We opened for an amazing community orchestra in San Diego that plays videogame soundtracks.

Usually we play as a five-piece but our drummer and keyboard player had other commitments, so we gave ourselves the challenge of putting on a good show in this pared-down configuration. The solution? Matching guitars and amps. And outfits. And A/V. Let us know what you think!

LESS CORONADOS

Is a subset of Los Coronados: LosCoronados.com

lmao

• 1:55 The 7th Guest - The Game
• 6:49 Maniac Mansion - Surf Face
• 9:56 Wing Commander - Fanfare (Main Theme)
• 13:06 Zhadnost: The People's Party - Moonglow
• 14:39 Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds - We Need Your Help
• 16:40 The 7th Guest - Skeletons In My Closet
• 20:27 Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Evening of the Undead
• 23:43 Pajama Sam 3 - Guitar Top
• 26:45 The 11th Hour - This Old House
• 31:54 Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Miserlou

The 7th Guest Original Soundtrack Glow-in-the-Dark vinyl is now up for preorder on a number of record stores. Get yours by Halloween. This link will guide you to all of them: https://slinky.to/the7thguestostlp

This haunting glow-in-the-dark LP is strictly limited to just 250 copies worldwide.

Maybe a preview for a remaster release??

https://ashnasbot.github.io/t7g-ml/

Great for practice.

The "Stauf" opponent is based on the ScummVM code which was reverse engineered from the original game, so it's authentic. The AshnasBot opponent is an ML model which is ever smarter!

Ashnas said this about the AshnasBot opponent: "so aye, I've been learning reinforcement learning and ended up creating the ML, the bot should be pretty decent at this point, interested to see if anyone can beat it 😄"

You can also choose to play as Green and vs AshnasBot to use this as a solver to beat The 7th Guest.

Source code: https://github.com/ashnasbot/t7g-ml/tree/main/webapp

Some discussion from ScummVM about how the microscope puzzle works https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=16369

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski

Like other sliding-block puzzles, several different-sized block pieces are placed inside a box, which is normally 4×5 in size. Among the blocks, there is a special one (usually the largest) which must be moved to a special area designated by the game board. The player is not allowed to remove blocks, and may only slide blocks horizontally and vertically.

It is still unknown which version of the puzzle is the original. There are many confusing and conflicting claims, and several countries claim to be the ultimate origin of this game. One game—lacking the 5 × 4 design of Pennant, Klotski, and Chinese models but a likely inspiration—is the 19th century 15-puzzle, where fifteen wooden squares had to be rearranged. It is suggested that unless a 19th-century Asian evidence is found, the most reasonably likely path of transmission is from the late 19th century square designs to the early 20th century rectangular, such as Pennant, thence to Klotski and Huarong Road.

Frank E. Moss filed U.S. patent 668,386 in 1900 for a sliding puzzle of six squares and four rectangles, which is one of the first known occurrences of sliding puzzle with non-equal blocks.

It seems like there were puzzles extremely similar to what ended up in The 11th Hour independently created in England 1934, and in China 1938.

https://chinesepuzzles.org/huarong-pass-sliding-block-puzzle/

I don't actually see an identical layout to what The 11th Hour uses.

Darkshoxx wrote a good, quick to read guide, for speedrunning purposes: https://www.speedrun.com/t11h/guides/281q3

Posted by @sqhistorian@dosgame.club

The "white lady" ghost from The 7th Guest floating with her head against a brick wall. Text above her reads "".

https://dosgame.club/@sqhistorian/116892561035361774

bonus reply from Graeme Devine

Hey, that's Diane our office manager!

https://bsky.app/profile/graemedevine.com/post/3mqaslm6gck22

Rob Landeros joins us to share the incredible story behind Trilobyte and The 7th Guest, from discovering the Amiga and working at Cinemaware and Virgin, to teaming up with Graeme Devine and helping ignite the CD-ROM revolution with one of the most iconic FMV horror puzzlers of the 1990s.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roblanderos/diddly-the-word-and-trivia-game-show

https://www.prlog.org/13150200-trilobyte-games-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-diddly-new-word-and-trivia-game-show-experience-25-years-in-the-making.html

Releasing June 4th

Our "lounge version" of Skeletons in My Closet feat. Sarah Kelley on vocals and George "The Fat Man" Sanger on guitar.

Listen to the original tune on The Fat Man's Bandcamp page: https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/track/skeletons-in-my-closet

Surf.com (Soundtrack to Zhadnost: The Peoples' Party for 3DO)

Manifatso 8.20.95:

Multimedia is a frontier for music. Along with the Net, Multimedia will become important in a way that is historically significant, providing tremendous numbers of opportunities for, and different and new ways of, listening to, creating and interacting with music.

As the settlers come to this frontier, it is incumbent upon us pioneers to make sure that this becomes a place that is free and open for musical expression. It is Team Fat's intention that the music in this place be expressive, touching, and made for the sake of the human spirit, not repetitive, imitative, mechanical by convenience, nor needlessly enslaved by styles imposed by fashion or limited machinery.

The musical precedents we set, and the tools we use and help create, the clothes we wear, the cars we drive and the things we say should all promote this vision.

The music on this compact disc was originally recorded on digital equipment. We have attempted to pervert, as grossly as possible, the sound of the original recording. Because of its high resolution however, the Compact Disc can reveal cleanliness and fidelity in the source tape. We apologize for any notes that got through Joe's Vacuum Tube Soul Enhancement Device undistorted. credits

released June 3, 1997

Flabby Rode

Welcome To The Zoo is from Putt Putt Saves the Zoo by Humongous Entertainment (1995), with vocals by "Rappin" John Houck and Spanki, sax by Alex S. Hernandez and drums by "Those Incessant Drums" (Dave Sanger, Brannon Temple, Chris Searles and James Fenner).

Don't Drop A Brick On Your Foot (It Will Hurt) (McDermott) Copyright ©1997 True Blue Music (BMI)

When You're A Dad (McDermott) Copyright 1996 True Blue Music (BMI)

The vocals on No Man On Earth are by Dianna Winslow.

Glixer Battle Anthem is from Invaders From Glixer: Rescue The Scientists by Compton's New Media (1994), with lead guitar by Ted Hall and drums by Joe Boone.

This Means War, Nice Day for War and Nasty Russian are from This Means War by Star Jammer/Illusion Machine/MicroProse (1995).

On Nice Day for War, the drums are by Anthony Ortega and the keyboard is by Floyd Domino.

Mr. Death and Aeila were written by George Alistair... more credits

released June 3, 1998

Dog Eat Dog would've been from Trilobyte's unreleased game with the same title https://youtu.be/H-7XOVXrO_Q