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Step 1: Install ScummVM, a program that lets you run adventure games made in the Scumm engine on modern machines.
Step 2: Acquire Putt-Putt through questionable means.
Step 3: Childhood.
It's kind of an emulator for a bunch of Lucasart games (and more). Since you have the original CD you can just copy over those files, download this program, and go nuts.
anste mentioned point-and-click adventure games, and I think that might be an option to look into. The classics can be played with the ScummVM emulator, and there's a couple new ones (that harken back to the classics) like Ben There, Dan That! They're games that test your intelligence and the funny ones (like BT,DT and Monkey Island) leave you with a good feeling.
EDIT: I was going to suggest turn based strategy games as well. You can definitely play them with just a mouse. Battle for Wesnoth is free and has quite a bit of depth.
Beneath a Steel Sky is one of my favourites, and it's free now, so there's no excuse not to play it. It's this really great sci-fi story that's half comedy, half Orwellian dystopia. It's mostly your standard inventory puzzles, but you also have a little robot buddy that you can use to take over different machines and solve odd puzzles. It's a real classic.
I also recommend Ben There, Dan That, which you can buy bundled with its also-awesome sequel, Time, Gentlemen, Please! from Steam. The writing in these two is really sharp -- they're very funny games in a way that few others can match.
Point and click SCUMM adventures? Beneath a Steel Sky is great and free.
Edit: I should mention, the modern program for playing them, plus a couple free games, is available here. Runs on pretty much any platform 'cept a TI-83.
Actually for the Lucasarts games there is also SCUMMVM which also lets you play things like the FMTowns Marty version of Zak Mcracken
I don't know if the LucasArts adventure games on Steam use ScummVM or not, but if they don't they should at least have files useable by ScummVM. And since it just hit 2.0, now's a great time to play (or replay) those old classics.
If it were me, I would download a bunch of TV shows or movies that I haven't watched yet or want to watch.
I would also load up on games. If you haven't checked it out, I would suggest these games from the Humble Indie Bundle.
Also download a bunch of emulated games. You can get just about everything from nes, snes, n64, mame if you look hard enough. Bring a PS3 and a usb to mini adapter cable so you don't have to rely on touch screen controls.
And lastly, if you're a fan of adventure games, check out Scummvm. It plays lucasarts adventure games like Monkey Island 1-3, Loom, The Dig, Full Throttle, etc. It's a great way to kill time and reliving the glory days of adventure gaming. Bring a USB mouse if you have the dock.
I don't see it mentioned yet, so I will: This game can be played with ScummVM, which means neat features like graphics filters, but more importantly, you can play it on your Mac, Linux machine, iPhone, Android, PS2, or even N64!
Edit: Only the original game, not the director's cut, works with ScummVM.
Edit 2: Looks like GOG actually uses ScummVM as the official way of launching the game, and includes it in the download. More power to them, but I'm slightly worried about the licensing issues.
As for tools, these are essential:
DosBOX - Near perfect emulation of DOS for games of that era. Often easier to run than Windows version of the games. Can be intimidating because of command line interfaces, but there are plenty of helpful GUI programs and guides you can use. Some Steam classic game bundles come with DOSBox pre-installed!
SucmmVM is another near-perfect emulator, specifically for early 90s Lucas Arts style point-and-click adventures. Adds tons of features (like quick saves and render methods) and works perfectly.
Console Emulators - No specific links, but there are good emulators for pretty much every console until the PS2 era. N64/PS1 era games and earlier have near-perfect emulation. Beyond that it can get a bit buggy but mostly works. PS3/360 is a bit out of reach yet but the Wii has some solid emulators out there. But for a truly elegant experience, check out SNES era emulators and the ROM translation community. Live A Live is one of my favorite games and never would I have discovered it without this community.
ScummVM is an open-source engine designed to play almost every game made on the scumm engine like every humongous entertainment game so if you have a copy of the games files on disk or whatnot, you can use this to play it. http://www.scummvm.org/
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
I know, it'd be nice to have official ports of Monkey Island and the like (as well as the MI updated graphics) but SCUMMVM works amazingly well on Android.
