You can also download point-and-click games that have been released for free legal download or browse the list of compatible games in the ScummVM wiki and check out the links to sites that still sell the vintage games. If you have the the original game disks/discs and the ability to read them, you can simply copy the files over. For a full list of the two dozen plus operating systems and platforms supported check out the Platforms entry in the ScummVM wiki.Īs for the game data files, you can acquire them in one of several ways. What Do I Need?įor this tutorial you’ll a small number of things, all of which are free.Ī note on the necessary items: We’ll be using ScummVM for Windows but ScummVM is a highly ported application and is available for everything from Mac OS X and Linux to Android, iOS, Wii homebrew, and more. Now that you’re pumped and ready to get playing your retro favorites, let’s review what we need and get started. As long as you have the data from the point-and-click games (even if you can’t run the original game on your computer) you can import them into ScummVM. ScummVM essentially replaces the executable that launches the original game with a shinier, more efficient, and feature packed interface that allows for everything from custom support for individual games to enhanced gaming saving. The result of that overlap is the ScummVM project-a multi-platform game engine that acts as a modern front end for old game scripts. Thankfully, there is a sizeable overlap between the realms of skilled programmers and die-hard point-and-click adventure fans.
If you can even get the old games to run in compatibility mode they are plagued with graphics and audio issues that radically decrease playability and put a definite dent in your nostalgia fix.
If thoughts of playing Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Kings Quest, and other classic point-and-click adventures sends tingles of nostalgia to your mouse hand, read on as we show you how to enjoy the classics on your computer with ScummVM.Īs any fan of old-school point-and-click adventures can tell you, installing and running the retro classics from the 1980s and 90s on a modern computer is a complete and utter crapshot.