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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He does rather look like Ed Harris circa The Abyss...

ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Early character concept art for Sierra's The Colonel's Bequest, back when it was called "The Plantation Murders, Starring Thelda Tallent"! #sierra #colonelsbequest #thecolonelsbequest #laurabow #adventuregames

Early concept art for two characters in The Colonel's Bequest, labeled "Myrtle Perfitt" and "Ambrose Frawde." Myrtle might have become Gertie in the final game, while Ambrose Frawde became Clarence Sparrow.

Early concept art for characters in The Colonel's Bequest, with pretty much everyone having different names than in the final game.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was right! Sadly I'm not sure this particular concept art is archived anywhere nowadays...

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

say what you will about Don Carlos of Spain but he had excellent drip

A portrait of Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. Carlos is wearing a cloth-of-gold doublet; embroidered cloth-of-gold paned breeches with a prominent codpiece; thigh-length golden hose; and golden shoes. Over his doublet he wears a waist-length cloak, black with alternating areas of a shiny fabric that might be black or dark green in color. The cloak and doublet have spherical silver buttons bearing small gold flowers. On his head is a black hat with gold embroidery and golden feather plumes. His right hand is on his hip, and his left hand rests on the golden hilt of his sword, kept in place by a black leather belt with golden clasps. The white ruff of his shirt peeks out from the high collar of his doublet. Carlos' protruding Habsburg jaw is clearly visible.

Another portrait of Don Carlos by Alonso Sánchez Coello. This one is thigh-length. As in the first portrait, Carlos is wearing a cloth-of-gold doublet with a white ruff underneath; embroidered cloth-of-gold paned breeches with a prominent codpiece; thigh-length golden hose; and a gold-hilted sword held by a black belt with golden clasps. There are subtle differences: the doublet has round golden buttons with a rosette design and gold edging on the buttonholes, while the paned breeches have a slightly different embroidered pattern. This portrait also shows that the breeches' under-layer is of golden fabric as well. Carlos' hip-length cloak is purple, with thin wide-spaced lines of gold trim on darker fabric around the lower edge; the cloak is trimmed and lined with whitish fur. Carlos' hat is black with gold embroidery, again subtly different than in the other portrait, and has white and golden feather plumes.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not enthused about yet another trilogy of Star Wars movies. But it really is something how the most devout fans of The Last Jedi love to quote the lines of the fascist bad guy as gospel truth. Almost like all the subtext in TLJ suggests he's the one in the right or something...

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The resource files for the final game include two different palette options for this room. The one on the left is the default palette, but it isn't used, while the one on the right (which does get used) matches the palette in the demo.

The background art for the Fighter/Magic User confrontation with Ad Avis in Quest for Glory 2, showing the default palette in the game files which isn't used.

The background art for the Fighter/Magic User confrontation with Ad Avis in Quest for Glory 2, showing a second palette option which does get used, and which matches the palette seen in the prerelease demo.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Note the crescent moon, originally meant to hang between the Scorpion & Dragon constellations mentioned in Ad Avis' prophecy. But he also says that conjunction doesn't happen till "tomorrow," which is likely why it was changed. In-game the crescent moon is covered by a full-moon sprite instead.

A screenshot of the prerelease demo of Quest for Glory 2, showing the Fighter/Magic User version of the final confrontation with Ad Avis. In the night sky behind Ad Avis there is a yellow crescent moon, flanked by constellations in the shape of a Dragon and a Scorpion.

A screenshot of the Fighter/Magic user version of the confrontation with Ad Avis in the published version of Quest for Glory 2. The Scorpion and Dragon constellations in the sky behind Ad Avis have been removed, and instead of a yellow crescent moon there is a white full moon.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At one point in development the Phatt Island waterfall was a static scanned background painting, before it was digitally redrawn in order to add color cycling! #monkeyisland #lucasarts #adventuregames

A prerelease image of Monkey Island 2 from French magazine Génération 4 #37, October 1991, showing the Phatt Island waterfall. At this point in development the waterfall was static, scanned background art. rather than having dynamic color cycling.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Don't forget his cameo in X-Wing!

