Flotsam, check out ChipsNBits.com and Amazon.com for those Barbie games. You may not have access to the mall stores like I do but I usually find the Barbie games available at KayBee Toys, ToysRUs, Electronic Boutique, Frye's, Best Buy, Office Depot & probably Office Max too, Gamestop, to name a few. Do a search of the internet and ask for "Barbie PC games" with the quotes to narrow down the search. It sounds like Australia has a lack of gaming stores or distributors willing to ship to your area, which must be very hard for you.
Love, Betty Lou
P.S. I almost forgot, our Arden Fair Mall has a BARBIE store! I don't remember if they sell PC games there tho, but they sure have everything else! In spades!

Hi again Flotsam. Check this out
GB Disc Bd, Adventure Games Discussion "Buying Games' February 11 2001 by sanval42 - gatorlaw replies with a nice list of where you might be able to buy games online.
Love, Betty Lou

Thanks Betty Lou. Will scurry on over.

Having completed 80 plus adventure games to date this list was definately hard to come up with. Though without further ado is my top 15 in order

1. Pandora Directive
2. Black Dahlia
3. Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
4. Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
5. Blade Runner
6. Maniac Mansion
7. The Last Express
8. Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
9. Lighthouse
10. Safe Cracker
11. Sanitarium
12. Journeyman Project 2: Legacy in Time
13. Zork Grand Inquisitor
14. Myst
15. The 7th Guest

el bumperito

In no particular order.

Amber Journey's Beyond
Cameron Files The Secret At Loch Ness
Gabriel Knight 1 Sins Of The Fathers
Gabriel Knight 2 The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3 Blood Of The Sacred Blood Of The Dammed
Grim Fandango
Morpheous
Myst
Nancy Drew Mystrey 3: Message In A Haunted Mansion
Riven
Shivers
Timelapse
Titantic Adventure Out of Time
Syberia
Exile

This is always so difficult because some of these games if I played them for the first time today would probably not be on the list. I choose these based on the degree of pleasure they gave me at the time I first played them.

Myst
Riven
Exile
Obsidian
Amber
Twinsen's Oddysey
Zork, the Grand Inquisitor
Shivers I
Gabriel Knight III
ROTS
Timelapse
Pandora Directive
The Dig
Atlantis III
King's Quest VI

Non-adventure (although I contine to disagree that my favorite games, the Thief series, are put into this category:

Thief Gold
Thief the Metal Age
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

In order of Favorite first:
Riven
Myst
Exile
Faust
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor
The Longest Journey
Morpheus
Schizm - Haven't finished yet, but
really enjoying it.
Atlantis 2 ( beyond Atlantis)
Riddle of the Sphinx

OK, I have been meaning to do this all week... keep getting distracted!! No particular order...

Faust
Myst III
TLJ
Zork GI
Necronomicon
Gabriel Knight 2
Cameron Files
Legend of the Prophet
Lightbringer
Grim Fandango
Mystery of the Druids
DOTT
Full Throttle
Sanitarium
Companions of Xanth

Hugs

Tig

Hello, lurker here that might be posting more in the coming months (on break before uni). Will say hi some other time, for now:

1.Monkey Island 1
2.Monkey Island 2
3.Gabriel Knight 3
4.Riven
5.Myst III Exile
6.Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
7.Faust
8.Ripper
9.Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis

Only listing those as the rest I've played (about another 10) didn't grab me in the same way.

Non adventure games:
Zeus - Master of Olympus
Starcraft
Command And Conquer - Red Alert

Here's my list, no order:

Faust
Myst
Beyond Atlantis
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Shivers
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Morpheus
Blackstone Chronicles
Lighthouse
Sanitarium
Toonstruck
Kyrandia 2 - The Hand of Fate
Kings Quest 7 - The Princeless Bride
Myst 3 - Exile

My non-adventure gaming is usually on one of my sons' consoles, mostly platform games (don't know if these count within the rules):

Forty Winks
Conkers Pocket Tales
Odd World - Abe's Exodus

Riven
RealMyst
MystIII Exile
Faust (Seven Games of the Soul)
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Grim Fandango
The Longest Journey
Morpheus
The Neverhood
Schizm
Beyond Atlantis
Beyond Atlantis II
Curse of Monkey Island
Escape from Monkey Island
The Last Express

nothing to report - just posting this so I know where I am up to.

