robjv1 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 Hello there, This is my first post to this forum, and is about something I've experienced for years! I originally bought Monkey Island as part of that LucasArts box set that came with Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Loom, Zach McCracken, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. For a long time I played it on my old 486PC (hehe) with no problems, until one day, after a hard drive crash I believe - I tried reinstalling the game (which I believe I had successfully done before) and the installation screen looked different, and certainly behaved very different, with an odd message telling me to "poke myself in the eye" haha. I have included a screen shot here. This occurs when you try to install any of the games off of the 6 3.5" floppy disks that come with the set. Does anybody know if this was a virus that attacked this particular installation program? The humor seems very Lucas-Arts in style, so perhaps some sort of weird installation bug or copy protection thing? I have tried installing from the disks on different OS's and such, just to see if it would eventually work again, but no dice. I never could get LucasGames to write me back about this, but then again, I don't think I could ever get an email back from them period
Skinkie Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 Well, have you tried poking yourself in the eye? Perhaps if you meet its demands you'll get what you want.
robjv1 Posted November 30, 2004 Author Posted November 30, 2004 Now I am gonna sue you! You and Lucas Arts! I can't see!! :-p Seriously though - isn't that the oddest thing? It just started one day... and nobody has ever been able to give me an explanation for it or even more strange - ever experienced it themselves. Very odd.
Alien426 Posted November 30, 2004 Posted November 30, 2004 I guess the [Project Name] means that some variables are not set. Is the installer called by a batch file (.bat)?
Samnmax221 Posted December 1, 2004 Posted December 1, 2004 :usa:It's a wondeful world where you can sue somebody for your own stupidity!
Joshi Posted December 2, 2004 Posted December 2, 2004 Judging by the title at the top quoting "LucasArts entertainment company...(BLAH BLAH BLAH)" I'm guessing this a joke by the programming team (who're know for that kind of thing). I suggest huge amounts of chocolate syrup followed by a new version of the game. Oh, and don't forget to send this into the scumm Bar, they're hungry for some new news.
Tiki Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 hmm, that's odd. Lucasfilm games changed name to Lucasarts in 1993, yet the year is 1991 and 'LucasArts' there.
Skinkie Posted December 4, 2004 Posted December 4, 2004 Whoa, they could see the future. The mind boggles at the possibilities.
Udvarnoky Posted December 4, 2004 Posted December 4, 2004 Originally posted by Tiki hmm, that's odd. Lucasfilm games changed name to Lucasarts in 1993, yet the year is 1991 and 'LucasArts' there. Eh? Did not Lechuck's Revenge (1991) open with the LucasArts logo?
Joshi Posted December 4, 2004 Posted December 4, 2004 Yes, I think it changed midway through and the game designers knew it was going to happen soon, but for legal purposes had to put Lucasfilms Games at the beginning of MI1.
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