A photo from LucasArts' 1993 X-Wing game, showing the custom portrait the game gives you as an Easter Egg if you name your pilot "Yeager": Chuck Yeager in an orange Rebel pilot jumpsuit, complete with brown Army Air Force officer's cap.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An unused GUI icon for the inventory window (in its regular and highlighted states) from the Quest for Glory 3 resource files. @qfgbook.bsky.social #sierra #questforglory #adventuregames

Two versions of an unused GUI icon for the inventory window in Quest for Glory 3. The icon shows a sword of some sort. In the regular version of the icon, the sword is drawn in sepia. The highlighted version of the icon adds color. The sword has a golden crossguard and a purple hilt with blue and yellow gems embedded in the handgrip. The pommel has a large round yellow gem of some sort, resembling an eye, inset within a purple circle.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's a new challenge in Hitman: World of Assassination that calls attention to a certain Easter Egg. :D #monkeyisland #lucasarts #adventuregames

A screenshot of the menu description of a challenge which was newly added (as of September 2026) to the Ambrose Island level in Hitman: World of Assassination. The challenge is called "Bloom Where You Are Planted." Its requirements are 1) "Fulfill Gregory M. Yeager's request by giving him a flower" and 2) "Take his body to Threepwood's grave." The reward for completing the challenge is an ICA19 Spider Lily pistol.

A screenshot from the Ambrose Island level in Hitman: World of Assassination, showing the gravestone associated with the "Bloom Where You Are Planted" challenge. Dimly visible on the grave's surface is the faded name "Threepwood."

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

me when everybody on here is talking about the Nintendo Direct

Screenshots from Curse of Monkey Island of Captain Rottingham telling Guybrush "I see. And I don't care."

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Funny that you can immediately tell the location of the first picture is the Hôtel de Salm in Paris (now the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur).

The garden front of the Hotel de Salm (Palais de la Legion d'Honneur) in Paris.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The image stored on the CD had some aspect ratio correction built in. Here's a version where I undid that, revealing the original image size to be 320x190 pixels, like a standard Sierra VGA game background. #sierra #freddypharkas #freddypharkasfrontierpharmacist #adventuregames

A version of the Freddy Pharkas art test image shown above with the aspect ratio correction removed, showing the original dimensions of 320x190 pixels.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

2264 separate action spheres, eh? I suppose they couldn't go any higher because they might stumble into lawsuit territory.

A screenshot of Kirk and Spock in the second Star Trek TOS pilot, established by later media as being set in the year 2265.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It appears the Dinky Island hole interior in #MonkeyIsland 2 started out as a regular-height background and then got extended. It's really easy to tell if you look for it, because the cracks on the sides in particular are mirrored right above & below the line of the join. #lucasarts #adventuregames

The background of the interior of the concrete-lined vertical shaft on Dinky Island in Monkey Island 2.

The same background with a red horizontal line drawn across it where the top of the verb GUI would go. This reveals that the background evidently began as 144 pixels high, and was then extended to 200 pixels high, using a vertically flipped version of the art as a starting point for the extension.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Another pre-release image of #MonkeyIsland 1 from Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 3 #6, Nov/Dec 1990. This version of the "Directions to Monkey Island" has some slightly dubious grammar ("4 Leafs of Mint," "1 squirts Squid Ink") that was corrected before release. #lucasarts #adventuregames

A pre-release screenshot of Monkey Island 1 from Game Player's PC Strategy Guide vol. 3 #6, November/December 1990. The image shows the piece of paper with the "Directions to Monkey Island," including a few typos that were corrected before release, such as "4 Leafs of Mint" and "1 squirts Squid Ink."

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There's a weird anomalous gray line in the bottom-right corner that seems to have been added by mistake. It's not in the demo version of the background - which also uses a slightly different palette (still present in the final game files).

A screenshot from a pre-release non-interactive demo of Quest for Glory II, showing the Thief walking the tightrope to reach Ad Avis in the finale. The palette of the mountains in the background is slightly different than in the final game. The sprite used for Ad Avis is different, and the Iblis statue is missing from the center of the hexagram.

The same scene in the final game. Besides Ad Avis' sprite being redrawn and the Iblis statue being added in, the color of the mountains in the background has been changed. There's also a strange dark gray line added in the bottom right corner, which looks like it was simply a mistake.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A couple things that were only in early floppy releases: 1) Brandon swears when dying while crossing lava - complete with text color change as he burns up! 2) In Castle Kyrandia, when you find Zanthia petrified, if you click on her cleavage Brandon will cop a feel... #kyrandia #adventuregames

A screenshot from floppy version 1.0 of the first Legend of Kyrandia game, showing Brandon about to die by crossing an underground lava river. In this image, Brandon is saying "This heat is pretty intense..." in his normal white text color.

Another screenshot from Brandon's death scene at the lava river in floppy version 1.0 of the first Legend of Kyrandia game. Brandon is walking over a stone bridge across the lava, but has stopped midway across. He exclaims "Oh Shit!" in a red text color.

