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 ...

Meet the team reverse-engineering old game engines in one of the most amazing preservation projects on PC. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

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 ...

Happy birthday to an essential PC gaming archival project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On the occasion of its 20th birthday, ...

The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, which we all know better as ScummVM, turns 20 this week. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a classic adventure game on a modern PC (or mobile ...

Video games are still a young medium, but they are now reaching an age where “retro gaming” is an ever increasing market. Sony Computer Entertainment, for example, recently celebrated the 20 year ...

ScummVM is a free and open source tool that makes it possible to run classic PC games on a wide variety of modern platforms. The software was originally designed to recreate the LucasArts game engine ...

ScummVM started many years ago as a program to get original LucasArts adventures up and running on modern machines, but since then it's expanded in scope to bring back a host of the best classic PC ...

For years it seemed Westwood's Blade Runner might be lost for good. The 1997 adventure game that meticulously recreated the film's universe has becoming increasingly difficult to play on modern PCs.

What just happened? The developers of a program for running many classic PC games on modern computers recently released a big patch for its 20th anniversary. The update adds support for more games ...