Ok, Ok, here's my list in alphabetical order. Limited mostly by the fact that I have vastly more unplayed adventure games than I do played games (is that a bad thing?).

1) Amber Journeys Beyond
2) Bad Mojo (one of my all time favorites)
3) Blade Runner
4) Feeble Files
5) Myst (the game that got me started)
6) Myst Exile
7) Neverhood, the
8) Obsidian (wish I had never traded it...)
9) Rent-A-Hero
10) Riven
11) Sam & Max Hit the Road
12) Sanitarium
13) The 7th Guest
14) The Longest Journey
15) Under A Killing Moon

Non-Adventure games:

Not too sure - guess I haven't played too many non-adventure games... How about:

1) Pandora's Box
2) Jewels of the Oracle
3) You Don't Know Jack (OK. this is not an RPG, Action/Adventure Game, Sim, etc. - but it sure is a hoot to play!).

Here's MY list (no order):

Syberia
The Longest Journey
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
GK2
GK3 (somewhat)
Faust
Sanitarium
Amber
Grim Fandango
Fate of Atlantis (from what I've seen so far)
Dark Fall (I know this, although I haven't played it yet!)

That's it so far. Don't have 15 faves yet. These are the best of the games that I've played so far.

Myst
Riven
Byzantine
Overseer
Zork Nemesis
Azrael's Tear
Amber
The Neverhood
Grim Fandango
Morpheus
Beyond Atlantis
Sanitarium

My list is kind of in the order of enjoyment.Some games stand out in your memory.

Legacy of Time. Still my all time favorite.Also the first game I played.
Riddle of the Sphinx
Blackstone Chronicles
Myst
Riven
Ring
Beyond Atantis
The Longest Journey
Myst Exile
Amerzone
Atlantis III
The Cameron Files
Journeyman Project 2
Amber Journeys Beyond

I still have a lot of games waiting to be played that I am sure will change this list.

Note to self - am up to here <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" />

Yikes! Time is running out.
Here's my list in NO particular order:

1 Myst Exile
2 Black Dahlia
3 Beyond Atlantis
4 Goblins 3
5 Ripper
6 Ring
7 Shivers II
8 Zork 1
9 Zork ZGI
10 Blade Runner
11 Dracula Resurrection
12 Obisidian
13 Lighthouse
14 The Longest Journey
15 Tex Murphy: Overseer

The 3 Extras:
Unreal Tournament(enjoy online Multiplaying)
Outcast
Gruntz

Sassy

Hi All,
And the winners are…..The Longest Journey and Outcast
So that’s it for another year. As with previous years, two posts follow, one an alphabetical list, the other from top to bottom.
Alternative titles are shown where known. I have taken some liberties with the names of some games in the alphabetical list in order to list series games together.
An asterix indicates it is available for Mac.
All up, 89 people posted and 179 adventure games were recommended.
This is the third year and each time we have had a different top game. This years most recommended game, The Longest Journey, got out in front early and stayed there.
There were 5 new games in the top 10 compared to last year, the most notable movers being Zork GI, up from 15th to 6th, and Myst: Exile from 13th to equal 4th. Going the other way, Shivers went from 5th to 12th and Timelapse from 6th to 16th.
Others to move noticeably were Monkey Island 1 and 2, Discworld, Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion and Simon the Sorcerer, some going up and others down. The rest you will have to look at yourself .
Temujin deserves a special mention. It didn’t appear on last years list at all, but got double figures this year.
Games to watch out for next year will probably be The Watchmaker, Syberia and Dark Fall, all of which managed an appearance this year despite only being available for about 5 minutes.
The non-adventures proved slightly problematic, with some featuring on both lists (and non-adventure players having odd counting systems <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> ). Where a game appeared on both lists, I have combined the votes and listed them in both lists. A third post follows showing those non-adventures which were mentioned more than once.
All errors are my own, but are hopefully minimal. I remain as ever hopelessly inadequate when it comes to using the more sophisticated formatting aspects of this BB, so I apologise for the formatting.
Finally, as I said the last two years, any game on this list must be worth playing as someone thought it was worthy enough to mention.

