Adventure games/Consoles

PC

Consoles

Handhelds

NEC

TurboGrafx CD

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Beyond Shadowgate	ICOM Simulations	Great adventure game in the style of early PC titles like King's Quest, except you can legitmately attack. Interesting sequel to Shadowgate with plenty of cool scenarios. The series had a third game on N64, called Shadowgate 64.

Nintendo

NES

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Déja Vu	ICOM Simulations	A point and click adventure game. Revolves around clearing your alibi after being set up for a murder you didn't do. Kick ass film noir style, although not without humor as you can be eaten by crocs living in sewers (!) among other humourous game-overs.
	Maniac Mansion	LucasFilm Games (LucasArts)	Yes, Maniac Mansion is also on the NES. There are some slight differences from the PC version due to censorship, but it's nothing major... and you can microwave a hamster in the first batch of copies of the game! Quick word of warning, if you're a Famicom lover, do NOT import the Famicom version. It was ported by an entirely different team and has worse graphics and no saves, requiring passwords that can be up to 104 characters long.
	Nightshade: The Claws of HEUGH	Beam Software	A rather unique adventure game with a lot of humour. Also involves some fighting. A rather difficult game, mostly due to the fact there's no saves, so use save states. Did you know this game was intended to have sequels, but never did? Did you know that instead of making a direct sequel, the basis of this game was used to develop Shadowrun? Now you know!
	Shadowgate	ICOM Simulations	A classic point 'n' click game originally on Mac with tons of fucking tough puzzles, plenty of exploring, some great humour, great tunes, and fantastic atmosphere. You will DIE A LOT. Spawned two sequels (on TG16 and N64, respectively). There's also a Gameboy Color port, but this author has never played it.
	Uninvited	ICOM Simulations	More classic adventures by ICOM, this time you have to escape from a haunted house after you awake from a car crash! The humor and fun is still there, as well as the balls difficulty.

Super NES

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Clock Tower	Human Entertainment	Point and Click horror adventure game, you play the little girl running from a killer in a mansion.Only available in Japan on the Super Famicom and Playstation. Not to be confused with the US PlayStation "Clock Tower", which is a sequel to this game. There is an English patch for the SNES ROM image.
	Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shojo (Famicom Detective Club Part II: The Girl who Stands Behind)	Nintendo	Great adventure game and remake of Famicom Disk System title. You are teenage detective apprentice who is investigating the murder of a high school student. You talk with people and gather clues to solve the case. Great detective/ghost story/urban legend storyline with plot twists. It was one of last games released on Super Famicom so graphics are amazing. It is prequel for Part I so you don't have to worry that you hadn't played it. Game was translated by Tomato and Demiforce, you can find patch here Very important! You must use 1.0 version of the rom! Orginal FDS version was re-released on GBA.

Nintendo 64

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers	Infinite Ventures	Classic style adventure game with great, medieval horror atmosphere and lots of puzzles to solve, and plenty of secrets to uncover. The last in a series (the first is on NES, and the second is on the Turbografx).

Wii

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut	Ubisoft	A port of the PC version. Features extra puzzles and some other gameplay changes. Story has been updated with a new 'before the intro' story part, but sadly there are some oddities in the programming. Also available on the DS, with different puzzles specific to the DS' control scheme. Much like the wii version, the DS version has some oddities in the gamecode.
	Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure	Capcom	Zack & Wiki is a classic adventure game. Similar to its point and click predecessors, you will have to utilize various items to solve the puzzles. Despite the colourful characters, this is surprisingly brain taxing. Motion control is implemented brilliantly here, and it makes solving the puzzles even more fun. A fun feature here is the ability to change enemies into items. There are plenty of secrets in this game and even more appear when you complete the game. A sequel is unlikely but is rumored.

Sega

Mega-CD

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Snatcher	Konami	In a not so distant future, decades after a biological weapon caused millions of deaths all over the world, humanoid robots of unknown origin start killing people and stealing their identities. Upgraded port of an early Hideo Kojima game, a fantastic experience that mixes a stunning graphic adventure with shooting segments (light gun support included) for a truly unique experience. Was also released on a number of systems (PC-88/MSX2/TGCD/PS1/Saturn), but the Sega CD version is the only one in English. Seriously rare and expensive these days. If you like this, check out Policenauts as well.

Saturn

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Policenauts	Konami	If you liked Snatcher, play this. It's another cinematic adventure by Kojima (the last game he directed, outside of the Metal Gear series, until Death Stranded). If you like clicking every single thing for dialogues and backstory, you're gonna love this. Never got a release outside Japan until recently when the (high quality) translation patches came out for the PS1 and Saturn version, get them here. The Saturn version is arguably the definite port of the game, with light gun support for the shooting sections and all the extras from the Private Collection / Pilot Disk built in to the game. The cut scenes on the PS1 port look slightly better, but play at 15fps vs the Saturn's 24fps. Was also released on the PC-98 and 3DO, but they have yet to be translated.

Dreamcast

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Shenmue I / II	Sega AM2	The Shenmue duology were highly ambitious games that wanted to be a Hollywood martial arts movie/Japanese soap opera in video game form, and they sort of succeeded. Plays a bit like L.A. Noir, except you have free range to do other things (gamble, play arcade vidya, buy Sega gachapon, talk to everyone, work at the docks). And you'll probably want to as well, since the first game does have a bit of downtime between story sequences. The game's portrayal of a romanticized, working-class urban Tokyo is unmatched by anything, but the Yakuza series (spiritual successors of sorts on the Playstation consoles) come close. The second game directly continues the story of the first; gameplay and presentation are pretty much the same, with equally amazing production values for the time, and the same cinematic slow pacing. However, things flow a bit more smoothly this time around and there isn't as much downtime. If you still want some distractions, everything from the first game is still there. Ends on a giant cliffhanger sadly. If you play on the PAL/JP copies of the games, you can import your saves from one to the other. The Xbox version just gives you everything from the first right off the bat. Both games were re-released for new consoles and PC in preparation for the third game.

Sony

PlayStation

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Policenauts	Konami	If you liked Snatcher, play this. It's another cinematic adventure by Kojima (the last game he directed, outside of the Metal Gear series, until Death Stranded). If you like clicking every single thing for dialogues and backstory, you're gonna love this. Never got a release outside Japan until recently when the (high quality) translation patches came out for the PS1 and Saturn version, get them here. The PS1 version may be the easiest to get (emulating or modding), but lacks the Saturn version's extra content and smoother videos.

PlayStation 3

Cover	Title	Developer	Description	Screenshot
	Heavy Rain	Quantic Dream	An honest to goodness MATURE GAME for MATURE GAMERS (adults). It places story above gameplay, so fans of the Ace Attorney games, Grim Fandango, or any other adventure games will love it rage at the ending. Made by the dude who made Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit.Warning: Do NOT talk to anybody about this game, especially on /v/, since there is a good chance they will bombard you with spoilers (particularly the killer's identity). Just go out and rent it if you're not sure you will like it.