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Back in the “good old days” of gaming, many companies would include small game-related objects along with their product. Infocom was probably the most well-known for this practice and reached their peak with their Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy packaging that included, among other goodies, a piece of lint. Lord British’s Ultima games could contain anything from a lush cloth map of the Ultima universe to an iron ankh. But just as movie theaters discontinued giving away dinnerware settings and banks quit giving away toasters, so too did game companies, for the most part, discontinue freebies in their packaging.

Instead, many reviewers now receive tchotchkes, or trinkets, that are not available to the general public. Sometimes these tchotchkes are dispersed at the E3 and reach a wider audience, but most often they are of limited distribution. As you may imagine, adventure game tchotchkes are probably the least distributed mainly due to the small amount of publications that actually review adventure games and the cost of producing such an exclusive item.

Over the years I have collected numerous adventure related tchotchkes. They range from game-related mousepads – Microid’s Road to India, Cryo’s Odyssey and The New Adventures of the Time Machine – to matchbooks from The Spacebar, an ornate Prince of Persia 3D letter-opener and even a theatre pass to an exclusive screening of the Myst 3 trailer. Yet, intriguing as these may be, the best is yet to come as I delve into my private collection to present the “10 Best Adventure Game Tchotchkes of All-Time.”

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