and fights tank battles in a mobile fortress.
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): Chocobo rescues his friends from the storybooks of a dark wizard, through touch-screen mini-games and pop-up card duels.
• Flower, Sun, and Rain (Nintendo DS, 2009, Xseed Games): Searcher Sumio Mondo is stuck reliving the same day on an island resort, solving number puzzles with his suitcase computer to stop a plane bombing.
• Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Tingle buys, sells and bribes his way through a world where everything costs Rupees, filling Uncle Rupee's pool to reach the paradise of Rupeeland.
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Nintendo DS, 2011, Capcom): A murdered man's ghost possesses objects to change fate, saving lives four minutes before death while unraveling the mystery of his own.
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, 2009, Rockstar Games): Huang Lee comes to Liberty City to deliver his family's sword and is pulled into a Triad war, with touch-screen hotwiring, drug deals and police chases.
• Harvest Moon DS (Nintendo DS, 2005, Natsume): Restore a farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley while rescuing 101 Harvest Sprites from a witch, with crops, animals and marriage.
• Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar (Nintendo DS, 2010, Natsume): Grow crops, raise animals and sell them at Zephyr Town's weekly bazaar, building it back into a bustling market.
• Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands (Nintendo DS, 2008, Natsume): Raise sunken islands back from the sea with Sun Stones, then farm, fish and befriend the islanders.
• Harvest Moon DS: The Tale of Two Towns (Nintendo DS, 2011, Natsume): Two feuding mountain towns, one rustic and one Eastern, are brought together by your farming, festivals and cooking contests.
• Harvest Moon DS Cute (Nintendo DS, 2008, Natsume): The girl's version of Harvest Moon DS, with a farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley to restore and new bachelors to court.
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Ex-detective Kyle Hyde checks into a run-down Nevada hotel in 1979 and unravels its guests' secrets, with the DS held sideways like a book.
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Nintendo DS, 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Harry's first four years at Hogwarts rebuilt in LEGO, casting spells and solving puzzles with a cast of witches and wizards.
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Nintendo DS, 2007, LucasArts): All six Star Wars films rebuilt in LEGO, switching between Jedi, droids and smugglers as you smash and rebuild your way through.
• LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Nintendo DS, 2011, LucasArts): The Clone Wars in LEGO, from Jedi missions to large battles commanding clone troops.
• Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A year after Hotel Dusk, Kyle Hyde is about to lose his Los Angeles apartment and digs into the building's past, in Cing's last game.
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Link sails the World of the Ocean King to save Tetra, played entirely with the stylus, from sword strokes to notes drawn on the map.
• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Engineer Link drives a train across Hyrule's tracks with Princess Zelda's spirit at his side, possessing Phantom armor to help him.
• Lost in Blue (Nintendo DS, 2005, Konami): Keith and Skye are shipwrecked on a deserted island and survive together, foraging, fishing and building a shelter while hunting for rescue.
• Lost in Blue 2 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Konami): A boy and a girl shipwrecked on a deserted island survive by hunting, building and looking after each other.
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Nintendo DS, 2010, Aksys Games): Nine strangers trapped on a sinking ship have nine hours to escape through numbered doors, in a puzzle-filled visual novel with several endings.
• Ōkamiden (Nintendo DS, 2011, Capcom): Chibiterasu, the young wolf son of the sun goddess Amaterasu, paints brush techniques on the touch screen to save Nippon with a child partner.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS, 2005, Capcom): Rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright investigates crime scenes and presses witnesses until he can shout "Objection!" and expose the real killer.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Phoenix returns for four new cases, breaking Psyche-Locks on witnesses' secrets and facing the prosecutor Franziska von Karma.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Phoenix's past catches up with him in five cases spanning years, closing the original trilogy.
• Pokémon Ranger (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): A Pokémon Ranger befriends wild Pokémon by circling them with the stylus, borrowing their help to protect the Fiore region.
• Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A Ranger in the Oblivia region draws Guardian Signs to call on legendary Pokémon against the Pokémon Pinchers.
• Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): A new Ranger in the Almia region captures Pokémon with the Capture Styler to stop Team Dim Sun.
• Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (Nintendo DS, 2006, Capcom): The original Resident Evil on the DS: Jill and Chris search the Spencer mansion, with touch-screen knife fights and a reworked Rebirth mode.
• Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (Nintendo DS, 2011, Xseed Games): Hunter Red Savarin pilots his robot Dahak across floating islands, lifting and throwing enemies in an action adventure.
• Time Hollow (Nintendo DS, 2008, Konami): Ethan Kairos uses the Hollow Pen to cut holes in time and change the past after his parents vanish.
• Touch Detective (Nintendo DS, 2006, Atlus): Girl detective Mackenzie pokes, prods and touches everything in her strange town to crack cases, with her pet fungus Funghi.
• Touch Detective 2 ½ (Nintendo DS, 2007, Atlus): Mackenzie and Funghi take on new cases in their odd little town, solved by touching everything in sight.
• Trace Memory (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Ashley Robbins comes to Blood Edward Island to find her long-lost father, helped by the ghost of a boy who lost his memories.
• Metal Gear Solid (PlayStation, 1998, Konami): Solid Snake infiltrates Shadow Moses Island to stop the renegades of FOXHOUND from launching Metal Gear REX, in Hideo Kojima's cinematic stealth classic.
• Resident Evil (PlayStation, 1996, Capcom): S.T.A.R.S. members Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine take refuge in a mansion overrun by zombies and monsters, in the original survival horror.
• Resident Evil 2 (PlayStation) (PlayStation, 1998, Capcom): Rookie cop Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield fight through a zombie-filled Raccoon City, each with a scenario of their own across two discs.
• Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PlayStation, 1999, Capcom): Jill Valentine tries to escape Raccoon City while the unstoppable Nemesis hunts her down, with split-second choices and a dodge move.
• Silent Hill (PlayStation, 1999, Konami): Harry Mason searches a fog-bound town for his missing daughter as it slips into a nightmare world, in a psychological horror classic.

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