Disney Closes Game Publisher LucasArts
I’d have to admit I haven’t played a Lucasarts game in over a decade, and couldn’t really tell you anything about their current output. But this is still a sad moment for those of us who were PC gamers back in the 90s. Apart from Star Wars stuff, they were of course one of the big names in graphical adventures, bringing us some inventive and characterful classics like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.
A better blog than us would write some lengthy retrospective, but for a little tribute, here’s just one of the most memorable scenes from their games, the intro to the original Monkey: