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Cressup's interview with Tim from earlier this year made time for the origin story of the Marmite photo, which fans know is Mojo's first trip to Double Fine in 2001. You see people, this lore still has currency.

I'm sure everyone here owns all the LucasArts adventure games fifty times over, but it's worth mentioning that they're all outrageously cheap on GOG right now: Maniac Mansion ($2.09) Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders ($2.09) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ($2.09) Loom ($2.09) The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition ($3.49) Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition ($3.49) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis ($2.09) Day of the Tentacle: Remastered ($2.99) Sam & Max Hit the Road ($2.09) Full Throttle: Remastered ($2.99) The Dig ($2.09) The Curse of Monkey Island ($2.44) Grim Fandango ($2.99) Escape from Monkey Island ($2.44) So you know, buy them all for your friends as a Christmas gift, then mysteriously find them archival filesets to actually play, through DREAMM.

Even John Oliver has jumped on the bandwagon, although I've got a feeling he wasn't talking about Thimbleweed Park.

That post is 18 years old.

Just to make most of you feel ancient, I was born 3 years before Mojo, the year Full Throttle and The Dig came out 😂 I think I discovered Mojo in the years between Escape and Tales, then officially joined the community along with the Telltale forums when that was announced, so a decent length but not as long as others. It really is THE site for Lucasarts fandom, whether it's the articles or the forums, and the amount of pure passion, humour and dedication over the years is truly something to behold. It's also managed to be free of toxicity over the years which in itself is a triumph; you don't see the kind of division in discourse that seems to occur daily in the Star Wars fandom. Here's to many more years here, even when we're all in a retirement home playing Monkey Island 10 and The Dig 3

Time flies when you're having fun! I've been a lurker / beneficiary of the effort put into this place since the beginning but I've never actually posted before. 25 years is a landmark so I thought it'd be worth expressing my appreciation and gratitude!

Any real fan would’ve known it was 2014. https://scummbar.com/index.php?newssniffer=readcomment&news=866 Any real real fan would’ve known the site would have returned in 2014 and the sequel in 2015. 😒

You might be thinking of that time the then-president of LucasArts Jim Ward infamously suggested that the studio's legacy properties wouldn't be revisited until at least 2015. For context, this was 2006. That was the reason Mojo's serialized retrospective of all the graphic adventure games was called the Secret History series. Mocking Ward for those comments was still very much topical. I don't think it's what inspired the idea in the first place, but I wanna say @Gabez was the one who saw an opportunity to jokingly style what we were doing as if we were a dissenting newspaper under a totalitarian regime. There was also the prosaic fact that we were at a loss to come up with a good title and @Jake suggested from the sidelines that "Secret History" if nothing else was simple and sensationalistic. Nothing like making a dependency of a running joke that nobody remembers -- the Mojo way. Also I just uncovered the promotional campaign of fake movie posters Gabez made before he lost interest after Fate of Atlantis.

I wish I could find the article (and by find I mean “put effort into searching for it”) from the SCUMM Bar that said there’d be no more MI sequels until 2015. Good times!🙃

I wish I had joined much much earlier. I was part of a few communities centered around Bad Brain Entertainment (anyone remember those?), Telltale and Ron's newer games, but it took Return and grumpygamer shutting down to get me to seek you guys out finally.