What a video! Can't imagine how much work Lock put into this hour long chunger doing the narration and video/audio editing. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, it was a real treat learning how Lucasarts evolved the Sierra design template and went on to do their own stuff!
There are so few times in my algorithm where I see editors create episodes for the channels they represent. Lock, you did a wonderful job of not only keeping a tone consistent to the channel, but truly be unique enough to not compromise your own POV. Great work 👍
this is amazing. never really played a lot of point-and-click adventures but really enjoyed watching this and can see how important these games were to you! Nostalgia regarding the times surrounding the impactful games we played in our youth is a powerful emotion and it's really cool to get a glimpse into a genre that I didn't have much exposure to! Would love more deep dives like this in the future on other developers and genres
Lock, I never played a single Lucasarts game in my life and probably never will, but I loved this video. You prove yourself a great storyteller again and I'm happy to see a fellow Belgian produce such great content.
Nice video Lockmort! I really enjoyed the pop music clips from the respective year playing during each transition. I'm a younger millennial so my exposure to lucas arts doesn't begin until the tail end on the N64, but I loved the history lesson/nostalgia trip nonetheless.
I'm here for Lockmort. He's become a favorite on Summoning Sign. Time to play all the Monkey Island games I bought on steam years ago. Also what Brad said haha
Fantastic work Lock. It can be such a challenge to present to an audience anticipating a different creator, but you absolutely crushed this. So much so, that I would love to see more of your work featured on this channel. Your tone/humor was spot on, and your genuine passion was palpable. Well done!
I miss Lucasarts too because they made many of my favorite video games such as The Curse of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis, and Outlaws.
This was awesome. Really made me think of my oldest sister who we lost in November of last year. As adults we didn't talk nearly as much as we should have but as kids.. our video game bond was amazing.
I have finished watching the full video now and what an amazing video. The amount of work that must have gone into this is insane. The stories with your dad and brother and the ending were truly emotional. Keep up the great work guys.
Loved maniac mansion and monkey island, but the best part of this video was about your dad, it reminded me of how me and my brother connected with our mom with the legend of Zelda series and it means so much more even now since she passed back in 2013, some people don’t get the connection between games and people and how the game can remind you of someone or a time in your life, you nailed that feeling with this. Great video!
I grew up a little bit after the golden era of lucasarts but their style and influence made the games I adored as a child possible. This was beautiful, hope to see more of Lock!
I love this video so much. You guys did such an excellent job for real. Honestly, if its possible, I would love to see more of Lock videos. They don't need to be this intensively in depth, but the two of you digging into things that you're both accustomed to will surely please more people. I'm not into the Sonic, Naruto, and DBZ type of things, so a fresh perspective is appreciated greatly. Love what you guys do
I don’t know what I expected with this video, but it wasn’t this. The script is unhinged and goes hard and I genuinely smiled and laughed the whole way through - and I have never even played a Lucas arts game. I can probably count the number of Star Wars films I’ve seen all the way thru on one hand. I just wanted to watch bc I like the content and what you guys do here. All that is to say: thank you for the hard work and passion that must’ve gone into this. You’re awesome
This is a great video, I'd definitely be open to more content of this type on Retro Rebound. Also the Creed accoustic at the end really tied everything together
LucasArts. That is a name i have not heard in awhile. A vast library of titles, with something for everyone Amazing video, and thanks for sharing your journey with us
I love the stories about you, your Dad and your Brother. Thats what makes gaming special in an unexpected way. Also I want to see a part 2! Also please dont forget to talk about Herc's Adventures!!!
@@BstinOgsxr750idk. Disney is losing a lot of money. And Star Wars isnt making them any. Maybe they finally sell knowing someone would pay a pretty penny for it
@@Tampafan33 since owning star wars is now less profitable. You think Disney. A company which values money over anything nowadays…. Is gonna sell for a loss?
@@BstinOgsxr750 lmao there’s no way they’d sell for a loss. There’s companies that would line up and way overpay just to have Star Wars. Companies have already hinted at it before.
Like any 90's kid i was spoilt with many great cultural entertainments, 90's music, 90's movies, Disney VHS movies, The Simpsons, the list goes on....BUT, as ive aged all those loves have slowly faded away over time and the only love that still remains for me is 90's Lucasarts games. Those childhood games really were something special.
"yeah, i'm old." - Empire Strikes Back at ya. Played most of these at release, right back to Ballblazer. Habitat was weird as the dial-up for it was pretty unusual unless you watched Wargames.
