Gettin To Know You

Name: Tim
Age: 24
How did you find out about this place?: mixnmojo
Favorite Movie: the player (altman)
Favorite Video Game: sam & max: hit the road
Favorite SCUMM Game: sam and max
School?: college graduate
Try of music, bands?:underground hip hop
Married?:no

Name: Mel Emily Emerald, among various other totally fictional identities.
Age: 19.
How did you find out about this place?: I believe it was at The SCUMM Bar, but I have a ridiculously bad memory, so perhaps not.
Favorite Movie: Er. Um. Mewtwo Strikes Back! . . . What?
Favorite Video Game: The Monkey Island series! MI2, if I had to pick one specifically.
Favorite SCUMM Game: Er, also the Monkey Island series.
School?: 2nd year uni. The reason I'm posting here is to avoid doing assignments.
Try of music, bands?: Video game music! Go the geekiness!
Married?: Engaged (should I add that it's to a fictional character?).

Name: George

Age: 15

How did you find out about this place?: gamespot.com

Favorite Movie: hmm.. either Moulin Rouge or Kill Bill..

Favorite Video Game: Legend of Zelda/Mario/Metroid series

School?: Lycee Georges Pompidou (french)

Try of music, bands?: Alt.rock (No Doubt, Colplday, Keane)

Married?: would be surprising, at my age!.. :P

Name: Dan
Age: 18
How did you find out about this place?: www.mixnmojo.com
Favorite Movie:
Favorite Video Game: Grim Fandango
Favorite SCUMM Game: Secret of Monkey Island
School?: In college...
Try of music, bands?: mostly classic rock (joe walsh, rolling stones) some new stuff too
Married?: nope.

Name: Brendan Q. Ferguson

Age: 28

How did you find out about this place?: Troy said, "Okay, the website's up."

Favorite Movie: It's a Wonderful Life. I also really like all of the movies I mention in the blogs, e.g. Lord of the Rings (esp. Return of the King), Star Wars (esp. The Empire Strikes Back), Indiana Jones (esp. Raiders of the Lost Ark), Disney movies (esp. Aladdin). And I expect The Princess Bride to work it's way into a blog any day now. I'm also into suspense/thriller type movies, with Hitchcock being my favorite (esp. Psycho).

Favorite Video Game: Ultima VI. Of the Ultima series, I thought this had the best blend of a well-realized living world, interesting characters, and thought provoking ideas.

Favorite SCUMM Games: Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, but I love them all actually.

Favorite Sierra Games: Gabriel Knight series, Quest for Glory I & II, King's Quest IV & VI

Favorite Infocom Games: Trinity, A Mind Forever Voyaging

Favorite Legend Games: Gateway I & II, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Favorite Revolution Games: Broken Sword series, Beneath A Steel Sky

Favorite Westwood Games: Legend of Kyrandia II, Bladerunner

Favorite Dreamforge Games: The Summoning, Veil of Darkness, Chronomaster, Sanitarium

Favorite First Person Adventure Games: The Last Express, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Spycraft, The Space Bar

Favorite Free Adventure Game: King's Quest II Remake by AGDI

Favorite Non-commercial Interactive Fiction: Photopia

Favorite Console Adventure Game: Ico

Favorite Nintendo Games: Metroid series, Zelda series, Mario series

Favorite Rare Games: Banjo-Kazooie & Banjo-Tooie

Favorite Capcom Games: Resident Evil series, Mega Man X series, Devil May Cry

Favorite Konami Games: Castlevania series (esp. Symphony of the Night), Metal Gear Solid series

Favorite RPG's: Ultima series, Fallout I & II, Planescape Torment, Phantasy Star

Favorite Action Games: Half-Life, System Shock series, Wing Commander series

Favorite Strategy Games: Heroes of Might & Magic series

Favorite Puzzle Games: Incredible Machine series

Favorite Sports Games: Virtua Tennis & Tennis 2K2

Favorite I'm Not Sure of the Genre Games: Star Control 2, Oddworld series, Deus Ex

School?: I studied Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley

Try of music, bands?: Classical - My all time favorites are Mozart and Beethoven. Rock - Lately it's been Beatlemania, with some Beach Boys for good measure. And some Led Zeppelin. I also like heavy metal (esp. Metallica) and grunge rock (esp. Nirvana).

Married?: No

I'm happy to see there are more (although not a lot) people of my age.8-X

Name: Dirk Klomp
Age: 28
How did you find out about this place?: http://www.worldofmi.com
Favorite Movie: The Lion King (although Pirates of the Caribbean is really nice too, and Indiana Jones, and James Bond, and ....... well, it's hard to choose :-/ )
Favorite Video Game: The Secret of Monkey Island |)
Favorite SCUMM Game: The Secret of Monkey Island |), followed by Monkey Island II: LeChucks Revenge, Day of the Tentacle, The Dig, Sam and Max hit the road, .... they are all fun. These are really difficult questions, you know?
School: I work as a PhD-student in Delft (Chemistry ~o) )
Try of music, bands?: Again, I like a lot. Classical music (especially Strauss), pop-music varying from Shakira to Anouk, Spice Girls to The Corrs, and some Dutch music from Boudewijn de Groot, K3, and Neerlands Hoop. (Yes, that's also a lot. I guess I don't actually have a real favorite. )
Married: No. I also don't have a girlfriend.
Furthermore: I participate in and I teach gymnastics. I like trains and the area I live in (the Zaan-area, just north of Amsterdam).

