What, you've never played Day of the Tentacle?

Never?!?!?!?

Where the H*ll WERE you in 1993??

Did you never get hopelessly stuck on Sam and Max Hit the Road, only to find that doing the stupidest possible thing was the only way out?

You never found lost Atlantis with Indiana Jones? Never defeated LeChuck and his horrible horde of ghostly pirates, ending up stranded in a worse situation than you were when you started?

I'll tell ya, kids these days, they don't know they're born!

Great games are great games, and fun is fun, no matter the current level of technology -- what specs does you computer need for you to swing on a rope across a stream, or play football with your pals?

The Scumm engine was the basis of a whole bunch of absolutely wonderful games, that were fun to play, as annoying as Hell when you couldn't figure out what to do next, and a major cause of index-finger RSI.

You cannot -- as in *CAN* *NOT* -- call yourself a gamer until you've got at least half way through Day of the Tentacle, and made sure that Zak Mckraken has caused as much indignity as possible.

The package below contains many of the the best of the Scumm games.

They're all downloaded from other sources, so I take no credit for anything (I bought the games and played them, but ripping wasn't as common back then as it is now).

D'you think you're a games expert because you can use fifteen keys at once to move the arm of your sprite to stick his finger in his ear? (It actually takes less physical and mental effort to aim and shoot a real gun than it does to do the same in most new games).

Let's see how you do when it's just you, your brain, and the mouse!



You'll need the ScummVM to play them, because your computer -- which takes three minutes for the transition from one screen to the next, when you're playing the latest, greatest (but only moderately above boring, half the time) games -- will play these so fast that they'll be finished before you're done picking your nose and reading the readme.

ScummVM is open source, so is available on SourceForge -- but RS is quick, so here's the latest version as of 23 May 2008:


ADDENDUM
I've just realised that I added the wrong version of Loom.
This one has the voice files and VGA graphics: