This year marks the 20th anniversary of the SCUMM engine, the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, which powered most of the classic LucasArts graphic adventures. SCUMM streamlined the process ...

Classic PC adventure games such as The Curse of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion are nearly impossible to play on modern computers because they were developed in LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation ...

Back in 1987, a little company called Lucasfilm Gaming threw together a new video game engine called SCUMM. This stood for “Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion,” as it was made specifically to ...

If you like classic adventure games, chances are good that you've made use of ScummVM, a program which allows numerous classic game engines to run on modern PCs. While it started with a focus on ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

ScummVM is 20 years old - and to celebrate it's just released a big new update. Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a program that allows you to run many classic ...

ScummVM launched 20 years ago, and since then has consistently made it easy to run old adventure games on modern PCs. That started with the LucasArts classics built in the SCUMM engine, but has since ...

Despite launching way back in 2001, classic adventure game software, ScummVM, is still seeing updates. Yes, 2001 is “way back,” sorry. The latest update to kick off 2026 brings a whole host of ...

I recently got back into an adventure gaming mood and took it upon myself to finally complete Grim Fandango.<br><br>The game was great and I want to get even more out of it. For those who don't know ...

Iain Simons selects a game this week that could keep you occupied not just for a few hours, but for By Iain Simons Iain Simons selects a game this week that could ...