Another screenshot from Brandon's death scene at the lava river in floppy version 1.0 of the first Legend of Kyrandia game. Brandon is now engulfed in flames. He says "I'm burnin!" (with a vintage typo) in a red text color.

A screenshot from floppy version 1.0 of the first Legend of Kyrandia game, showing Brandon in Castle Kyrandia, in a room with the petrified Zanthia. The cursor is positioned over Zanthia's cleavage, and Brandon is saying "I've ALWAYS wanted to do that!"

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@qsy.bsky.social just in case you've never seen it, here is the bathtub William Howard Taft had installed at the White House in 1909 big enough to fit four regular-sized men, or one William Howard Taft

A photograph from 1909 of an extremely large bathtub with four men sitting inside it.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And of course, the Arc Hammer in Dark Forces has a suspiciously similar shape as well.

The Arc Hammer spaceship from LucasArts' Star Wars: Dark Forces.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Fascinating. There's some concept art showing an earlier idea with the Forge just levitating off the ground. The final idea puns on the literal meaning of a "cumulonimbus incus" thundercloud (since "incus" literally means "anvil").

Concept art for LOOM, showing the Forge flying off the ground in its regular shape, rather than being transformed into a thundercloud.

A Wikipedia photo of a cumulonimbus incus ("anvil") cloud formation.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The funny thing is, the box screenshot shows the two leftmost doors as green and white. In the final game, they're hardcoded to be red and orange, so they will NEVER match the box screenshot - even though the other two doors in the room have colors chosen at random.

A screenshot from the published version of Sam and Max Hit the Road, showing the Mystery Vortex interior - the left-hand side of the foyer, plus the leftmost two doors of the color-coded door puzzle. The leftmost door is red, and the right-hand door is orange.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At one point we see an early version of the Mystery Vortex interior. Not sure if it's contemporary or later than the version in a screenshot on the box (which might be a "bullshot" based on the sprite used for Sam).

A screenshot of the early build of Sam and Max Hit the Road shown at San Diego Comic Con 1993. The image shows an early version of the closeup of Sam and Max inside the giant fiberglass trout from the World of Fish. In the foreground are Sam and Max and the "frame" of the giant fish mouth, which are still raw scanned grayscale art. Beyond the opening of the fish's mouth can be seen the background plate of the river flowing by the World of Fish. However, the background area has its palette set incorrectly, so that the colors flash psychedelically (is that a real word, Sam?) through a range of incorrect hues.

A screenshot of the early build of Sam and Max Hit the Road shown at San Diego Comic Con 1993. The image shows an early version of the Mystery Vortex interior, specifically the left-hand side of the foyer. The two leftmost doors of the color-coded door puzzle are visible. The left-hand door is red, as in the final game, but the right door is yellow rather than orange.

A screenshot from the back of the box of Sam and Max Hit the Road, showing another early version of the Mystery Vortex interior. Again, we see the left-hand foyer and the two leftmost doors of the color-coded door puzzle. Here, the left-hand door is green, and the right door is white. Sam and Max's sprites appear like they might have been specifically posed to create a fake screenshot. Max's sprite is very large compared to how it appears in this room in the final game, while Sam is looking at his surroundings with such astonishment that his hat is flying off his head.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Early screenshots from a 1994 WIP version of Interplay's Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for PC, before it became an FMV game released three years later. #startrek #starfleetacademy #interplay

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, 1994.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Left: A bad quarto. Right: A bad pinto.

The title page of the 1603 "bad quarto" edition of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

tumblr user @epicsause-official might just be on to something here

A screenshot of two posts by user @epicsause-official on Tumblr.

The first says: "I think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty"

The second says "heres kinda what I mean" and includes an illustration. The illustration shows a hand-drawn black-and-white mockup of a game difficulty selection screen. The names and descriptions of three difficulty levels are featured, next to three different player portraits.

The top of the screen says "Select Difficulty."

