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It's finally time for our Day of the Tentacle extravaganza article, written in piss and blood on a concrete wall, and then later typed up onto the internet for your viewing pleasure.
This month's instalment features Peter McConnell, art from Colin Panetta, and a computer game that's probably the funniest and cleverest thing you'll ever play. Check it check it check it.
So, as you may have noticed, our Day of the Tentacle Secret History article is falling a bit behind, for reasons not worth going into. But enough about Dan Pettit. The slight postponement of the DOTT article (which is coming very soon!) hasn't stopped progress on the Sam & Max Hit the Road one, which we're now accepting Reading Opinions for! Don't be like us and delay - send me your stuff now!
Hey, you. This is the last week to send in your reader opinion about Day of the Tentacle. So quit putting it off you slackers.
Remember, you wouldn't just be wasting your time on some disposal internet fluff! This is history we're making here. Think of the article as a time capsule where your thoughts will be preserved and enjoyed for years to come. Future generations are in your debt.
With the latest "Secret History" article published, another one looms on the horizon. In roughly a month we will be presenting the eighth article in our retrospective series (already halfway over, if you can believe it), which will of course be about Day of the Tentacle, the loose sequel to Maniac Mansion.
As usual, we want your opinions for our reader section. We will also consider any mini-articles for DOTT that you may have in mind for the article, though if you'd like to write one please give us a ring first so that we can get an idea of what you're doing, and you don't potentially waste your time.
Let's get cracking!
Find out all sorts of interesting facts, like who Sophia Hapgood is based on, and how old Hal Barwood is, in our LucasArt's Secret History on The Fate of Atlantis!
LucasArts is now all about Staff of Kings, but we know that there were games before 3D graphics. Just because it's made up of pixels doesn't mean we don't like it. I love pixels, in fact. I regularly bathe in them.
Thanks to everyone who made The Fate of Atlantis such a sterling game, to Dan Lee for the amazing header art, and to everyone who wrote in to say how much they liked (or didn't like) playing it.
We raise our glasses to you, half-forgotten hero story. "Hears to the Fate of Atlantis, and to all those darling adventures with Sophia!"
Hear hear.
Okay, how about sending in some reader opinions for the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis article.
Update by Tingler: Not long to go now. Here's something to tide you over...
If you want your thoughts for LeChuck's Revenge immortalized in our upcoming article, you should send them in like, soon. Fin.
UPDATE: And here's our regular poster for the event.
Just a quick reminder that the Secret History article devoted to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is going up at the end of the month (assuming nothing goes wrong, which it will), and we need you to send in your reader opinions. I don't mean to scare you, and this could be pure coincidence, but my great grandmother didn't send in a reader opinion for our MI2 article, and she's dead. Just throwing that out there.
Also, like with the past article we are willing to accept reader-submitted editorials (or whatever the heck you want to call them...just some piece related to the game in any way that's too lengthy to be called a reader opinion), provided they don't suck. So even though I'm giving you rather short notice, please feel free to work on something along those lines if you've got something more verbose that you think people need to hear about Monkey Island 2.
I'd also remind you to play the game that features this web site's namesake, but the fact is that if you haven't played this game already, you should be put to sleep. Be sure to replay it this month in celebration though.
Okay, so against our better judgment The Tingler and I may be attempting to put together some sort of intangible phonetic recording (what some of the more hip kids on the internet might refer to as a "podcast") for the first time ever in Mojo history. The subject? Insecticide - that sort of adventure game about bugs that's currently being released for the PC, and which you may not be as excited about as you should due to the somewhat wonky nature of its public exposure.
Well, as people who've played the game and know it to be good, we want to change that, but we need your help. What do you want to know about Insecticide? What topics would you like us to discuss? What, in your mind, would make for an interesting listen on the subject of Insecticide? Post your ideas in the comments below so that our resultant efforts might be something that's only mostly awkward and weep-worthy, rather than entirely.
Today, the Mojo database decided to make a break for it and travelled 8 hours back in time. Some comments and at least one news post was lost in the commotion.
