LucasArts Mulling An Adventure Gaming Revival?
While LucasArts would be content to think that their gaming heritage is linked directly with their cinematic legacy, most gamers, when indulging in reminiscing about the past, wholeheartedly relish the SCUMM legacy. As the Nintendo DS proves the best candidate for reviving Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max from the catacombs, Lucas issued few statements in regard to their languishing copyrights, until now.
"We have looked at it. It is something we are continually looking at - new venues to put out our library of games on. We're not announcing anything about that because honestly I don't know anything about it. The decision is taken at a pay grade higher than ours. I would love to see new adventure games coming out. A lot of people will say they feel like the adventure game genre is dead. I don't think it is, I think it's changed in some ways. I think we're still making adventure games but they're a little bit different than before with survival horror games and the like."- PR manager Chris Norris
"The cart size of the DS makes it impossible to put out ports of any of our old graphic adventure. There's literally not enough room on those carts to put the games out. It could still happen. We've got a lot of pride in our heritage and it's definitely something we're still leaving open." - Fracture assistant producer Jeffrey Gullett
Though saying that the size of the DS cartridge format makes it an entire impossibility for conversion of their catalog, for it would only take a sharp programmer to accommodate the medium, it is still refreshing to hear that somewhere up there, behind the closed boardroom doors, someone is speaking up on the behalf of us aging sentimentalists.
LucasArts - we may revive graphic adventures, DS is too limited [GoNintendo]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 2 June 2008
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Name: Dave
Grim Fandango II!!! Viva Calavera!
http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
Homebrew for DS allowing you to run any of their classic adventure games up until roughly Day Of The Tentacle and Sam & Max.
I'm not holding my breath, even though I really, really wish this would happen.
Considering there is a version of the ScummVM Emulator for (hacked) PSP, they could just put it on UMD. One UMD disc would be enough for 2-3 old Lucasarts games.
Please don't revive my cold cold heart for a sliver of speculation.
*bites lip*