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Most gamers over the age of 15 or so remember a time when Lucasarts actually made games that weren’t based in a galaxy far far away. However, many in the younger crowd might be surprised by this, so you’ll just have to trust me. Games like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island were great games, and they might just be making a comeback.
It seems that Lucasarts has been thinking hard about re-releasing their collection of older adventure games for the DS. Don’t get too excited though, it seems that they’ve run into a snag that is preventing them from actually carrying this plan out.
According to Jeffrey Gullett, “the cart size of the DS makes it impossible to put out ports of any of our old graphic adventures … There’s literally not enough room on those carts to put the games out.” So if they can manage to overcome that tiny obstacle, we might just see these games again sometime.
[via Joystiq]
I though monkey island was on a set of floppies and had no sound other than PC sounds.
Monkey Island 2 was on a CD if i remmber that still had no sound.
Now monkey island 3 i think was the first one that had a bunch of audio and had alot better graphics that its predessesors.
hopefully they wont forget the Indiana Jones and the something of atlantis. Not to mention Loom.
Won’t fit onto a DS cartridge? Sounds like Lucasarts are lazy badgers.
BullSh!te.
I have ScummVM on my DS and already can play most of these games. Besides Dig and MK3, the rest can fit with in 128 megs and play just fine. I originally played Monky Island, Loom, etc., from a Floppy install, so no VO and only about 10 megs. I own them all on CD now, but even the VO can be compressed to fit within the DS’s cart limit.
Why LucasArts is blatantly lying about this is beyond me, are they really this oblivious to what’s going on in the outside of their offices?