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I studied 1984 and Animal Farm for my English Lit A level.

I don't remember the carryings on in the book that I saw on BB

I read 1984 on the plane to Dublin in February.

i actually found it disturbing in places

what Dublin or February

Im reading it for my English A level coursework at the moment

It's a good book as is Animal Farm. I quite like some of Orwell's poetry too.
I wonder what he would make of today's world.

Oh.my.gosh! Grim Fandango! I've got you in a box at the end of my bed! I loved that game, never finished it tho, I think it would have been better in 2D, like Monkey Islan 1 and 2 (I hear the succesors ones aren't as good...). Awesomeness!

Right, I'll keep quiet now

I still have the game too, I loved it but I never manged to finish it either. Still a great game though.

I also loved that game Not as much as Monkey Island though

have you played Simon The Sorcerer? I have 1 and 2 on my computer, love it!!

Monkey Island was and always will be 'the daddy', I played Escape From Monkey Island a while back, its the fourth one and is in 3D, never finished it... back in 93' or whenever it was that I played it, it was something very special, I started off with Monkey Island 2 and then went to 1, heck, we still have the original game boxes, played it on the macintosh I did, I was just a wee lad but I got all the jokes, altho I curiously found the graveyard in Monkey Island 2 scary and not at all amusing (but I went back to it a few years ago, and read all the gravestones, comedy gold, no other game like it!).

The problem these days is that whilst back then Monkey Island was a game you could play when the computer wasn't in front of you, as in, I tended to think up solutions to the puzzles whilst at school, and then try them all out when I got back home (I still am that sad...), today if you get stuck you just go to gamefaqs.com ...I think the thoroughly wrecks it, but I can't resist the temptation.

Broken Sword, now there's a game which I didn't have to look at a walkthrough for, obviously it wasn't meant to be funny, but I enjoyed it nontheless, shame I got through it in just a few days. Monkey Island lasted me flipping months, by golly, I remember cos my dad went on photographing trips for a few months at a time, I'd start playing it before he went, and still be nowhere near finishing it when he came back...

You see, back in our day... I'm rambling, aren't I?

uh huh

Hmmph, you prolly just haven't witnessed the self-deprecating humour to be found in none other than Mr "I don't want to do that": Guybrush Threepwood

Here he is, the bloke next to the monkey hanging from the lever, the monkey was so adorable



Ron Gilbert was a tragic loss for LucasArts, and subsequent Monkey Islands will never match the first two that used the SCUMM engine, personally I can't believe they did things such as add voiceovers.

I really didn't like what I read of that book, I started it and I just really didn't like it! I love 'animal farm' and a couple of short stories I've read by Orwell but I really couldn't get into that

That bit in the image there egor is the place i was stuck on for days. Anyway i did eventually do it im pleased to say.

Simon The Sorcerer is the same kind of game, good humour and really obscure puzzles. I started the second one again not too long ago, its wicked I love old games, nothing like those nowadays, the amazing graphics are there but the fun usually isn't.

The puzzle I most got stuck on was the one where you had to use a monkey as a pump handle ...that was just ridiculously obscure!

I'ma try simon the sorceror, I just hope it doesn't require one of those anti-piracy disks like monkey island did (which I have subsequently lost ), or, to quote what it said on the actual disk, something like "cheap-o anti piracy key"

Hoping the characters are just as good, I felt it was the side-kicks in monkey island that made it special, Herman Toothrot, Stan the salesman...

Golly gosh, what the hell am I doing in this thread? I've never even read 1984...