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Summer of Retro? goes International 04 Jul, 2004, 23:29 / 17 comments


Anyone who reads the Scumm Bar knows that this summer they've been celebrating the "Summer of Retro?," AKA a chance to upload and divert attention to lots of old content that's fallen through the cracks through the years, or things that may have intentionally gone away but need to be unearthed for nostalgic purposes. And to hide that there's no new Monkey Island news worth mentioning anymore.

Well, here at the Mojo, we've decided (without the permission of Remi or Gabez), to launch our own unauthorized Summer of Retro? Hasty Bootleg Edition. Over the next couple months I hope to unearth some of the old hosted sites, bring back many of Mojo's missing articles that disappeared over the years, and (God willing) drop in a couple new things. Of course this is Mojo Time we're dealing in here, so the Summer of Retro may in fact turn into the Endless Summer of Retro, but really, nobody's complaining right?

I might as well point out that I accidentally started the Summer of Retro Hasty Bootleg Edition just last week with the reintroduction of the classic hosted fansite Highland Productions. You might also enjoy the Scumm Bar's recent posting of a ton of those old link buttons which used to litter the Mojo Network, back when the Mojo Network existed. Nostalgia City. Enjoy.
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  • netmonkey on 06 Jul, 2004, 19:12…
    Umm... the scummbar needs to go RETRO RETRO like have the style of SMI and use the old SCUMM fonts!
  • Gabez on 05 Jul, 2004, 16:42…
    Dude I hope you're paying us for this
  • Gabez on 05 Jul, 2004, 16:42…
    Great idea though!
  • Scummbuddy on 05 Jul, 2004, 16:21…
    Jake, I sent you a MojoPM, but i dont even know how to read my own...
    I don't see a MojoMessenger link on the news page.
  • Jake on 06 Jul, 2004, 19:42…
    They get sent to whatever email address you've specified when you created your account :) That might be severely outdated at this point so you should change it. Speaking of, I think jake@mixnmojo.com is full, frighteningly enough. I have been neglecting it lately.
  • Remi O on 05 Jul, 2004, 01:54…
    Summer of Rip OffTM more like it. ? ?
  • Jake on 06 Jul, 2004, 14:01…
    Summer of Remi Shuts Up more like! Burn?!
  • Remi O on 06 Jul, 2004, 15:29…
    :(((
  • jp-30 on 05 Jul, 2004, 01:22…
    Direct links to the various stages of mojo housed at archive.org

    ie.

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mixnmojo.com

    could be nice and easy to do. Nostalgia ahoy!
  • Jake on 06 Jul, 2004, 14:02…
    I have HTML versions of most of the different versions of Mojo (I'm missing a couple, most importantly "Spaff's Monkey Island Homepage" on Geocities :( It got deleted like 2 days before I went to archive it.
  • Bobo Donkey? on 08 Jul, 2004, 05:08…
    What was the url? I might be able to track it down (but don't count on it).
  • spaff on 09 Jul, 2004, 13:07…
    something like
    www.geocities.com/realm/timessquare/5299

    ah the good old days of crappy urls.
  • Udvarnoky on 04 Jul, 2004, 23:38…
    So the Gary Winnick interview should be back up any second, right?
  • Jake on 04 Jul, 2004, 23:51…
    Just wait a second... Or a few weeks... months...
  • LucasTones on 05 Jul, 2004, 18:33…
    This sounds familiar...
  • jp-30 on 05 Jul, 2004, 22:16…
    You know what else sounds familiar? That new song by Jet.
  • Gustav on 07 Jul, 2004, 04:42…
    yeah, because they suck and they rip-off other bands