Review:
This calls itself a history of adventure video games, but in reality it's more like a collection of adventure game descriptions, plus a little more in-depth info about three specific game developers/publishers (Sierra On-Line, LucasArts, and Telltale Games) and their adventure games. If you really want to know more about those companies, however, Wikipedia has more detailed info than this book does.
This is best read as an adventure gaming nostalgia-fest. Almost every adventure game I ever played that I in any way found memorable had an entry here - the only gaps I can think of are the Blackwell series from developer Wadjet Eye Games, Lost in Time (I can't remember whether this or Myst was my first adventure game), and few more recent titles like Fran Bow.
Almost every game mentioned included a screenshot, even the text-based adventures. In the chapters about specific developers, series were discussed in chronological order, so you could see, for example, how the graphics changed throughout the course of the King's Quest series. Each game entry gave an overview of the story and basic gameplay, what made it stand out, how it was received, etc.
As a long-time adventure game fan, I found this to be a fun read, even though it wasn't what I'd expected it to be.
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