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.

Thank you my old DSi for breathing life into even older SCUMM games!