This evening I checked out the ScummVM website to see the progress on the SCUMM emulator. When I lasted checked and downloaded the emulator, the developers had started support for non-Lucasarts adventure games but not progressed very far; it was only available for Windows and maybe Linux.

Now, there’s a release for almost every system imaginable: Windows, Mac, Linux, NintendoDS, Windows CE (PDA), Palm PDAs, BeOS(!!), Amiga(double !!), Dreamcast, Symbian OS mobile phones and many, many more.

As well as the SCUMM games, there are a ton of other adventure games now compatible with ScummVM, and just as many that aren’t (all the Sierra ones, for starters).

Since I don’t really have any system capable of running ScummVM other than a Windows machine, I decided to use that to get some nostalgic adventure gaming on. In hindsight, I probably should have played Sam & Max Hit the Road now that Sam & Max: Culture Shock has just been released (well, the first episode of six).

Instead, I opted to play Full Throttle and even though the deepest recesses of my brain still appears to contain information on how to solve a number of the puzzles, I’m having a great time with the game again. In fact, I’ve copied it to my USB stick and am running it directly from there on my work laptop. In bed.

I’m totally sure that the team that made the game never imagined people playing their game like that!