I just played through Day of the Tentacle and am most of the way through Sam and Max Hit the Road.
Of course it requires the original game files for whatever ones you want to run, but you did save those cherished games of your youth, right?
Brief explanation: SCUMM (other than being a beverage) means "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion", an early adventure game. It is the "game engine" for many, many adventure games (such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max... lots), in the same way that the "Source" engine powers Half-Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, et al.
SCUMMVM is a completely free (as in both $0 and open-source) recreation of the SCUMM game engine itself, which runs on many different platforms - Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Windows Mobile, and more. (That's what the VM part means - Virtual Machine, in the same usage as the JVM / Java Virtual Machine, which is what makes Java programs "cross-platform").
This means that, if you supply it with the content from these old games, you can play them exactly as they were meant to be played, on modern hardware. I highly recommend you check it out as it is a darling of the open-source world, it really is a phenomenal piece of software. It can be a little tricky to find the original game files of course, but eBay, charity shops and car boot sales are all good places to look.
Even if you don't have any SCUMM games, you can still try it out as the makers of Beneath a Steel Sky have very generously made the complete game available for free download. It's a solid dystopian future cyberpunk adventure game, if that's your thing.
In addition, in recent years they have added support for other game engines to SCUMMVM, such as the "Tinsel" engine that powers the first two Discworld games (which are otherwise quite difficult to get running stably).
Lastly, Android can actually do DOS as well! There is a project called "DosBox" aimed at emulating DOS (in much the same way as you can emulate a NES or N64) to ensure that in the deep dark future, we can still play Lemmings. There is at least one effort to port it to Android, I have no idea how well it works though.
Use ScummVM. Works great, is easier to set up and can even make the game look better (if you wish).
And can run many more games besides LSL1.
Probably not best to buy the first "realMyst." That one had some advantages over the more recent "realMyst Masterpiece Edition," but the old realMyst isn't supported anymore, so you'd be on your own getting it to play.
So between "Myst: Masterpiece Edition" (the original, pre-rendered slideshow version of the game) and "realMyst: Masterpiece Edition" (the current, HD realtime 3D version). Setting aside any issues you might have running the game on your computer, it's a matter of personal preference whether you'd go with the classic experience or the updated experience.
My gut says, get the original (Myst: Masterpiece Edition), since that's the version that made the game famous, and playing the original slideshow-style version really helps you appreciate the context of how special the game was in its own time.
If you're a point-and-click fan you're probably familiar with ScummVM? http://www.scummvm.org/ Myst Masterpiece Edition can run in ScummVM, so that'll save you a lot of compatibility headaches. The GoG.com version already comes wrapped in ScummVM, but you should be able to use it for the Steam version just as well.
Exciting! Beneath a Steel Sky is an awesome and artistically beautiful game. It's currently shareware so you can download it on this page, I think it's definitely worth a look especially if you like adventure games.
Actually, me and my friends went through some of them (and Spy-Fox, next up is Pajama Sam). You can run them with ScummVM. Now that we aren't 5, they only take like 20 minutes.
The original Fallout is super fun. It is a turn based RPG from 1997. You can pick up a copy on ebay or if you are trying to do things cheap there is the PirateBay. Also if you want to save money, there is Scummvm which is an emulator for classic graphic adventure games. It is easy to set up. Here is one game to get you started.. Good luck!
Download ScuumVM
Download some games. I strongly recommend Monkey Island and Full throttle
Have the best fucking time ever.
GoG does a great job getting some very old games to run on modern computers, but let me recommend ScummVM as, hands down, the best way to play classic Lucas Arts adventures. It runs better than the official Windows versions, IMO, and adds a practical quick-save system as well as a gazillion scaling modes for higher resolutions. I'm not sure if GoG games generally come bundled with DosBox/ScummVM already or are all optimized separately, but I remember trying an "official" version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis once and it ran worse than it did with ScummVM.
They may work if you run them using compatility settings, people seem to have mixed results with some of them.
The original Myst and Myst Masterpiece Edition are now supported in ScummVM. Myst III is supported in ResidualVM.
ScummVM does not yet support Riven, and RealMyst is not supported.
