
I loved adventures when you still had to type commands. Believe it or not, those were the times when I RAPIDLY learned new English words. I'll bet anybody that such games actually made a lot of English speaking people literate. "Oh, so that's what OAK is spelled like..."

From those games came today's RPG. Oblivion for example is A LOT like Hero's Quest. The difference being 1. person and 3D, naturally, but the most important thing is completely the same; if you wanted to climb that tree in HQ, you better know the CTRL+C & CTRL+V shortcuts. Otherwise you're going to be typing "climb tree" A LOT of times. And in Oblivion it's the same - you also learn by doing. So in my view RPG games are modern adventure games. I don't like all of them, but I've had my (LARGE) share of playing.