Classic LucasArts adventures almost certainly heading for iPhone

Ask any games journalist (or indeed gamer) of around 30 years of age what classic game series should be resurrected for iPhone, and a good percentage would stare at you with their sunken piggy-eyes and bellow something that sounds like 'LucasArts'. Before breaking into floods of nostalgic tears.

Well it looks like we’ll finally get our wish. LucasArts CEO and confirmed adventure nut Darrell Rodriguez recently gave in interview in which he not-so-subtly conveyed the fact that multiple LucasArts adventure games were in production for iPhone.

Responding to a question about these forgotten gems, Rodriguez told Joystiq: "On iPhone, you know Apple's policy that we can't talk about a release until it's ready to release. But it would make sense that we would do something like that if we were to go in that direction ... wink wink, nod nod."

That’s part of the quote, by the way. Like we said, subtlety is clearly not the guy’s strong point.

He also said that the project would be “only the beginning,” which is doubtless enough to make millions of Monkey Island fans swoon.