Fans of old school point-and-click Adventure games rejoice. Available for your favorite platforms (Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PS3, PSP, Windows, and much, much more), ScummVM 2.7.0 has just been released. This release brings compatibility for a few more games, and brings back Nintendo 3DS support, by the way.
What is ScummVM
Those of us who grew up in the nineties will probably fondly remember some of the old LucasArts and other point and click adventure games. Others… might still want to check the oddly dated but cute graphics of some of these games!
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From the official ScummVM page:
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
ScummVM supports many adventure games, including LucasArts SCUMM games (such as Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, …), many of Sierra’s AGI and SCI games (such as King’s Quest 1-7, Space Quest 1-6, …), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins 1-3, The Legend of Kyrandia 1-3, many of Humongous Entertainment’s children’s SCUMM games (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt games) and many more.
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ScummVM 2.7.0. – What’s new
ScummVM 2.7.0 adds support for these games:
- Soldier Boyz
- Obsidian
- Pink Panther: Passport to Peril
- Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink
- Adibou 2 “Environment”, “Read/Count 4 & 5” and “Read/Count 6 & 7”
- Driller/Space Station Oblivion
- Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II
- Chop Suey, Eastern Mind, and 16 other Director 3 and Director 4 titles
New or revived platforms support:
- RetroMini RS90 (using OpenDingux)
- 1st generation Miyoo (New BittBoy, Pocket Go and PowKiddy Q90-V90-Q20) with TriForceX MiyooCFW
- Miyoo Mini
- KolibriOS
- 26-bit versions of RISC OS
- Nintendo 3DS
Additionally, this release improves support for the broken sword series, adds shader-based scalers, and predefined random seed.
See more details on the release notes.
Download ScummVM
You can download ScummVM for the platform of your choice from the official download page here. Tu run the game on PS Vita or Switch, you’ll need a hacked PS Vita or Hacked Nintendo Switch respectively.
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