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LUCASARTS PRESENTS Columbo in: SCUMM of the Earth

Backyard Soccer ‘98 is a casual arcade sports game that is now playable on Steam Deck and Linux via Windows PC. Thanks to the awesome team at Mega Cat Studios. Which you can play now on Steam with it's 100% Positive reviews. Here’s some news to kickstart your nostalgia – Backyard Soccer ‘98 is now officially available on Steam Deck and Linux. If you grew up playing the Backyard Sports series, you already know the magic of teaming up with Pablo Sanchez and the gang. This remaster brings all the childhood feels, now polished up for a modern audience. Backyard Soccer ‘98 is brought to us by Playground Productions. A crew dedicated to creating fun and family-friendly content, and Mega Cat Studios, the masterminds behind some of the coolest retro and indie games out there. Together, they’ve taken a classic and made it shine for a new generation of players. This release follows the smashing success of Backyard Baseball ‘97. Which also made a huge splash when it launched on Steam. It became the #1 sports game and even cracked the Top 10 titles overall. And the nostalgia train doesn’t stop here. Titles like Backyard Football ‘99, Backyard Basketball ‘01, Backyard Baseball ‘01, and Backyard Hockey ‘02 are already up for wishlisting on Steam. Hit that follow button on the Backyard Sports franchise page so you don’t miss a single update!

Backyard Soccer ‘98 Trailer

Then you might be interested in watching my dad’s interviews about his time as a programmer as one of the creators of the SCUMM system and lead programmer at Humongous Entertainment!

Sam & Max Hit the Road

Lucasarts Games created a series of timeless classics that are still as enjoyable to play today as they were at launch.

I can easily recall how impressive the playful cartoony Chuck Jones style visuals of Day of the Tentacle looked on my Dad's Compaq Presario 486 SVGA monitor when I first fired it up.

Even today I can't help but watch the damn impressive intro sequence in full if I let myself watch more than 10 seconds of it.

For some reason in my mind I find it hard to imagine that any of those SCUMM classics could ever be played away from the PC. They just seem like artifacts tied to the 90's age of beige computing.

I happened to be relaxing at a cafe recently and found my old DSi was in my bag. It wasn't long before I discovered that I'd previously installed ScummVM with Day of the Tentacle on it and was immediately sucked into the experience and smiling to myself at the great dialogue and humour of it.

The resistive screen and stylus interface works perfectly for the originally designed mouse input. The only real issue is that the bottom of the screen is slightly cut off, making it tricker to select from the bottom row of commands.