Just Adventure

Just Adventure is a computer game website dedicated to the genre of adventure games.[1] Founded in 1997, it publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers. The site was founded by Francis "Randy" Sluganski, who died on November 6, 2012 after a ten-year struggle with cancer.[2][3]

Just Adventure
Just Adventure logo
Type of site
Gaming website
URLwww.justadventure.com
CommercialYes
Launched1997
Part of a series on
Adventure games
Subgenres
Presentation
Gameplay
Topics
Companies
Tools and engine
Lists
Websites

The site's reviews have been quoted on some adventure game box covers,[4][5][6] and it is listed as a reviewer on CNET's Metacritic and GameRankings.

Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has stated that the reviews on Just Adventure are "very important to [him]".[7] In 2000, PC Gamer US columnist Michael Wolf called Just Adventure "the best site on the Web for the adventure game fan".[8] In 2003, Mark H. Walker noted that Just Adventure was "the Internet's largest gaming site devoted to adventure games".[9] Similarly, Anastasia Salter wrote in 2014 that Just Adventure was "one of the major adventure game fan sites on the web".[10]

See also

Notes
  1. Herold, Charles (October 31, 2002). "GAME THEORY; Fighting Zombies: All in a Night's Work". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015.
  2. "An adventure game fan has died". The International House of Mojo. 2012-11-08. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
  3. "Francis "Randy" Sluganski Classified Obituary". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2012-11-08. Archived from the original on 2012-12-22.
  4. Box art for Missing Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Just Adventure
  5. Box art for Syberia Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Just Adventure
  6. Box art for The Longest Journey Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Just Adventure
  7. "Dreamfall - Update 12". Ragnar Tornquist. Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  8. Wolf, Michael (August 2000). "Alternate Lives: Just Give Me Adventure". PC Gamer. Vol. 7 no. 8. Future US. p. 132.
  9. Walker, Mark H. (June 25, 2003). Games That Sell!. Wordware Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 155622950X.
  10. Salter, Anastasia (November 2014). What is Your Quest?: From Adventure Games to Interactive Books. ISBN 9781609382759.


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