78641

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: August 27th, 2009

78641: A TARG ADVENTURE is “the hit Esperanto interactive simulator ‘Pato Viro Simulilo’ available in the English Language.” “Dedicated in loving memory to the late Patrick Swayze…”

In 78641 you play as a frying pan named Doug (full name: Dougleskoy Fluoride Beachanowicz) who crashes his convertible and dies, but is sent back before the accident by the Time Genie to… pay his insurance premiums?

Okay, your guess is as good as mine. I just started playing. But so far this the best adventure game I’ve seen in a long while. Definitely check it out!

Forum thread (and download) is <a href=“http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=7956.0” “78641 Release Thread on TIGF”>here.

Posted in Adventure, Freeware, Highly Recommended, Windows | Tags: GZStorm

Protector one

Swayze ain’t dead yet!
http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

And frying pans typically don’t drive convertibles. :P
MisterX

Care to elaborate why it is the best adventure game in a long time for you so far? :)

It looks.. interesting, but the trailer didn’t show anything I thought was great. Mainly it actually looked sluggish to me. But, giving it a try likely won’t hurt, I guess.
http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

I’m not sure I should elaborate!

The game is just super excellent, is all. Perfectly bizarre and hilarious.
anothergol

Sounds totally dumb. I have to try it!
Rockvillian

It looks like it was developed with the help of beer. Alright!
Nektonico

you had me at dickorama
Humus

This looks amazing. Downloading now.
j

Evidently no way to save the game? I got clobbered by an action event with weird hit detection and tossed back to run through a long sequence of intentionally inane tasks again. No thanks.
whaaa

Wow, how the guy managed to win that card game on the video? he must be cheating!
ssid

I love the pacing of the marketing-pitch text.
Briker Ed

Hah, this was a fun play. The only problem I had was with the font. It hurt my eyes every time I had to read a dialogue :(
Chester Bum Impersonator

This is the best game I’ve played in my life!
splotki

the theme song is really catchy. Can I has it?
splotki

For real, is there a link to the soundtrack somewhere. It’s great.
Rynen10K

Game Folder > Music

It’s all .mod files.
Fail

Great on the eyes, but feels overly sluggish.
Theo

Kick-ass!
superflat

Think this is overall one of the most satisfying indie titles I’ve played. Absolutely wicked.
BackInAction

I’m sorry, but the Swayze joke is fucking tasteless.
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

I love it. I keep messing everything up. It’s like if “Groundhog Day” were an adventure game.

And instead of Bill Murray, it’s a frying pan.

And instead of Punxsutawney Phil, there are rainbow dicks and bad grammar.

Has anyone finished the game? Is there a correct way to finish Doug’s day?
http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

**@BackInAction:** True enough. There’s a lot of tasteless stuff in this game. I actually grabbed the Swayze quote from the forum post, though. :

**@Rynen10K:** Haha, totally. It’s like Groundhog Day on acid.

Not sure how to finish the game yet. (If it can be finished!) I feel like I’ve done mostly everything, but… Hrm.
http://www.g4g.it Firesword

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmILPAcRQo
Dusty Spur

GZ is my hero.

This is almost as good as a new Tales of Game’s game.
http://adamatomic.com Adam Atomic

The Patrick Swayze joke is absolutely NOT in bad taste. Swayze is and has always been the poor man’s Kurt Russell, and the more jokes at his expense the better.

I commend our Esperanto-espousing friends for not taking themselves embarrassingly seriously.
Nicholas Lee

Yeah, this game is fun, but I can’t figure out how to get to the end, either. I suspect it has something to do with the order of events.
http://www.gzstorm.com GZ

i am glad to hear the game has been generally well-received by those who have played it. this was a short project and we really wanted something out in the wild after a long hiatus.

the game itself is one giant puzzle, and i am fairly certain you will have more success with the game if you post about your outcomes so that you can compare the various results of the game events. there is one fairly obvious sign of progress in the game, but i do not want to say much more than that.

thanks for taking the time to look at our game.
Zaphos

Hooray, I won!
Zaphos

Also, the game is pretty sweet :)
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

I keep losing at NIM for some reason, I’ve dodged the Bloodmonster’s attacks for a while with no success, and so far it seems that each color car you hitch a ride with during the “toothpaste trip” has a different result (so far, I’ve got skydiving and some foreign-language-speaking guys who ended up stealing my money).
And I managed to sell (read: blackmail) off one dick with evidence from the dumpster.
hryx

