ThunderPeel2001
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I'd like to remind the jury of the defendant's previous words:
On 8/13/2020 at 8:39 PM, Remi said:CMI is a nineties sitcom gone wrong.
On 8/13/2020 at 8:39 PM, Remi said:My favourite pastime is buying old boxed copies of CMI and setting them on fire.*
(*This quote may have been made up by me.)
**everyone in the courtroom faints**
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I love The Cave. Very under appreciated if you ask me. You're still a monster, though
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On 8/22/2020 at 9:28 PM, Bennyboy said:
This may show the poster thats in that mag, I cant see a page that looks like the stuff hanging out in the mag itself. I dont think its the pull-out 'kill zone' section as thats black.
Anyway, I cant see this issue available to buy anywhere so this is pure speculation.
Looks like that's the contents page. I guess the staples came out.
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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.
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I've asked the seller for the dimensions of that Dune poster. Might be handy to know.
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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.
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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!
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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.)
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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.
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Wow. Generous guy to give his time to fans like that!
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29 minutes ago, Jake said:
Here's the Office track on the Telltale Sam & Max OST.
Ah yes. So good.
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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.
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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.
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17 hours ago, Jenni said:
I never watched the pilot or played the game, but Gary Winnick's comics were pretty enjoyable.
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).
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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:
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3 hours ago, elTee said:
Here's a really, really badly made attempt at reconstructing spiffy I did a few years ago.
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?
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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...
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50 minutes ago, Jake said:
I bet Spiffy was a dpaint file on Purcell’s PC and never made it anywhere else, beyond being copied to a floppy disk for marketing to put on the box. There’s no evidence of that closeup anywhere else.
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
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But the original Spiffy remains lost to time...
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On 8/13/2020 at 9:35 PM, Laserschwert said:
Ha, same here. Looks like I used to be an ass every now and then. I hope THAT's over.
I daren't look at my old posts. I'm just going to pretend they were posted by someone else.
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On 8/13/2020 at 8:39 PM, Remi said:
CMI is a nineties sitcom gone wrong. That's just how I feel.
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
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Oh man. That official MI poster is a thing of beauty.
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I had a lot of these things from just buying them at the time... but most have been lost in moves over the years. Le sigh.
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19 hours ago, ATMachine said:
Really? But at first you didn't say I was wrong at all. Which would have been the natural and normal reaction.
Everyone is being respectful towards you because we all like and respect you. Your knowledge on LucasArts stuff is wonderful, and I'm sure I'm not alone in enjoying perusing your website over the years. I happily say thanks for all that cool stuff that you've collected and shared over the years. It's great.
It seems no matter how anyone reacts to your theory however, it's always taken as "proof" that the theory is true. No matter what. I think it's normal for anyone presenting a theory to say (and genuinely believe) that they could be wrong. I think that might be a good place for you to get to internally. Maybe, just maybe, this isn't true... It's a fun distraction, and interesting thought experiment, but maybe there isn't any truth to it.
I'll just say that I'm not convinced by your theory. I think the most daring and unusual thing LucasArts ever tried to do was launch a TV show, a comic book, and a NES game all at the same time. And that project (Defenders of Dynatron City) was pretty dull.
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Shivers BoardGame hires LucasArts alums
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Board game?
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