Lucasarts historian ATMachine has unearthed several screenshots and some video footage from older games early in their development. First up is a missing room from Loom mentioned on the Lucasforums years ago, but never seen by anyone else but French people that happened to buy Tilt magazine issue 81 in September 1990:
Room taken out of final version of Loom, from French magazine Tilt, issue 81, September 1990
The hour glasses appear in the background of the glassmakers city in the EGA version of Loom, but they were painted out in the VGA version.
We now have a better version of the Dig preview, also from Tilt magazine, and below is a video showing early footage from the game taken from the CD-ROM based Interactive Entertainment Magazine (issue 5, September 1994):
You want more stuff? How about threemagazinescans of early screenshots from Fate of Atlantis and some crazy text in French? Talking of Indiana Jones, here are twoscreenshots from an early version of Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures, also from Interative Entertainment Magazine. The same publication also gave us twoscreenshots of an early Dark Forces version as well as the following video covering LucasArts at CES 1994:
You should also check out ATMachine's own site for a lot more LucasArts oddities as well as titbits on Sierra.
"And speaking of The Adventurer, was there an early time when it came more like a new letter style instead of a magazine style?"
I believe so, but that would have been way, way, WAY early. Like... a pack-in with Zak McKracken (Hey, that rhymes!), or about that era. I recall seeing a couple "issues" of that as well, so unless we're having mutual LA-related hallucinations...
Ascovel
on 26 Jun, 2011, 16:04…
> PUSH Scummbuddy
Scummbuddy
on 26 Jun, 2011, 14:05…
I have a couple scanned, but we really need to do a big push to truly host all of the Adventurers. We're MixNMojo, for cripes sake. It's not like LucasArts is going to do it for their 30th anniversary.
Ascovel
on 26 Jun, 2011, 13:28…
I'd love to get my hands on more Adventurers - they were awesome! Does anyone here have a collection of them all? Any scans? I have a physical copy of the one with Full throttle and Dark Forces previews and scanned versions of 2 older ones.
Shmargin
on 26 Jun, 2011, 05:22…
Didn't one of the Adventurers have some early Dig screen shots like these? And speaking of The Adventurer, was there an early time when it came more like a new letter style instead of a magazine style? For some reason I remember having one, unless I'm confusing it with something else.
Melancholick
on 26 Jun, 2011, 03:21…
LOL. Love the "stand-in" use of the original MI's Elaine sprite for that second Indy screen shot.
"She can go on for hours... when Guybrush has done something idiotic. Which happens a lot."
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I believe so, but that would have been way, way, WAY early. Like... a pack-in with Zak McKracken (Hey, that rhymes!), or about that era. I recall seeing a couple "issues" of that as well, so unless we're having mutual LA-related hallucinations...
"She can go on for hours... when Guybrush has done something idiotic. Which happens a lot."