LucasArts Games Emulation on iPhone Monday, November 26 2007

This is just one of the coolest things I've seen in a while - some clever folks ported the ScummVM over to the iPhone, taking advantage of multi-touch support to deliver a perfect playable experience of classic LucasArts adventure games!

ScummVM fully supports multi-touch to simulate the behaviour of the mouse using gestures. With a single tap you left click, but for a right click you hold one finger and tap with another. To toggle click and drag, which is necessary in some games like Monkey Island 3, you "hold one finger on screen, swipe another up from bottom to top." Then you can drag something, lift your finger to drop it and it will automatically switch back to normal. Quite ingenious and easy.

Fully supported games

Day of the Tentacle (a must)
The Dig
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Full Throttle
Gobliiins
Gobliins 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (a must too)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (this one too)
King's Quest 3
Loom
Maniac Mansion
Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island (best game ever)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (ok, maybe this is the best game ever)
Sam & Max Hit the Road (another must-have)
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Obviously this is likely not sanctioned by LucasArts, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the site disappear in a while. But it's my personal hope that it might help show interest in some of these classics... wouldn't it rock to get these as downloadable games on Arcade, for example? With Achievements? One can hope! (And no, this isn't any sort of hinting - I'd just love to see them!)

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sev wrote on January 23, 2008

> Obviously this is likely not sanctioned by LucasArts,

> and I wouldn't be surprised to see the site disappear

> in a while.

It's a pity that you did not even bothered to take a look at main scummvm site at http://www.scummvm.org to learn that we do not offer any illegal content for download, and moreover, refuse to give any help to those who use warez.

What lead you to conclusion that this is illegal to write a compatible program, what ScummVM is? It is not even an emulator.

And LucasArts knows well about ScummVM since 2002. We're healthy, and devs sleep well :)

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Ozymandias wrote on January 23, 2008

Fair point - I wasn't terribly clear. What I suspect Lucas wouldn't be happy with is people downloading/playing their adventure games... the VM itself should be fine. Sorry about that!

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wideawakewesley wrote on January 23, 2008

This has been available on the Nintendo DS for a while, but it's nice to see it ported to other devices that take similar input.

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John-Paul wrote on January 23, 2008

while we are wishing I would like to wish for the Space Quest games to hit the arcade. I've been thinking about that for a while now. Or Willy Beamish (sp?)

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Ali wrote on January 23, 2008

I'd love to see any of these on Xbox Live Arcade.  Most of all, I'd love to see Grim Fandango.  Sort of got half way through playing it years ago, and never finished it.  The humour in that game was near perfect.

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Genger wrote on January 23, 2008

I'd love to take another run through Full Throttle. I think Mark Hamill did every voice in that game! :)

I remember buying it, along with Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.  It'd be great to try these on a handheld system..

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Habenero Pepper wrote on January 23, 2008

This is making me want an iphone even more, but the deal we get in the uk is pretty bad.

However some of these would be fantastic on marketplace and would not hesitate to buy them, especially Monkey island 1&2 (I agree - best games EVER and with achievements even better)

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tooth wrote on January 23, 2008

if you like those point and click puzzle adventure games you might like Zack and Wiki on the Wii.  I did.

I mean, after you finish all the great games you surely have on your list. But the point is that it doesn't need to be forgotten.  It's fun!

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fudge wrote on January 23, 2008

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