Here's some great news for all those getting excited about Monkey Island coming back! From July 8 Lucasarts is getting on board the Steam boat and plans to start re-releasing it's back catalogue for all to enjoy (again)! They're putting up 10 titles to start with, but plan to expand this as time goes on. The complete list of games to be released on July 8 via Steam includes:

• Armed and Dangerous™
• Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• LEGO® Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure
• LOOM™
• Star Wars Battlefront® II
• Star Wars Republic Commando®
• Star Wars Starfighter™
• The Dig®
• Thrillville®: Off the Rails™

So some classics, with a number of recent titles mixed in for good measure. Going off Lucasart's Twitter feed, the titles will be in their original format with nothing updated/changed - no Steam achievements or improved graphics. It also suggests that there's a good chance of seeing the likes of Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and TIE Fighter coming to a Steam near you in the near future.

In addition to that, Tales of Monkey Island and Secret of Monkey Island: Special edition are also slated for release on Steam over the next week - Tales is due tomorrow and SoMI: SE will be out next week in line with the XBLA version. What's more interesting again is that Joystiq's article about the release hints towards Lucasarts releasing some of these games to the iPhone's app store.

Check out the official press release here or the Steam news page here for the official word.

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meh?

great news would be a new tie fighter.
great news would be a new jedi knight.
great news is not that you can buy old s*** again.

I have to agree with that. While there are great memories of old LucasArts games (before they just started thrashing the s*** out of the Star Wars franchise for $$$) I wouldn't pay more than a couple of dollars for any of them.

A new X-Wing vs Tie Fighter would be nice though.

LOOM!? I'm guessing this is exactly what I think it is.

Edit: Okay, turns out it's not, it's another Zork-style game by Moriarty. I thought it was gonna be Lego-Doom.

Also yes, bring back XvT. TBH I don't think we've ever really seen a good online multiplayer space sim (or even flight sim). Surely people have figured out the latency issues in the last 20 years.

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I'd play Jedi Knight if they put that on it. Those games they've listed are ones you'd get for free when you bought a magazine in the 90s.

I don't recall ever getting a free copy of any of those titles back then? Demos sure, but never the full thing? Given it's the first batch of titles, one would suspect they're planning to launch more of the back catalogue as time goes on - Including XvT, TIE Fighter, JK etc. Guess it's just the old school Lucasarts fan in me that's excited by this and if they're doing this, then it means there's a much higher chance of seeing Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango & the rest on other platforms (iPhone, DS etc). Like I said, happy days for Lucasarts fans :)

We already have scummvm for most platforms.
And Lucasarts fans will already have bought / played most of these, else how can they be fans?
Its a boring announcement, and a boring day for Lucasarts fans.

I want a Digimon.

Btw, Jedi Knight 2/3 were awesome.

My 8yr old son and I still play Jedi Outcast on lan at home. Its still great fun.

I would love to see a done up X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, that was the most fun I had at uni (that and Civilization).

ScummVM is awesome, yes. What ScummVM doesn't do is sell you the games to use with it - You're on your own there.

Whilst I'm not entirely thrilled about re-buying some titles I already own on CD, there's a lot of their back catalogue I only ever borrowed from friends back in the day. Not to mention having it launchable from Steam, as opposed to needing the CD (or a no-cd crack or using ScummVM).

LOL, the new generation of gamers isn't going to be able to play "The Dig".

Easily the most brutal Lucasarts point and click game.

I predict massive rage and Google overload.

from the lucasarts twitter:

Amazing news coming Monday! Super excited! You have no idea how tough it is not to start yelling about it! But it's secret! Until Monday!

The point I'm making is that this "old s*** on steam" announcement is not "Amazing" nor is it super exciting. Sure a couple of fans might wanna pick up a couple of titles they're missing (quite a few of these were released on disc for $10 about a year or so ago), but that kind of leadup is just absolutely unjustified.

I got a boxset from Harvey Normans 6-7 years back, $10 bargain bin.

DoTT
Monkey Island 1+2
Full Throttle
The Dig
Sam and Max

Then got Grim Fandango, $10 off Ebay, Monkey Island 3, $5.

It's not exciting news to get profit raped for old games.

