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Other than Monkey Island and Terminator ive seen Earl doing voices in other animated works, he was in the 3rd Naked Gun film and he had a great guest star appearance as the entity Negilum in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 2nd season episode "Where Science has Lease"

Loved this guy. Truly sad that he's gone, but I'm glad he had a long and presumably happy retirement. Loved him in Terminator 2 but he was also a key part in Terminator 1. I'll even say that while his part in Terminator 3 wasn't especially well thought out, I'm still really glad he was there. Also a bummer he was already retired when they were making the Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series, since that had a much more interesting take on a post-T2 Silberman that would have been delightful to see Boen perform. I also wouldn't have objected if they had shoehorned him into Terminator Salvation. But alas. I agree he was also an irreplaceably perfect part of the cast of Curse of Monkey Island, and I'm glad they brought him back whenever they could. Jake mentioned in another thread that it seems like the two developers weren't really privy to the details of each other's projects until they were officially announced. My guess would be that the Tales team took for granted that Boen was fully retired so didn't ask, but the remake team went ahead and asked anyway.

Welcome back! With the forums back up, I think it's time to revive my poster thread as well. It's been quite a while since I've added anything to the project, but lately I felt the need to get back into it. Over the last few years, there's been a lot of improvements in terms of image restoration techniques and upscaling tools, and looking back at the old posters sometimes makes me cringe at how they look by today's standards. That's why, aside from adding new posters, I'm going to update existing posters with improved versions every now and then. For any newcomers, you might want to check the archived version of the old thread to get you up to speed (which in turn links to even older threads on the ScummVM forums, Inception-style). In the old thread I've refrained from including Star Wars games (with Rebel Assault II being the exception), but over the last few months I've restored several SW artworks that I think deserve to be included. Both these and the posters for all Indiana Jones games have been moved to their own categories. Some quick jumps: LucasArts original games Indiana Jones games Star Wars games Non-LucasArts games To make downloading easier, Mix'n'Mojo is now hosting all the files themselves, so you can just click the thumbnails for a larger view, or right-click/save-link-as to save the full-size poster directly. I've set up a GoogleDrive containing all the posters if you prefer that (which will also keep old versions of posters I've updated and replaced in this thread). Sadly, this seems to be necessary: Using these artworks for commercial purposes is NOT PERMITTED. I constantly see my restorations used on cheaply produced merch all over the web and even in official magazines and books, which is really not cool (and quite unprofessional, if I might say so). Just show some common courtesy and contact me if you want to use any of the material. We can surely work something out. Sorry about getting all disclaimery for a moment, so let's get to the posters. Enjoy! (This thread can be easily linked to using the URLs http://poster.mixnmojo.com and http://posters.mixnmojo.com)

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/terminator-actor-earl-boen-dead-at-81/ Sad to hear of the death of Earl Boen, a.k.a. the fantastic voice of LeChuck. He gave life to a dead character, which is an incredible accomplishment. Appearantly he was diagnosed with phase 4 lung cancer last year, which probably explains his absence from Return to Monkey Island. Rest in peace, Earl. You’ll be lovingly remembered.

Thanks for the report! Can you tell me what kind of system you're running it on? EFMI requires a relatively beefy machine to run, but I'd be surprised if anything from the last 5 years has significant trouble. One test is to start the game, get up to the initial ship scene where you first control Guybrush, and then hold down Shift+Alt and press 'B' three times. In the title bar of the window you'll see a MIPS score, which will reveal how fast the emulator is able to run that scene on your machine. Let me know what it says (roughly). On my system it sits at about 135. On my system I'm not seeing any of these, so I wonder if there's something else weird going on. Do you have sound delays in other games in DREAMM? I'm using SDL for the sound now, so delays could be a general issue not specific to EFMI. Yes, there are some water effect issues visually, that's expected until I figure out that bug.

Pretty much this. His appearance in the SEs plus fan pushback meant telltale reached out again and got him for LeChuck’s return in the finale.

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The Prelude was what shocked me. Watching the end cutscene to MI2 rewritten... seeing Booty Island again, in park form, including the spitting contest grounds... Guybrush appearing and teasing "Boybrush" about changing the endings? The Prelude told me not to trust MI2. I inferred this also meant not to trust MI1, and was encouraged not to trust MI1 when Carla's old house had literal playground equipment Guybrush remembered fondly! I played the entire game AFTER the revelation that the previous games weren't reliable narratives at all. So no, the ending wasn't a shock for me. LAFITTE'S ANCHOR!!

I was thunderstruck by the ending as well, but after attempting to jot down my feelings several times, decided to take a step back and just let the thing sink in. Now I think that I should have seen it coming. Of course Ron would double down on the bewildering ending of LeChuck's Revenge. There was no other way. And it's more complex than I thought at first. We're not switching from the reality of the Monkey Island stories back to the frame story. We're switching to kind of an interlude reality, with which Guybrush trolls his son in the same way that Ron trolled us all those years ago. Boybrush becomes the fans, the fans become Boybrush; and Ron becomes Guybrush just like Guybrush becomes Ron. All too fittingly, Guybrush-Ron would hastily concoct an alternative one sentence ending after Guybrush/the fans tell him what they would have liked to see. But that is of course no kind of "satisfying" ending within the self contained reality of the Monkey Island series. Like many others, when I hear fans lamenting how the ending of Return destroyed the Monkey Island series, I have to think of the same criticism voiced about LeChuck's Revenge. It's actually true: The Monkey Island series was destroyed back in 1991. The hole that Ron tore into the fabric of his creation's reality could not possibly be closed. LeChuck's Revenge made a sequel impossible, and more than that, even undesirable. ... ... it's still the best game of the series and has spawned no less than four sequels. 😎 Maybe it's not so much the ending of Monkey Island 2 that Ron wanted to recreate, maybe it's what happened to the series after that final and all breaking ending. A new tree arising from salted earth. The new steward of the Monkey Island series will have to honor the series' spirit yet they will be utterly forced to completely ignore the authoritative ending of Monkey Island 6, the final word of its original creator. What a delicious irony. Whoever takes up the baton to conduct these characters in the future, I'll definitely be in the audience. The monkeys are listening.

Oooh, thanks for trying it. I'm sure it's a packaging issue, as I include SDL in the application bundle. If you install SDL manually it should work, I think, but I must be doing something wrong that's preventing it from finding the one I included. I'll need to do some experimentation to figure this out. Thanks for the report!

Hi everyone! I'm still playing catch-up so forgive me if this was mentioned earlier. I have 25 pages left to read in this thread. Something I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else yet: The END OF THE GAME is what they used to PROMOTE THE GAME. They created an actual Melee Island set for Gamescom, and everyone was playing around, taking photos and enjoying the whimsy and excitement of a new Monkey Island game, completely unaware that they were walking around in the final room. That must have been super surreal for the people who knew! Ok. Back to playing catch up...excited to read everyone's theories!

If you're interested, Terminator 2 - Judgement Day is just about the best action/sci-fi movie with emotional depth that is out there. Boen's minor antagonist role is that of a psychiatrist stunted by decades of seeing the worst, and he skillfully walks on a tightrope between scientific interest turned sadistic impulse and halfway well meaning treatment of his patient. One minute you just want to punch his face, the very next you'd like to tell the protagonist to not treat him that brutally. A small role, but a perfect performance in a perfect movie.