The Adventurer was a video game magazine that was published bi-yearly by LucasArts from Fall 1990 until Winter 1996.  Due to the increasing popularity of adventure games LucasArts decided to publish their own gaming magazine to provide gamers a publication where they could read about upcoming LucasArts games and interviews with the development team. 

The magazine was distributed free of charge as a marketing opportunity for the video game developer and was often included within game boxes.  Each magazine featured a Sam & Max cartoon comic strip that sometimes parodied Lucasfilm properties such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones.  Along with the publication of the magazine, LucasArts also published selected articles on their website.

Despite the magazine’s name, The Adventurer did not exclusively focus on adventure games but covered games in all genres that were being developed and or published by LucasArts.  The magazine promoted upcoming LucasArts titles and featured detailed information about the development of games in the form of essays and employee interviews.

Over the course of the magazine’s 6-year lifecycle, a total of 13 issues were released.  The final issue was published in 1996 as issue 14 because LucasArts decided to skip the use of the number 13 as it was seen as bad luck.  The second half of the 1990s seen the popularity of adventure games fade and as a result the magazine was discontinued.