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!)

Came across this great spoof of the old Interactive Fiction games (aka Text Adventures). In this case the writer sends up Zork (and the IF genre in general) beautifully. Check it out if you have any memories of that golden era and want to relive your glory days. I did.

First, a hand drawn Myst map. Spent way too much time in this world - probably one of the last, great, classic adventure games.

And then a map I've never seen before - an incredible map/poster of Zork II. I'd kill to have a copy to frame and hang on the wall, but it looks like I'm about 20 years too late. Anyone have any leads on finding this? I'll be forever grateful!

Just came across this NeoGAF forum thread and had to point you to it to see some cool adventure game maps. You probably won't care unless you're an oldschool gamer who remembers trying to map out that #!$!% maze in Zork 1 by hand, but these brought a smile to my face. The Zelda map is amazing, and of course, I have to print the Zork map below as it's the sole reason I learned to type.

I've always been a huge adventure game fan. Heck, the simple fact that I can even type is thanks to Zork, Enchanter, and Planetfall from Infocom. Unfortunately, these sorts of "thinking man's games" have pretty much disappeared over the years. You occasionally get a Dreamfall, or the fantastic (well, at least until the end) Indigo Prophecy, but generally it's been slim pickings for us adventure gamers over the past decade.

This is all to say why I'm pointing you to this article from adventuregamers.com (with credit to Evil Avatar where I first saw the post). It's a great read that really highlights some of the potential for interactivity and puzzle solving in an adventure game. Who knows if it's really enough to spark a revival in the genre, but hey - we're holding on to a slim thread now anyway, right? Why not try to grab the brass ring?

P.S. I miss Infocom. RIP.