The International House of Mojo

The fossilized LucasArts Fan Network was Mojo’s home and hearth for many a mutually productive year, but awhile back the grown-ups in charge decided we needed to break away from our notoriously unstable guardian for greener, Patreon-financed pastures in keeping with Zaarin’s newly inaugurated article of faith: If Mojo’s is going to go down, it will be by its own doing.

To this day the LFN domain can be seen to flicker off and on, and right now we’re in one of those “on” times, presumably because somebody’s credit card got auto-charged. While many of the sites LFN hosted were long dead anyway, a number of beloved destinations are temporarily available again due to the oversight, and it might be worth revisiting sites like IndyJones.net while you can.

And just so you know, LFN: It wasn’t you; it was us. :~

Source: LFN

In honor of Willow’s 30th anniversary, I sportingly elected to use it as a cudgel to beat on other movies with. Check out my new rant that decries the way movies look nowadays, using Willow as a tortuously coerced polestar in a desperate attempt to be able to market the piece as Mojo-relevant.

Thanks to Remi for the header

(That’s literally all I got.)

Source: Campo Santo’s Twitter

Look, I'm as shocked as you are. In the 15+ years I've known elTee, aka LucasTones, I have never known him to be a con. But now? That Monkey Island EGA to VGA image? Fake news! And I'm clearly not to blame, as Tones admits in his introduction…

OK, so maybe I'm partly at fault. Even close to fully. However! It wasn't really a fake screenshot, was it? It was from a genuine, playable moment in The Secret of Monkey Island, with the EGA graphics ported VGA style. So how did it happen? And how can you do it yourself?

Read Tones's glorious Mojo comeback, in what I personally find to be our most fascinating article in years. (Granted, the competition isn't stiff.) Read, and then forgive us. We did it out of love.

The 10th anniversary of the lovely but underappreciated - not to mention unfinished - Insecticide is upon us, and if anybody is gonna do something about it, shouldn't it be us?

Hey, I agree with you. That's why I decided to reach out to the game's creators, Mike Levine and Larry Ahern, and the result of said harrassment is a new feature to celebrate the beleaguered game's milestone.

Really, it's just a new Q&A with Mike and Larry. But because I knocked together a little introductory page and shamed Remi into donating a header image, it is an officially sanctioned feature, damn you.

When Mojo speaks, the gaming glitterati listens.

After our hard-hitting podcast, GOG picked up the phone, and made possible what a few years ago would seem baffling: Every LEC adventure game is now available for purchase. That's right, Escape from Monkey Island is on GOG.

The only downside is that it's PC only. That makes sense, though, as Residual's comparability with it is still not ready for prime-time. At any rate, if you're a Windows user, run and buy, and see if you agree with our aforementioned Escape from Monkey Island podcast.

(And you can, of course, buy it for other platforms, and bang your head against Residual.)

Source: Multiple Twitter followers

Here at Mojo, some of us quite like Escape from Monkey Island, enough so that three people with unrelated accents came together to gab about the red-headed cousin in the Monkey Island franchise. Join Jason, Remi, and Zaarin as they defend the game, either by downloading the episode, or by subscribing to the greater MojoCast series with these fine feeds (with the caveat that our RSS actually work):

• RSS
• iTunes
• Google Play
• Stitcher

I noticed that our About Page was shamefully out of date, so it was given a much-needed re-write to more accurately convey what Mojo is about and where we think it might be headed. It was also an opportunity to provide links to where you can officially buy all of the LucasArts adventure games, because you can totally do that now,* and you couldn't do that for a very long time.

Anyhow, back to speculating on what dollar amount Jake named to let Valve churn out Firewatch kart racers.

*Well, except for Escape from Monkey Island, but we've taken pity on the game and have something special** planned in its honor. Stay tuned!

**Special means bad.

Not a day has passed without you wallowing, weeping, wishing to see the MojoCast be automatically cast to your favorite pod. iOS, Android, Windows . . . The heart wants what the heart wants.

