564: Grim Fandango

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In 1998, Tim Schafer decided to leave LucasArts on a high note with Grim Fandango: the Day of the Dead-themed adventure game that leaves pointing-and-clicking in the past—for better or worse. This one-of-a-kind experience mixes the trappings of film noir with Mexican mythology, resulting in one of the greatest gaming backdrops of all time. But after 25 years and despite the endless acclaim, it's hard to ignore the fact that Grim can't help but stumble over itself in its desire to innovate.

On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Kole Ross, and Everdraed as the crew lights their totally-safe-for-skeletons cigarettes and sinks into the moody, pulpy vibe of Grim Fandango.

And if you'd like to order Bob's Day of the Tentacle book, head on over to Boss Fight Books!

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots, we bone up on GrimFanDango.
0:25.5	Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:27.8	I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie and this week we're bringing my LucasArts mini series to a close
0:32.4	by covering the one adventure game from their library we've yet to cover and yes technically there's one game
0:38.3	we haven't done an episode about yet but I'll get to why we're not doing that very very soon.
0:43.1	Before I continue, who is our returning guest on this podcast?
0:47.4	Cole Ross, yeah I forget do we do the tags, Slayer of the Mighty Robert Frost?
0:54.1	Hey that works that works and Cole you've been with us for a few of these episodes as far as
0:59.2	I can remember full throttle. No no sorry Samimax and I believe Indiana Jones in the last crusade and
1:05.7	oh yeah fate of Atlantis too. Yeah I've been on three of these before that's wild thank you very
1:10.1	much for having me it's great to be back for this one. And Cole of course is a season adventure
1:14.8	game podcaster you've covered plenty of them on watch upper fireballs over the past decade plus.
1:20.0	Yes yeah including many many LucasArts many LucasArts games so this is this right at home coming
1:27.0	back to this one. And we also have a new guest on the program a new guest please introduce yourself
1:33.0	and let us know who exactly you are. Hey it's me Everett I'm sort of a weird internet kind of guy
1:39.5	just out there I've helped out with some random things back in the day and always happy to talk
1:45.5	about a cool game at length hopefully. But please go ease on me this is my first time I'm not
1:51.6	only on your show on any show on it really doing anything too significant so I can't make any
1:56.3	promises my apologies if I am not in the game as hard as both of you but I'm really excited to be
2:02.2	here and thanks for having me. Hey this is a great first podcast to be on because I think my first
2:06.8	podcast was me making jokes with my friends and about three people heard it so this is a good way
2:12.5	to start your podcast and career Everett raid talking about Grim Fandango. Before I continue we
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