Day of the tentacle windows xp

Go to cousin Ted's room and get the extension cable. Take the hamster from the ice machine and thaw him out in the microwave in the kitchen. Go to the laundry room, open the dryer, take the sweater and put it on the hamster. Go outside and use the extension with the chron-o-jon's power lead.

Feed the extension through the open window. Go to the basement, plug in the extension and use the hamster with the generator.

When you get punched out, switch to Hoagie. Have Hoagie put the flier in the suggestion box and switch back to Laverne. Use the vacuum on the mousehole and retrieve the hamster from the vac. Use the hamster with the generator again and Laverne will be ready to head home.

After being fused together, go upstairs. When Purple zaps you, go into Dwayne's room and go through the mousehole to the Green Tentacle's room. When you return to normal size, pick up the bowling ball and go down to the basement. Use the bowling ball on the guards and throw the sludge-o-matic switch. When Purple Tentacle confronts you, talk him into zapping Dr Fred. Sit back and watch the end sequence.

Listen to this plot carefully. You will have to concentrate. Mad scientist Fred Ed Edison has a lab. He spends a lot of time in it, a-cackling and a-rubbing his hands, he has two pets, Purple Tentacle and Green Tentacle, who look, literally, like the blunt end of an octopus appendage, suckers and all. Eds lab secretes a continuous flow of toxic waste into a nearby river, and it is here where all the trouble starts.

Purple takes a dram from this eco-unfriendly sludge and -via an incredible radio-active mutation process - sprouts arms, turns evil, and becomes hell-bent on world domination. So its up to Bernard the computer geek , Hoagie the heavy metal roadie , and Laverne the neurotic medical student to stereotype their way through past, present and future to change history, rectify the damage, and boldly go where Monkey Islands I and II have pretty much been before.

You pick up the story at the point when Bernie and his pals crash Eds lab to rescue the Tentacle brothers, unbeknownst to you. Purples gone a bit Saddam in the head. Ed decides to use the Chrono-Johns Tardis-like toilets to send this latter day Scooby-Doo gang back to yesterday to turn off the sludge-o-matic machine before the tentacle can take that fateful sip.

Unfortunately it all goes a tad wrong. Hoagie is stranded years in the past, jammed between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with no electricity and only a repertoire of dude speak to find a way back. Lavernes stuck in a kumquat tree in the year plus shes neurotic, plus shes a token woman while Bernie stays more or less where he is being a computer geek , trying to raise two million dollars to buy a new diamond so that the time machine can be repaired.

Oh, problems, problems, problems. But there are two plus points. In between healthy quips about American culture, our hapless trio can: a flush objects back and forth through time to aid each other: and b since they are in the same location plus or minus years they can alter the past and present to change the future - or alter just the past to change the present, or, for that matter, make a subtle alteration to the present to drastically shift the future, or, indeed, send something back from the future to change the past and thereby warp the present its all very complicated.

The graphics in Day of the Tentacle can be neatly encapsulated in the word snazzy. The past, present and future zones are all depicted in a cartoony altered perspective: sort of a cross between Hanna Barbara and Salvador Dali. It works very well; all manner of sloping walls, angular circles, weird shadowing, and mind-altering colour palettes create a likely setting for the ridiculous plot.

The cartoony characters, superimposed across the background, have no problem, as you might have expected, in 'going in and coming out' of the 3D screens. Everything is rounded and polished by amusing cut scenes - time travel sequences, meanwhile scenes, and rotating news flashes on the Purple Tentacle's progress - to give an overall not-a-computer-game-more-of-an-interactive-episode-of-Scooby-Doo feel.

The bizarro look goes well with the bizarro humour, which is well Ive got a little problem with Day of the Tentacles humour. In the first place, its very studenty. Now, Im a prime candidate for student humour.

Ive made as many bum-tit-willy jokes as the next Home Economics student. Doy of the Tentacle is rife with student humour, but its American student humour.

Which is a whole different kettle of tits, as my bum will tell you. Try this example. Bernard tries to buy a rather expensive jewel over the phone:. Do what? Come again? Couple this with a few Declaration of Independence one liners, Bill and Ted style bogus chit-chat, and a running joke about a log, and youve got a pretty alienating and unfunny tone to the whole game. The Monkey Islands skirted this trap by having a fairly universal theme and setting, namely piracy and er, Monkey Island.

Day of the Tentacle, being set in America and with you playing American students, ends up being more of a tongue-in-cheek edutainment affair than a full-scale gag-a-rama for we poor Brits. The sound, too, has been maximised for full comedy effect. Or at least it would have been if the digitised speech hadnt been delivered in awful Eldorado Markous 1 am being riding a horse type deadpan. The long cartoony intro is packed with samples but Come over here so I can punch you is said in the same way as Id like a croissant please, and Oh no.

Youve freed the Purple Tentacle is said as tonelessly as Thats a nice bowling ball. The music, however, is suitably jocular, and the odd sprinkling of sound effects add a certain something.

Although Day of the Tentacle beats both hands down on graphic style, it falls down with its StarsnStripes-o-meter rating, its in-jokey humour, and its limited range of locations. If you want to pause quite poncily for a second and talk characterisation, Bernie, Hoagie. The dialogue suffers as a result, and all the quips and amusing character quirks which made you grin faintly and endear you to the characters in Monkey Island, just annoy and alienate you in Day of the Tentacle. But saying that, the graphics and clever-clever puzzles will keep you going for a good few hours, and with a sound card, youll be having all your friends saying cor.

But, you may feel, as I did, that youre sitting-in on an episode of a new Transatlantic sit-com, except youve missed the first six episodes and youve no idea whos who or whats what and, apart from the odd-one liner and interesting plot turn, youre completely bewildered. Browse games Game Portals. Day Of The Tentacle. Thankfully they have not re-recorded any of the dialogue, but they have cleaned it up a great deal. It is so much crisper and clearer now that it makes you appreciate how good the story is.

One area of the game that has not been changed is the gameplay. This is the same zany and fun point and click adventure game that you played in the early to mids. It features the same puzzles and same way of playing. I know some might not like this, but I do not think there was any need to change the gameplay, to be honest with you. Still, with that being said, this is a 90s point and click adventure game so some of the puzzles can be a tad obscure in what they want you to do.

If you ask me, Day of the Tentacle Remastered is a great example of how you do a remaster! This truly is one of the best games of its genre from its day and now we get to replay this crazy adventure, but with amazing HD graphics!

This is so good, that I would probably never go back and play the original as this had made it completely redundant! Browse games Game Portals. Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Works excellent Norphy Gerbil Team Leader. Once you've done that you'll need to find drivers for your sound card etc etc etc. Mon Aug 15, pm Wait.

Jebus Gerbil Jedi. DotT is teh win. Almost as good as Sam n Max. Hope you get it workin, for old school fun. I was married in an online fantasy game once.