Well, fear not, as you once again can receive the MojoCast the way you want it:

• iTunes
• Google Play
• Stitcher
• RSS

Sure, the last episode aired more than five years ago, but this will soon change. Maybe. Hopefully. Just subscribe, damn you, and throw us some well-deserved five star ratings while you’re at it.

. . . flanked by an appropriately 80s print-ad.

Yeah, I don’t know what more there is to say. It’d probably play well in your hands, so get it if you own Nintendo’s flagship console.

We don’t know if forums are still "a thing," so we ask the question: "If we had a forum again, would you use it?"

Where to vote? Twitter. And/or voice your opinion in the comments.

Today, we've brought back both the guides for the Indy adventure games and Loom!

If that's not enough, check out the venerable Dig Museum which is filled to the brim with information about The Dig.

More to come soon! (probably)

Enough teasing and standing around, go grab the whole CD-quality CMI soundtrack now!

April Foo . . . What do you mean you already knew?! Stay tuned for more soundtrack, very soon. ;

Want yet another copy of Curse of Monkey Island? Steam just added added the game, so go grab it if you so wish. Windows only, natch. Breaking news! Now also on macOS. For the first time? Breaking-er news! As reported by Laserschwert, GOG has also made it available. Get each and every version!

Speaking of Monkey Island, we’re currently running three Twitter polls, asking how you feel about the three last games. Cast your votes: CMI, EMI, TMI. Trust us, it’s for science.

In a shock move, we’ve started updating our YouTube account. A few videos and the Amiga version of the MI1 soundtrack are already there. Don’t be a jerk -- go subscribe. Having more than 90,000 views and only 66 subscribers is just ridiculous.

Finally, Tim received his lifetime achievement award last night. Part of his speech included a story about Will "Sim Everything" Wright giving Double Fine a bunch of money for the company to stay afloat after Microsoft dumped Psychonauts. Read the whole story.

Breaking-est news! While it has been available at Steam for a while, Maniac Mansion has also been added to GOG. The only logical conclusion is that Monkey Island 6 and Maniac Mansion 3 will be announced in a short time.

We turned 20 this year, so what better time to take a look at Mojo of yore? Witness Mojo 9.5, marvel at a young Spaff, mourn Legend of Monkey Island. It’s all here.

As is a quick look at your favorite games of 2017. Old and new. That’s just how we roll. Read!

Well, we don't know, but maybe you do? Vote in our new poll! Log in, and vote, vote damn you.

As for our previous one, the results will probably be indicative...

Which Game Are You Most Looking Forward To In 2017?
Thimbleweed Park		30
Full Throttle Remastered		9
Duke Grabowski: Episode 2 - "Debonair Corsair"		2
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin		2
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episodes 3 - 5		2
Guardians of the Galaxy: A Telltale Series		0
Total votes		45

Jake embarrassingly forgot to tell us, but Campo Santo is, indeed, developing a new game. There's even a trailer.

Looks Firewatch-y. What's In the Valley of Gods all about, outside of what the trailer reveals? Who knows, but feel free to read the FAQ, full of questions nobody frequently would ask. 2019 seems to be the release year, so no need holding your breath.

(Zaarin -- reminder to add a Campo Santo category.)

Remember fan art? Mojo might not have been all about it back in the days, but The SCUMM Bar sure was. Presently I suppose most Mojo/Monkey Island-based artists are too old mature to make much LEC-based fan art, or, as it turned out, that was what I thought.

Should you follow us on Twitter -- and why the hell aren't you -- you'd know we're all about fan art lately, thanks to our friends at The Art of Videogame. We'll give you three examples:

What the hell, right? Artist, and URL to full-size images are:

@mr_werewolf_art with full image here.

@zacgormania with full image here.

Scorbut Man with full image here.

My numerous attempts to get Dan Lee to make a comeback was met with laughter from the man, but let's all remember what the man did, during the hosted site glory days.

We've updated our living article of TTG-esque games with two new games: Hidden Agenda and Life Is Strange: Before the Storm. Read if you don't suck.

... and as we apparently haven't posted this Grickle yet... Well, here we are!

("Joy to the Weird" really should be Mojo's slogan.)