Double Fine Announces ‘Full Throttle Remastered’ and ‘Psychonauts: Rhombus of

Double Fine also confirmed a release date for Day of the Tentacle, March 2016 has been confirmed for this remaster.

These remasters are far beyond a mere 1080p up-res and remapping of controls for modern-day consoles, this is essentially a top-to-bottom remake of the entire game.

He took to the stage during the PlayStation Experience to announce Full Throttle Remastered, coming soon to PlayStation 4 and Vita. It’s coming in 2017, to PC and PlayStation platforms. Made in the golden age of adventure gaming by the now defunct LucasArts (the early 90’s), these time-honored point and click games are more dense with hilarious dialogue and visual gags than their relatively big-budget contemporaries made decades later. That’ll be joined with remastered audio, music, and sound effects.

In the video you can see the transition between the original graphics and the new.

It’ll ship along with a commentary track, featuring the ruminations of the game’s original creators Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell, and Clint Bajakian. The title will be hitting PS4 and Vita.

Day of the Tentacle is a sequel to Maniac Mansion, an adventure game created by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winick in 1987 for computers. Purple Tentacle gains massive intelligence from the mutation and plans on taking over the world. Grim Fandango (1998) was the first game remastered in this trilogy restoration project, releasing back in January. With that in mind, it appears like a remaster of that scale is greater than what Double Fine can commit. An unofficial remastered version was near completion at LucasArts in its later years but was never approved by company executives and eventually abandoned.

Earlier this week at The Game Awards, Double Fine announced a crowdfunding effort for Psychonauts 2.