So you can use the data files with something like ScummVM without having to go through the entire install process just to copy them out and uninstall again.
(For example, if you want to play the game on your Android phone or your Linux box or on Windows with an enhanced engine rewrite like EDuke32 that GOG doesn't bundle.)
Monkey Island 1 SE, Monkey Island 2 SE, most anything Telltale does like the Monkey Island/Sam n Max/Walking Dead episodic series ... and many old adventure games like the hilarious Day of the Tentacle ( though you need to set the older ones up through a program called ScummVM.
And these guys do a bunch of 'modern' remakes of Sierra games - including the fantastic proto-Elder Scrolls 'Quest for Glory 2', while these guys do a couple as well. Might not be your thing, dude, but all free.
You're in luck. Backyard Baseball was written in SCUMM, a scripting language used by Lucas Arts, Sierra, and Humongous for a lot of old games. There is an emulator called SummVM that runs most of these games quite well.
So fucking excited. I'll have to go through BASS again now too.
Also, for anyone who isn't aware, the original BASS has officially been "freeware" for a few years now. It's also easy to get it working on pretty much any modern system through the use of ScummVM. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, WebOS, and many more platforms are all supported.
ScummVM, dude. It's got ports for practically every platform in existence. It supports something like 150 different old adventure games at this point, across multiple engines, including the first two Discworld adventures.
All you have to do is pull the data files off the disc, dump 'em in a directory, and point ScummVM at it. It does the rest.
Radiant is a cool space shooter, similar to Space Invanders. It's fun to play, has oldschool styled graphics and nice music. The full version costs about 2$. I heard that other Hexage games are also good, but i haven't tried them myself.
edit: Also, if you like older adventure games (Monkey Island, Sam&Max etc.), you can play them on your phone using ScummVM.
Ooh, maybe try some classic adventure games! There are some amazing ones which are easily available for free. Here, this will help.
- Go here and download/install this program --> http://www.scummvm.org/
- Go to their downloads page, scroll down to 'Extras, Game Downloads' and I think my favourites are probably 'Beneath a Steel Sky' and 'Flight of the Amazon Queen'.
You control a character, explore a story/world, pick up items, search for clues, solve puzzles and enjoy the wonderful, often hilarious dialogue.
If you want to play Humongous Entertainment games on pretty much any system ever, you can use ScummVM. This includes Putt Putt, Freddi The Fish, Spy Fox, Pajama Sam, and all the Backyard Sports games. You'll just need to find a download for them somewhere.
What's keeping you, the game is fully playable under ScummVM I've already started it myself. Just get a copy from wherever and play it. ScummVM runs on tons of platforms. Make sure you get the latest version though because support is not 100% implemented in the last stable release I think.
"Crappy laptop" has a wide range, nowadays. Onboard graphics cards from late 2009 (like the 9400M in MBPs) can run games like Portal 2 just fine.
Anyway... How about some indie games: Braid, World of Goo, Mount & Blade: Warband, Minecraft, maybe even Amnesia: The Dark Descent (although this is in the upper range of graphics requirements).
The Kalypso pack is on sale on Steam. I always loved the Commandos games, essentially real-time-puzzle-strategy. The Tropicos as well, very slow paced but good, classic build-up sims.
Of course, you can take the opportunity to check some classics as well: Half-Life 1, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Thief. Some classic Lucas Arts adventures running in ScummVM. The original X-Com...
> I don't like the way the screen locks into place at 180 degrees but not any other amount such as 120 degrees such as what the DS does. Is it not annoying to keep pushing the screen back up?
I just use it with the screen locked at 180. If you really can't stand that, then yes, I'd imagine it'd be quite annoying. It may be possible to modify the case a little or something to make other lock locations possible, I haven't looked into it though. I'm okay with it locking flat.
> I like how it emulates games rather well but can it run games such as Manic Mansion and grim fandango?
Maniac Mansion yes, through ScummVM or various other emulators, depending which version you want to play. Grim Fandango no, there is no way to play that game except through Windows. ScummVM had a sister project named Residual to try to support Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, but it seems to be long dead.
> If i overclock it to 1ghz what is the decrease in battery life?
