What's the best place to find old Lucasarts games?
I'm sure you all know what I mean, Point-and-click adventure games that use the SCUMM engine, I'm not talking about Star Wars: Dark Forces or anything like that. To be specific, I'm looking for Sam and Max: Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle.
So, what websites are good for buying these old games? PC or Mac versions are both fine, since they will run in SCUMMVM.
So, what websites are good for buying these old games? PC or Mac versions are both fine, since they will run in SCUMMVM.
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So eBay's probably your best bet. Steam does a couple of LucasArts adventures, but they're not the 'funny' ones, sadly.
Yeah, let's just not go there.
Monkey Island Special Edition is the one thing lucasarts has done right in the past ten years, and everyone gives them hell for it. Complaining about controls? Just be glad they're letting new gamers experience monkey island! Seriously! This is exactly why Lucasarts is hesitant to make new adventure games.
Ahhh they're big boys, they can take the criticism, as long as the sales are good and there's still interest. Maybe if TellTale do a ToMI 2 we can expect to see MI2 around the same time...mebbe
Small technicality: something can be public domain from the start if the author(s) wish(es) it so.
And copyright laws (and when something enters public domain) depend on the country. Death +70 years for the USA, death +50 years for some other countries, 50 years after release (whether the author is alive or dead) for some others, etc. The rule of thumb is to check your country's copyright law, the author's country's copyright law, and make sure to follow the most restrictive or the two, if they happen to differ.
I got Curse of monkey island for only $25!(that is a steal considering I checked and amazon had it for over $100)
KOTOR2?
I probably find more released in 20xx if I look at all they released these 10 years.
That wasn't lucasarts, that was Bioware.
But yeah, if you say it like that... LA does outsource most of their games these days, so there is barely anything to compare SoMI:SE against then...
Everything else about the remake is great, but the controls are just plain fiddly for the PC. They may work well on the XBox, but I wouldn't know, not having one.
And the only other thing LucasArts have made themselves recently were Lucidity, which isn't half bad (again, apparently). They seem to have turned more into a publisher then a developer, which is probably a good move, considering the quality of their self-made games up until a couple of years ago.
Actually, international copyright laws were agreed upon in the 70's, so most nations follow the 70+ years rule, at least as regards written material. (Copyright as regards other media is a little different, since they're more "complicated" mediums. This would take friggin' ever to explain, and being lazy, I won't
I honestly think LucasArts is missing out on a fair bit of money by not putting games like Full Throttle and DoTT onto Steam. They would sell loads if the price was right (say, the same as the others already available). Missed opportunity...
Full Throttle's European re-release is from 2006 and Hit the Road is from 2007 so there are some copies still available in the stores of the EU member states.
As a mac gamer who recently complained about the Strong Bad conspiracy, I can appreciate a decent selfish gripe as much as the next guy--but as someone who's played both MI and MI:SE--I have to say that Lucas Arts gets props for making the title and for getting it right.
Sam & Max and DoTT double pack's in a store near me actually
You could try from other memberstates, those games were printed in the UK and are available at least in Scandinavia.
"Europe" isn't a very specific place, so I have to ask: are they english copies of the games?
Yes, those are the UK versions.
"Just be glad"? Everyone's entitled to an opinion on a product they paid for. Lucasarts did not make SMI:SE to do anyone a favour, they did it to make money and see if there was a market for adventure games. Lackluster sales are going to make Lucasarts hesitant to make new adventure games - people complaining about a cumbersome control scheme is not.
Sam & Max: Hit the Road: http://www.amazon.com/Sam-Max-Hit-Road-Pc/dp/B0007WOX4A/ref=pd_sim_vg_1
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...now, remember that when you buy SCUMM games, you want to run them in ScummVM, after following directions on the scummvm wiki to copy the files needed from the game CD to a folder on your hard disk. You shouldn't need to run the installer on the disc at all:
ScummVM directions for Hit the Road: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Sam_&_Max_Hit_the_Road
ScummVM directions for Day of the Tentacle: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Day_of_the_Tentacle
You can make shortcut icons for each game, you just have to point it to the scummvm exe with the game id after it. (I made my own icon from an image of the box art.)
Exactly. Thankfully for those of us who enjoyed the game, the sales weren't lackluster. In fact, the sales were incredible. That means good things for those of us hoping for future installments.
...and a greater likelihood that they'll make an SE of MI2.:)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Day-Tentacle-Maniac-Mansion-windows/dp/B001TA3URA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1266391024&sr=1-1
Yep, you just pay a little extra on postage. At least thats what it was when i wanted to import to the UK.
Sam&Max is pretty easy to find at least. I've spotted it a few times in the last few months, notabally on rotating shelves in wilkinsons and various supermarkets.
Actually, abandonware is when the copyright is unclear of the game, usually caused by bankruptcies and sold copyright and so on, making it a huge legal hassle to determine who has the copyright. While not legal, persay, who's going to sue you?