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I first recall playing Full Throttle in primary school on an old mac; it was absolutely great then however I cannot recall ever playing through the entire game. It has been at least 13 long years since I last played this game.

Ben, just out of the dumpster and ready to kick some ass.

I was visiting my regular game store and I saw 2 copies of Full Throttle on the shelf (yeah sometimes they just find crates of vintage stuff laying around). This game from 1995 is sitting on a shelf in 2009. Unopened. Sealed in plastic. The asking price was 30 USD so I just had to oblige. I purchased both copies–one sits on my shelf waiting to be opened never, and the other copy I opened.
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a screenshot of brokensword

Broken Sword, Ireland screenshot

I first played Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (alternatively titled Circle of Blood in the US) on a mac; it was included on a demo disk with a magazine around the time of its release (1996). The scenes of Paris in the game are absolutely stunning and I can still recall the scenes in Paris even though the game is over 13 years old. The game has obviously had a lot of hard work and care put towards it as witnessed by the hundreds of unique lines of dialogue and a captivating, in-depth story with a range of characters and locations all around the world.
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The Dig (1995) is supposedly a famous point and click game; I’ll be perfectly honest with you though, I’d never heard of it until it popped up on Steam a month ago so I bought it and have played through most of it and overall I would say it is a really great game.
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