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The Return of (Old) PC Graphic Adventures
KingofGnG writes "Though they belong to a genre already considered defunct and inadequate for the mainstream video game market, adventure games have a glorious past, a past that deserves to be remembered, and, of course, replayed. At the center of a good part of this effort of collective memory, there is ScummVM, the virtual machine which acts like an interface between the feelings and the puzzles from the good old times and the modern operating systems. As already highlighted before, the ScummVM target has grown immensely over time, going from the simple support of the 'classic' adventure games par excellence published by Lucasfilm/Lucasarts, to a range that includes virtually any single puzzle-solving game developed from the beginning of time up to the advent of the (Windows) NT platform. The last video game engine added to ScummVM within the past few days is Groovie, created by the software house Trilobyte for its first title released in 1993, The 7th Guest ."
Sorry, what's the news here "Hey guys ScummVM has been around for eons but it's pretty cool check it out" ?
Oh did you guys here that there is MAME out there? It can play a bunch of old arcade games, maybe we should submit something to Slashdot to tell the world about it? Or can we just use Slashdot to tell people about any program we want to promote? That's really cool then because you see I have this new program called Photosounder and it does some pretty cool stuff with images and sounds you should totally try it.
You just got troll'd!
Video is taken from the Latin word 'video' literally meaning 'I see', in modern English usage the visual counterpart to 'audio', sound, not a shorthand for video cassette recorder or video game console. Your idea of non-visual video shows that you have absolutely no clue as to what the word means. Further, microcomputers, keyboards and joysticks don't come into it; the first video games used analogue circuits to generate the graphics.