You can't overclock it to 1ghz stably, 800 or 850 mhz is about as high as you'd want to go. Clock speed has almost no effect on the battery life.
> How well can it run some n64 games such as OOT when it is overclocked?
The N64 emulator is still under extremely active development, and doesn't work particularly well at this point. Here's the N64 emulator thread, you can see recent posts talking about OOT freezing. I've been avoiding N64 for now, but it sounds like it's starting to get a lot better, and will only keep improving.
> Is getting an SD card essential for it?
Yes. The NAND space is extremely small (about 80 MB free on a fresh install), and you want to use it as little as possible because it has the potential to wear out. I'm not sure why this is a concern though, you're looking at a ~$500 device and worried about a $10 SD card?
Well, I've exhausted all my options here. My last suggestion is to go through the ScummVM compatibility list and check if any of those games match what you are looking for. Quite a bunch of them are from the same era and use same engine as Loom.
I hacked together a quick and dirty Greasemonkey script that adds Google Search links to the game list to ease up the task if you feel like that.
I'd try some adventure games as they are text-driven and you can take your time to read. Deponia is a recent series from a German developer!
One of the free 90's adventure games on GOG is available in German: Flight of the Amazon Queen.
You can also look for old LucasArts titles like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island. Might take a bit of Googling, but they've surely had a lot of time for official or fan translations to be polished up. You'll probably need ScummVM to play any copies you find.
Same. It's like the Monty Python of fantasy :P
There's some nice point-and-click adventure games based on it (sadly old and not available on GOG.com so you may have to use an emulator) and a [subreddit](/r/discworld).
Sollte mit ScummVM gehen, aber ich würde lieber Dual Boot auf nem "richtigen" Rechner machen.
Kannst ja mal in /r/linux4noobs fragen. Weiß nicht, ob das vielleicht sogar bei /r/retrogaming passen würde.
I used to have a Pocket PC of this era. Hard to find much use for it now, but there is a Pocket PC builds of ScummVM, with which I managed to play through the entire of Day of The Tentacle on my old Dell Axim X5.
Some remakes of specific games have been ported to old handheld platforms as well, with varying levels of success, such as OpenTTD.
Here's what you could do, get scumm and create your game, if your writing is really good it should work as it worked for Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, both games where without the text, there would be no point in playing. After you finished that or at least have a really compelling idea fleshed out, show it to someone and conquer by example.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-1.4.1-psp.zip?download Not really sure what ScummVM is but did a quick Google search and found a port for you. Although one thing to note is the PSP version is unsupported, which doesn't really matter I guess. Here is the general download page with other versions of the game. http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ Also here is a list of IGN's top 20 Game Boy Advance titles, to help you get an idea. It probably safe to say that any of the Nintendo titles will be enjoyable, but maybe put Metroid on there, for fun! xD And here's the place to download those roms. http://www.coolrom.com/
It's not illegal to emulate an environment. You just need to own the original software, same as with any platform.
The ScummVM people get on swimmingly with the GOG.com people; a lot of GOG.com games work in ScummVM. Even if you can run the originals natively, ScummVM tends to provide a lot of rather nice features, in addition to being maintained and running on a ton of platforms.
holy shit! i just downloaded Scumm VM and got all of the titles you mentioned INCLUDING possibly one of the greatest adventure games ever, The Dig. i played the SHIT out of this game and for YEARS i've said that it should have been made into a movie. in fact Speilberg originally wrote it to be a work of theater. it STILL, 17 years later, endures as one of my favorite games ever. such a beautiful piece of work!
I only ever knew about ScummVM, the emulator for oldschool, early-90s Lucas Arts 2D adventures. Grim Fandango is so hard to get to work on modern games, yet such a must-play classic, I'm glad there is now an emulator for it!
I haven't tested it yet, but it's hard to believe it doesn't work better than any native version of Grim Fandango (which is notoriously hard to run on modern systems). Also I only found out about this thanks to an RPS post. Like so often. Thanks, RPS!
I had a lot of fun with Pocket physics. It's more of a toy than a game, but still fun. If you have any of the old Lucasarts adventure games like Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle, there's a DS version of ScummVM that will let you play them reasonably well.
