This is great news, and something we’ve been waiting for since the coming of online-distribution.
Here’s the selection so far
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™
Reggarding their classic adventures it’s far from the full back catelogue, but a decent start. I’m especially keen to give The Dig a try, even if it is regarded as sub-par, as I missed it the first time around. Meanwhile Fate of Atlantis is a classic and Loom is, while rather short, enchanting.
The Monkey family is conspicuous in its absence, but the remake of the original will be appearing on steam a week or so later. Hopefully the sequels will follow.
As for the Star Wars stuff I’ve not followed it at all in recent years, but I’d hope Tie Fighter turns up there eventually.
[edit]the dos games will all have new executables for windows, no scummvm or dosbox required.
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Interesting…but what price for these oldies? I’d say anything over a tenner is pushing it a bit for the old point and clickers.
Without making too rash a statement, I’d say that Star Wars games have been on a steady decline since TIE Fighter. Does that make me a retro bore?
July 7, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
"Without making too rash a statement, I’d say that Star Wars games have been on a steady decline since TIE Fighter. Does that make me a retro bore?"
No, unless you include the KOTORs in that statement.
It’s been reported that this is just the first batch, with potentially the whole LA catalogue to come. Small part of me wishes GOG had gotten the biz, but I imagine LA wasn’t keen on the no DRM. Steam’s a fine alternative though. LOOM and the Indys are pretty sure buys for me, even considering I’m not retrogaming much these days.
July 10, 2009 @ 6:19 am