The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar: Pirate this

PC Zone have published a rather interesting article in their latest issue concerning the "emulation" of old LucasArts games, including, of course, the Monkey Island series. The piece doesn't tell the majority of us anything we didn�t already know, but it's definitely worth reading all the same � especially the bits about how some developers have embraced the emulators with open arms, and some, er, haven't (*cough* LucasArts). Read the article here.

Dude, Stuart Campbell wrote that article! :D

Posted Jun 24, 2004

Dude, I know! I was originally going to say that in the news, but then I didn't. For some reason.

Posted Jun 24, 2004

Firstly, is Stuart Campbell somebody I should know?
Secondly, based on the captions, I'd say Stu doesn't get the message the games are sending.
And thirdly, I am very dissapointed that there was no mention of hope for emulations on such systems as the Playstation or GBA etc.

Not that I own either of the two.

Posted Jun 25, 2004

Firstly, apparently he's famous or something, but I didn't know him before Remi pointed him out, so I wouldn't worry.
Secondly, the captions are most likely made by PC ZOne, not Stuart, and anyway they're jokes - so "are you a swinger baby" is not misunderstanding the "message the games are sending", it's just a pun based on the antics of Austin Powers.
Thirdly, I agree it would have been nice to have those mentions, but the article is after all only a page long, and so they could really only cover the basics - and it's good enough that they did that if you ask me.

Posted Jun 25, 2004

Yeah, you're right.
On the other hand, I hadn't slept for around 33 hours when I posted that, so forgive any rashness.

I agree, although this is nothing we didn't know before, its nice to see a big mag like PC Zone covering old games.

Posted Jun 26, 2004

I don't think the attribution to Broken Sword 3 is quite right either, but that's nitpicking for you.

Posted Jun 26, 2004

Where does it mention Broken Sword 3? I thought it only mentioned Broken Sword 1...

Posted Jun 27, 2004

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Posted Jun 27, 2004

Interesting.

Unfortunate choice of abbreviation for "emulator", I'd say. Anyone with a zoological edge reading this article is probably going to confuse the abbreviation with the Australian ratite.

(Hey, I did!)

Posted Jun 27, 2004

Stuart Campbell is probably only famous in old Amiga users' circles. :~

Posted Jun 28, 2004

And now he's reduced to working for PC Zone... :~

Posted Jun 28, 2004