Lucasarts lie about their classic adventure games not fitting on the DS cart size
There’s only one question Eurogamer wanted to ask LucasArts in a Fracture game interview and that is: “Are you ever going to make a graphic adventures again and why at least can’t you just re-release them?”
According to PR manager Chris Norris and Fracture assistant producer Jeffrey Gullett the answer is embarrassed laughter, a shuffling of the feet and the admission: “We get asked that question a lot.”
So what about just re-releasing the games, particularly on the Wii or DS, which seem tailor made for them? They asked, while referring to games like the sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis, and other classics like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, etc. that millions of fans would gladly rebuy to replay.
To quote the answer: “We have looked at it,” admits Norris. “It is something we are continually looking at - new venues to put out our library of games on. We’re not announcing anything about that because honestly I don’t know anything about it.”
“The cart size of the DS makes it impossible to put out ports of any of our old graphic adventures,” claims Gullett. “There’s literally not enough room on those carts to put the games out.”
Which seem a slightly preposterous suggestion given that the first Monkey Island game on the Amiga managed to fit onto just four floppy discs.
“It could still happen,” rallies Gullet. “We’ve got a lot of pride in our heritage and it’s definitely something we’re still leaving open.”
I cannot believe they would lie and shift blame to put the lack of remakes on the DS cart size, when a port or scaled down remake could easily fit and work well with DS touch screen stylus controls instead of keyboard & mouse controls. It would probably earn them millions as well from all the nostalgic fans dying to play those classics again. At least, I can’t get my copy of Grim Fandango to work anymore on my PC, although I hear ScummVM is supposed to fix that. If anything, it’d be even greater if they made point-and-click retro compilations for the Wii. Oh well, at least Sam & Max are coming to Wii.
