Double Fine is hard at work on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, offering the first playable demo at IndieCade 2015. Shacknews was on-hand to try it out, but also took some time to speak to Double Fine founder Tim Schafer, who revealed, among other things, why it was 'now or never' for this project.
The hubbub around Nintendo's SNES Classic announcement this week had us wondering: what would an equivalent, retro PC look like if it released today, and what games would you put on it?
Command HQ
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
King's Quest
Zork
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Silent Service
Doom
Quake
Wolfenstein
Duke Nukem
Half Life and all the spin off games
Fallout
Thief
Deus Ex
Theme Hospital
System Shock
Dungeon Keeper
The Secret of Monkey Island
Civilization
SimCity 2000
The Sims (All Expansions)
nice list. the OG Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem are musts.... I know there were a lot of others I can't recall so off the top of my head the only thing I can think to add would be Arkanoid. that game was so much fun with that stupid bouncing ball and bricks. Then more recently games like Starcraft, Diablo, etc. I'm think OG PC though like late 80s early, early 90s.
The orignal Sims was awesome.
On topic, I wish a PC classic would exist somedays.
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Unreal Tournament 2004
Quake
Half Life 1 & 2 (&3)
Far Cry 1 & 2
Crysis
Portal 1 & 2
Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Day of the Tentacle
Alone in the dark
Lands of Lore 1 & 2
Witcher 1 & 2
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Gothic and Gothic 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Thief 1, 2, 3
Deus Ex & Invisible War
Desperados
Commandos 1 & 2
Diablo 1 & 2
Siege of Avalon
Throne of Darkness
Command & Conquer and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2
Age of Empires 1, 2, 3 & Age of mythology
Empire Earth
Warcraft 3
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Black & White
Worms Armageddon
GTA 1 and 2
Total Annihilation
Elite/Elite 2
Doom/Doom 2
UFO Enemy Unknown
Dune 2
Quake
Diablo
Starcraft
DSOGaming writes: "Adventure fans, here is something special for you today. Some fans have been working on an unofficial sequel to Day of the Tentacle, called Return of the Tentacle, which is available for download."
I guess everybody should grab it while they can before it gets pulled. Unless Tim Schafer or whoever owns the IP gave it their blessing.
Ryan Crocker from GameGrin writes, "It pains me to admit this, but I've been playing point 'n' click adventure games for close to 30 years. That's actual decades. (Christ on a bike, man! Think of what great things you might have accomplished if you hadn't spent all that time lounging about like some pasty, goggle-eyed slug!) When LucasArts released its seminal adventure 'The Secret Of Monkey Island', I was a spotty adolescent who would routinely shun any form of social interaction in favour of sitting in the dark in front of my beloved Amiga 500. Many were the hours I spent combining a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle with a packet of breath mints in an often futile attempt to accomplish some impossibly silly task. My parents were of the view it was an embarrassing waste of time; time better spent mowing the lawn. I vehemently disagreed. I still do."
I love these games!