I picked up a PC Gamer, and just briefed back to the Review section, and saw GF, and it just kinda pulled me in. (I'm not exactly quoting this i'm just typing this as a way to adress this to you). Don ahh yes such a strange guy misunderstood and lived only a couple hours in that game, dang i want manny's job! What a cool job, similar to a detectives yet more orthadox.
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I was using stumbleupon for firefox and a site with the ten best adventure games popped up. I read more about Grim and I decided to buy it online. I love this game!
Isn't it great? Fandango is by far one of the best adventure games LA has produced.
Yeah, my copy came with EMI. I'm not sure if it was a mis-package or what. I was damn lucky, though. Played them and loved them both.
Looked interesting on the shelves, so I bought it. Started playing it...
Have been obsessing/re-obsessing ever since. :D
omg, and the first copy I owned included a limited edition CD case. And someone THREW IT IN THE BIN ACCIDENTALLY! :0 I had a heart attack.
Luckily I still had the limited edition original box and instruction manual, and I bought another one. But it didn't have a limited CD case; just white paper slips. ;-; Wah.
What does the limited edition look like?
It was thin cardboard (alike to the original box). On the front it had a small version of the box cover. When you opened it there were two pockets on each side for Disc A and B. On the pockets was a print of the fresco aztec art that you see on the save and load screen (the nifty storyboard that shows your progress.. that thing). And on the back was a pic of... that Manny and Glottis bonewagon one, I think. Or a LucasArts symbol, I'm not sure. It's been so long since I saw it, can't really remember.
But it was so awesome. ; ;
Oh yeah. And originally it was my Dad, my brother and I who played it on the first round. :D But it was mainly my brother and I who solved everything.
But I've played it a hundred times over by myself by now. ^__^
I saw it on the shelves and it was on sale. I thought it looked good and i had alot of money to sapre so I just grabbed it and it was one of the best buys i ever made.
I love LucasArts ;) and :manny: rulez :D
Just waiting and waiting for FT2!!!
FT2 is not gonna happen man. i dont know when you first played it, but i played it in 1994. i've stopped waiting long time ago, but i m still havin fun with FT!!
What made me buy this game? Now THERE's a story to tell! Bear with me, this is gonna be long.
So the game came out in 98 right. I was like 9 years old back then and i was new to gaming. I was with my cousin and we were going out hunting for bargain games (i was 9, how much money would you expect i had) when we came across a software pirate. He had hell of alota games in a basket for like just a few bucks a piece. We grabbed everything that had a good cover illustration on it and i came across the name Grim Fandango. I wanst attravted to it so i didnt buy it.
We were walking home with our goods quite satisfied but somehow i felt like i should have gotten Grim Fandango. I think its it's name... it just keeps ringing in my head... Grim Fandango, grim fandango...
A few years went. I started playing Monkey Island 3 which i absolutely loved! If any of you have ever played this game, you'd remember that there was a nice reference to GF. "Don't ask me about Grim Fandango". Grim fandango.. That rang a bell. And that Skull face looked so very familiar.
Through the following years i kept noticing that skullface pop up everywhere. It was as though it haunts me everywhere i go.
I gave in, I went online and tried to connect the dots and better understand
this game. It seems to have won some highly acclaimed awards and was very highly rated. I started to regret not having bought that game earlier.
I went scouraging looking everywhere for it. Its been so long since its release that no one sells it anymore. None of my friends had it, i couldnt find it online until...
I was window shopping wiht a friend and i saw ... a reflection on the mirror... i thought it was Casablanca.. but Humphrey bogart didnt have a skull face. That was it.. And ever since... This is My Fandango.
This post is best enjoyed while listening to
http://www.scummbar.com/mi2/GRIM2-CD1/03%20-%20Mr.%20Frustration%20Man.mp3)
Viva La Revolucion!!
What a nice story, Kald0rei! :)
What a nice story, Kald0rei! :)
Thank you. yea... i can never thank that manuel skull enough for haunting me, GF is the best game ever, Even better than Monkey Island series? YES.
Any of you who has a myspace, come leave a comment or suggestion. I'm doing a Memorial of Sanspoof week on my profile. Thnx
I asked for more information in Curse of Monkey Island. I wish I had a real button that said that...
I just happend to wonder into my local game-aery (a place where games are sold and traded) on the day they recived the first shipmentof GrimFandango...
I saw the shop man puting them up on the shelves... I asked about it and he said he had no idea... i looked at the box and i was sold...
I got the first one on the shelf and it was the first one out the door...
and here i am...
Played a demo of it, in a magazine. Haven't looked back since. :)
I got it for a Christmas present when I was 8 and had no idea what it was! Lol! But now I'm glad I was given it cos it's an uber game and I've comleted it about 4 times now (I know that's probably a lot,lot less than most of you but meh, I'm about to play it again now anyway!). Just wondering, and I know this has nothing to do with what you're excuse is but, what is the shortest amount of time it take for you to play the game? It would be great if people would reply to this as I haven't had anyone reply to any of my comments! I'll shut up now.
Heh Heh.... I gave it to my dad as a Chistmas presant! I got hooked~!
I was watching my brother playing it and I loved it :D
Played the demo, loved it, dad bought it, we played it through as a team, and I've played it through myseld many times since and never got bored of it
I stumbled across it on amazon (don't ask me how) at a time when I was trying to become more spontainious. (sorry, I can't spell for all the glowing coral in the sea of lament) It was so cheap, I bought it, and have never looked back. Man, I love that game.
