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Old 12-12-2005, 10:03 AM   #16
MojoAlex
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Default As best as I can recall

1) Vacbag.mov doesn't appear in the game. Originally, the game had three ways to get across from the work bench area. (a) blown by the vacuum, (b) short the vacuum and (c) sucked into the vacuum and dumped into the garbage.

As we were designing the game, we trimmed it to two ways and combined the garbage maze with solving the shorting wire.

2) Money.mov was to appear along the bar's photograph wall inside of a dollar bill. It was a tie-in with the loan shark movie.

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On the original shipping CD in 1995, there was one other movie called FLOORQT.MOV. That was a test movie in which Phill Simon says "I got a bar to run here." We used that movie to test playing QuickTime movies in game (without a movie controller etc). We used to throw that phrase around our bullpen to indicate that we too busy to chat.

Originally, it was to be a photo of Roger morphing into Eddie. Since it appeared in the first 10 screens of the game, we felt that was too much of a give away. The movie in the actual game uses a package of cigarettes and you don't see the morph until you reach the bar.

For the Redux edition, the CD is a Mac/PC hybrid and I had to remove that test movie for disk space issues.

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There's lots of other neat trivia in the game that probably doesn't belong in this thread but

1) There's our team photo on the bar wall as the football team.

2) The calendar girl has a topographical bust.

3) The eye photos that are used in the Den are from various 1995 celebrities' magazine photos including Michelle Pffeifer, Daniel Day Lewis, and David Letterman.

4) Various wacky labels in the game carry names of team members - check the newspapers, pill bottles, shaving cream, carpenter's glue, and urinal deodorizer to name a few.

5) The picture on the milk carton in the Kitchen is the son of 3D Lead Dan Meblin.

6) Inside the aquarium that the cat pulls down, there are two Madagascar hissing cockroaches, Al and OJ, that we had as part of our menagerie. That was a reference to the Simpson trial which was the big news of that time. Our pet zoo also include a scorpion named Simon and two tarantulas, Frieda and Pancho.

7) The doctor and university professor were played by Phill's parents who happened to be visiting. They were actually stage actors from NYC.


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