To be fair, it was only the second Putt-Putt game. The later ones have much better graphics, all things considered. Only two years later
Day of the Tentacle is one of the greatest of all time. I still play it on my iphone or DS through Scummvm.
Great thing is, lots of systems can run it. DOTT is very lighthearted though.
Another game which runs on ScummVM which is not lighthearted, but which is great, is Beneath a Steel Sky, which the devs have made freeware.
This game was rereleased as freeware a while back. Here's the relevant bit from the Wikipedia article:
>Legal status > >In August 2003, the game was released as freeware and support for it was added to ScummVM, allowing it to be played on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows CE and other compatible operating systems and platforms.[4] The data files for both the disk and CD version are available from the ScummVM website. The files on the ScummVM website do not include the original program executables since they are not needed by ScummVM.[5] The Fedora RPM software repository has a free down-loader which grabs the freeware game files and installs them alongside ScummVM.
ScummVM can be found: here.
was playing this on my phone with the android port of scumm engine, before updating, they still havent ported scumm to work in 2.1+ edit: seems this is no longer true, it just is not in the market yet, you can find it in the forums
game works VERY well with touch screen.
adress for clueless http://www.scummvm.org/ has a version for a ton of devices. http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ i can't think of anything that is ported to as many platforms?
Since we're on the topic of old adventure games: Sam & Max Hit the Road, Monkey Island 1 and 2, Beneath a Steel Sky (free!), Grim Fandango.
All of these run great in SCUMMVM , except for Grim Fandango, but an updated version of that was released recently.
How to Play: Download ScummVM. Download <strong>Day of the Tentacle</strong> game file. Then Add Game to ScummVM, then Load it.
Since you own the discs, it's perfectly legitimate for you to use an emulator and ROM http://www.emuparadise.mobi/ScummVM_Games/The_Curse_Of_Monkey_Island_(CD_Windows)/96009. (full link for formatting conflicts)
"The disclaimer here is that if you don't own the game ROMs are a form of pirating."
Do what you will with this information.
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
As you say a lot of these elements became part of the canon, but they weren't before CMI, and I wish they hadn't.
They could have played on the fact that Guybrush and LeChuck really are children wreaking havock in a theme park, as they already were in MI2.
They could have kept Elaine strong, smart and independent (in SoMI, even though she's captured, she manages to escape on her own and her plan to kill LeChuck is foiled by Guybrush's goofiness). Only in CMI does she becomes a damsel in distress. The MI2 intro is chronologically at the end of the story, and she's clearly not in love with Guybrush at that point. Yet, a week later in CMI she is.
It is still a good game, but they diverted too much from what the universe was up to that point.
Regarding the graphics, when sprites are scaled down, rather than averaging the values of the pixels, whole rows and columns disappear. It results in jaggies that clash with the lush, smooth backgrounds. See Guybrush here.
Still, I'll give the English version a shot, thanks for the advocacy :-).
I liked it too way back when I played it - I was really floored by the attention to detail of the scenery, even in marvelous pixellavision as it was - but the ending was... well, you know.
I could probably recall almost every scene in KQV from start to finish even though I haven't played it since forever :)
Lets see...
Cedric the owl and a house in the woods. There's a wizard inside. Squeaky sound effects that were supposed to be the birds chirping. A village to the south with a bakery and a puppeteer in it. I think you get a marionette there. A wood to the west with a weeping willow playing on a harp, and a witch to the north that turns you into a frog. A repeating desert further into the west where you need to choose all the right exits in a row to get to an oasis and then an Indiana Jones style place carved into the mountains with treasure in it. I don't remember what happens in between but you end up in an ice kingdom and then a beach, then finally at the castle of this bad guy called Mananan? :P
Shit I gotta go see if I can play it again in ScummVM
ScummVM has an OSX version, that opens up a ton of classic adventure games. They even have a selection of adventure games you can download for free, Flight of the amazon queen or beneath a steel sky were both great.
Old skool point & click adventures, day of the tentacle, monkey island etc. There is actually copies of Beneath a steel sky & Flight of the Amazon queen in the debian repository.
