[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.