@@broken1394 I was too smol for Star Wars in '77 - saw it as a double bill with Empire in '81 I think. Rescue on Fractales and The Eidolon were the two titles I remember pirating most fondly from that era.
Grim Fandango is still my favorite game ever made. I remember when I got it for Christmas that year and just loved every minute of it. At PAX one year I was on the show floor and who do I see wandering around but Tim Schafer. There is something really special about being able to chat with the guy who made your favorite game and tell him how much it means to you. I have a picture of me with him and never again will you see a happier picture of me.
Wanted to leave since its not Matty, but I stayed for Lucas Arts. Dead relative-humour is not really for me, but enjoyed the video over all, since it was a well researched trip down the memory-lane.
I know you said you were sick but you sound like a completely different person. Different nationality even. Oh, and the genre still does exist though in a much smaller way. Heck the final Monkey Island just released not that long ago, and made me cry. Playing the first one in my parents dining room, and playing the last one in my house with my daughter beside me helping out
I loved those SCUMM games when I was a kid! Maniac Mansion Sam & Max Day of the Tentacle Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis The Secret of Monkey Island
Thanx for this complete timeline of the golden age of LucasArts. Every summervacation I pick one point and click adventure to play with my kids in the evening hours. Sam and Max, Full Throttle have been played. Now I have set the bar so high, they want more and more of that. Lucklily I still have Fate of Atlantis and some of the Secret of Monkey island games. Hope they will make ipad versions someday, allthough they won’t mind playing it on a PC though.
I absolutely love the dig .It jelled with me so much. Almost none of my friends liked it and thought the puzzles were too confusing but something about this game really resonated with me
my first real starwars title had to of been battlefront 2 and jedi knight II jedi outcast on pc couldn't believe how much better it ran on pc with lobby full of bots Compared to gamecube and battlefront ran good on both console and pc.
This was such a good look at the history of LucasArts!! Great job Lockmort this video was well written and well edited. Also, the end of this video was so wholesome 😭
What I'm about to say might be controversial. But Lucasarts built itself up from the ground, ironically, without the very franchises it would be assumed to own: until the late 1980s, Atari still had the exclusive publishing rights to video games based on Indiana Jones, and the same was true for Star Wars until the 1990s. These were deals done before Lucasfilm was in the games business, so they had no real option but to let creativity fly and make new, innovative IPs until those contracts expired. Out of this we got the golden age of Lucasarts. Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, The Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max Hit The Road. These are the games that made Lucasarts. Once Star Wars and Indiana Jones fell back "in house", Lucasarts made some incredible games out of them too. I'm not saying they weren't great games. But one can almost see the creativity ebb away, as the company became a Star Wars factory. Everything else became secondary, if it existed at all. Later Monkey Island and Sam & Max games got cancelled, while some pretty dubious Star Wars products got green lit for no better reason than they're Star Wars. Those of us who grew up with the original Lucasarts could see the decline in real time. Not having Star Wars and Indiana Jones under their banner arguably forced them to truly shine. One can't help but feel something got lost along the way.
To me, my favourite video company ever. The adventure games especially the Monkey Island series mean a lot to me and hold a special place. I was sad when they closed in 2013 but at one point i was angry with them especially when in 2004 they cancelled the Sam & Max sequel cause Star Wars was more a priority and i agree they really were falling to the dark side at one point.
Sadly it was pretty much the same with Sierra Inc. Sierra made incredible games for most of their life from the iconic King's Quest series to Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest series. The golden era for these type of games seemed to be for myself during the mid 80's to the end of the 90's. At the time you also had a slew of other smaller companies that made some pretty decent PC games like The 7th Guest, Myst,Tex Murphy and others. Sadly nowadays no company wants to take a chance on a new innovative game idea and just sticks to either online first person shooters or just continue to pump out the usual titles they feel safe with like the Fifa games or Assassin Creed and the like.
Great video! Though i just gind it a shame you didnt have time to mention the edutainment game "Mortimer and the riddles of the medalion" as it used the rebel assault engine and was wacky and musical!
Hopefully they will take a more proactive role in the future and seek out promising devs to revive some of their classic IPs. So far, they have only green-lighted whatever project was brought to them, with varying degrees of success. It shocks me that if it wasn't for Bethesda asking, we would still be without a new Indiana Jones game, 15 years after the last one. The same goes for Monkey Island and Ron Gilbert's studio.
"Of a genre that doesn't really exist anymore" Well, not in the mainstream, it doesn't. But you see, that is the beauty of the modern world, "mainstream" is not that much of a thing anymore, at least it's much smaller (proportionally) than it used to be, so we have room for a lot of underground things to flourish. Back in the day, everyone liked the same thing, nowadays it's kinda hard to even find people with your taste anymore.
