For those interested, this months PC Gamer features Full Throttle as its classic demo of the month, as well as a retrospective feature inside the magazine.
Also included on the coverdisc are the original PC Gamer review and a fairly detailed look at the production of the game, both articles dating from 1995.
For those of you who don't have access to the magazine (or are just too mean to buy it :P) I have uploaded the coverdisc articles for your viewing pleasure. Get them here...
...and here...
Due to technical reasons, they won't be up for long so get 'em while they're hot!!!
Enjoy :)
All gone! :'(
I hope everyboy, who wanted to, got a chance to read them.
I still have the original PC Gamer with Full Throttle articles. Quite funny, since it was one of two PC Gamers I ever bought.
Haha ildu! I know what you mean. One of the only ones I ever bought was for the LBA2 review. Anyway, thanks for posting the articles LimpingFish :)
The earliest PC gamer i remember had a Z preview (but my older brother certainly had them before that..)
A good read as FT is one of my fav. adventure games
Oh, and the coverdisc also features 5 Days and 7 Days. For some unrelated reason.
Good lord those articles take me back... back to a day when highly anticipated games were't GTA or Halo clones.
Once upon a time, LucasArts made quality games without outsourcing them and Larry Laffer gave hope to men everywhere ;-)
Thanks for the memories, LimpingFish.
- Ponch
Too bad we get the crappy pc gamer here in the USA, and the UK version is hella expensive. Thanks for the articles... I've e-mailed double fine/tim schafer about it, like the crazy fan I am. :=
"UK version is hella expensive"
How do you think we feel? I only buy it if I REALLY want it, so i own about two issues. Dunno if it costs even more where you are, but the price of gaming/computer magazines with discs on them is unbelievable.
I only just finished Full Throttle today. As I got it a couple of days ago.
Opinion from someone who's played it fot the first time about ten years later? I liked everything but the puzzles and the arcade sequences, which would have been bad even back then I imagine. The graphics though showing their age are impressive despite the blockyness and the animation is sublime. I also like how "foot" is an option.
Tim Schafer's work gets a lot of positive press in the UK PC game media.
Nary a month goes by without a mention of Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, and/or Full Throttle in the two major PC game mags (PC Gamer and PC Zone).
And, as some of you may know, this is the 5th or 6th time I've uploaded articles about Tim Schafer or Ron Gilbert or, indeed, the old PC adventure game scene, which are usually taken from the aformentioned magazines.
So, in the UK at least, these games, and their creators, still warrant coverage in the mainstream (PC) media. :)
[completely and utterly off the topic]
About 5 or 6 years ago PC Gamer started sending me magazines in the mail. They were addressed to me, but they never sent a bill. Eventually my mom just cancelled the subscription. Not really sure why...but...that's life...or so they say.
[back to the topic]
That's cool. I like PC Gamer, and I like Full Throttle. I may go buy the game that way I have some sort of rights...o.0 Not that I would ever play it without the legal right to... ::)...but seriously, I have to go. Thanks for the info.
Is it an updated Windows version of the game on the disc?
No. Only the original demo from 1995 is included on the coverdisc.
In Windows XP you'll need Scumm VM to run it.
Man full throttle was fun! it was a short game though, my friend let me borrow his copy (he's like a scumm maniac) and it had a good story too, i also have:
Grim fandango
Loom
Day of the tentacle
Fate of atlantis
Sam and max hit the road (well, my freind has Sam & Max, not me)
Curse of monkey island
They are all great games, if only lucasarts still made adventure games, is doublefine going to make any?
I doubt Doublefine have any adventure games in the works at the moment :-\
Telltale Games are making the new Sam n' Max, tho, as well as continuing the Bone games.
http://www.telltalegames.com/home
Man, does this take me back. My very first adventure game was Myst. It was my grandad's (he was a pretty big gamer in his 40s), and I loved it. In fact, it was the first video game I ever played, next to Wolfenstein 3D (which got my parents pretty angry that he showed me this Nazi shooter when I was 7 or 8)!