{"id":7444,"date":"2009-02-06T07:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/free-point-and-click-action\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:25:10","slug":"free-point-and-click-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/free-point-and-click-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Free point and click action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/02\/maxxx.png\" align=\"left\" height=\"253\" width=\"244\" \/>Telltale Games are currently the biggest proponent of the once almost dead &#8216;point and click adventure&#8217; genre.\u00a0 During the 1990s, when computers got powerful enough to handle good 3D graphics, all of a sudden the genre went in a spiral of decline, leaving a generation of gamers pining for the likes of Monkey Island,<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (as <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-best-and-worst-games-based-on-80s-movies\/\">James mentioned recently<\/a>) and Broken Sword.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the popular Sam and Max series back was a great move by Telltale, who have now released 11 episodes of the comedic graphic adventure. More recently they&#8217;ve started a series of Strong Bad&#8217;s Cool Game for Attractive People, which again mixes humour and adventure in short episodes.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s great news that for the price of an email registration, you can\u00a0 have a free copy of either Sam &amp; Max: Ice Station or Strong Bad&#8217;s Cool Game for Attractive People: Dangeresque 3. My tip? Register twice with two email addresses, and you can get both! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telltalegames.com\/mytelltale\/subscriptions\/\">Here&#8217;s the link to the registration page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telltale Games are currently the biggest proponent of the once almost dead &#8216;point and click adventure&#8217; genre.\u00a0 During the 1990s, when computers got powerful enough to handle good 3D graphics, all of a sudden the genre went in a spiral of decline, leaving a generation of gamers pining for the likes of Monkey Island, Indiana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/free-point-and-click-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free point and click action!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335696,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/335696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}