Time Travel discussion

Before Back to the Future:The Game, Life is Strange and Bioshock Infinite came along, this hilarious time travel comedy adventure game, The Day of the Tentacles was my favourite. But its so old that it was difficult to play the original on new PC's without some kind of emulator like SCUMMVM.

But it has been remastered and will release on GOG on March 22nd.

Being a vintage type adventure game, the puzzles were taxing compared to today's standard but the cartoon style comedy and the clever time travel nature of the puzzles always kept it engaging for me. I had played this about 3-4 time back in the day and just loved it. But I do wonder with all the advance in story driven games today if this might be a tad dated now? In a contradicting way, I am never fond of ultra wacky narratives but this was an exception...probably because of the time travel!

https://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_t...

Tej,

I grew up on the Monkey Island games...I missed Grimm Fandango and Day of the tentacle because I was on mormon mission. When they released Grimm Fandango remastered I bought it and played it for a few hours and the game was so slow paced and gameplay overly deliberate I couln't take it. I did not know day of the tentacle involved time travel. It might be woth a shot.

I also enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Atlantis...good old point-and-click adventures.

All those games you mentioned and Tentacles were all by Lucasarts who were the King of point and click adventure games. From quirky comedies (Tentacles, Monkey) to fantasy (Fandango, ) to great scifi (The Dig) to Heavy Rock coolness (Full Throttle) to action adventure (Indiana Jones) they covered it all, glory days. But yeah, they will all feel slower paced than today's games.

But if you enjoyed Monkey Island games then Day of the Tentacles was very very much in the same mould. Grim Fandango was a bit different in its pacing, you're right but it was actually quite epic because it spanned through different eras.