ThunderPeel2001

Interesting! I wonder how you write for something like this.

I don't have access to VR at the moment, but I suppose it'll only be a matter of time (years), before it really becomes a must-have and very affordable thing. Considering this is a forum for games largely made in the 1990s, I'm sure that time will come around before we know it And maybe they'll find a way to make these games playable for those with conditions that prevent them from playing VR, too.

Board game? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1666522852/the-shivers

I'd like to remind the jury of the defendant's previous words: (*This quote may have been made up by me.) **everyone in the courtroom faints**

I love The Cave. Very under appreciated if you ask me. You're still a monster, though

Looks like that's the contents page. I guess the staples came out.

I'm guessing someone just forgot to put it on the front cover or something. Or it may have been referenced on contents pages? Wouldn't surprise me if there was a mistake somewhere, though.

I've asked the seller for the dimensions of that Dune poster. Might be handy to know.

Hey, UK Amiga person here. Seems pretty simple: This was supplied with an issue of THE ONE. I don't know why people expecting to see staple holes -- the scale of this poster is impossible to gauge from the photo. The July 1992 issue promised a "GIANT Dune Poster!" And here's that poster: Exactly the same number of folds as the MI2 poster.

Yeah, that's before my time, but I worked with guys who would tell me stories of how they used to do things. Every poster was done by hand, back in the day. Real beautiful craftsman stuff. I was a young whippersnapper tethered to a Mac. Must have been weird for them! Crazy to think that someone would deliberately refuse a PDF, but I'd also love to see that classic hands-on approach in person. The closest I got was inspecting the printer separation plates! And talk about how things have changed. I recently worked with a designer who swore it was fine to supply RGB files to a printer (company). I would have been shot for doing that! Letting some junior graphic designer at the print shop convert your document from RGB to CMYK, messing up your black levels... no way!

Edit: Weird. All the copy I wrote with this image disappeared. This forum software man, I'm not having the best of luck with it Another go: The "White Label" releases were budget re-releases by Virgin Interactive. They had a simple template that they'd drop everything into. They were obviously supplied the screenshots by whoever owned the rights in the UK (which explains why their Spiffy is uncovered). Here's an example: I remember getting supplied slides when I worked in the film industry as a graphic designer from the early to mid 2000s. I believe we'd just put them in the scanner and use them digitally. (I seem to remember our scanner having a slot for them.)

The human brain searches out narrative all the time. It's what we crave. I guess it's easy to project one wherever we look.

Wow. Generous guy to give his time to fans like that!

Ah yes. So good.

Ha, I thought it was sounded way better than I remembered! 😂 I really have just never enjoyed Hit the Road's soundtrack. I think it did the "tacky Americana" thing a little too well. Fair play to TTG for doing a great job with their games. I should get around to playing Devil's Playhouse one of these days.

Oh wow. If they ever remaster the game, they need this. I just recently replayed HTR and the music was worst of any LA game IMO... but this shows how great the music actually is.

I have yet to read them. I will one day! But credit where it's due: I believe Purcell wrote the scripts (although Winnick invented the world).

Yeah, you're right. Best case scenario it's an early version of the larger font. The "f" and"w" are nearly identical, but the other letters are off:

Looks good to me! (I kept trying to LIKE your post, but the forum won't let me?) Another problem seems to appear if you watch the video I posted (from the Ultimate Talkie Patch). Some of Spiffy's lines are quite long. I don't know if they ever really had him in the game with that in mind. For example, look at the font size from the screenshot and a line like this. Would it have fitted? Feels like it would have gone right over his little face? Or maybe it would have been fine?

Well I just went down a Spiffy rabbit hole... you might be right that it was only ever a mock-up. Looking at this video I don't know where the dialogue choices would have been if it was ever really in the game...

I think he was in the game at some point (like that room in MI that was recently found), but cut for disk space reasons. There's dialogue on the screenshot he appeared in. I'm guessing they were sad to see him go, but decided to to include him on the box instead. Of course in the mad rush to deliver the final game, I doubt anyone was wondering how best to archive him Maybe Aric has a backup somewhere... #neverlosehope

But the original Spiffy remains lost to time...

I daren't look at my old posts. I'm just going to pretend they were posted by someone else.

And you are wrong to have those feelings. As everyone has been putting joke lists in this thread, I thought I'd share the real one: 1. MI1 / CMI 3. MI2 4. TMI 5. EMI

Oh man. That official MI poster is a thing of beauty.