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Is it still worth playing?
Lucasfilm Games' 1990 point and click adventure, designed by Ron Gilbert with Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman, in which Guybrush Threepwood wants to become a pirate. You combine twelve verbs with objects and talk through dialog trees, among the earliest in a game. You can almost never die, a reaction to frustrating adventure games, and sword fights are insult contests rather than combat. A Special Edition in 2009 added hand drawn visuals, orchestrated music, full voice acting and a hint system with up to three tiers, with a toggle back to the original visuals. It stays playable because its puzzles avoid dead ends and deaths, and because the dialogue is still witty.
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