Featuring input from Roberta Williams and Al Lowe. User interfaces in adventure games have come a long way since the early days of text-only parser games. But which UI is the best of all time? Is it the Sierra icon bar or the LucasArts 9 verbs? The answer will surprise you because it's none of those.

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