I agree with you on pretty much every point you’ve made in this thread (which has made for some very long and interesting reading).

I have two personal examples of people I would consider gamers that a lot of people wouldn’t.

My mum wouldn’t consider herself a gamer, but she’s had addictions with certain games in the…

You are most certainly my type of gamer. I put a lot of time and money into the ‘current’ gaming scene but I would much rather discuss how bloody AMAZING Gabriel Knight is with someone like you than with people who just play current AAAs or whatever.

God I’d love for those days to come back. At least these kinds of…

On the same page as you. The Graphic Adventure era was a golden era of PC gaming (along with SNES/Genesis being the golden era of console gaming :D).