My dad gave me the demo when it was pretty new. Loved it, went to the library in my town were they also had some games... they had GF! I borrowed it, copied it in my cd-burner... but bought it anyway several months after that.
Picked up Monkey Island 2 and a bizarre chain of events led me to GF, Full Throttle, DOTT and so much more.
Read about it in some magazine, they said it was the best game ever so I thought I had to check it out. Turned out they were right.
Hi btw :)
It was thin cardboard (alike to the original box). On the front it had a small version of the box cover. When you opened it there were two pockets on each side for Disc A and B. On the pockets was a print of the fresco aztec art that you see on the save and load screen (the nifty storyboard that shows your progress.. that thing). And on the back was a pic of... that Manny and Glottis bonewagon one, I think. Or a LucasArts symbol, I'm not sure. It's been so long since I saw it, can't really remember.
But it was so awesome. ; ;
Isn't that the CD case for all the Grim Fandango editions? :) That's what mine came in anyway and it's completely battered now. But yes the pic on the back is the bonewagon one! :D
I found out about Grim Fandango because my older brother had borrowed it off a friend. I watched him play part of it and got it for myself when I was a little older and have been obSESSED with it ever since - that was 7 glorious years ago...
Welcome, you two. :)
There was an edition released in a DVD case, and I think it was in fact an actual DVD too so you got one disc instead of two. I never had this version though, instead owning the launch cardboard thingy.
Welcome, you two. :)
There was an edition released in a DVD case, and I think it was in fact an actual DVD too so you got one disc instead of two. I never had this version though, instead owning the launch cardboard thingy.
I played the demo long time ago, aswell the german version... but my point is..
I was just ONCE in London like 4 years ago, and then my dream came true. I saw a Grim fandango copy for 15 pounds :D I fall so in love with the original voice acting in the demo so I had to buy it.
It was packed in a dvd case but holding two cd game discґs.
Nice blog btw Thrik.
long live Nintendo hoooooooo! :D
I especially love the manual that came with it - the Greetings from Grim Fandango pic, for a start, and one other full page one of Manny saying something like "Meet Manny Calavera. He's sauve, he's debonaire...he's dead. And he's your travel agent" which I had printed onto a t-shirt in the height of my infatuation!
Umm... I actually sort of forget how I found out about this game although it only happened last year. I had ordered the Curse of Monkey Island from the LucasArts store and I was looking for some other games by them. Its sort of weird, I went onto Gamespot and looked at the CMI page and one of the first reviews had had a picture of skull, which I later figured out was Manny. The images name was Grim Fandango. So I searched that up and it got great reviews up and down. I looked into it, finished the demo, and..... well I knew then I HAD to own this game. First oppurtunity I bought it off eBay. Since then I haven't played a game that I've liked more.
What made me buy this game? Now THERE's a story to tell! Bear with me, this is gonna be long.
So the game came out in 98 right. I was like 9 years old back then and i was new to gaming. I was with my cousin and we were going out hunting for bargain games (i was 9, how much money would you expect i had) when we came across a software pirate. He had hell of alota games in a basket for like just a few bucks a piece. We grabbed everything that had a good cover illustration on it and i came across the name Grim Fandango. I wanst attravted to it so i didnt buy it.
We were walking home with our goods quite satisfied but somehow i felt like i should have gotten Grim Fandango. I think its it's name... it just keeps ringing in my head... Grim Fandango, grim fandango...
A few years went. I started playing Monkey Island 3 which i absolutely loved! If any of you have ever played this game, you'd remember that there was a nice reference to GF. "Don't ask me about Grim Fandango". Grim fandango.. That rang a bell. And that Skull face looked so very familiar.
Through the following years i kept noticing that skullface pop up everywhere. It was as though it haunts me everywhere i go.
I gave in, I went online and tried to connect the dots and better understand
this game. It seems to have won some highly acclaimed awards and was very highly rated. I started to regret not having bought that game earlier.
I went scouraging looking everywhere for it. Its been so long since its release that no one sells it anymore. None of my friends had it, i couldnt find it online until...
I was window shopping wiht a friend and i saw ... a reflection on the mirror... i thought it was Casablanca.. but Humphrey bogart didnt have a skull face. That was it.. And ever since... This is My Fandango.
This post is best enjoyed while listening to
http://www.scummbar.com/mi2/GRIM2-CD1/03%20-%20Mr.%20Frustration%20Man.mp3)
Viva La Revolucion!!
Heh, for some reason when I listen to that song and read your story I picture some random person smoking a cigarette and talking into a microphone in some jazz bar, like the Blue Casket. Weird...
i played the pc gamer demo about 200 times with my neighbor. And bought it for "my dad" as a christmas Present from electronics boutique. Which came free with Toonstruck i dont know how many people have heard of this but its a good old point and click adventure game
I fell in love with tim schaffers latest game psychonauts, after playing through it several times I researched some of his earlier work and GF came up. Im currently in school and a animation and special effects major and Im definetley going to be hitting up tim when im out, I recently discovered this game and Im only on the beginning of disc 2 so I cant post more till ive finished it! :)
Good to hear you decided to give it a go. It's a magnificent game, and I'm sure you'll want to talk about it once you've experienced the whole thing. You've got loads of gameplay ahead of you though and I'm sure you'll fall in love with the game even more as you go on. :)