Alice: An Interactive Museum

Alice: An Interactive Museum

Japanese-developed visual novel / point-and-click adventure game, released in 1991. The title and imagery is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Designed and directed by Haruhiko Shono, it pioneered the use of pre-rendered 3D graphics in adventure games, two years before Myst.

Overview

The player's goal in Alice: An Interactive Museum is to navigate and interact with the rooms of a museum collecting a deck of cards. There are clues written on the individual cards that lead the player to the ultimate goal: the hidden Last Room.

Designed and directed by Haruhiko Shono, it pioneered the use of pre-rendered 3D graphics in adventure games, two years before Myst. Alice was followed by the spiritual successors, L-Zone (1992) and Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure (1993).