ATMcashpoint

Nerdy about LucasArts and Sierra video games, Star Wars, architecture, JRR Tolkien. He/him/fhtagn.

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2025-03-25 14:35:55

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@nprofile…9u6v Congratulations! :D

2025-03-20 20:18:38

Checked on a bug report I filed with ScummVM a while back about errors in the font drop shadows in the TurboGrafx-16 version of LOOM.
Turns out it's been 12 months and it's still open, and in all that time nobody else has even commented on it. :P
#loom #lucasarts #adventuregames

2025-03-19 08:53:54

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Other differences in LOOM EGA version 1.0 include slightly different text under the Lucasfilm Games logo, and a stray image in the GUI to denote the exit from the mountain spiral staircase leading back into the dragon's cave which was deleted in later builds.
#loom #lucasarts #adventuregames #lucasfilmgames
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2025-03-19 08:24:38

TIL that version 1.0 of LOOM EGA features more stars in the area Outside the Pattern than later builds have.
#loom #lucasarts #adventuregames #lucasfilmgames
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2025-03-13 06:54:30

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@nprofile…9u6v Sorry to hear that. I hope things get easier for you soon!

2025-03-12 11:45:35

Images from the upcoming season of Andor. Looks like Cassian is about to join the crew of Deep Space Nine.
#starwars #startrek #andor
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2025-03-10 00:53:09

A 1975 concept drawing for the original Star Wars by Ralph McQuarrie (image 1), showing Princess Leia being menaced by a torture droid in an Imperial prison cell.
Notice in the closeup (image 2) that Leia's left breast has fallen out of her shirt.
JW Rinzler used this image as the frontispiece of his 2010 book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back. I imagine he was quite amused to have Leia's wardrobe malfunction hiding in plain sight.
#starwars #mcquarrie #ralphmcquarrie
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2025-03-03 07:53:05

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More differences in graphics between the floppy & CD versions of Laura Bow 2.
This is apparently the result of the CD version including a Windows 3.1 port, and having to reserve around 20 colors or so for the Windows GUI, which required reducing the game palettes slightly.
#sierra #laurabow #daggerofamonra #thedaggerofamonra #adventuregames
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2025-03-03 07:40:37

Turns out Laura Bow 2 has some absolutely wild differences in the background art between the floppy & CD versions, on part with Space Quest 4 in some screens.
Almost all screens have at least some minor palette reduction on CD, but sometimes the changes are quite drastic.
#sierra #laurabow #daggerofamonra #thedaggerofamonra #adventuregames
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2025-02-27 03:16:03

Had some fun mocking up some fake dialogue for Gabriel Knight 1. See if you can spot which one of these screenshots is fake. ;)
#sierra #gabrielknight #adventuregames
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2025-02-21 09:07:17

Some concept art and color paintings for dialog portraits in The Dagger of Amon Ra, from an article in InterAction magazine, vol. 5 #1 (Spring 1992).
In image 1, I'm not sure who the character in the upper-right sketch evolved into.
In image 2, notice Dr. Myklos wearing a shirt & tie!
#sierra #laurabow #thedaggerofamonra #daggerofamonra #amonra #adventuregames
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2025-02-16 01:27:29

Fun fact: the manual for Sierra's Quest for Glory IV includes a screenshot of the character sheet for a Hero named "Dingleberry".
Plus the QFG2 manual has "Gonad the Barbarian". :D
(Also notice that the QFG4 char sheet screenshot still has the separate Paladin points from QFG3!)
#sierra #herosquest #questforglory #adventuregames #crpgs #rpg #rpg #crpg
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2025-02-13 06:32:15

Fun fact: you can softlock Lucasfilm Games' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade adventure game by opening the barrel of ale in Castle Brunwald and letting it all flow onto the floor, without putting any in the trophy first to knock out Biff the guard!
#lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #indianajones #lastcrusade #adventuregames
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2025-01-18 07:23:06

Looks like the logo for the new Marvel prequel-era Star Wars comic series "Jedi Knights" was designed as an homage to the box art logo of LucasArts' 1997 game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
#starwars #marvel #lucasarts #darkforces #jediknight
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2025-01-17 23:13:42

Well, this is disappointing.
I liked Skeleton Crew a lot, but must everything be sacrificed on the altar of absurdly short 30-minute run times?
The time constraints Disney imposes on its Star Wars shows only serve to make individual episodes less satisfying.
#starwars #skeletoncrew
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2025-01-09 11:41:56

37 years old today. Hooray!

2025-01-04 10:11:47

Screenshots of an unreleased build of Space Quest 2, where Roger has blond hair and the sky of Labion is purple. Featured on the 1993 "Space Quest Saga" box set of games 1-4.
#sierra #rogerwilco #spacequest #adventuregames
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2024-12-25 21:52:53

Tim Cain, creator of Fallout, reads a Christmas poem by Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island (and Clayton Kauzlaric, Ron's co-creator on DeathSpank):
#monkeyisland #lucasfilmgames #lucasarts #adventuregames #deathspank #fallout #interplay #crpg #crpgs
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2024-12-25 00:52:30

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody!

2024-12-12 03:11:27

Two real-life features of the Vatican that you won't see in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: the Ridiculously Long Corridor of Maps, and the Enormous Bronze Pinecone.
#indianajonesandthegreatcircle
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2024-12-11 09:52:18

I'm probably the only person who will be bothered by this since I'm an architecture nerd, but it bugs me that the Vatican's Belvedere Courtyard in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle incorrectly has Ionic column pilasters beneath a Doric entablature (the upper bit with the triglyphs).
The real Belvedere Courtyard has Doric columns on the ground floor and Ionic columns above them.
#IndianaJonesAndTheGreatCircle
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2024-12-08 02:18:09

The original Prince of Persia had a visual makeover for the PC-98 version in Japan: it was given a polish with high-res EGA graphics (and an extra final boss fight!) by Japan's Arsys Software.
Apparently this is where Jordan Mechner took the Prince's POP2 outfit from!
#princeofpersia
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2024-09-22 23:09:43

I realized recently that the FM Towns version of Zak McKracken makes it so the first room you enter in the Mayan temple in Mexico always has a torch already burning.
(More technically, the game has the torches already lit in each room of the outer ring of the temple maze.)
The FM Towns port also lit up the entire Mars maze, so you no longer need the flashlight for it.
@npub12vw…pxjp @npub10jl…yfat
#zakmckracken #lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #adventuregames

2024-09-22 23:09:43

2024-07-19 23:37:41

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@npub10jl…yfat :D :D :D

2024-07-19 23:37:41

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@npub10jl…yfat :D :D :D

2024-05-21 23:06:26

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2024-05-21 23:06:26

2024-05-09 23:20:12

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@npub16hv…sz5u "We are not emu-sed."

2024-05-09 23:20:12

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@npub16hv…sz5u "We are not emu-sed."

2024-01-20 23:25:25

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@npub1mc3…nkdg Here's the final version:
#monkeyisland #lucasarts #adventuregames
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2024-01-11 02:09:15

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@npub1y4h…t26u Very sad news. May she rest in peace. :(

2023-09-18 15:49:40

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@npub1keg…djeq I visited New Orleans once... two weeks before Katrina. That was eerie timing.

2023-09-07 19:47:05

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@npub1qw5…037m "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams