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In Real Life

Lucas Arts Characters Are Hilarious In This Butt-Kicking Tribute

LucasArts might be gone, but the characters from its classic adventure games live on. In YouTube user Felipe Machado’s video, the worlds of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and almost everything else LucasArts did in the 90s collide for terrific a mini-adventure.

22 August 2012

Retro

The Past Is Full Of Great Time Travel Games, But I Want Them In My Future

This morning, I received a link to a 20-year-old video. It’s the first-ever preview of The Journeyman Project, as shown at Macworld in 1992. Perhaps appropriately for a game about time travel, I felt a distinct sense of journeying into the past while I watched it.

29 March 2012

PC

Lovely New Pictures Of Lovely Old Adventure Games

Artist Jón Kristinsson has started a Tumblr dedicated to his beautiful illustrations of point-and-click adventure games like Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.

13 March 2012

Retro

George Washington & Ben Franklin, As Seen By Video Games In 1993

Two of America’s founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, will be starring in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III. It’s not, you know, their first time in a video game.

9 March 2012

In Real Life

From Metal Gear Solid To Portal 2, Every Video Game Sounds Better In German

Why would you ever want to play a video game in a language you don’t understand? Once you hear Half-Life‘s G-Man, Metal Gear‘s Psycho Mantis and Portal 2‘s Space Sphere speaking German you’ll understand completely.

2 February 2012

In Real Life

Heroic Man Makes Day Of The Tentacle Figure

Lucasarts, being preoccupied with making average Star Wars games based on terrible Star Wars movies and cartoons, obviously couldn’t care less about treasured old properties like Day of the Tentacle.

26 October 2011

In Real Life

Yo, It’s Day Of The Tentacle, And It’s Flashing

Morning, Day of the Tentacle fans! Here’s a little something readers David and Sarah Cousens (of the excellent Cool Surface) whipped up to brighten up your day.

21 September 2011

PC

Get A Little Half-Life, Day Of The Tentacle In Your Magicka

There’s a new piece of downloadable content for PC co-op shooter (spellcaster?) Magicka called the “Gamer Bundle”. Normally I don’t look twice at a pack offering mere player skins, but these are no mere player skins.

26 May 2011

PC

Holy Shit, Somebody Is Remaking Maniac Mansion

Maniac Mansion, if you don’t know, is a classic adventure game from Lucasarts (then known as Lucasfilm) that spawned en entire generation of titles like its sequel Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max and Fate of Atlantis. And now it’s getting a remake!

18 December 2010

In Real Life

Back To The Future? More Like Back To The 1990s

Couldn’t Lucasarts take a Telltale game and give it a retro touch? It only seems fair, considering the modern updates for Sam & Max and Monkey Island! By Jinn.

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