I've never heard of Commander Keen before either. This is the first time I've ever seen the name. Will look up the original when my computer's back from the shop.

I love this idea. So many game screens could be rendered this way.

Use: Report card given to flunking student, in order to get his mom off his back and allow him to play video games again.

Inventory: Mom's grocery list.

Every time Rosella delivers a death blow, she's grossed out by the blood and says "eeeuuu" and "blech" a lot.

Datadog wrote: ↑

Tue May 21, 2019 11:36 pm

I love this so much.

The only finisher I can think of at the moment is a one-liner for Laura.

"I rip out your heart and put it in my purse."

"While this is an interesting approach, it serves a fatal purpose."

Monolith Burger! Love it.

Use: Egg is taken to magic swamp and hatched, in order for the hatchling to save the swamp from an infestation of Battletoads.

Inventory: Swamp Water.

>open door

I lasted less than a minute. Forgot about the metal being lethal if you try and pick it up.

Nice! SQ2, right?

Use: Visit Leyendecker Musem to obtain Loch Ness Monster DNA from alcohol vat.

Inventory: DNA

MusicallyInspired wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2019 8:12 am

Indiana Jones didn't have the unrealistic proportions either.

Thanks for that. I'll check those out next.

I'd certainly be willing to give it a go. Heaven help me if it's one of the AGI games. Those suckers are TOUGH!

Part of it, for me, is visual style. All LucasArts games had incredible production values, but I'm particular about how character sprites are drawn. I prefer realistic proportions, and some LA games had characters with oversized heads and such (Looking at you, Maniac Mansion ). It doesn't matter the...

Fun fact - I used to "Work" for Westwood... but not in any sort of cool way, which is why I put "work" in quotes. I used to work at a company called "Advanced Access" (long since now gone under), where we did all of their shipping. So we had all of their games and stuff in our warehouse downstairs....