Lucasarts Classics for $7 Each
International House of Mojo writes that classic adventure point and click games from Lucasarts are now available in Australia and New Zealand for sale at $7 each. The games, Sam & Max Hit The Road, Full Throttle, The Dig, Curse of Monkey Island and Grimfandango, are now runnable from CD, no installation required. The games run on Win98SE, ME, 2000 and XP. The games are available from Game Planet New Zealand with international shipping as well. As much as I would like to get my hands on Grimfandango, I am still hesitating to pay a single dime for Lucasarts. Not only because they abandoned the adventure games, not because they don’t even want to give away the license for them, but because I have tried to buy the Mega Monkey Bundle previously,which includes all four parts of Monkey Island. Putting the order was a not easy at all by it self, and when I got it, Monkey Island 1 & 2 ran on my PC without music. After all the ScummVM and others I’ve tried, I only managed to run MI 2 with music. When I contacted the Lucas support team, which was at the time under Yoda theme, I explained the problem I am facing and that you sold the game when Window XP is the dominant platform, there was no warning message it may not run properly on new platforms. I received a silly reply from them saying:
“Thank you for your message,
Unfortunately, this DOS program is not officially supported for use with Windows XP, due to changes made to the Windows operating system with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, in addition to the release of new audio technology and faster processors which can also adversely affect this and other old DOS games. Windows XP does not provide a TRUE DOS environment. DOS titles were designed specifically for this type of environment.
At this time, there are no plans to provide any updates or support for these older DOS based titles in Windows XP.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
May the Force be with you,
Jason
LucasArts Technical Support”
Very interesting isn’t it? Why didn’t they say that when they offered the mega package you wonder, and more, what’s the point of offering the package anyways? It’s like offering all Amiga games in one package for $10, but you have to have a running old Amiga! And what makes it even worse, is the stupid “May The Force Be With You” quote at the end! They are like making fools of their customers. I fired them back an angry email with no reply ofcourse, they got their money, let go the customer! Anyways, this game now is Windows XP supported (as they claim), and for people who didn’t play the old games, like my friend who will reply to this post before I even publish it!, $7 is really worth it.
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“We are not a Star Wars company!”
“May the Force be with you.”
LOL.