[jhbadger]

If Tomb Raider is an "adventure game" so is Donkey Kong. Tomb Raider is basically a platformer like Donkey Kong but in 3D. Neither made actual adventure games "obsolete" because taxing your hand-eye reflexes is a different sort of fun than taxing your brain.

[anthk]

Also, definitively, what killed the adventure genre would be the PS1 survival horrors. You have everything there: items, combinations, loads of puzzles, action and a shitfed perspective. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve...

Pretty much the definition of an old 'point and click' aventure with action points.

[nottorp]

Alone in the Dark predates those by like 4 years though...

[Apocryphon]

It does and there were also plenty of horror adventure games, but Alone of the Dark would also make the jump to RE-style survival horror.

[anthk]

TR has more to do than platforming, and more convoluted puzzles than DK.