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A list of the top 10 best games ever should include Pong and Monkey Island (in my humble opinion). After listening to PRESS PLAY ON TAPE’s version of the Monkey Island theme (see a previous blog post), I felt the urge to play these awesome games again. There must be an emulator to play a game like that, right? So I can play these games on Linux, right? There is and it’s called ScummVM.

The name ScummVM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, so yeah, the abbreviation is a lot easier to remember. It’s described as:

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

I was surprised to see how well this worked. Of course you need the original data files of the games (which of course I had laying around … somewhere online …). After loading up Monkey Island, the good old memories made me smile with nostalgia. The extremely funny game is still fun to play!

Other games that can be played through ScummVM include:

• Maniac Mansion
• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Loom
• Passport to Adventure
• The Secret of Monkey Island
• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Day of the Tentacle
• Sam & Max Hit the Road
• Full Throttle
• The Dig
• The Curse of Monkey Island
• Simon the Sorcerer 1
• Simon the Sorcerer 2

And a lot more…

Oh sweet nostalgia!