TEQUILA & BOOM BOOM

Before starting this site, there were few adventure games that I hadn't at least heard of before. It's a genre that's very dear to my heart so it was a great surprise to find Tequila & Boom Boom whilst browsing the web.

KLAYMAN: GUN HOCKEY

For some reason, The Neverhood characters were much more popular in Japan. So much so that the original point-n-click adventure received a PlayStation port only in that country. In 1999 they also got their own fourth game in the series - the budget title known as Klayman: Gun Hockey....

BOOMBOTS

The third and final game to be released by The Neverhood again changes genre. This time we have a one-on-one fighter with a futuristic robot theme, but does the level of invention carry over to this new play style?

SKULLMONKEYS

Despite only selling around 50,000 retail copies, The Neverhood did gain some popularity due to it being a pack-in title on some PCs. In 1998 a sequel named Skullmonkeys was released but was a drastic departure from the original point-and-click adventure. This was to be a PlayStation exclusive platform game.

THE NEVERHOOD

There is a reverence for clay or plasticine based stop-motion animation in the UK, what with the Wallace and Gromit short films being a staple every Christmas. I'm aware of very few mainstream entertainment from other countries to adopt this specific medium, one of them being a small game developer called The Neverhood.

JOHNNY MNEMONIC

Johnny Mnemonic is perhaps best known as the flop sci-fi movie starring a pre-Matrix, post-Speed Keanu Reeves. It's video game adaptation is notable for taking part in the short-lived video game craze; the FMV adventure.

3 SKULLS OF THE TOLTECS

3 Skulls of the Toltecs, released in 1996 by Revistronic, was a cartoon adventure that did an excellent job at parodying the tropes of the Spaghetti Western genre. It may have spawned two better known sequels in the coming decade (though whether they are better in quality is still up for debate), but the original remains an elusive gem.