I'm in a good position to answer this: because they're AWESOME.
My girlfriend's never been a gamer, but she's been playing some games recently (specially Minecraft spiked her interest).
I finally convinced her to play some Lucasarts classic adventures some months ago. She loved them. Went through the whole Day of the Tentacle in three days on her own! No walkthroughs. I didn't even help her once. She was obsessed with it! Now she's eager to play more adventure games and looking forward to the new release of ResidualVM (Grim Fandango's engine reimplementation) which she left halfway through because she met a nasty blocker bug.
Lucasarts adventures are and will be all-time classics because they're genuinely good. The plots are engaging, the dialogues are real fun and they're good intellectual challenges.
I play the games regularly, at least once a year (the whole collection!) and I still enjoy them. There's always something left to explore, an action you didn't try, a line you didn't pick... and just like The Simpsons, you can re-experience them several times as you grow older (the funny jokes are not the same when you're 8 then when you're 21).
My girlfriend's never been a gamer, but she's been playing some games recently (specially Minecraft spiked her interest).
I finally convinced her to play some Lucasarts classic adventures some months ago. She loved them. Went through the whole Day of the Tentacle in three days on her own! No walkthroughs. I didn't even help her once. She was obsessed with it! Now she's eager to play more adventure games and looking forward to the new release of ResidualVM (Grim Fandango's engine reimplementation) which she left halfway through because she met a nasty blocker bug.
Lucasarts adventures are and will be all-time classics because they're genuinely good. The plots are engaging, the dialogues are real fun and they're good intellectual challenges.
I play the games regularly, at least once a year (the whole collection!) and I still enjoy them. There's always something left to explore, an action you didn't try, a line you didn't pick... and just like The Simpsons, you can re-experience them several times as you grow older (the funny jokes are not the same when you're 8 then when you're 21).