LUCASARTS ADVENTURE GAMES

Before concentrating almost exclusively on Star Wars titles, 'LucasArts' was known for their point-and-click 'adventure games', nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at the time of their release. Their style tended towards the humorous (often irreverent or slapstick humour), with a few exceptions. Their game design philosophy was that the player should never die or reach a complete dead-end, although there have been exceptions to the former (such as Maniac Mansion, both Indiana Jones games and one in The Secret of Monkey Island that can be considered an easter egg).
Common features between the games include in-joke references to both other LucasArts games and Lucasfilm productions, including the number 1138, quotes such as the phrase "", as well as other running gags (obligatory Chuck the Plant and Sam & Max cameo appearances among them) that spanned numerous games. Another feature, used in several of the games, was to allow the player to control more than one character, often being able to switch between them at will. For example, in ''Maniac Mansion'' the player has control of a group of three kids with complementary skills and weaknesses, while in ''Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'' the player gets to play as both Indiana Jones and his partner, Sophia Hapgood.
This page contains a complete list of LucasArts adventure games, from 1986 to the present. It is believed that after the cancellation of ''Sam & Max 2'' and ''Full Throttle 2'', the adventure game era of LucasArts had officially ended, as there is no intention of returning to the genre until the next decade.[1]
For more detailed information about the company's history, see the main LucasArts article.

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Adventure games by LucasArts

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Adventure games by LucasArts

★ ''Labyrinth'' (1986)

★ ''Maniac Mansion''
★ (1987)

★ ''Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders''
★ (1988)

★ ''
★ (1989)

★ ''Loom''
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★ (1990)

★ ''The Secret of Monkey Island''
★ (1990)

★ '' (1991)

★ ''Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'' (1992)

★ ''Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle'' (1993)

★ ''Sam & Max Hit the Road'' (1993)

★ ''Full Throttle'' (1995)

★ ''The Dig'' (1995)

★ ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' (1997)

★ ''Grim Fandango'' (1998)

★ ''Escape from Monkey Island'' (2000)
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★ These games were later re-released with enhanced graphics.

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★ ''LOOM'' was also re-released on CD, once with a full digital score and a second time with voice-overs (but very little music).
The SCUMM programming tools were used to design all the games from ''Maniac Mansion'' to ''The Curse of Monkey Island'', while the GrimE engine took over from ''Grim Fandango'' onwards. For those people who own the original MS-DOS versions of the SCUMM games and have found that these no longer work on modern computers, it is possible, using the original data files, to play the games on modern platforms using the ScummVM interpreter.
In the year 2002 The Dig, Day of The Tentacle, Full Throttle and Sam & Max were re-released as windows-playable versions in 640x480 resolution only.

See also

★ List of graphic adventure games

External links

★ LucasArts Company Website

★ LucasArts Museum

★ MixnMojo fan-site

★ ScummVM