Yep, that's about it.

Now that I'm not alone in the geriatric league....

Name: DFKT

Age: 28

How did you find out about this place?: A grumpy gamer's website...

Favorite Movie: Dead Man by Jarmusch; Solaris by Tarkowskij; Week End by Godard; everything by Jacques Tati

Favorite Video Game: Grim Fandango, Siberia, Longest Journey

Favorite SCUMM Game: Sam & Max; DOTT; Zak McKracken (FMTowns version)

Favorite Infocom Game: Zork 1, Hitchhiker's Guide

Favorite Sierra Game: Gabriel Knight 1 (-- I hate Gabriel Knight 3 )

Favorite Microsoft game: Dungeon Siege

School: I studied Electroacoustic Composition - and now Visual Media Design

Try of music, bands?: Talking Heads, Jesus Lizard, NoMeansNo, Cake, Franz Ferdinand, Sizzla, Lady Saw, Red Rat, Queen Omega, ...

Married: Same girlfriend for 7 years... guess that's close enough. I don't believe in marriage.

Name: Cale

Age: 15

HIFOATP: Can't remember

Favorite Movie: Ferris Buellers Day Off, or Fargo

Favorite VideoGame: Tron 2.0

Favorite SCUMM game: Sam and Max

School: Northampton School of Jazz

Try of Music, Bands: Radiohead, Blur, Bowie, PUSA

Married: Not on my testacles!!!

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Name: apignarb
Age: 28
How did you find out about this place?: The Internet
Favorite Movie: The Beyond
Favorite Video Game: I hate "favorite.." questions, since I have too many favorites. Thus, I am hereby boycotting these kind of questions.
Favorite SCUMM Game: Same problem. Oh okay. I'm not really good at keeping my promises. Full Throttle.
School?: Yup.
Try of music, bands?: hiphop, lofi, electronica, noise.
Married?: only to my bad habits.

With a minor in sword fighting? I hope your wits are as sharp as your blade
You meant dual didn't you?

How embarressing- I blame it on the fact that it was early morning (i.e. 3am-ish), so there...

I must note, the majority of us seem to be 15 - 30 year olds....and male.

Name: rodrigo link
Age: 22
How did you find out about this place?: samandmax.net
Favorite Movie: Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun, Hot Shots...
Favorite Video Game: Advance Wars, Tetris, Starcraft
Favorite SCUMM Game: Loom, Monkey Island, and the Dig
Try of music, bands?: a little of everything
Married?: no, but living with girlfriend, and tomorrow I´ll get a cat!!!

Name: Burn
Age:13
samandmax.net
Favorite Movie: Godzilla
Favorite Video Game: Jak 2
Favorite Scumm game: Day of the tenticle
School: Yep
Music: Blank
Married: No

Name: Jaap
Age: 25
How did you find out about this place?: Telltale's newsletter
Favorite Movies: groundhog day / Shawshank Redemption / Muppets from space / Spirited Away

Favorite Video Game: Kings Quest 6
Favorite SCUMM Game: Sam & Max

School?Work?: Ph.D. student dept radiology

Try of music, bands?: Classical (Bruckner, Stravinsky, Mahler) Jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rolins, Ilja Reingoud, Ray Anderson, Arturo Sandoval, Wynto Marsalis)
Married?: no

Oh, well, I forgot another favorite band of mine: Razor and the Scummettes!

Name: David
Age: 16
How did you find out about this place?: Either Ron Gilbert, The Scumm Bar, or one of the many other sites and magazines I read
Favorite Movie: Ocean's Eleven
Favorite Video Game: Recently, either Civilization III, or N (http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html)
Favorite SCUMM Game: MI 2
School?: Alleyne's
Try of music, bands?: Queen are awesome, anyone that I can make out the words really though
Married?: I'm 16, give me a chance

welcome

Name: Will

Age: 23

How did you find out about this place?: www.worldofmi.com

Favorite Movie: Back to the Future

Favorite Video Game: Sam & Max

Favorite SCUMM Game: Jeez, All of them.

School?: Well, work. Kia Car Salesman.

Try of music, bands?: Conroy Bumpus

Married?: No.

Name: Rick Scales
Age: 18
How did you find out about this place?: I forgot
Favorite Movie: Big Fish
Favorite Video Game: Half-Life
Favorite SCUMM Game: Day of the Tentacle
School: Hendrix College
Music: Classic Rock, Indie Stuff. Moldy Peaches are nice
Marital Status: Dating

Name: Dan
Age: 36
How did you find out about this place?: Troy Told Me About It
Favorite Movie: Fear of a Black Hat
Favorite Video Game: Thief, Madden
Favorite SCUMM Game: Day of the Tentacle
School: Hard Knocks
Music: Jerry
Marital Status:Married

welcome