Gaming is sorely lacking innovation
This makes me sad because it is true.
@ Slogbarg: Do you have a Nintendo Entertainment System? If so, I recommend buying a gem called "Nightshade" off of Ebay, it is super rare, but super fun. There isn't any other game like it in existence. You play as a vigilante called Nightshade and you are out to defeat the crime families so that Metro City is freed from crime. It's a weird Action-Adventure hybrid with a couple of RPG elements, you can examine and talk to everything, I think even one of the lines in the game is "Hello, tree." if you try to talk to a tree.
http://en.wikipedia....992_video_game)
"Instead of a save feature or extra lives, the villain Sutekh would throw Nightshade into a deathtrap. The first four traps each had a solution and Nightshade would escape back onto the streets of Metro City (minus some popularity points). The final one does not, and the player would have to start over from the beginning of the game. Additionally the game begins with Nightshade tied to a chair, next to which Sutekh has placed a small bomb. While technically not a deathtrap (the bomb, if not escaped on time, does not do lethal damage) this introduces the trap escape, problem solving element early on."