Are you still wondering whether or not you want to test your adrenaline levels and brainwaves through the experience of a real escape room? Try answering a few simple psychoanalytic questions before you decide to make your first online booking: Were you a fanatical video gamer in your teens to the point where you would literally camp out over your PC until you finished your favorite adventure game (if you were active during the 90's, you will surely remember Myst, The 7th Guest, Crimson Room, the forerunner of today's live escape rooms, and of course the top The Secret of Monkey Island)? Did you burst with happiness every time the group gathered at home for an all-night tournament of Cluedo, Night Falls in Palermo or for the all-time classic role-playing game Werewolf? Today, you proudly declare yourself, Guru of the downloads of the most exciting applications with escape games (highly rated options, most of them even free, are: The Room, Forever Lost,</em Silent Age, Hellraid: The Escape, the Escape the Hellevator and the Titanic?
If you nod in the affirmative to all of them - even halfway - then you are on the right track. Find the right company, awaken the Sherlock Holmes or Macgyver that is hidden within you and live the adventure of escape. In fact, before you go, make sure you are in the right state of mind by doing the right mental warm-up. Go online and play until you drop in an online escape room that transports you from spooky basements of old medieval castles and holds of pirate ships to modern and intellectual spaces of today, offices and even prisons (check out 365escape.com as well as addictinggames.com).
For the sake of history, however, and to reinforce the theoretical part of your escape room knowledge, learn that it all started with...
Will Crowther, the programmer-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, the first black-and-white, scripted adventure video game, which first appeared in 1976 - and continued to evolve until the mid-1980s - and followed the story of a character who had to escape alive from a cave, after first discovering its well-hidden treasure.
However, the first masterfully designed online escape room, built exclusively with Macromedia Flash graphics, came in 2001, under the name Mystery Of Time And Space (also known as MOTAS), essentially ushering in a new era in the evolution of online games of this type.