sam-and-max-hit-the-road 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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On Monday we began a fond look back at the 1990s, when Star Trek was well into The Next Generation and The X-Files was our favorite way to get scared. PC games also came into their own in that decade and to prove it we picked 15 titles that were released between 1992 and 1993.

It was the time period where adventure games were all over the place and an odd PC hardware add-on called the CD-ROM would make us forget floppies. Shareware was also making a huge impact on gamers, including a little game called Doom. Let's head back about 16 or 17 years and take a look at the 1990's games that we still like to play today.

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When was the last time you played a decent point-and-click adventure? Much less one with a Noir theme? Based on the collected works of Frank L. Baum? If the answer is "never", then feast your eyes on Emerald City Confidential, brought to us by Wadjeteye Games. First, it's difficult to do Noir properly. Second, the Oz series carries a reputation for being kids-only. Third, point-and-click adventure games have fallen somewhat out of favor since the days of LucasArts classics like Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road. For a game to try to tackle all three of these at the same time is awesome/lunacy. How well do they pull it off? Read on to find out!