grim-fandango posts

With this week's announcement that LucasArts's classic PC game line-up would begin to be offered via Steam, many of our readers may not have played some of the truly terrific titles that were developed and/or published by the company that George Lucas himself founded.

We decided to go back and pick what we think are the top 10 best PC games made by LucasArts over the years. All of these games are worth getting and two of them will be available to download via Steam on Wednesday with the rest (hopefully) following suite in the weeks and months ahead. Since all of these games are great we couldn't really decided which ones were better than the others so we put them in order of their release.

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While we and the rest of the gaming world wait to see what fate will befall Brutal Legend, legendary game designer Tim Schafer has decided to give us a nostagia treat on the official Double Fine web site. Schafer has made a trip to his vaults and came up with the original design document for his acclaimed 1989 adventure game Grim Fandango.

The design doc, which is provided via an PDF file, is 72 pages of goodness for anyone interested in game design. It's packed with puzzles, designs, art sketches and more stuff that's didn't make the final product. The main character of Manny Calavera is still there and the game itself still takes place in the Land of the Dead but the design doc has a number of other characters with named like The Pizza Demon and Giraffe Lady that didn't make it into the final LucasArts published game.