The game was recently remastered and released on Steam. It's an incredible game, with some of the wittiest writing I've seen, and I couldn't recommend it more highly.
[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Secret_of_Mon...
Debian installers have been a pain last time I used it and have been worried to go anywhere near them
You can get the installer here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc1/amd64/iso-dv... (just take the first image and write it on a USB drive - it's hybrid).
I usually select KDE inside the installer (it gives such option) and after installation repoint repositories to testing proper.
You forgot one thing: they updated the price as well. Instead of costing 5 dollars like every game older than 10 years mostly does, it's 15. But hey, there's no little profit, and they got a lot of free press coverage on top of that just because it was a miserable mess before to run this game on modern computers (Thanks ResidualVM folks for doing their work).
The steering on PC with no mouse support is as bad as ever. All adventure games used the mouse as input method, GrimFan tried to change that and failed - dumb decision for a otherwise very good game. The 2D backgrounds are in 4:3 as in the original (only the figures are in 3D).
One can play the original GrimFan on Win7 64bit with no issues.
[1] (Part 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g6ub2-E8eY#t=61
PS4: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr...
PS Vita: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr...
The only problem I do have is that because it lacks a manual, there is no tutorial for anything. It doesn't take many button guesses to figure out what they do, but it just throws you into the game. Took me about half an hour to realize you can run if you hold R1. But this is not a fault of the game's controls, just a lack of button layout by me.
Speaking of manuals, I could swear that I once accessed a manual for a PS4 downloadable game. But I've never since been able to figure out how I did that, to the point where I question whether it ever even happened. But it seems absurd to believe that they decided that games simply don't need manuals. I get that console games are trending towards having a very minimalistic manual in the game box (often just a page with the control layout), but not every game does that.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/grim-fandango-remaster...