Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. "Colossal Cave Adventure" is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include "Zork", "King's Quest", "The Secret of Monkey Island", and "Myst".
1995–99 in webcomics
In the United States, various major webcomic genres were established and popularized between 1995 and 1999. The video game webcomic came into being in 1995 with the release of "Polymer City Chronicles" and was popularized in the following years by "PvP" and "Penny Arcade". The first sprite comic – Jay Resop's "Neglected Mario Characters" – was released in 1998, though the genre wouldn't be popularized until "Bob and George" came out in 2000. In "Reinventing Comics" (2000), Scott McCloud pointed out that some webcomic creators had been experimenting with the capabilities of the Web, such as through an interactive hypertext interface, GIF animations, and sound. The first major webcomic portal, Big Panda, started in 1997. Big Panda hosted over 770 webcomics, including "Sluggy Freelance" and "User Friendly". Big Panda's discontinuation eventually resulted in the formation of Keenspot in 2000.