Initially each for Apple Macintosh, but then gradually as ports the other systems common at the time. Three more MacVenture point-and-click adventures followed: Uninvited 1986, Shadowgate 1987 and the continuation of the first title Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas 1988. ICOM Simulations, with its MacVenture engine and the first Adventure Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True developed on its basis, then succeeded in laying the foundation for the new game genre in 1985. The control options were still too limited and the graphics too simple for the games to stand out from classic text adventures. However, these precursors remained largely unknown. Similar approaches had already taken place in Japan in 1983 at T&E Soft Corporation, which had developed an interface with cursor control for the FM-7 from Fujitsu, and in 1984 the first point-and-click adventure was with Enchanted Scepters from Silicon Beach Software for the Apple Macintosh. The text inputs that were unavoidable in Adventures and their interpretation via a parser should be completely eliminated. An adventure game was planned in which commands were to be entered using the mouse via a point-and-click interface. This also wanted to revolutionize the control of computer games. Tod Zipnick and his team were excited about the idea of a mouse- controlled graphical user interface. When Apple Computer launched the Macintosh in January 1984, the company was very focused on that system. In the first few years TMQ only appeared as a contract developer for early game consoles such as the Panasonic JR-200 or for ports for Atarisoft. The company was founded by Tod Zipnick in March 1981 under the name TMQ Software, an abbreviation for "Trademark of Quality". History TMQ software and ICOM simulations
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