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#81 Loom (MS-DOS, 1990)

During the late 80s and early 90s, One of the genres that really flourished on the PC versus other platforms was the point and click adventure game. The computer mouse made control very easy and intuitive, and the keyboard was used to type commands, similar to older text-based adventures.

Thankfully, as typing in commands was really tedious, adventure games started to drift away from that traditional method of play and rely more on using the mouse for control. Loom, a fantasy-themed adventure game from LucasArts, used the mouse to its full potential by allowing you to control the game using the mouse for pretty much everything. The character in the game uses a staff that produces magical musical spells, and you click on different parts of the staff to cast them.



I played Loom when I was very young, and it left a huge impression on me. It was the first graphical adventure game I experienced, and the open-ended nature of it was enthralling. The game had a fantastic other-worldly atmosphere and, as Loom did not have any failure state, so you could literally just explore the world and click on things and try to figure it out. It wasn't a long game (probably beaten in 3-4 hours), except for 5-year old me, then it took tens of hours. In fact, I'm fairly certain that I never finished it before losing interest and moving on to other games. While it lasted though, it was a wonderful experience.

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