The Cave Injokes

"New Grog"
The New Grog machine is a reference to the Grog machine in the Monkey Island series, which was a parody of Coke machines. New Grog is a parody of New Coke, the failed attempt by Coca-Cola to introduce a new cola with a different formula from regular Coke. It is also a play on the fact that this is a new Grog machine in comparison to the old one found in the Monkey Island series.

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"Chuck the Plant"

Chuck the plant is an ongoing injoke in LucasArts (and Telltale) games. It started with a plant in the library of Maniac Mansion that was named Chuck as a joke.

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Strong Badia the Free Injokes

I'm ready for my close up!

The secret shirt in Strong Badia the Free is Telltale Games' Kevin Bruner, as drawn by Graham Annable for the Telltale Blog. To get the shirt, jump off of the ledge in the Snap Shak until Strong Bad lands upside down (you can't be wearing a costume for this to work). Now try to enter the door from the bottom. If all goes well, Strong Bad should now be wearing the shirt.

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The TI-99 was a series of computers by Texas Instruments, which was sold in the 1970s and 1980s.

1983

Return to Pirate's Island in search of treasure.

1982

A black hole mining ship investigates an anomaly that turns out to be a giant ship of unknown origin and composition.

1981

Collect items around Count Dracula's castle so that you can ultimately put an end to the evil vampire.

Retrieve thirteen treasures from an abandoned goldmine-era town by searching Boot Hill and the mine.

Find your way through the mysterious fun house before the park closes and you are thrown out.

Find all of the treasures in a recently discovered Egyptian pyramid and escape alive.

Teleport to distant worlds to collect items, so you can fix your spaceship and return home.

1980

Enter a castle and remove the curse that has been placed on Count Cristo by his enemies.

1979

As a secret agent, you must race against time to complete your mission before a nuclear power plant explodes.

1978

The first commercial adventure game. Travel through an enchanted world in a search for 13 treasures.

Travel from your London flat to a tropical island in search of pirates' gold.

Broken Sword: Angel of Death

Broken Sword: Angel of Death was the fourth installment in the Broken Sword series. It was the first game in the series to be developed by an outsourced company.  Sumo Digital programmed the game, in the Emmersion engine.  The story and puzzles were provided by Charles Cecil, the founder of Revolution Software, who had an executive producer credit on this game.  The same cooperation between the two companies would later be seen in Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.

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"You doddering sack of scumm!"

Elaine calls LeChuck a "doddering sack of scumm". This is a reference to SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), the scripting language used in LucasArts' adventure games for 10 years (from Maniac Mansion in 1987 to The Curse of Monkey Island in 1997) before being replaced with GrimE in Grim Fandango.

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Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso

Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is a game by Steve Ince of Revolution Software that combines the adventure and action genres into an arcade-style experience. It was originally released on September 2, 2006.  In February 2011, the game was made freeware.

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External link:

West Elmira Computers Museum page