Play Monkey Island on your Nintendo DS

by Ross Miller { Aug 1st 2005 at 6:00PM }

Leave to the mod community to make something you never thought of in the first place, but now you wouldn't want to live without. The newest addition to the unofficial Nintendo DS library is a SCUMM library. For those in the dark, SCUMM was the engine that ran all of LucasArts' adventure games, back when they made games without Star Wars in the title. That includes Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and most of the Monkey Island games - all games that, whether or not you love high-quality adventure games, are extremely funny. And the best part is that this emulator utilizes the DS's touch screen as a pseudo-mouse for clicking on the option.

I love this, and I kind of wish we would see more adventure games on the Nintendo DS. Are you listening, LucasArts? Please give us rehashed games on a new system so that I might buy them and you can reap the benefits of almost pure profit.

[Thanks, Shizzle]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

popfizzle @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

Happy Dance!!!

. @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

day of the tentacle is so good

Lectoid @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

Did Sam&Max run off the SCUMM engine?

Allen @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

yes no.3

Mr. Pointy @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

Well, I am officially Nintendowned.

Jones Kingsu @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

OMGWTFPWNED!!! Lucasarts adventure games really rocks!!! Except for "The Dig".

Did Grim Fandango ran off SCUMM too?

shindakun @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

I'm sure that the DS touch screen is nicer to play with then that damn thumb stick on my PSP. Maybe I'll have to go out and get a DS and check it out.

Eddie @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

You didnt like The Digg?

I loved it, such a classic

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Moti Zilberman @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM

Jones Kingsu: Grim Fandango ran off their 3D engine, GrimE, based on the Lua language rather than SCUMM. There is a ScummVM module being periodically worked on, called Residual, which should be able to run the GrimE games (Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island) if and when it's ever finished. It is far pre-alpha at the moment.