That's ok. You're allowed to be bitter and jaded. We won't hold it against you, k?

great news would be a new tie fighter.
great news would be a new jedi knight.
great news is not that you can buy old s*** again.

Amen, I was soooooooooooooo hoping for a new Xwing vs Tiefighter :(

Star Wars Battlefront was a horrible game.

was that the one with the clone commandos? I didn't mind it.

oh yeah your right, that one was okay...
i thought battlefront was the RTS one. Cant think of the name!

edit- Go Go wikipedia, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

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Battlefront was the FPS one.

Battlegrounds was the RTS

was that the one with the clone commandos? I didn't mind it.

Star Wars: Republic Commando is what you're thinking of. Twas a great game, if only it didn't end suddenly. Hopefully this whole Steam thing will encourage them to finally give us a sequel and close out the RepComm story (I know there are Star Wars Extended Universe books set around the time of the game and even features characters from it, but the authors aren't allowed to touch on what happens in the RepComm game).

Couldn't agree more for an updated XvT with online multiplayer support and a new graphics engine. Hell, I'd even settle for XvT with Steam multiplayer support.

i played through x-wing alliance a few times as well. A new star wars space sim game would be awesome.

no no no you've got it all wrong.
being able to buy old games again is whats awesome...

Now you're just being a troll.

Ill grab loom (cause I never owned it), but I'm really waiting on grim fandengo on steam (lost the cd's).

sorry, im not in the best of moods...

and i f***ing want a new tie fighter.

with dynamic music! *grumbles at final version of tie fighter that had non-dynamic, non-midi score*

• Star Wars Republic Commando®

Loved that game.

I'd totaly buy Grim Fandango for $5 or $10

I had X-Wing Alliance back in the day. Was an awesome game.

Republic Commando was pretty cool too. But favourite of all are the KOTOR games. Jedi Knight 2/3 follow closely behind for me.

Is that Tales of Monkey Island (the new one being made by Telltale) coming out on Steam? Cos I searched for it today and couldn't even find a "coming soon" entry for it and its supposed to come out tomorrow.

Telltale games is handling it, the same peeps who've been doing the new Sam & Max games & also the Strongbad games. afaik all their stuff is on Steam, so there's no reason to believe otherwise. Odd that it doesn't show up on the 'coming soon' area though....

LOL, the new generation of gamers isn't going to be able to play "The Dig".

Easily the most brutal Lucasarts point and click game.

I predict massive rage and Google overload.

Is it the type of game where you get stuck for weeks on end pulling your hair out until you accidentally click some s***ty thing and BAM! you just figured it out?

Will probably rebuy RC seeing as I lost my copy, still waiting on that sequel.

This is great news. I'm a huge fan of old style point n click adventures. Hopefully they'll re-release/redo tie fighter, id definatley buy that again. But I don't have a joystick (are they still called joysticks these days)

Dig was bulls*** hard. I'd recommend indy fate of atlantis, great story, better than last movie.

If this old school stuff works, hopefully Vivendi will put old school Sierra point n click on steam too.


By the way, I'm sitting here waiting for new monkey island game I've pre-ordered. It's 3.30am 7th July on the west coast of the US. Why the hell isn't it availble to download at midnight!!??

Also, why is Any allowed to send so many useless threads. I got banned and am only allowed to post on here every 20 mins. This happened to me 5 years ago and the ban is still in place but no one will lift it for me :(

tell trog about it

I've emailed trog about it before through here.

Didn't hear anything back.

that's not what the rules say to do, so that's prolly why

If you guys like classics, there's a whole heap over at Good Old Games (gog.com) with no Steam DRM strings attached.

I can't find your instructions how to or where??

Necro'ing my own thread, just because I didn't think this needed a new one: Monkey Island: Special edition is a go on the iTunes App store! (link is directly to the App Store page for it)

$us9.99 for some touch-driven Monkey Island goodness!

AU$9.99 too!

ORLY? Niiiiiiice.

If only i had a jebus phone :(

You don't need an Iphone, its on Steam for $9.99 too.

Of which I've already bought :)

It's just a bit hard to lug my PC around with me to play a bit of it when I'm waiting for the train or stuck in traffic..