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LucasArts Pioneer Discusses Classic Games

Posted by simoniker on from the mmm-rescue-on-fractalus dept.

neonstz writes "David Fox, co-author of Rescue on Fractalus, Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders, visited The Gathering demo-party in Norway this easter. He gave a nice on-site presentation, unfortunately not available online, about the early days of Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts) and Rescue on Fractalus, but there's also a lengthy interview with Fox on the official Gathering site, discussing his own games and game development in general."

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  1. Maniac Mansion & Zac McKraken by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those oldschool Lucasfilm adventures were truly great. From "Labyrinth" (based off the old movie with David Bowie) to "Maniac Mansion" (a true classic) and "ZacMcKraken" (took me about 6 hours to complete).

    I played all of these on a Commodore 64 back in the day. Completed all three of them. And who can forget the Green Tentacle?

    All memorable highlights of my misspent game playing youth ;) The C64 didn't have the Sierra Police and Space Quests, but the Lucas games were the next best thing.

    If you haven't played these adventures yet, GET THEE TO A C64 EMULATOR! NOW!

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