Dang the end brought a tear to my eye! Thanks Lock for the awesome retrospective and playing the acoustic version of One Last Breath 😂
What a video! Can't imagine how much work Lock put into this hour long chunger doing the narration and video/audio editing. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, it was a real treat learning how Lucasarts evolved the Sierra design template and went on to do their own stuff!
There are so few times in my algorithm where I see editors create episodes for the channels they represent. Lock, you did a wonderful job of not only keeping a tone consistent to the channel, but truly be unique enough to not compromise your own POV. Great work 👍
this is amazing. never really played a lot of point-and-click adventures but really enjoyed watching this and can see how important these games were to you! Nostalgia regarding the times surrounding the impactful games we played in our youth is a powerful emotion and it's really cool to get a glimpse into a genre that I didn't have much exposure to! Would love more deep dives like this in the future on other developers and genres
Very cool of you to hire based Jean-Claude van Damme to do the voiceover for your video, Matty.
Lock, I never played a single Lucasarts game in my life and probably never will, but I loved this video. You prove yourself a great storyteller again and I'm happy to see a fellow Belgian produce such great content.
Nice video Lockmort! I really enjoyed the pop music clips from the respective year playing during each transition. I'm a younger millennial so my exposure to lucas arts doesn't begin until the tail end on the N64, but I loved the history lesson/nostalgia trip nonetheless.
Awesome work Lock, can’t wait for your anime retrospective!
Lets go lockmort!!!!! Def not euro trash. Cant wait for the future. Two of my favorite creators coming together
This was so awesome. Excellent video!!
I'm here for Lockmort. He's become a favorite on Summoning Sign. Time to play all the Monkey Island games I bought on steam years ago. Also what Brad said haha
Fantastic work Lock. It can be such a challenge to present to an audience anticipating a different creator, but you absolutely crushed this. So much so, that I would love to see more of your work featured on this channel. Your tone/humor was spot on, and your genuine passion was palpable. Well done!
I miss Lucasarts too because they made many of my favorite video games such as The Curse of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis, and Outlaws.
This was awesome. Really made me think of my oldest sister who we lost in November of last year. As adults we didn't talk nearly as much as we should have but as kids.. our video game bond was amazing.
Awesome video! Love Lucas Arts from back in the day!!
Really enjoyed this. Great job Lock!
I have finished watching the full video now and what an amazing video. The amount of work that must have gone into this is insane. The stories with your dad and brother and the ending were truly emotional. Keep up the great work guys.
Excellent video, not much to add tbh but this direction for the channel is great
Loved maniac mansion and monkey island, but the best part of this video was about your dad, it reminded me of how me and my brother connected with our mom with the legend of Zelda series and it means so much more even now since she passed back in 2013, some people don’t get the connection between games and people and how the game can remind you of someone or a time in your life, you nailed that feeling with this. Great video!
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Loved this. I played Dark Forces with my Dad in the early 2000s. So many memories brought up from this video.
me too, those dark forces cutscenes unlocked some core memories for me
It would also be really cool to see some Lets Plays of these games with your commentary along side!
I grew up a little bit after the golden era of lucasarts but their style and influence made the games I adored as a child possible. This was beautiful, hope to see more of Lock!
I love this video so much. You guys did such an excellent job for real. Honestly, if its possible, I would love to see more of Lock videos. They don't need to be this intensively in depth, but the two of you digging into things that you're both accustomed to will surely please more people. I'm not into the Sonic, Naruto, and DBZ type of things, so a fresh perspective is appreciated greatly. Love what you guys do
Cool video Matty. I hope your voice feels better soon.
Thank you. I am hoping some weebery can clean the Belgium from my voice.
I don’t know what I expected with this video, but it wasn’t this. The script is unhinged and goes hard and I genuinely smiled and laughed the whole way through - and I have never even played a Lucas arts game. I can probably count the number of Star Wars films I’ve seen all the way thru on one hand. I just wanted to watch bc I like the content and what you guys do here. All that is to say: thank you for the hard work and passion that must’ve gone into this. You’re awesome
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this video, man. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for your efforts!
This is a great video, I'd definitely be open to more content of this type on Retro Rebound.
Also the Creed accoustic at the end really tied everything together
LucasArts. That is a name i have not heard in awhile. A vast library of titles, with something for everyone
Amazing video, and thanks for sharing your journey with us
I love the stories about you, your Dad and your Brother. Thats what makes gaming special in an unexpected way.
