Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (1993)
Genres:Adventure, Puzzle, Point-and-click
Themes:Fantasy, Historical, Comedy
Game modes:Single player
Story:Dust is a point-and-click adventure game with integrated full-motion-video characters. Players explore the town of Diamondback, New Mexico in the 1880's solving mysteries and enacting vigilante justice.
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This was the first computer game. My dad and I spend days playing it. We wrote and compared notes on all the different interactions and items. Once we learned there were different paths and endings we bought the stragey guide. I used to play it once every year, but the disk is not working with newer hardware. My fear is the disc becoming unusable or the oldest PC I have breaking down. I would love to play a GoG version that will last forever.
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