The authorities have told us that they've captured the rogue time traveller and if all goes to plan, nothing more will go the way of the dodo.
Some interesting pieces of news today, so instead of dividing them and risking you missing one of them
- Insecticide has been released for the PC... maybe. Well, on GamersGate anyway. None of the other download sites that were supposed to have it like GameTap, Direct2Drive and even the game's website make no mention of it. Also not mentioned on GamersGate is that it's the first of two episodes. It also seems to be rather expensive for just one episode.
According to Crackpot, they're still working on Episode Two, so it can't be both episodes together. Something may be wrong here. Thanks to Diduz for the heads-up though, and we'll keep you informed as to what's going on. - LucasArts fire even more staff. Reports at Joystiq, who have interviewed an ex-employee, say that key members of The Force Unleashed's team have now been laid off. If LucasArts want to make another game in the series, they would have to either outsource or pointlessly hire new staff and train them. LucasArts maintains that they're committed to internal development and the next Indy game is not affected.
What is most surprising about this is that several of the staff laid off were long-term members of the team who survived the previous culling and walkouts and actually worked on titles like X-Wing, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango.
Simon Pegg has written a new Spaced sketch spoofing the American remake unaffectionately dubbed 'McSpaced'. See it at his blogsite here. While this really has nothing to do with us (aside from the "TFU" gags we often use to accompany Force Unleashed posts), more proper British Spaced means the world is a slightly happier place. And that's always worth posting about.
- Strong Bad previewed at IGN. Less than a month to go!
- Lego Indy demo now on Xbox Live Marketplace. A bit late, but welcome.
Oh, give me a break. We have four reader opinions for the The Secret of Monkey Island article so far. Four. Is that a joke? Send in something or you're banned.
Thanks! :-)
Update: A few people have asked for a deadline on this. If you intend to send in a Reader Opinion, please do so by this Friday, the 20th. Ye land lubbers.
I was going to just make a forum thread about this, but what the heck, we're the LSD site.
So I was looking at our Game Database and noticed that we have a rather shameful lack of box art for an astonishing number of games, including the following:
PHM Pegasus- Strike Fleet
Night Shift- SWOTL Do 335 Tour of Duty
- SWOTL He 162 Tour of Duty
- SWOTL P-38 Tour of Duty
- SWOTL P-80 Tour of Duty
Paul Parkranger & the Mystery of the Disappearing Ducks- Super Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Rebel Assault- Super Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Screen EntertainmentStar Wars: Shadows of the EmpireStar Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter- Ballblazer Champions
Star Wars: Rebellion- Star Wars: Supremacy
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
If you own or have access to any of those games, you'd be doing us a huge favor by sending in scans of the front cover (and if you're really awesome, the back cover also) so that our database will suck a little less.
Furthermore, if you were to check out the database and notice certain games that you own boxed copies of have poor or low-res cover scans, no back cover art, or no box art for a certain version of the game that you think should be there, and you want to help us out, please do! Together we can make the Games Database much more complete and awesome. Thanks!
Another month, another Secret History article. With the lesser known (but no less awesome) "oldie" SCUMM titles behind us, the next game marks a transition into another era of LucasArts' adventure games. I'm of course talking about the game that defines the word classic, The Secret of Monkey Island, and we're ready for your Reader Opinions of it for next month's article!
Sometimes, though, sharing one's brief two cents on a game isn't quite enough. For those of you who have something interesting to say about Monkey Island that would take the lengthier form of an all-out standalone editorial (or essay, or article, or whatever term you prefer) similar in vein to elTee's theory about Loom in the latest article, we're open to it! However, in order to spare yourself from potential disappointment and wasted effort, please give us a taste of what you have planned so that we can ensure it meets the (obviously high) publishing standards of the International House of
Get cracking!
Our forums are working, they're just not linked to on our web-site any more. Our scientists are busy at work cloning DJG so that someone can fix this problem.
Today we celebrate the birth of two great men:
Herge, the creator of
More importantly, Gabez, purveyor of good taste, is 21 today. Aww, our little man is all growns up. Join us in wishing him a happy birthday!