[pjmlp]

Usually only adventure games, and point and click ones did that.

Think of games like Maniac Mansion or adventure writing software like PAWS.

[E6300]

Ah, alright. When you said "early days of microcomputers" I was rather thinking about the Atari 2600.

The VM approach was in absolute terms actually pretty unusual in the late 80s/early 90s, AFAIK. Perhaps counting only cross-platform games or adventure it was more common, though.

[pjmlp]

Just a small correction, I am not the author of "early days of microcomputers". :)

[E6300]

Heh. Whoops. Old habits.

[digi_owl]

Lost Vikings have been mentioned on HN a few times, and Blizzard used a VM for that game.

[E6300]

1993 is nowhere near close to the early days of microcomputers.