The 1993 point and click adventure game, Day of the Tentacle, is a shining example of doing it right. You may recognize titles such as Sam & Max or The Curse of Monkey Island which were similar, more popular Lucas Arts adventures. While these franchises are getting modern a re-envisioning, DoTT is left alone, fading slowly into obscurity. However, I believe it is by far the best adventure game of its time. The game is about a group of 3 misfits that appear to be out of an 80’s teen movie, who are transported through time by way of portable bathroom time machines. They become stuck in 3 separate times, the past, present and future. The two goals of the game are to repair the time machines and to stop a purple tentacle from reducing humanity to mere house pets. This game does a lot of things better than other point and click adventure I have played and on top of that it’s a lot of fun.
Why It’s Great:
-The time travel aspect is interesting, many puzzles involve changing things in the past to affect to future and help you characters progress.
-Item usage is for the most part logical, albeit wacky at times; at least it makes sense in the context. This is another problem with the genera, “How was I supposed to know to nail the banana to the string and lure out the baby moose from the rat hole?”
-Game is full of humor and interesting characters; they have more personality then most modern games.
-Voice acting also much better than most modern games.
-Meet real historical figures in their natural habitat!
-It’s also totally bitchin’.
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