Also I want to see a part 2! Also please dont forget to talk about Herc's Adventures!!!
This is so damn informative and hilarious. Incredible work Lock!
The golden age of star wars gaming.
Will probably never happen again.
Not until Star Wars is rid of Disney’s influence.
@@shard7549 bro. That contract is 75 to life
@@BstinOgsxr750idk. Disney is losing a lot of money. And Star Wars isnt making them any. Maybe they finally sell knowing someone would pay a pretty penny for it
@@Tampafan33 since owning star wars is now less profitable. You think Disney. A company which values money over anything nowadays….
Is gonna sell for a loss?
@@BstinOgsxr750 lmao there’s no way they’d sell for a loss. There’s companies that would line up and way overpay just to have Star Wars. Companies have already hinted at it before.
great video, i'd love more like this
Awesome work, Lock! I mean Matty... I loved these games growing up and I also love this style of deep dive, so this was perfect (just like you)
This is such a great video. I really hope we see a part 2 on the next decade of Lucasarts because that was the time period I was playing their games.
Heck of video Lock. Great job
Beautiful video. Well done, my friend. So very proud. 💛
Best video art yet! well done whoever is doing it ...
This video is amazing! I need more of this
Like any 90's kid i was spoilt with many great cultural entertainments, 90's music, 90's movies, Disney VHS movies, The Simpsons, the list goes on....BUT, as ive aged all those loves have slowly faded away over time and the only love that still remains for me is 90's Lucasarts games. Those childhood games really were something special.
Maniac Mansion…could be my favorite game of all time. It was so groundbreaking and fun for its time.
I'd love to see more developer retrospectives and Lock is fantastic, i'd love to see him more but i would love to see you tag team a video
This was a great video. Thank you.
"yeah, i'm old." - Empire Strikes Back at ya. Played most of these at release, right back to Ballblazer. Habitat was weird as the dial-up for it was pretty unusual unless you watched Wargames.
I saw STAR WARS in the Cinema, 1977.
Ballblazer was a fun game.
@@broken1394 I was too smol for Star Wars in '77 - saw it as a double bill with Empire in '81 I think. Rescue on Fractales and The Eidolon were the two titles I remember pirating most fondly from that era.
Awesome content!
Grim Fandango is still my favorite game ever made. I remember when I got it for Christmas that year and just loved every minute of it. At PAX one year I was on the show floor and who do I see wandering around but Tim Schafer. There is something really special about being able to chat with the guy who made your favorite game and tell him how much it means to you. I have a picture of me with him and never again will you see a happier picture of me.
Bruh, you're spoiling us with an hour long video, family. ⭐️
Wanted to leave since its not Matty, but I stayed for Lucas Arts.
Dead relative-humour is not really for me, but enjoyed the video over all, since it was a well researched trip down the memory-lane.
Loved playing the click adventures on my Amiga 3000. Then Xwing came out and I had to move on to a 486 PC to enjoy it.
Remember when we got FOUR amazing Star Wars titles in just one year? Man, it's sad how far the Star Wars game titles have fallen.
A really beautiful video, thank you for sharing you done the whole feeling and journey justice
A wonderful video. Bravo!
I know you said you were sick but you sound like a completely different person. Different nationality even.
Oh, and the genre still does exist though in a much smaller way. Heck the final Monkey Island just released not that long ago, and made me cry. Playing the first one in my parents dining room, and playing the last one in my house with my daughter beside me helping out
This was an amazing video 🎮👊
Yoooo Lockmort in the houseeeee
Loved this video! Hope to see more like it in the future!
Lol is that Creed playing at the end?
Great video. Appreciated the heart felt, personal narrative interwoven. Keep it up!
Very awesome retrospective!! 🙌👏 more of this please
I loved those SCUMM games when I was a kid!
Maniac Mansion
Sam & Max
Day of the Tentacle
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Secret of Monkey Island
What a great video 🎉
I played quite a few Lucas arts games. Monkey Island 1,2. Rebel assault 1,2, xwing, tie fighter, dark forces, Indiana jones tlC/ToA
Damn Matty sounds like he has free healthcare
Here for Lock
I love the concept of this video. S/O to lock
Hell yeah man this is gonna be awesome I can tell. Lucas arts and Sierra games were my childhood ❤️❤️
Watching this video was a big nostalgia trip for me.I never realized how many lucas arts game I played!
