If you're a fan of LucasArts' classic PC adventure games, you've probably already rapid-fire F5'd your way into the light on this one, but if not, here's what all the fuss was about yesterday. LucasArts has announced via their Twitter that they've partnered with Steam to bring the company's back catalog of adventure games to the digital service for your point-and-click pleasure.
Among the titles already slated for arrival are Loom, The Dig, Battlefront 2, and the Special Edition Monkey Island that's also coming to XBLA. They're scheduled to start hitting Steam on July 8th, and have reportedly undergone testing to ensure that they'll run in Windows Vista or XP with minimal system requirements and on an array of hardware.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, details are raining down faster than I could ever put them here, so if this has you bouncing around with excitement, you might just want to head over and watch the tweetstorm as it happens. Hooray?
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12:45 PM on 07.06.2009
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HAPPY!
THE DIG! ZOMG! :D
Hooray? Hooray indeed!
Oh well, Loom sounds like a good deal...
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Still think it would have been much better with GOG, their fans have been waiting longer there for that.
The little Manny Calvera skeleton toy that came in the box still sits beside my computer monitor to this day. That guy has outlasted Star Wars droid figures, lego constructs, pics of a girlfriend, several little stone gargoyles, and even my Big Daddy fig.
Seriously, I hope this spurs a "real" revival, as in new games that are as awesome as those ones were. greatest streak of excellence in the history of gaming.
I hope this stuff sells like hotcakes and Lucasarts realise what they've been squandering all these years.
Hi Def Grim fandango? everyone needs to buy 10 copies of Monkey Island SE, although nothing will quite beat the first time I played through it and switching through those 4 CDs.
that was what i was waiting for.