Retro

A Moment To Re-Experience The Amazing Intro To Full Throttle

Has it been a while since you last played Full Throttle? I’m guessing it has. Sit back, relax and watch the intro movie from the game.


February 17, 2011
In Real Life

Balls To The Wall, It’s The Rock ‘N’ Roll Video Game Soundtrack

My favourite video game soundtrack is not a collection of original orchestral pieces, nor tracks by famous artists. It is one performed by a band that, were it not for this game, few of you will have ever heard of.


February 8, 2011
In Real Life

So, Video Games, Where Are All The Good Jokes?

You ever wonder why there aren’t more genuinely funny video games? One of the few genuinely funny men in the business, Double-Fine’s Tim Schafer (Psychonauts, Full Throttle) has an idea. [image]


August 7, 2009
In Real Life

Old News ’94: Tim Schafer Ditching Ham Sandwich Puzzles

It was just 15 years ago that designer Tim Schafer had to tell a reporter how one of his games differed from the other, and to do so he invoked the use of bread and mayonnaise.


August 28, 2008
Uncategorized

On Full Throttle 2, And What Could Have Been

Roll up your sleeves, Lucasarts fans. Classic Adventure Gaming have one hell of an interview up with Bill Tiller, a former artist at Lucasarts who worked with the company between 1993 and 2001. Specifically, it’s about Tiller’s involvement on the little-known Full Throttle: Payback, the cancelled sequel to Tim Schafer’s badarse 1995 adventure game. Basically, if you’ve ever wanted to hear somebody personally relate the period when Lucasarts decided to eat their own adventure gaming babies, you’ll want to read this. It’s got plot outlines for the game, the reason it would have been better than the other Full Throttle sequel, Hell on Wheels, as well as a ton of concept art. All of it good reading.

The rise and fall of Full Throttle: a conversation with Bill Tiller [Adventure Classic Gaming, via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]


April 30, 2008
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ScummVM, Now For Your Nintendo Wii

If you’re not interested in getting homebrew up and running on your Wii, fine. That’s your business. You’re probably not interested in knowing that ScummVM is now working for the system, either, nor in seeing a man play Full Throttle on his couch using a Wii Remote. Because that’s not awesome at all, is it? [via Savygamer]


October 26, 2007
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Let’s All Play Another Tim Schafer Game

Wilson’s gone and done it. He’s gone and opened the big, dusty box with “Tim Schafer Memories” scrawled all over the lid. And while I wholeheartedly agree, Day of the Tentacle’s intro is perhaps the classiest, funniest and most professionally cut Lucasarts sequence of the 1990s, it’s lacking…a certain something. Something to really set the mood for Brutal Legend. This intro, to 1995′s Full Throttle, about does it.

BONUS TRIVIA: The intro music’s provided by The Gone Jackals. Grab their second album, “Bone To Pick”, and you’ve got yourself most of Full Throttle’s soundtrack.