Nerdy about LucasArts and Sierra video games, Star Wars, architecture, JRR Tolkien. He/him/fhtagn. Also on bsky.app (Bluesky) under the same username.
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Last Notes npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Please donate if you can to help legendary game designer Rebecca Heineman in her final days: npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…42eu ZLORFIK! That's impressive! npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…42eu :D npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint I guess the official title of Disney's next Star Wars project is "The Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu". npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint The high-res cockpits made for the TIE Fighter DOS CD are notably different from the original low-res versions. Perhaps most striking is how they redid all the damaged versions of the cockpit dials! npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint More fun with pixel editing: what if Sierra had kept Dracula's dining room in King's Quest 2 puke green like on the box screenshots? npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…9u6v @nprofile…f5kq I have seen multiple Twitch streamers give up on this game partway through because it is just so painful. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…f5kq @nprofile…9u6v It's perhaps Sierra's worst-designed adventure game, combined with a terrible submarine simulator. I cannot recommend it unless you enjoy pain. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint You know what Lucasfilm ought to do to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Empire Strikes Back? Release the original theatrical cut in high quality on modern digital media platforms. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Here's an Indy Last Crusade FM Towns vs. DOS VGA difference I didn't know about: npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Leisure Suit Larry 1-7 are being delisted from Steam: npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint If Bobbin had been a little more perceptive. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…9u6v Congratulations! :D npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Checked on a bug report I filed with ScummVM a while back about errors in the font drop shadows in the TurboGrafx-16 version of LOOM. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Other differences in LOOM EGA version 1.0 include slightly different text under the Lucasfilm Games logo, and a stray image in the GUI to denote the exit from the mountain spiral staircase leading back into the dragon's cave which was deleted in later builds. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint TIL that version 1.0 of LOOM EGA features more stars in the area Outside the Pattern than later builds have. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @nprofile…9u6v Sorry to hear that. I hope things get easier for you soon! npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Images from the upcoming season of Andor. Looks like Cassian is about to join the crew of Deep Space Nine. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint A 1975 concept drawing for the original Star Wars by Ralph McQuarrie (image 1), showing Princess Leia being menaced by a torture droid in an Imperial prison cell. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Turns out Laura Bow 2 has some absolutely wild differences in the background art between the floppy & CD versions, on part with Space Quest 4 in some screens. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Had some fun mocking up some fake dialogue for Gabriel Knight 1. See if you can spot which one of these screenshots is fake. ;) npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Reminder: following the strict bounds of legality is a woefully inadequate approach to the preservation of video games and other old media. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Another early screenshot of the deleted lookout background from Monkey Island 1, looking out at the sea beyond Melee. (Plus another instance of the early cover art with a different face for Guybrush.) npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Looks like the logo for the new Marvel prequel-era Star Wars comic series "Jedi Knights" was designed as an homage to the box art logo of LucasArts' 1997 game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Poster art for Skeleton Crew by Steve Purcell, from the official Star Wars Twitter, er, StupidSingleLetter account. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint 37 years old today. Hooray! npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Screenshots of an unreleased build of Space Quest 2, where Roger has blond hair and the sky of Labion is purple. Featured on the 1993 "Space Quest Saga" box set of games 1-4. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Tim Cain, creator of Fallout, reads a Christmas poem by Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island (and Clayton Kauzlaric, Ron's co-creator on DeathSpank): npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody! npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint Two real-life features of the Vatican that you won't see in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: the Ridiculously Long Corridor of Maps, and the Enormous Bronze Pinecone. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint I'm probably the only person who will be bothered by this since I'm an architecture nerd, but it bugs me that the Vatican's Belvedere Courtyard in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle incorrectly has Ionic column pilasters beneath a Doric entablature (the upper bit with the triglyphs). npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint The original Prince of Persia had a visual makeover for the PC-98 version in Japan: it was given a polish with high-res EGA graphics (and an extra final boss fight!) by Japan's Arsys Software. npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @npub10jl…yfat :D :D :D npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/481/569/134/760/532/original/d4ec3126c1cfe78f.png npub16y9kwqd2ljj7n35up0rakn5waa874wtn3xl6d39kd920009704tss04dat ATMcashpoint @npub16hv…sz5u "We are not emu-sed."