This game explains my genealogy. Apparently Ukrainians come from another planet that you have to fly a guitar to.
mots

OMG YOU HAD ME SO WORRIED ABOUT THE SWAYZE DYING!.. DON’T EVER DO THIS TO ME AGAIN
Humus

This game is absolute win.
http://www.youtube.com/Malefact Malefact

Really enjoyed this. The awesome style is what carries it up and away beyond your average “kooky” adventure game; the slightly unsettling and very hilarious mock-poor dialogue, the random switches to lo-res art, the joyful strangeness of everything. I mean, you’re a frikkin’ walking frying pan. YES.

78641 actually reminded me quite a bit of Giddy 3, in the whole over-arching puzzle of “learn how to do everything in the right order”, except that it is a lot less frustrating, being as it is an adventure game (that single action sequence aside). Also, it’s actually a lot more sophisticated as a sort of groundhog day teach-yourself-what-to-do-to-win which you can end at any time than as a series of simple “fetch item X to get Y” puzzles embedded in a platform game.

A couple of things I think would be nice additions: 1) if there was a more obvious indicator that what you were doing was right (maybe in the text when you’re driving away from town? If that *was* there, then I must have missed it). As it stands I’m guessing this game is going to frustrate a few people into not completing it, which’d be a shame. 2) if there was some sort of bonus or alternative ‘stay in the city’ ending if you manage to shift your dicks (so to speak).

@Rynen: Once you’ve got the knack of predicting what’s going to happen depending on how many sticks you take, the trick with NIM is who goes first ;)
http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

Aah, I gotta beat this today.
superflat

So have I, BMcC, so have I.

This game is a shining beacon of light in an ocean of mediocrity.
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

Ok, I figured out NIM after a while, and quite a few other things, but I’m trying to figure out what the purpose of:

a) The toaster’s function in the FBI building (why do I want it to do that?)

b) Flooding the apartments with the Roast Pork Gum

I have a feeling I’m getting pretty close, though.
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

Also trying to figure out if there’s something behind the random 8-bit-ification of everything.

Speaking of which, I somehow got the “8-bit” version of the “toothpaste trip”, but right after doug finishes his dialogue, the screen goes black for me. I can still hear the music playing, though.

This is the only bug I’ve encountered so far.

Also, it would have been nice if there were a way to save.

PROTIP: Hold the Action Button down to skip through crap you’ve already read a zillion times.
yuma_5:5

I’ve had THE TIME OF MYYYYY LIIIIFFFE……
BackInAction

Yeah… fuck all of you making Swayze jokes. My nephew just passed away and he’d been fighting it for years.

But hey, go ahead and laugh.

Because after all, cancer is FUNNY! Watching someone’s body slowly and painfully waste away is FUNNY!
http://www.youtube.com/Malefact Malefact

Wait, Patrick Swayze is *actually* seriously ill? Oh hell no. I find that immensely distasteful.
http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

Yeah. I don’t think most people joking here were aware of that, though.
http://blogs.gamefilia.com/zerael Zerael

I must admit that I had a pretty good time with this… but at the same time, I really missed a save-system.

But, you know… there are lots of memorable moments. That thing with David Lynch… XD Or the surreal trip to the moon ^^U

By the way, I’m impressed: There IS a WAY to beat the game :S
HurpDerp

But cancer IS funny, as is any potentially dark and touchy subject.

I’m missing an eye due to an accident and I joke about it constantly.
Dusty Spur

I wasn’t aware about Patrick Swayze. I don’t really keep up with celebrity shit though.

If I heard him make a joke about cancer, then I’d be cool with joking about it. But I highly doubt he makes jokes about it so that’s kind of awful.
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

To be fair, Patrick Swayze is “dead of the AIDS” in the game, not cancer.
Nicholas Lee

My mother died of cancer, and yet I’m not offended. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I seem to have this amazing “sense of humor” that prevents me from being grossly over-touchy.
the bopster

pretty sure the patrick swayze joke wasn’t a reference to cancer and you’re all just a bunch of reactionary and humorless nerds.
the bopster

p.s. i’m patrick swayze.
rz.

thanks BMcC, i love you.
this looks tits, downloading now