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LucasArts released a remake with updated audiovisuals titled The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition in July 2009 for iPhone, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox 360 exclusively via download.
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On May 31, 2002, LucasArts and Aspyr Media announced that a Macintosh version of the game would be released.
In 1994, LucasArts released the TIE Fighter flight simulator, which casts the player as an Imperial pilot flying a variety of TIE starfighters.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a graphic adventure game, originally released in 1989 ( to coincide with the release of the film of the same name ), published by Lucasfilm Games ( now LucasArts ).
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure game by LucasArts originally released in 1992.
LucasArts never released an official statement regarding the game cancellation.
Just months prior to that, at E3 2003, a playable demo was shown and a teaser trailer was released by LucasArts.
LucasArts released a remake of the original in 2009, which was also well received by the gaming press.
Six years later, LucasArts released The Curse of Monkey Island, which features a new visual design.
Grim Fandango is a dark comedy neo-noir Windows adventure game released by LucasArts in 1998, primarily written by Tim Schafer.
It was developed and published by LucasArts and released on October 9, 1997.
In 1994, the game was released on the FM Towns, the last title LucasArts ever published on that system.
To coincide, Double Fine released a free Flash minigame entitled Host Master and the Conquest of Humor, a pastiche of Schafer's LucasArts games in which the player takes on the role of Schafer backstage at the GDC Awards.
The game was also the first LucasArts adventure game to be released for DOS.
In 1989, LucasArts released their first adaptation of one of Lucasfilm's major franchises: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, based on the film of the same name.
In 1995, after a year-long hiatus from adventure games, LucasArts released Full Throttle.
It was the first LucasArts adventure game to be released for Windows, although support for DOS was still retained.
The second title to use GrimE and the final LucasArts adventure game to be released was Escape from Monkey Island.
Following the success of this, LucasArts released the sequel, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition in the summer of 2010.
Developed by Sony Online Entertainment, LucasArts released Star Wars Galaxies in 2003, which saw rapid growth as expected.
LucasArts has released three expansions for Star Wars Galaxies, Jump to Lightspeed October 2004, Rage of the Wookies May 2005 and Trials Of Obi-Wan November 2005.
In 1997, LucasArts released a game for Sony's PlayStation titled Herc's Adventures, which uses the same basic gameplay format and mechanics as Zombies Ate My Neighbors, but instead parodies ancient Greek mythology.
This is the algorithmic composition played continually during play on 1982 LucasArts ' game Ballblazer on the venerable Commodore 64 microcomputer ( the game was originally developed for the Atari 800, and also released for the Atari 5200 and 7800. the 800 version was called Ballblaster during development ).
* LucasArts has not released any such images to the public domain
Outlaws is a first-person shooter released by LucasArts in 1997 using an enhanced version of the Jedi game engine, first seen in Star Wars: Dark Forces.
LucasArts and remake
G4TV has reported rumors that LucasArts may be working on a remake.
The remake was announced by LucasArts during their annual Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2010, with the previous creators of the adventures, Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman, in attendance.
In a joint press release, LucasArts also announced an enhanced remake of the 1990 title The Secret of Monkey Island, with the intent of bringing the old game to a new audience.
In 1990, LucasArts and Rainbow Arts released a remake and follow-up to this game, called Masterblazer.
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In 1990, in a reorganization of the Lucas companies, the Games Division of Lucasfilm became part of the newly created LucasArts Entertainment Company, together with Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound.
The long-lived LucasArts logo, affectionately known as the " Gold Guy ", was introduced in 1991 and consisted of a crude gold-colored figure resembling a petroglyph, standing on a purple letter " L " inscribed with the company name.
The following day at E3, LucasArts gave a demonstration of the game, showing the lightsaber and Force combat as well as the " buddy " system: in which certain NPCs would fight with the player.
On November 15, 2006 LucasArts announced that Jedi Outcast would feature with Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Republic Commando and a 14-day trial of Star Wars Galaxies in a compilation release entitled Star Wars: The Best of PC.
The first level of LucasArts ' Dark Forces gives the player a supporting role in Leia's mission, while a mission in Battlefront II tasks the player with acting as a stormtrooper or Darth Vader in an attempt to recover the plans and capture Leia.
It had publishing relationships with Interplay Entertainment, Infogrames / Atari, LucasArts, and Microsoft.
The MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is based on BioWare's previous contribution to the Star Wars franchise, and was announced on October 21, 2008, although BioWare had first mentioned an unspecified new collaboration with LucasArts in October the previous year.
The system was fully evolved in The Secret of Monkey Island and remained in all later LucasArts adventures, with the exception of Loom.
However, when the German coordinators discovered how extensively the game dealt with Neo-Nazism, they informed LucasArts about the difficulty of marketing the game in their country.
Development was outsourced to a small Canadian studio, but eventually stopped as LucasArts did not have experience with the supervision of external teams.
Being a title from LucasArts, a few Star Wars references were worked into the game: Truck driver Emmet is seen with an Imperial emblem tattoo on his right forearm in one scene, and a rival driver during the demolition derby sequence was illustrated to look like George Lucas.
Also, nearly all developers who were involved with the original Full Throttle in 1995 have since left LucasArts.
While the team considered the SCUMM interface revolutionary at the time, LucasArts community manager Brooks Brown noted that it is incompatible with an analog stick, which most consoles use.
Prior to the Special Edition release, however, LucasArts announced that Loom, along with other games from its back catalog, would be made available on Steam.
As with other LucasArts adventure games, the player must converse with other characters and examine, collect, and use objects correctly to solve puzzles in order to progress.
Land's first project with LucasArts was The Secret of Monkey Island.
* The Best of LucasArts Original Soundtracks ( 2002 ) – with several others
Gilbert parted ways with LucasArts after Monkey Island 2, while Grossman went on to co-design Day of the Tentacle with Schafer.
Other EA labels produce established franchises such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims, Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer, as well as newer franchises such as Dead Space, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Army of Two and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, produced in partnership with LucasArts.
The LucasArts company pioneered this interactive music technique with their iMUSE system, used in their early adventure games and the Star Wars flight simulators Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: TIE Fighter.
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