For better or worse, it's the origin of modern puzzle design in games, laundered so many times over it's unlikely those imitating it today realize what they do. In spite of this, it feels like an alternative vision of medium, something which consciously rejects hobbyism and game literacy in favor of accessibility. Your dad could play it, and moreover the bright, early-CGI screensaver aesthetics and community theater FMV about a wizard who dresses as he does wouldn't alienate him.