(from the Broken Sword series). The award was in recognition of his character spanning a period between September 30, 1996 and December 5, 2013 (a total of 17 years and 199 days). Then on March 3, the award was handed to Guybrush Threepwood (from the Monkey Island series), after his character was recognized for spanning the period between October 15, 1990 and December 8, 2009 (a total of 19 years and 54 days). However, when taking into consideration Tex Murphy's first adventure (Mean Streets''' released in 1989), and his latest adventure (Tesla Effect, released in 2014), the Tex Murphy character has actually spanned a total of (at least) 24 years and 121 days. Despite Tex Murphy being a longer running graphic adventure protagonist (when taking into consideration the length of time between his first and his latest appearance), Guinness' justification for not considering Tex Murphy for this award was due to its interpretation of Tesla Effect as a reboot or "revival", despite the game officially being a canon continuation of the series and the Tex Murphy character as an ongoing protagonist. Guinness also cited Tex's 16-year hiatus as evidence of this. This caused some controversy within the adventure gaming community, with some adventure fans and adventure forums questioning and criticizing Guinness' decision when it was first awarded. The award currently still stands with Guybrush Threepwood. Longest wait for a sequel to a point-and-click adventure contradiction Despite officially acknowledging Tex's 16-year absence as the primary reason for disqualifying it from the "Longest-running graphic adventure protagonist" record, Guinness World Records currently maintains that the "Longest wait for a sequel to a point n click adventure" record still stands with Tales of Monkey Island for the 8 years and 242 days between Escape from Monkey Island in 2000 and Tales of Monkey Island in 2009, which is half as long as the wait between Tex Murphy: Overseer (released in 1998), and Tesla Effect (released in 2014) is 16 years. A direct contradiction to the justification had been used to disqualify it from the Longest-running graphic adventure protagonist'' record. References External links Adventure games Point-and-click adventure games Murphy, Tex Video game franchises Video game franchises introduced in 1989 Detective video games