The upper difficulty level is next to a portrait of a bespectacled, acne-scarred nerd with large teeth, wearing a bowtie. The text reads '"I'm compensating for my complete lack of a social life!" (Harder enemies, less useful pickups'

The middle difficulty level, which has a selection arrow next to it, features an average-looking guy with his mouth open and smiling in an enthusiastic manner. The text here says '"Alright, let's see what this is all about!" (Recommended for first playthrough)'

The bottom difficulty level has a picture of a Duke Nukem-esque Cool Guy with a smile showing perfect teeth, a colossal chin, sunglasses, and a ridiculously perfect hairstyle with not one strand out of place. In fact, his hair and chin are so perfect they're rectangular in shape. The text reads '"Sorry, I'm too busy PLOWING my GIRLFRIEND to play this game!" (More items, you kill enemies faster)'

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This demo wasn't the last time Lucasfilm/LucasArts would embarrassingly misspell their own name. The Adventurer issue #14 (Winter 1996-97) featured this full-page spread touting X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, "exclusively from LucusArt's."

A page from LucasArts' The Adventurer magazine #14 (Winter 1996-97), with a full-page splash ad for X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. Promo text at the top manages to misspell the company's name in two different ways at once: "It's the ultimate battle. It's the ultimate game. Exclusively from LucusArt's."

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

so clearly Zelda has to be French (dressed like Marianne in WWI-era posters maybe) and Link needs her help to take on the Demon Kaiser Ganondorf (also ideally Marianne!Zelda has at least one tit out)

A 1917 French WWI propaganda poster, showing Marianne with a boob out.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

More examples, from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's Vatican City level. In some areas you have Ionic pilasters supporting Doric entablatures (the horizontal part above the columns). Or the columns are set way back from the entablatures they supposedly hold up. IRL these issues aren't present.

A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's Vatican City level, showing a wall with Ionic pilasters holding up a Doric entablature.

Another screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's Vatican City level, showing a wall with Doric pilasters that are deeply recessed compared to the entablature above them that they supposedly hold up. In proper classical architecture the top of the column shafts should be parallel with the front face of the entablature above it.

The Belvedere Courtyard of Vatican City in real life, without the architectural problems shown in the previous two screenshots.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

One of the most egregious examples of bad video-game architecture is the Massachusetts State House in Fallout 4, which A) violates the basic rule that porticoes should have an even number of columns so you can have a door in the middle B) is based on an actual IRL building so they had no excuse.

The Massachusetts State House as seen in Fallout 4, with a front portico that has five columns so the doorways within it are off-center.

The actual Massachusetts State House as built by Charles Bulfinch, with a bunch more columns which are even in number so the door can actually be in the center of the building.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The clay bust used for the closeup of Brauggi in Sierra's Quest for Glory 1 VGA remake, plus a screenshot (apparently flipped) of the closeup in-game. From the 1994 children's book Know the Score by Gloria Skurzynski, about how computer games are made. #sierra #questforglory #adventuregames

An image of the clay bust used for the character closeup of Brauggi in Sierra's Quest for Glory 1 VGA remake, next to a screenshot (apparently flipped) of how it appears in-game, from Gloria Skurzynski's 1994 children's book Know the Score.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Early character design sheet for Robin Hood with descriptive text by Christy Marx, for Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow. From the 1994 children's book Know the Score by Gloria Skurzynski, about how computer games are made. #sierra #robinhood #conquestsofthelongbow #adventuregames

An early character design sheet for Robin Hood in Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow. Rough sketches of front, side, back, & 3/4 front and back views of Robin appear. Robin wears a sleeveless jerkin with a crenellated lower hem and a hood thrown back, and a belt with a pouch on the left side. Beneath the jerkin he is wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a bracer on his left arm, hose, and cuffed boots of some sort. He also appears to have a vandyke rather than a full beard.

Beneath a handwritten label "Description of Character" there is some typed text by Christy Marx:

"A muscular man of average height in his late 20s.

Pending further research for accuracy, I want to see him dressed in a thigh-length jerkin over a shirt which is several inches longer than the jerkin, leather belt, pouch on belt, hose (thick, woven hose), breeches which stop at the bottom of the knee, horn hung on a cord over his left shoulder, short (around the ankles) soft-leather boots with pointed toes, and a bracer for his left forearm (being right-handed). He will not wear a hat, but will have a hood which hangs down in back though maybe be partially obscured by the quiver. He won't wear gloves or finger stalls (leather fingertip protectors.)

I see Robin as generally muscular, but lithe, not muscle-bound. He is nimble and agile. However, his arms and chest would be the most heavily muscled from a lifetime of drawing the powerful longbow and using the quarterstaff. (Skeletons of archers from this time period actually show deformation of the arm bones from the constant strain of drawing longbows.)

He will have his arrows in a leather quiver which hangs upon his back, angled toward his right shoulder for an over-the-shoulder draw with his right hand. The arrows will have bodkin heads.

He will not carry a sword or buckler.

