Retro Gaming Australia

SCUMMVM, the emulator dedicated to keeping the many fantastic LucasArts adventure games playable for future generations, is available on pretty much every system around.

Thanks to the efforts of programmer Jukka Jylänki, SCUMMVM is now also playable in your HTML5 enabled browser.

To stay on the right side of the law, the version up on the site only enables you to play the demo versions of games such as Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and The Secret of Monkey Island, to name a few.

A demake project for The Curse of Monkey Island is currently underway, giving the 1997 classic LucasArts adventure game a pixelated makeover.

The fan-made remake seeks to recreate the third instalment in the Monkey Island series in the style of the first two games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. This entails an overhaul of The Curse of Monkey Island’s art, animation and interface.

The demake has been underway since May 2010, was cancelled in late 2011 and has now been resurrected by a Spanish programmer. The project is still a work in progress and no date for release has been given, but an English version has been confirmed.

Source: Retro Collect

Over the last two years, LucasArts released revamped versions of its classic adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The games included new visual styles (to fit in with the newer games such as Curse of Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island), speech, enhanced control and a hint system.

Despite numerous opportunities for you to get them for a pittance on Steam, LucasArts has decided to release the game on a disc. (continue reading…)