History VideoGame / EcoQuest

* UnfortunateNames: Superfluous, the "Great Senator" hermit crab.

[[caption-width-right:320:''EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus'']]

[=EcoQuest=] is a series of two adventure games by {{Sierra}}, designed primarily for younger audiences. The story follows Adam Greene, a young boy and son of an ecologist, who has a remarkable tendency to meet talking animals and be recruited to save their dying animal kingdoms from some hazard inflicted by mankind.

* GameOver: Unlike the vast majority of adventure games by {{Sierra}}, it's impossible to die or lose the game (except... see UnwinnableByMistake, below).

** Adam's oxygen tank never run out air when underwater.

** Adam Never run out air when underwater.

In the first game, ''"The Search for Cetus"'', Adam meets a talking Dolphin that's been nursed back to health at a Marine Biological Institution after being trapped in a fishing net. He releases the dolphin back into the wild, but the dolphin later comes back to request his aid. Adam travels to an underwater kingdom, consisting mostly of ancient grecian ruins, and populated by a wide variety of talking marine life (anything from manatees to clownfish seem to be able to hold an intelligent conversation here). It appears that the ruler of this kingdom, an old and wise sperm whale, has gone missing, and Adam must find him. To make matters worse, a gigantic manta ray mutated by a hidden underwater radioactive waste dump, has been terrorizing the kingdom and must be stopped.

[=EcoQuest=] is a series of two adventure games by ''{{Sierra}} entertainment'', designed primarily for younger audiences. The story follows Adam Greene, a young boy and son of an ecologist, who has a remarkable tendency to meet talking animals and be recruited to save their dying animal kingdoms from some hazard inflicted by mankind.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Maxim Slaughter in ''[=EcoQuest=] 2''.

* EvilPoacher: Maxim Slaughter, the villain in ''[=EcoQuest=] 2''. His room is full of various trophies.

* BananaRepublic: ''EcoQuest 2'' is set in one, if how easily Slaughter bribes the guard at the beginning is any indication.
* CityOfGold: What Slaughter is after in ''EcoQuest 2''. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the true treasure is not gold, but Forest Heart's seedling.]]
* CopyProtection: In ''EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus'', the door's security code in the beginning of the game. In ''EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest'', the Shaman's face paint patterns.

* GameBreakingBug: Playing ''EcoQuest 2'' with a computer that is too fast results in an "888.pal not found" error at a certain point in the game. This bug can be averted by using a slowdown utility.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Maxim Slaughter in ''EcoQuest 2''.

* ShoutOut: In EcoQuest 2: "All that is gold does not glitter." A reference to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.''

* ShoutOut: In EcoQuest 2: "All that is gold does not glitter." A reference to ''TheLordOfTheRings.''

* CuttingTheNot: A few puzzles in the first game tempt you with complicated adventure game combining-items solutions, but can be solved by just literally cutting through something.

* CopyProtection: ''In EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus'', the door's security code in the beginning of the game. In ''EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest'', the Shaman's face paint patterns.

* GameBreakingBug: Playing EcoQuest 2 with a computer that is too fast results in an "888.pal not found" error at a certain point in the game. This bug can be averted by using a slowdown utility.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Maxim Slaughter in EcoQuest 2.

* ShoutOut: In EcoQuest 2: "All that is gold does not glitter." A reference to TheLordOfTheRings.

* CopyProtection: In EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus, the door's security code in the beginning of the game. In EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest, the Shaman's face paint patterns.

* GameBreakingBug: Playing Ecoquest 2 with a computer that is too fast results in an '888.pal not found' error at a certain point in the game. This bug can be averted by using a slowdown utility.