Sudo apt-cache search scummvm
I guess in theory you should be able to run it in scummvm. Although I've personally never tried it
For the game files themselves you might have to hoist the sails and travel to that body of water that piratey folk are known to frequent
Full Throttle was such a great game. I actually installed the SCUMMVM on my PSP and was playing it again. Unfortunately my place was broken into and my PSP was stolen. Bummer.
No matter where you get the files, use ScummVM to run it on modern systems. It's one of the best and complete emulators around and perfect for oldschool point-and-click adventures. Should work for I Have No Mouth.
Use that program. It runs on a ton of various operating systems as well as portable devices. My latest playthrough of the three games I listed were done on my Android phone.
And it was originally designed to run just the Lucas Arts games, but now runs many others.
Enjoy.
"Better" meaning "the source is out there, so it's not gonna vanish tomorrow"? Well, there's the text IF engines, and there's Ren Py (though that's really for a different class of adventure games).
For specifically graphical point-and-click adventures, I've not looked around. ScummVM tells people not to make new games based on ScummVM due to the amount of legacy cruft; and SLUDGE appears to be aimed at pretty old stuff too.
I'm not trying to say "don't use AGS". I'm just saying that I remember wondering years ago whether this day might come...
If your platform is, say, Windows or Java or Linux, there's enough inertia that even if the core isn't open-source, it's probably going to continue to have development funded for years. But if it's a small little project and your work depends on it's continued existence...well, that sort of thing makes me wonder a bit "just how long will this be around?"
Classic Adventure Games
Those have lots of texts!
Many classics have versions in multiple languages (some fanmade).
Check http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/
If you like FF you could also practice reading and translating articles of the Final Fantasy Wiki
Many of the Humongous Entertainment games are supported by ScummVM, so you can use it to play the games once you find them. It works on a great many devices/operating systems, and the site has instructions for setting up the game files, once you acquire them.
You can find ScummVM here: http://www.scummvm.org
you can get scumvm app for your Android,I-phone. If you haven't heard about scumvm before, its a emulator that lets you play most of the old Lucasarts games. I installed that app , transferred the Monkey Island files over good to go. If you need help getting it installed let me know here is the link for scum is http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
I'd rather load up the originals with ScummVM and play them as intended.
(I realize you can switch back to the classic version at any time, but I played through the first one and couldn't resist using the new graphics and voice overs.)
scummvm here i come!
since this is my first time jailbreaking can anyone tell me, is the recommended itunes backup it mentions, just for mp3s and videos?
i've purchased a few apps but as of yet i don't have any movies or songs on my ipad.
No problem, enjoy! And you can get some other now-freeware games ScummVM supports from the website, including Beneath a Steel Sky.
And if you ever want to run something ScummVM doesn't support, let me know and I'll show you how to use DOSBox. You'll pick it up quickly if you've ever used MS-DOS or a Linux terminal. [Or you can use a frontend, but where's the fun in that?]
If you liked Monkey Island you should play some of the old Lucasarts adventure games, like Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max: Freelance Police. Both of those zany games were favorites of mine when I was growing up. SCUMM is the software that's used to play these adventure games, but you still have to get the games to be able to load them into SCUMM.
and fortunately with ScummVM a lot of these older titles are still quite playable.
I would definitely recommend you try Day of the Tentacle, if you feel up for a wacky point and click adventure.
In addition, there's also ScummVM.
While I think ScummVM has never been used as a primary engine for developing a game, I think it would be interesting, since it's a very stable and flexible platform with a dedicated team, and it already runs in lots of devices.
Also, I think that instead of more game engines what we need is more tools for content creation.. and.. well.. more content.
Sounds like a classic point-and-click adventure game. I don't recall this particular one, but check out GOG's Adv Games or ScummVM's Compatibility List, and you may recognize the title or a screenie.
If you already own any of the first three, play them on a modern computer using SCUMM. You could probably find the 3rd one on amazon or ebay, but for the first two it would probably be easier to do as Evil_Dud suggests and get the special editions on steam. Just be sure to switch the graphics to the classic version =)