He will carry a short, all-purpose dagger hung from his belt, in the center of his back, also angled for a right-hand draw.

He will carry his longbow in his left hand.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

TIL from the Fate of Atlantis TCRF page that there's an unused alternate cursor design in the game files. tcrf.net/Indiana_Jone... #indianajones #fateofatlantis #lucasarts #adventuregames

Screenshots of an unused alternate cursor design from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, shaped like a squareish line drawing of a right hand with pointer finger extended. The cursor color flickers between white and gray hues, like the crosshair in the published game. The screenshots were taken by hex-editing a save file.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If I wrote this article, I would've been sorely tempted to leave everything else the same (including the inline photo of Genghis Khan) but have the "Khan" hyperlink in "Khan, Hitler, and Tralchar" link to this guy.

Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek II.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

she's Mephistopheles, I'm telling you. Henry Irving tried to warn us

An excerpt from the script of Henry Irving's adaptation of Faust performed at the Lyceum Theatre in late 19th-century London. The text was adapted from Goethe's original German play by librettist WG Wills. It starred Irving as the demon Mephistopheles, and the theater's business manager was Bram Stoker, author of Dracula.

The excerpt:

"Faust: By what pretence canst thou forbid me, fiend?

Mephistopheles: Thou answer'st me
As if I were some credulous, dull mate.
I am a spirit, and I know thy thought.
You think you may be fenced round by-and-by
With sprinkled holy water, lifted cross--
While you and your pale saint might hold a siege
Against the scapegoat -- 'gainst the devil here.
Ere that should be I'd tear thee limb from limb,
Thy blood I'd dash upon the wind like rain,
And all the gobbets of thy mangled flesh
I'd scatter to the dogs, that none should say
This carrion once was Faust!
Yon cottage would I snatch up in a whirlwind,
At dead midnight, like pebble in a sling,
And hurl it leagues away, a crumbled mass,
With its crushed quivering tenant under it.
Dost know me now?

Faust: Fiend, I obey.

Mephistopheles: When hell's aroused in me, beware!

(Business.)

End of Act II."

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's in Howard Park in Wilmette. The steeple was salvaged from a school on the site of the park that was torn down. When I saw Westworld for the first time, I went "hey, this reminds me of the park behind my house in Illinois!" Not surprising that the Nolans lived nearby, I guess...

A photo of Howard Park in Wilmette, Illinois, showing a copper steeple on a short brick pedestal rising straight out of a flat expanse of grass.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Are they the re-edited Adventures of Young Indy versions with footage added to smash two episodes together into TV movies? It would blow my mind if there were still stations playing the original one-hour Young Indy Chronicles episodes with bookends featuring 90-year-old eyepatch Indy.

A photograph of actor George Hall as a 93-year-old Indiana Jones, wearing an eyepatch, from the original one-hour versions of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Funnily enough, there's a tapestry that shows up in the climax of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle that made me think of this scene from Broken Sword.

A tapestry with four panels seen in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I've always wondered if that poster for Die Nibelungen was an inspiration for this painting of the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

A painting of a knight crossing a chasm to obtain the Holy Grail, seen in Henry Jones Sr.'s house in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

An early version of the Kyrandia 3 box art, featuring a 2D painting instead of a 3D render. From an ad in PC Gamer US volume 2 #1, January 1995. #kyrandia #legendofkyrandia #adventuregames #westwood #westwoodstudios

An early version of the Kyrandia 3 box art which uses a 2D painting instead of a 3D-rendered scene.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

For similar reasons, in the EGA version only, highlighted inventory items appear with red text outside Meathook's house because the Hook Island sign needed an extra slot for color cycling.

A screenshot from Monkey Island 1 EGA, showing how outside Meathook's house, the text GUI highlights inventory items in light red rather than bright magenta.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

despite everything, it's Stilicho or possibly Aetius, it's unclear

One half of a late Roman ivory consular diptych, showing a figure who might be Stilicho or Flavius Aetius.

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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The animation of the tiny train in the Lucasfilm Games logo in the VGA & FM Towns versions of Indy Last Crusade was actually recycled from a cut opening screen that appears in the EGA non-interactive demo! #indianajones #lastcrusade #lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #adventuregames

A screenshot from an EGA non-interactive demo of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The image shows a desert landscape with a train passing through it along tracks in the far distance, a shot that doesn't appear in the full game. The game's title, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", is superimposed over the screen, along with the subtitle "The Graphic Adventure", which likewise does not appear in the full game (despite being on the box).

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