With emotions over LucasArts own legacy still running high (for me at least), Jim and I are joined by Chase “scharmers” Dahl to talk about the rise, fall, and sad kersplat that was LucasArts (they made me watch video of Kinect Star Wars for Pete’s sake! Poor Pete!).
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Podcast #08 Show Notes
LucasArts Games Mentioned:
- List of LucasArts Developed Games from MobyGames (What, didya think We’d list ’em all individually? ;)
- Jim’s Spreadsheet of LucasArts Game Scores (XLSX Format | Image)
Other Games Mentioned:
- Beat Trip Hazard
- Company of Heroes
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Imperium Galactica II
- Master of Orion/Master of Orion II
- Pokemon Gold
- Sierra’s ImagiNation Network
- Spaceward Ho!
- Super Hexagon
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit
YouTube Videos of Various LucasArts Games For Your Viewing Pleasure:
- Afterlife
- Armed and Dangerous
- Ballblazer
- Battlehawks 1942
- Fracture
- Full Throttle
- Ghoul Patrol
- Gladius
- Grim Fandango
- Habitat
- Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb
- Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Action Game
- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
- Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures
- Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis
- Kinect Star Wars
- Koronis Rift
- Labyrinth
- Lego Indiana Jones 1-2
- Lego Star Wars 1-3
- Loom
- Maniac Mansion
- Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
- Mercenaries Playground of Destruction
- Monkey Island 1-3
- Monkey Island Remakes
- Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion
- Outlaws
- PHM Pegasus
- Rescue on Fractalus!
- RTX Red Rock
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
- Star Wars Rebel Assault 1-2
- Star Wars X-Wing
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
- Star Wars: Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels Wii
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- Star Wars: Demolition
- Star Wars: Empire at War
- Star Wars: Episode 1 – Jedi Power Battles
- Star Wars: Episode 1 – Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode 1 – Racer
- Star Wars: Force Commander
- Star Wars: Force Unleashed
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
- Star Wars: Galaxies
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2
- Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
- Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi
- Star Wars: Obi Wan
- Star Wars: Pit Droids
- Star Wars: Racer Revenge
- Star Wars: Rebellion
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Star Wars: Starfighter
- Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
- Star Wars: TIE Fighter
- Star Wars: X-vs-TIE Fighter
- Star Wars: Yoda Stories
- Strike Fleet
- Super Star Wars SNES 1-3
- The Dig
- The Eidolon
- Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
- Thrillville
- Wrath Unleashed
- Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors
oh god.. pod racer was fucking amazing… can’t wait to try racers revenge!
I know, right?! I really need to track down a copy.
Hah, found one at a local GameStop! Yay! It shall be mine!
Woot!
I don’t even own a PS2 anymore so not likely to try any time soon (would have to play it on some one else’s XD)
Apparently there are some fine emulators out there. ;)
No CD/DVD drive either :P So… I’d have to pirate that, and aint going down that rabit hole XD
Wow, how do people get by without an optical drive anymore…
What do I need it for? I can install my operating system from thumbdrive or even second hard drive… or hell SD card. every single video game I own, I download. I watch DVD/Bluerays on the Blueray player upstairs.
Anyway, DVD and CD are so tiny capacity, SD card is the way to go. I’ve got a handful of 16 and 32gb microsd cards laying around… cheap, compact, and can use a usb port instead of taking up an entire bay on the front of my computer.
See, I still have so many games on disk that I couldn’t be without an optical drive of some type. How do you think I’m playing TIE Fighter right now? ;)
So you spend all that time talking about LucasArts, and I’m going to comment on Star Trek. :-D
I am glad to hear that I am not alone in truly hating any science fiction that involves time travel. I was so very disappointed in Enterprise because of that.
As far as LA games go, TIE Fighter has to be one of the best games I’ve ever played. I also really enjoyed KOTOR (before I got bored with the BioWare style of games) and LEGO Star Wars. My wife & son really liked Monkey Island, but I never played it.
I was one of those weird people who bought Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe when it first came out, but did not like it at all despite being heavily into combat flight sims at the time (Falcon and Aces of the Pacific). I actually returned/exchanged the game, and was accused by the manager at Babbage’s/EB (whichever one it was at the time) at Great Northern Mall of pirating it.
So…not a Doctor Who fan, I take it? ;)
LOL, no.