For those of you that are like, WTF is this?!?!?! It's Maniac Mansion - another Lucasfilm game (like Monkey Island). And, this person solves it in NINE minutes!!!!! I never even FINISHED the game and I spent hours on it. Craziness. So, I just had to share.
And, maybe you can only appreciate it if you were an 80s/90s Lucasfilm videogame nerd, but hey, whatever. You can at least laugh at the graphics.
P.S. Funny enough, I can't even jump to the ending...to see how the game ends...because somewhere in the recesses of my mind is the thought - maybe I can still finish it, myself!
Google is great! Every once in awhile, when I think of something long lost in the past, I do a google search and suddenly, there it is again!
I took a moment today to look up one of my all-time favorite video games, Monkey Island. I know I wrote a blog about it last year, but here I am thinking about it again. I was thinking about old school video games, having talked with friends about the fantastic documentary, "King of Kong." If you haven't seen it you should. It's about the World Champions of Donkey Kong. When you look back that far, I'm definitely a Ms. Pac Man girl. I'm even still pretty good at it. Still, when I look at absolute favorites, Monkey Island is at the top of the list. Although, runners up are definitely Zelda, Final Fantasy, Maniac Mansion, and even Ms. Pac Man, which was the first.
Anyway, I'll admit, I was curious to see if Monkey Island was somewhere online, uploaded, and play-able. That's the thing about "King of Kong" - it makes you want to go and PLAY video games. I don't even remember which computer system I played Monkey Island on ...that's how old it is...although, it WAS on floppy disk!
There's a lot of random information about the game, online, actually - from whikipedia to youtube.
The youtube footage was pretty funny and I just wanted to share some of that goodness whether you ever played the game...or not:
A German cartoon...Hilarious! Although, I don't understand a word:
It's funnier in German, but here it is in English:
This is the REAL game intro, for those of you that never played and wonder what the hell I'm talking about. This is what it actually looked like. The premise: Guybrush Threepwood wants to be a pirate. And, um, okay, it IS in Spanish. I also found German. Don't ask me why I couldn't find English, but if you watched the cartoon above, you already know what it's about anyway:
A band playing the theme song, live:
A movie trailer (using Pirates of the Carribean footage):
A high school play (this is part 1, but they have the whole thing up). Can I just say...wow, some teacher was a HUGE fan. How cool!!!!:
It's April and you know what that means? SCRIPT FRENZY!!!!!
For those of you not in the know, Script Frenzy is basically your own personal challenge to write a 100 page script in a month. And, this year, it's the month of April.
You don't have time? Yeah, well, that's the point. You make time. You stay up late. Get up early. Just write the script. It's only a month. Surely one can survive one month with lack of sleep...right?
Oh, you haven't started and it's already April 4th. Bah, humbug. Start anyway. You have plenty of time left! At least try. You don't get anything if you don't try. And, I mean, everyone who's anyone is doing it....
Fans of the television show Moonlight are trying to save their show. For those of you not in the know, it's a show about a vampire detective. So, this time, it's not nuts they're sending to the network (Jericho) or tabasco sauce (Roswell) ...but blood! And, they're not exactly sending it to the network, they're donating it to the Red Cross in the name of the show.
I thought that was pretty cool. I mean, you save your favorite television show AND do something for the benefit of mankind!!!!
It's St. Patrick's Day and here's a fun film with Leprechauns - "Darby O'Gill and The Little People"
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Wear green! Drink green beer! Eat green eggs or other fun green food! Find a four leaf clover! Follow the rainbow to a pot of gold! Have some Lucky Charms! Watch a movie starring Leprechauns!
