Getting old school: playing classic point-and-click adventure games

Back in the good old days, when I was a kid fascinated by all the powerful stuff my computer, a Apple ][e clone, does, there's one thing I really love to play: point-and-click adventure game.  The experience of enjoying a story in an interactive style fascinated me.  Sadly though, because of my lack of English skill, I wasn't able to finish a lot of these days.

Now flash forward to tens of years later, I felt like I want to re-live that past, and see if I can finish these games that I couldn't finish.  Of course, with all the walk through and hints on internet, I know I can definitely finish these days if I have time.  Yes, the grown up pain: that now I have all the power, money and energy, I don't have time.  Sad.

OK, back to playing oldie games.  So I have 2 games that I particularly want to finish:

• Days of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion 2)
• Tass Times in Tone Town

It turns out that play Days of the Tentacle is super easy.  All I need is download a free software ScummVM from here, and then download the game from here.  In no time I was playing the game.  The ScummVM even supports saving state, so I can save and load whenever I feel like.  This is awesome.

Playing Tass Times in Tone Town, on the other hand, is more challenging.  First I tried downloading the DOS version and run it on my desktop PC.  On my Windows 8.1, the exe refused to execute.  So I loaded up a Windows 7 32 bit edition VM and load the exe there.  I got a message saying "the machine does not support full screen mode" and then refused to run.  So seems like there's no go on doing the DOS way.  Plus the DOS version seemed lame since it only has 4 colors.   So my next plan is to play the game on Amiga emulator.

So I read some info about the game, and even found the walkthrough, was about to start finding emulator and whole 9 yard, until I found this message about potential problem playing the game on Amiga.  

Still, I thought I'll just move on UNTIL I found this video of playing the game from end to end.  

I spent 20 minutes to watch the whole video of someone played the game Tass Times in Tone Town from end to end, and at the end, I was THANKFUL that someone did that, and I was glad that I DID NOT play the game myself.  After watching the video, I found the game, stupid, nonsense, and if I were to play this game myself, I brought won't be able to finish it because all these command I was supposed to enter does NOT make any sense.  Great that I didn't waste my time on this.