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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was a new entry in the Indy series done in the adventure style that continued the hero’s story after the events of Last Crusade. It involves Indy’s search for the fabled lost city of Atlantis (obviously). This is the full “talkie edition” with…

The Last Crusade sought to extend the adventure game genre by allowing for different way to progress through the game and a points system that changed based on your solutions. It mostly follows the plot of the film. I added the FM Town version so you can hear the difference…

Straight from Wiki : “Loom is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1990. It was both developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now called LucasArts) and was the fourth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine. The project was led by Brian Moriarty”. Loom’s fantasy adventure unfolds as…

Easily my favorite adventure game of all time, if not my favorite game period, Monkey Island 2 – LeChuck’s revenge built on the success of The Secret of Monkey Island. More humor, characters and upgraded graphics along with many memorable tunes make this an adventure classic. Again this makes use…

The one that really started it all for me. There were adventure games before, but Monkey Island was it for me. Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert and the then Lucasfilm Games team released the first entry into the classic pirate-comedy driven adventure series. Using a conversion from here http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies this is…

The Dig was a major adventure game development from LucasArts. It featured a concept from Steven Spielberg, dialogue written by Orson Scott Card and the main character’s voice work was performed by actor Robert Patrick (Terminator 2). It expanded on the SCUMM/iMUSE combo with a system called INSANE for cutscenes….

Continuing my Lucasarts / Lucastfilm Games tribute with their foray into “god games” in the Civilization style. This is Afterlife. Where you control the experience of souls in both heaven and hell and receive helpful advice from a demon and an angel. After the brief intro are the tutorial pieces,…

Zak McKracken is another classic LucasArts / Lucasfilm Games adventure game. This version is the high quality FM Towns style, featuring 256 color graphics and CD Audio. More Info from Wiki : “The story is set in 1997, 10 years after its production. The plot follows Zak (full name Francis…