flotsam

57 The Longest Journey
45 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
41 *Riven
39 *Myst/RealMyst
39 *Myst 3: Exile
38 Zork Grand Inquisitor
35 Grim Fandango
31 Sanitarium
28 Black Dahlia
28 *Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
27 *Zork Nemesis
25 *Shivers
24 Faust
23 *Amber: Journeys Beyond
23 Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
23 *Timelapse
23 *Morpheus
22 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy
20 *Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
20 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
20 The Curse of Monkey Island
20 *Obsidian
19 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
19 The Neverhood
17 *Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
17 *Riddle of the Sphinx
15 Dracula Resurrection
15 *Lighthouse
14 Tex Murphy: Overseer
13 Blackstone Chronicles
13 *Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
13 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
12 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
11 Blade Runner
11 Byzantine: The Betrayal
11 Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
10 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
10 *Rama
10 Schizm
10 Temujin
9 Atlantis 3: Beyond Atlantis 2
9 Discworld Noir
8 Loch Ness/ The Cameron Files
8 *Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare
7 Dark Side of the Moon
7 *Day of the Tentacle
7 *The Last Express
7 *Ripper
7 *Titanic; Adventure out of Time
6 Cydonia/Lightbringer
6 *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
6 The Messenger/Louvre: The Final Curse
6 Realms of the Haunting
5 *The Dark Eye
5 *The Dig
5 *Discworld
5 *Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!?
5 The Feeble Files
5 *Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
5 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island
5 Reah
5 *7th Guest
5 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls
5 Toonstruck
5 *Traitors Gate
4 Atlantis: The Lost Tales
4 Azreal’s Tear
4 Jack Orlando
4 *Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
4 Nancy Drew: The Final Scene
4 The Riddle of Master Liu
4 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen
4 Simon the Sorcerer 3 *Torins Passage
3 *The Arrival
3 Deathgate
3 *Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
3 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate
3 Loom
3 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
3 Mystery of the Druids
3 Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
3 The Nautilus
3 Necronomicon
3 *Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
3 Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
3 Safecracker
3 Twinsuns Odyssey
3 The Secrets of Alamut
3 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
3 Syberia
3 *Zork 2: Return to Zork

2 Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet, *Bad Mojo, Beyond Time, Black Out, *Blue Ice, Callahans Crosstime Saloon, *Cassandra Galleries, Celtica, Clandestiny, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Dark Fall, Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages, Duckman, *Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy, Fable, *Frankenstein, *The Forgotten: It Begins, Full Throttle, Inherent Evil, *Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Paris 1313, The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin, Rent-a-Hero, Road to India, Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe, *Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, Touche, Xiama, The Watchmaker

1 Alone in the Dark 1, *Alone in the Dark 2, Alone in the Dark 3, Alice: An Interactive Museum, Bad Milk, Border Zone, *The Castle, Colossal Cave, Comer, Companions of Xanth, Connections: It’s a Mind Game, The Crystal Key, Crystal Skull, The Dame Was Loaded, *Darkseed, Egypt 1156BC, E.T. Phone Home, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, Gateway, The Gene Machine, Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria, Goblins 3, Hitchcock; The Final Cut, Isabelle, Kings Quest 1: Quest for the Crown, Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne, Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder!, Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, Laura Bow: The Colonels Bequest, Master of Dimensions, Mirage, Mission Critical, Mylk, Muppet Treasure Island, Nacah, Normality, *Prisoner of Ice, Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero, Quest for Glory 3: The Wages of War, The Quivering, Sam and Max Hit the Road, *Secrets of the Luxor, Shannara, Sherlock Holmes: Riddle of the Crown Jewels, Simon the Sorcerer 3D, Sinkha, *Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation, Star Trek: Judgement Rites, Stupid Invaders, Tender Loving Care, Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum, Urban Runner, Vampire Diaries, Voyeur, Wishbringer, The X-Files, Zork 1

