YOU’LL FRY LIKE A PORK SAUSAGE.

[butterburp]

#10935

Ah, the game that nudged me to upgrade my meager black & white 286 to a 386-40. I also remember taking a 3-bus trip in San Francisco, just to buy a Sound Blaster 2.0 at a computer “store”… which turned out to be a public storage unit in a brick-lined alley. It was well worth the money (and risk to body & soul) Looking forward to working with the Freelance Police again!

[Eulisker]

#11393

I played this game to completion back in the day. Another one of the Bestseller Games classics I got of the magazine rack. I remember liking it a lot but somehow I never played it again like I have a few of the other Lucas Advetures.
April is the time to do it finally 🙂

[rappscal]

#11420

I used to quote that opening monologue out loud, randomly, to the joy of everyone around me. “Friends?! Friends!?…”

[Mike]

#11429

This was one of the first Lucasarts games I played, along with Day of the Tentacle* and Fate of Atlantis. I remember playing them on a friend’s Macintosh before my family got one of Lucasarts adventure game packs. It will be fun to revisit this.

*Technically I played this at a computer store first

[Evil Taco]

#11487

Just fired up the GOG version and playing the game the first time in my life. I hate it when DOS games from 1993 predict 2026 so accurately, with incel robots taking over and what not. I also hate it that it’s a fantasy – where’s the freelance police in real life to sort it out?!?!

I didn’t play this as a kid. I was playing a few Lucasarts and Sierra games with an English dictionary at hand (being a non-speaker). I would’ve worn the book out with this game, and either given up in frustration or have my brains swell out of proportion with my still-developing skull trying to fit all that vocabulary in, let alone understand it.

Let’s see at the end which game won out in number and wittiness of references when it comes to middle-aging game developer and animator guys mid 90s, Toonstruck or Hit the Road … (I mean to say, the credits sequence was pretty darn neat!)