# God, I miss the golden age of LucasGames.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793 "2005-05-27T18:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/21 "2005-05-27T22:08:15Z")
Look for a game in development called “A Vampyre Story.” It’s by [Autumn Moon.](http://www.amegames.com/) > [@](#): > > AME is composed of former Lucas Arts employees and committed to reviving the adventure genre of game for which Lucas was once known. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/22 "2005-05-27T22:11:51Z")
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (SWOTL) is still mentioned on flight-sim boards as one of the early greats. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/23 "2005-05-27T22:30:58Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > The adventure game genre is still bigger than you think, it’s just that almost all of the adventure games come out of Europe these days. I’ve probably played a dozen or more in the last year, many of them quite good, and all but a few of them at least decent. Names, please. 😉 I’m not very interested in first person/Myst stuff. I’m much more interested in the classic 3d-person adventure. Gabriel Knight, Sam & Max, etc. Thanks, –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/24 "2005-05-27T22:56:08Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Loom > > Yes, I’m dating myself… Don’t be ashamed. Loom was great. I wish it had been longer…and had a sequel. Apparently a sequel called “Forge” was in the works for a while before it was scrapped. I imagine that Rusty would been the main character of that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/25 "2005-05-28T00:39:55Z")
Go to this website. [http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/](http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/) Click on main games page and search for Cirque De Zale. It’s a free, small adventure game with the graphics of Monkey Island 2 and the same humor. It’s great. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/26 "2005-05-28T16:23:11Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Names, please. 😉 I’m not very interested in first person/Myst stuff. I’m much more interested in the classic 3d-person adventure. Gabriel Knight, Sam & Max, etc. > > Thanks, > –Cliffy Let’s see, off the top of my head: Still Life (very adult-themed), The Moment of Silence (3/5), Syberia, Syberia 2 (4.5/5), Journey to the Center of the Earth (3/5), WANTED: A Wild Western Adventure (2.5/5), Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring (3.5/5). Those are only the ones I can think of that I’ve played fairly recently and that are point-and-click adventures. I put the score I gave the game, if I also reviewed it. I’ve played lots more that are Myst-styled. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/27 "2005-05-28T16:25:23Z")
Oops. That score for Syberia 2 should’ve been for Syberia. I also forgot The Longest Journey in that list. I think I reviewed it, but I can’t find a review online, so maybe not, or maybe it was for a magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/28 "2005-05-28T17:05:54Z")
Sam and Max Hit the Road; Loved and finished it. Maniac Mansion; Liked but never finished. Indiana Jones; Liked but never finished. X-Wing; Loved but never finished. TIE Fighter; Loved it so much it affected my school work. Zombies Ate My Neighbors; Loved and wished I bought a copy for my SNES instead of constantly renting it. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/29 "2005-05-28T17:55:35Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > There’s a collecters series floating around that was updated to work with Win9X. Apparently they improved the graphics and some other things. > > Other then that, I don’t know. > > But yeah, I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. Yeah, they updated X-Wing and TIE Fighter with the X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter engine. Mainly they updated the graphics and changed the music (Which is a shame, I miss the classic X-Wing music) they also came with a demo for XvT called "X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Flight School) I think there was a patch to make XvT and the updated XW/TF games work in XP, but I’m not sure. Either way, I have a working copy of X-Wing on my machine. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/30 "2005-05-28T18:11:16Z")
Shame on y’all… barely a mention of Day of the Tentacle! Best game involving time travel, ever. I loved the Monkey Island games too, but the transformation into 3D never worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/31 "2005-05-28T19:12:30Z")
I’d kill for a decent new X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Wing Commander type game. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/32 "2005-05-28T20:25:35Z")
I’d kill for a re-release of the Kilrathi Saga. I have every Wing Commander game ever released (except for Prophecy) and I have a hard time getting anything that doesn’t use JEMM to run properly. (I’ve never really cared for the OS remake of Privateer.) Or a re-release of X-Wing and TIE Fighter patched for a current system. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/33 "2005-05-28T20:29:50Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > Do y’all already know about [ScummVM](http://www.scummvm.org/)? If so, ignore me. If not, check it out. Lets you play all the old SCUMM-interface games on your modern hardware. > > I been playin’ the old Monkey Island games with it. Fun! I came here just to mention ScummVM. I just found it about a week ago, and have been happily replaying Sam and Max. Full Throttle is next! “I fixed your door. _pause_ It was sticky.” ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/34 "2005-05-31T12:41:22Z")
Gracias, **Deadly**. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/35 "2005-05-31T14:11:08Z")
Microsoft released _Freelancer_ about two-three years ago, which was obviously … uhm, inspired by … _Privateer_. Pretty good, but I never got around to finishing it. I suppose I’ll drag it out eventually and wrap that up. I absolutely loved _The Dig_ but again, never finished it. I got stuck at the point where the giant spiderlike alien trapped your compatriot in a web, and as this was before the advent of the web and [gamefaqs.com](http://gamefaqs.com), I was stumped and the game disks disappeared into the piles of computer junk. I haven’t found a rerelease of that anywhere, and eBay isn’t any help, either… (I did eventually buy Alan Dean Foster’s novelization of it and read how they defeated the spiderlike alien, but too little, too late…) ---
**Author:** ![Mame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mame)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/36 "2005-05-31T14:21:35Z")
Another for **Day of the Tentacle** and \*\* Grim Fandango\*\* Particularly **Day of the Tentacle** That was one of the best non-killing games ever ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/37 "2005-05-31T17:09:55Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Yes, I’m dating myself… That’s illegal here in Louisiana. Sorry, couldn’t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/38 "2005-05-31T19:28:54Z")
I’m well into _Psychonauts_ now, it is a great game. Tim Schafer (_Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango_) has delivered another quirky bit of genius with this one. It’s sort of a hybrid of adventure and 3rd-person action. Some areas play like a shooter, others like a platform action game, one allows you to rampage “Godzilla style” through a town and do battle with another monster. Level design displays a great depth of imagination, the overall theme holds the pieces together very well. I can only hope people give this title a chance, though I assume it will be lost behind the releases from the major game producers. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/39 "2005-05-31T21:00:26Z")
Any way to get these without going to ebay? ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793/40 "2005-05-31T21:23:56Z")
> [@smiling bandit](#): > > Any way to get these without going to ebay? A few years back the company released a series called (IIRC) “LucasArts Archives,” each package had a collection of either adventure titles or Star Wars games. I’m not sure exactly how old those are or if the discs will work with current hardware/OSs. Online retailers might still offer them. So how’s that for almost no help at all? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-miss-the-golden-age-of-lucasgames/305793.md?page=3)