5 *7th Guest
1 Alone in the dark 1
1 *Alone in the Dark 2
1 Alone in the Dark 3
1 Alice: An Interactive Museum
23 *Amber: Journeys Beyond
22 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy
3 *Arrival, The
4 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales
20 *Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis
9 Atlantis 3: Beyond Atlantis 2
4 *Azreal’s Tear
2 Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet
1 Bad Milk
3 *Bad Mojo
2 Beyond Time
28 Black Dahlia
2 Black Out
13 Blackstone Chronicles
11 Blade Runner
2 *Blue Ice
1 Border Zone
28 *Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood
17 *Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
11 Byzantine: The Betrayal
2 Callahans Crosstime Saloon
2 *Cassandra Galleries
1 *Castle, The
2 Celtica
2 Clandestiny
2 Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion
1 Colossal Cave
1 Comer
1 Companions of Xanth
1 Connections: It’s a Mind Game
1 Crystal Key
1 Crystal Skull
6 Cydonia/Lightbringer
1 Dame Was Loaded, The
5 *Dark Eye, The
2 Dark Fall
1 *Darkseed
7 Dark Side of the Moon
7 *Day of the Tentacle
3 Deathgate
5 *Dig, The
5 *Discworld
5 *Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!?
9 Discworld Noir
15 Dracula Resurrection
10 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
2 Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages
2 Duckman
2 *Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
1 Egypt 1156BC
2 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy
2 Fable
24 Faust
5 Feeble Files
2 *Frankenstein
1 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
2 *Forgotten: It Begins
2 Full Throttle
20 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
45 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
19 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
1 Gateway
1 Gene Machine, The
1 Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
1 Goblins 3
35 Grim Fandango
1 Hitchcock; The Final Cut
6 *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
2 Inherent Evil
1 Isabelle
4 Jack Orlando
5 *Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
13 *Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
1 Kings Quest 1
1 Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne
1 Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder!
3 *Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
4 *Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride
1 Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity
1 Laura Bow: The Colonels Bequest
7 *Last Express, The
3 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate
15 *Lighthouse
8 Loch Ness/ The Cameron Files
57 Longest Journey, The
3 Loom
6 Messenger, The/Louvre: The Final Curse
2 *Maniac Mansion
1 Master of Dimensions
1 Mirage
1 Mission Critical
2 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island
3 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
20 Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island
5 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island
23 *Morpheus
1 Mylk
39 *Myst
41 *Myst 2: Riven
39 *Myst 3: Exile
3 Mystery of the Druids
1 Nacah
11 Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
4 Nancy Drew: The Final Scene
3 Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
3 Nautilus, The
3 Necronomicon
19 Neverhood
12 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
1 Normality
20 *Obsidian
2 Paris 1313
8 *Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare
3 *Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
2 Pilgrim 2: Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin
3 Pilgrim 3: Secrets of Alamut
1 *Prisoner of Ice
1 Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero
1 Quest for Glory 3: The Wages of War
3 Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
1 Quivering, The
10 *Rama
5 Reah
6 Realms of the Haunting
3 Rent-a-Hero
4 Riddle of Master Liu
17 *Riddle of the Sphinx
4 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen
7 *Ripper
2 Road to India
3 Safecracker
2 Sam and Max Hit the Road
31 Sanitarium
10 Schizm
1 *Secrets of the Luxor
1 Shannara
3 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
1 Sherlock Holmes: Riddle of the Crown Jewels
25 *Shivers
5 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls
4 Simon the Sorcerer
2 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
1 Simon the Sorcerer 3D
1 Sinkha
1 *Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
1 Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation
2 *Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
1 Star Trek: Judgement Rites
1 Stupid Invaders
3 Syberia
10 Temujin
1 Tender Loving Care
1 Tex Murphy 2: Martian Memorandum
13 Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon
23 Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive
14 Tex Murphy 5: Overseer
23 *Timelapse
7 *Titanic; Adventure out of Time
5 Toonstruck
3 *Torins Passage
2 Touche
3 Twinsen’s Odyssey
5 *Traitors Gate
1 Urban Runner
1 Vampire Diaries
1 Voyeur
2 Watchmaker, The
1 Wishbringer
1 X Files, The
2 Xiama
1 Zork 1
3 *Zork 2: Return to Zork
38 Zork Grand Inquisitor
27 *Zork Nemesis

10 Outcast
7 Pandora’s Box
6 Baldur’s Gate 2
6 Realms of the Haunting
5 No One Lives Forever
5 Thief
5 Baldur’s Gate 1
5 Anachronox
4 Deus Ex
3 Diablo
3 Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
3 Might and Magic 6
3 Rollercoaster Tycoon
3 Snood
3 System Shock 2
3 Thief 2
3 Tomb Raider Chronicles
3 Twinsuns Odyssey
2 American McGees Alice
2 Fallout
2 Gothic
2 Half Life
2 Jewels of the Oracle
2 Might and Magic 7
2 Planescape Torment
2 Wizardry 8

Thank you, Flotsam, for taking so much time to present this ever-interesting annual list.

The pleasure was all mine Joanie Glad you liked it.