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There is a magazine known
as Sports Illustrated. For years now athletes and professional
sports teams have lived in fear of what has come
to be known as ‘The Sports Illustrated Curse.’ It goes
like this: if your team or favorite athlete is doing exceptionally
well, then invariably their success will guarantee that they will
be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Then the athlete will have
a mysterious accident and break a bone or the featured team will
lose the World Series or the Super Bowl.

It may be that Just Adventure is also guilty of such a curse.

Our ‘Best Adventure
Game’ award for 1999 went to Faust,
a great game to be sure, but it didn’t exactly break any sales
records. Our choice in 2001 was Hitchcock,
the less said about that award the better. In 2002 we voted for Syberia
– hey, even a blind man occasionally hits the urinal! For 2003 our
choice
was Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon
a game that I will defend to my grave and I’m sure the ten
people who bought it would agree with me.

So as you can see, our
track record is spotty at best. But this year all of that will
change. This year every game we honor with
an award will sell ten million copies, be on the cover of Time Magazine
and revolutionize the adventure genre. This year publishers will
drool over our game selections and offer scads of development money
for sequels. Next year, you probably won’t be able to find
this article because if our picks bomb again, then I’m deleting
it from the site!

Click
here to find out what game won the award for
‘Best Adventure
Game Not At the E3 2004’