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Weekend Top Ten #419

Top Ten LucasArts Games

This is another one of those lists I thought I’d done, but I was inspired this week by news of one of my favourite adventure games – Blade Runner – getting a remaster. Now, Blade Runner was made by Westwood Studios, but it was an adventure game, and when you say “classic adventure game” my thoughts immediately turn to LucasArts.

There was a long period of time there when LucasArts were my favourite games company, turning out many of my favourite games (incidentally, I’m so old I remember when they were called “Lucasfilm Games”). But from their early-90s graphic adventure success, to their late-90s Star Wars triumphs, I loved LucasArts. The greatest tragedy of the Disney buyout of Lucasfilm is not how disappointing and anaemic the core Star Wars sequel trilogy turned out, but the fact that they shut down LucasArts and farmed out the Star Wars games licence.

So anyway, with no further ado, here are my favourite ten LucasArts games. I think there’s probably one controversy in the list, but we’ll come to that afterwards.

The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)/Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (1991): what else could it be but these inseparable titans of the adventure genre? Hilarious, characterful, great puzzles, revolutionary, gorgeous, the games that made me a gamer.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003): the single greatest RPG I’ve ever played, with a cracking story and twist, phenomenal characterisation, superb semi-turn-based combat, and a near-perfect evocation of everything great about Star Wars.

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997): a fun mission-based FPS, notably different from the Doom-school of run-and-gun, with astonishingly vast levels, elevated by being the first game to really give you a lightsaber. The Light/Dark dynamic was innovative for its time, and as a Star Wars action-adventure, it’s never been beaten.

Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993): part of LucasArts' adventure golden age, this is a comic masterpiece of surrealism and expert dialogue, as well as an elegantly redefined control system. I’d love an HD remaster.

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006): the Lego games I've mentioned before as being sublime, and it all started with Star Wars. The first game established the formula, but it was in the more fertile ground of the classics that it was refined into the joyous, forgiving, fungasm of gameplay and nostalgia that we all know and love.

Grim Fandango (1998): another of their classic adventures, this was a more sombre and slow-burning affair, coupling their usual fantastic storytelling, worldbuilding, character work, and dialogue, with a then-innovative control scheme and still-gorgeous art-deco inspired graphics.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992): this might very well have been higher, but – confession time – I’ve never got round to completing it. It’s probably the best game interpretation of Dr. Jones, carrying across his wit and smarts as well as his pugilistic adventurism. Vast, exciting, and it really does feel like the “next” Indy story.

Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (2001): the Rogue Squadron games are fantastic action blasters, packing in tight controls, lush visuals, and evocative use of Star Wars toys. Rogue Leader was a showcase for the GameCube, offering simply gorgeous vistas as you swooped down the Death Star trench. A slice of Star Wars come to life.

X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (1997): this is where the controversy kicks in: I’ve barely played the X-Wing games. I had an Amiga when the first ones came out, redefining the sim genre and shining a light onto underseen areas of the Star Wars mythos. But the tight, taught, intuitive controls made you feel like you really were handling a space jet. This one offered multiplayer for the first time, if I remember rightly.

Star Wars Episode I: Racer (1999): taking one of the best and most evocative bits of The Phantom Menace and spinning it into an arcade racer is one thing; but genuinely making it feel unique, with its own superb control method and a variety of excellent tracks that are both interesting and genuinely Star Wars-y, is impressive indeed.

Well there’s a lot of Star Wars there, isn’t there? What a surprise; they really did great things with the licence. There probably could have been more of their classic adventures on the list too, but I’ve barely played The Dig or Full Throttle, much to my eternal shame. All the same, though, LucasArts really made a lot of classic games, especially in their 90s heyday.

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Amiga Story Part 2 (The 90s) | Nostalgia Nerd I conclude the Commodore Amiga Documentary with the second part of it's story. This episode is based heavily in the 1990s. We start out with the Amiga 500 and the UK Batman Pack, before moving on through the further developments, staff changes, The Commodore CDTV, Amiga 500+, Amiga 600, Amiga CD32, Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000, Amiga 3000 and the later models and revisions. We go through the peak of Commodore and the Amiga and it's downfall and the various factors which influenced its fall from grace. Many thanks to Jimmy Maher for writing "The Future was Here" - http://amzn.to/2jwyOYu - a valuable Commodore Amiga resource which I read before making this video! Thank you to my fellow Youtubers for lending their superlative voices; LGR - https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee Techmoan - https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan Pixelmusement - https://www.youtube.com/user/Pixelmusement Dan Wood - https://www.youtube.com/user/techguruuk Kim Justice - https://www.youtube.com/user/elmyrdehory ☟Sharing☟ If you wish to share this video in forums, social media, on your website, *please do so*! It helps tremendously with the channel! ☟Subcribe☟ https://www.youtube.com/user/nostalgianerdvideos?sub_confirmation=1 ✊Support Me! ✊ *Please consider supporting the channel on Patreon*: http://ift.tt/1G1tQwy Visit my eBay Shop: http://ebay.to/1QQpYyy Buy From Amazon (Amazon give a small commission to my affiliate account): http://amzn.to/2ipl3OF ★Join me on Social Media★ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nostalnerd Face: http://ift.tt/1FW5Yry Instagram: http://ift.tt/1ICdsDl Web: http://ift.tt/1M1XeRs ★Equipment★ Lumix G6 with Vario 14-42mm Lens Nikon D3200 with 40mm Macro Corel Video Studio Ultimate X9 Corel Paint Shop Pro X6 Blue Snowball Microphone ♜Resources♜ Many thanks for all of those who helped with resources for this video. Please do let me know if I've missed anything. Many websites were used for research.... Please check back soon for these updated resources and music listings. Many thanks to Thomas Koch for use of his renderings - http://ift.tt/1S3ivxb And zgodzinkski - http://ift.tt/2jl2kDo Excerpts and magazine images; http://www.archive.org CC images; http://ift.tt/16kwqqf Pages used for reference, CC; Ranger Prototype Photos - http://ift.tt/2jM79Cm (Chris Collins - ChrisXYZ of Amiga.org Forums) Rev3 Photo - http://ift.tt/2jkXOF9 Amiga 2000 Memory Board (Bill Bradford) - http://ift.tt/2jM7Yey Amiga Memory Bus Diagram - http://ift.tt/2jl5qHH Amiga Unix - http://ift.tt/2jMkevu Mud Biking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8sGxEOnws Background Wallpapers (Andreas Argirakis) - http://ift.tt/2jkXfLw If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything in this video, please let me know, so I can add the source in. It takes time to make these videos and therefore it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake.

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