SCUMM

A lot of these old point and click adventures run on an engine called SCUMM, so now that engine has been remade and ported to a ton of different platforms under the name of SCUMMVM.

Beneath a Steel Sky tenshi_a 2009

A lot of these old point and click adventures run on an engine called SCUMM, so now that engine has been remade and ported to a ton of different platforms under the name of SCUMMVM.

Archive 2009-04-01 tenshi_a 2009

With animated graphics, fiendish puzzles and a genuine sense of humour, the first three games Lucasfilm developed with the 'SCUMM' interface became classics of the genre: Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Wertzone Classics: The Secret of Monkey Island Adam Whitehead 2009

For example, Zak McKracken took 9 months from concept to completion, with 2 full-time SCUMM scriptors Matthew Kane and myself, part time support from Ron Gilbert on the SCUMM engine, two artists, plus a team of playtesters.

An Interview with 80s gaming icon David Fox 2010

It adds a whole secondary layer of entertainment just to see how the new artists changed the old classic SCUMM design.

Guybrush shot first: A special edition that’s worthwhile 2010

In all the earlier SCUMM games, characters could die and in a few places the game could be 'broken', where the failure to pick up the right item an hour earlier led to it being impossible to progress any further.

Wertzone Classics: The Secret of Monkey Island Adam Whitehead 2009

I found it quite sweet and more than a little reminescent of the old LucasArts SCUMM game, Day of the Tentacle.

Pixar’s Up Tie-In George and AJ Now Online | /Film 2009

I swear, they should take the storyline for “Fate of Atlantis” the old SCUMM game that I love so much bias… maybe a little

George Lucas Thinking Up 5th ‘Indiana Jones’ 2008

It may be that GRIME was very similar to SCUMM, though, as Grim Fandango works under my SCUMM VM emulator.

Sam & Max - Season One Greg Tannahill 2008

For what it's worth, Grim Fandango wasn't the last game to use SCUMM - that was Curse of Monkey Island, which came out just before Grim.

Sam & Max - Season One Greg Tannahill 2008