Great video Lock
Thanx for this complete timeline of the golden age of LucasArts. Every summervacation I pick one point and click adventure to play with my kids in the evening hours. Sam and Max, Full Throttle have been played. Now I have set the bar so high, they want more and more of that. Lucklily I still have Fate of Atlantis and some of the Secret of Monkey island games. Hope they will make ipad versions someday, allthough they won’t mind playing it on a PC though.
I absolutely love the dig .It jelled with me so much. Almost none of my friends liked it and thought the puzzles were too confusing but something about this game really resonated with me
Dark forces is what I wanted rogue one to be
my first real starwars title had to of been battlefront 2 and jedi knight II jedi outcast on pc couldn't believe how much better it ran on pc with lobby full of bots Compared to gamecube and battlefront ran good on both console and pc.
Amazing video!
Dude nooooooo why do you have to make me remember those games!!!! Now I want them more!! 😭😭😭😭😭
A KING debut - awesome
Great video Lock!
outstanding video!
This was such a good look at the history of LucasArts!! Great job Lockmort this video was well written and well edited. Also, the end of this video was so wholesome 😭
I think everyone should play Gladius...one of the best LucasArts games I ever played! Still have it and love it
What I'm about to say might be controversial. But Lucasarts built itself up from the ground, ironically, without the very franchises it would be assumed to own: until the late 1980s, Atari still had the exclusive publishing rights to video games based on Indiana Jones, and the same was true for Star Wars until the 1990s. These were deals done before Lucasfilm was in the games business, so they had no real option but to let creativity fly and make new, innovative IPs until those contracts expired. Out of this we got the golden age of Lucasarts. Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, The Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max Hit The Road. These are the games that made Lucasarts. Once Star Wars and Indiana Jones fell back "in house", Lucasarts made some incredible games out of them too. I'm not saying they weren't great games. But one can almost see the creativity ebb away, as the company became a Star Wars factory. Everything else became secondary, if it existed at all. Later Monkey Island and Sam & Max games got cancelled, while some pretty dubious Star Wars products got green lit for no better reason than they're Star Wars. Those of us who grew up with the original Lucasarts could see the decline in real time. Not having Star Wars and Indiana Jones under their banner arguably forced them to truly shine. One can't help but feel something got lost along the way.
Love this 🤘
Great video thankyou
Do a video on Sierra Online!!!
To me, my favourite video company ever. The adventure games especially the Monkey Island series mean a lot to me and hold a special place. I was sad when they closed in 2013 but at one point i was angry with them especially when in 2004 they cancelled the Sam & Max sequel cause Star Wars was more a priority and i agree they really were falling to the dark side at one point.
Lock ❤
Dude, I saw the original Star Wars in the theater back in ‘77. I was 5. So, yeah, I guess I’m old too. Ha.
I loved the Forced Unleashed games
Wish we got another or could be time for a remake 💯
Fantastic video “Matty” 😉
Sadly it was pretty much the same with Sierra Inc. Sierra made incredible games for most of their life from the iconic King's Quest series to Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest series. The golden era for these type of games seemed to be for myself during the mid 80's to the end of the 90's. At the time you also had a slew of other smaller companies that made some pretty decent PC games like The 7th Guest, Myst,Tex Murphy and others. Sadly nowadays no company wants to take a chance on a new innovative game idea and just sticks to either online first person shooters or just continue to pump out the usual titles they feel safe with like the Fifa games or Assassin Creed and the like.
You love to see it.
Loom has such fantastic art
Great video! Though i just gind it a shame you didnt have time to mention the edutainment game "Mortimer and the riddles of the medalion" as it used the rebel assault engine and was wacky and musical!
Would be cool to see double fine give grim fandango the psychonauts treatment and make a sequel.
LucasFilm Games is their spiritual successor at least…
Hopefully they will take a more proactive role in the future and seek out promising devs to revive some of their classic IPs. So far, they have only green-lighted whatever project was brought to them, with varying degrees of success. It shocks me that if it wasn't for Bethesda asking, we would still be without a new Indiana Jones game, 15 years after the last one. The same goes for Monkey Island and Ron Gilbert's studio.
LOCKMORT!!!
"Of a genre that doesn't really exist anymore"
Well, not in the mainstream, it doesn't. But you see, that is the beauty of the modern world, "mainstream" is not that much of a thing anymore, at least it's much smaller (proportionally) than it used to be, so we have room for a lot of underground things to flourish.
Back in the day, everyone liked the same thing, nowadays it's kinda hard to even find people with your taste anymore.
My heart sank when you said your brother died 😅
do one for my favorite studio pandemic.
Noice! I thoroughly enjoy this.
21:25 I don’t think anyone ever thought Super Star Wars was easy…
great video. thank you.
Monkey island is the best