Simon the Sorcerer materializes on iPhone

by JC Fletcher on Aug 8th 2009 4:00AM

As inexplicable as the sudden resurgence of classic adventure games might be, the iPhone platform is experiencing a boom in remade point-and-clicks, with Secret of Monkey Island out now and Beneath a Steel Sky on the way. This week, iPhSoft, publisher of the iPhone release of Flight of the Amazon Queen, has released Adventure Soft's 1993 game Simon the Sorcerer on the App Store, ported from the voiced CD-ROM version using ScummVM. The publisher's site mentions that the sequel will be available soon, as well. At least this steady stream of newly available old games is making it easier to watch all the really new games move into 2010 ... right?

Simon the Sorcerer 1 (iPhSoft, $4.99):

[Via Pocket Gamer]

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Tags: adventure, adventure-soft, Apple, iphsoft, iPod, port, simon-the-sorcerer

Reader Comments (14)

Bought.

Hah, I remember Pocket Gamer. Back when DSfanboy was still around, I used that site to quench my thirst for PSP news, PSPfanboy was always the most shoddiest of all the old fanboy sites. Pocket Gamer had a good vibe, friendly, familial even. Never condescending, that's for sure. A bit like DSfanboy had. But the Fanboy sites, that's all been lost now.

Sounds great that publisher's site mentions that the sequel will be available soon, as well. At least this steady stream of newly available old games is making it easier to watch all the really new games...................
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What's an electro computer? Is that a computer that dresses like a science teacher and listens to alot of Kraftwerk?

Full Throttle pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease?

Bring me GRIM FANDANGO!!!

Since we're all yelling what we want:
BRING ME CHOKOLATE POODING!!

Oh and Day Of The Tentacle as well please, while we're at it.

and what were all the companies saying?? graphic adventures are dead. and as always we needed a brave company, in this case lucas and tale tales not only to prove them wrong but also to spark interest in an old classic genre that has always been alive, and now everybody wants to jump to the graphic adventure wagon.

By re-releasing a bunch of old games, some of them freeware. Somehow I'm not seeing the rebirth of adventure gaming as much as much as its embalmed body getting a new suit.