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Prior to concentrating all but only in Star Wars titles, LucasArts was known for their point-and-mouse click adventure games, nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at a period of their release. Their style tended towards a humorous, using two or three exceptions. Their gage project philosophy was that the streaming video player should never die or even email a complete dead-prevent, although there use at times been exceptions to the previous (like each Indiana Jones games).

Most common features between a games include in-joke references to both more LucasArts games & Lucasfilm productions, including the total 1138, quotes such as a sentence "I have a bad feeling about this", when well as more running off gags (obligatory Chuck the Plant and Sam & Max cameo appearances among them) that spanned numerous games. A second feature, utilized within many of a games, was to allow the streaming video player to control additional than of these character, typically existence take a breath to switch between the babies at may. For instance, around Maniac Mansion the player has control of the class action of tercet children using complementary skills & weaknesses, when inside Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis the player gets to play as each Indiana Jones & his partner, Sophia Hapgood.

This web site contains the complete listings of LucasArts escapade games, from either 1986 to the present. These are believed that fallowing a cancellation of Sam & Max 2 and Full Throttle 2, the adventure game era of LucasArts had officially ended.

For other elaborate data all about a company's history, view a independent LucasArts article.

Adventure games by LucasArts
Labyrinth (1986) Maniac Mansion * (1987) Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders * (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure * (1989) LOOM ** (1990) The Secret of Monkey Island * (1990) ''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion 2) (1993) Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993) Full Throttle (1995) The Dig (1995) The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) Grim Fandango (1998) Escape from Monkey Island (2000) A SCUMM game engine was used to project all the games from either Maniac Mansion to The Curse of Monkey Island, when a GrimE engine took over from either Grim Fandango'' forrader.

LucasArts Entertainment Company
Official site. Includes product previews, tech support database, company store, and job openings.

Within Limits: Advancing the Art of Game Design at LucasArts
GameSpot feature article by Geoffrey Keighley

International House of Mojo, The
LucasArts game news, reviews, interviews, articles, and Web hosting.

LucasArts
Information about classic games.

The LucasArts Adventurer's Club
A members only club for fans of Lucas Arts adventures.

LucasClub
The biggest Lucas Arts club around with previews, reviews, and Lucas resources.

SCUMM: Adventure
Script creator for Maniac Mansion and following titles tool information.

Soundfont Island
MP3s of music from older LucasArts games and utilities for making soundfonts.






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