When I was growing up, many of the games that weren't platformers for the SNES or Genesis were point and click. These story-centric puzzlers consisted of pointing your mouse at an environment or character and click to interact with them somehow to solve puzzles and finish your eventual goal. Many of these titles have gotten a revival in recent years through a little company called TellTale Games, who have revived classic point-and-click licenses like Sam and Max and Monkey Island while creating new titles for all to enjoy like Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (based on homestarrunner.com) and Bone (based on the popular comic by Jeff Smith). However, there are a few games that are a bit lesser known today that deserve another playthrough...should you be able to find them.

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992)

Back in '92, Interplay released a point and click adventure featuring the original Star Trek characters. It was actually the first popular and bestselling Star Trek computer game, combining aspects of the classic point-and-click adventure and flight simulator battle. The away missions were incredibly challenging and ranged from synthesizing a cure to a deadly disease to setting phasers from stun to kill. This classic game could only be booted from DOS and contained seven different missions, all of which had different endings and conversation choices depending on your actions in the game. At the end of each mission, the crew would get evaluated by Starfleet Command - a higher score meant shore leave at the end of the game, while a lower score would get Kirk demoted.

Point-and-Click Fun Fact: In many of the missions, the away team contained a red-shirted ensign who could always be killed, but it would result in a lower score.

Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1987)

This Sierra On-Line game put players into the dreamworld of Mother Goose rhymes where all the inhabitants had lost items vital to completing their stories. There were over 20 items to recover and 18 nursery rhymes to unlock. Items were in a randomized location every time you would play the game. If you successfully recovered each item and returned it to the proper owner, you would get a point and a lovely pixeled performance in song of the rhyme. However, characters could only carry one item at a time, making the game a little more challenging. This was a great way for kids to get introduced to nursery rhymes while making them use their deductive reasoning skills to get items to their owners.

Point-and-Click Fun Fact: The final remake of this game was released in 1996 where it featured improved graphics, a bonus audio CD and the introduction of new melodies and musical styles.

The Dig (1995)

The Dig was made during the peak of LucasArts' point-and-click games, but due to the more popular Monkey Island series, many potential players passed it by. Players took on the role of Commander Boston Lowe in an expedition to destroy an asteroid headed on a crash course to Earth. What the expedition gets, however, is a transport to a far-off alien civilization where the crew must find a way to return to Earth. The game presents a number of puzzles and excellent brain teasers in order to progress that fit perfectly in the context of attempting to decode the message the aliens left behind. Depending on your choices during play, you could get a few different endings.

Point-and-Click Fun Fact: The Dig is actually available through Steam for PC users and was written by both Steven Spielberg and acclaimed Sci-Fi author Orson Scott Card.

Buster and the Beanstalk (1996)

They're tiny! They're toony! They're all a little loony! TerraGlyph games had a number of excellent point-and-click adventure games that were much more like scavenger hunts than puzzlers. Buster and the Beanstalk was a Tiny Toon Adventures themed scavenger hunt where you played as a cursor named Clickhappy to help Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck find the Chicken that lays Golden Eggs, a bag full of gold and the magical Flying Harp. What sets this one apart is the classic Tiny Toons writing with a biting wit and excellent voice acting and animation. If you want a game you can laugh with, this is the one for you.

Point-and-Click Fun Fact: There's a stool you can click on in the comedy club who recites hilarious couplets like, "I am a stool from front to middling/Unlike my brother who was used for kindling."

Grim Fandango (1998)

Billed as "An Epic Tale of Crime and Corruption in the Land of the Dead," this was one of the final LucasArts point and click puzzlers, but it's definitely one for the ages. Players took on the role of Manny Calevera, a skull-headed travel agent grim reaper who sold clients travel packages to get to their final reward. If you're good, you get access to the Number Nine train that makes the trip in 4 minutes. The evil get a walking stick that ups the trip to four years. Manny uncovers a secret conspiracy that denies the good-hearted tickets to the Number Nine bullet train and saves them instead for the sinners. Players journey vast cities, lush forests and even the edge of the world to discover the secret plot behind the Grim Reaper Travel Agency.

Point-and-Click Fun Fact: Although many classic LucasArts point-and-click properties have received sequels through TellTale Games, there is no plan for Grim Fandango sequel. The game's head designer, Tim Schafer, has gone on to create the games Psychonauts and Brutal Legend.