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With two weird friends, Hoagie and Laverne, Bernard must stop the evil Purple Tentacle from conquering the world鈥攂y freezing hamsters, pushing old ladies down the stairs, abusing Swiss bank accounts, and ever so slightly changing some of the most significant moments in American history.</span></p> <p data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer鈥檚 1993 time-trotting point-and-click adventure game </span><i data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Day of the Tentacle</span></i><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;"> brought LucasArts' game design to a new standard of excellence with smart puzzles, hilarious characters, and an animation style that harkened back to classic Warner Bros. cartoons. And somehow, they fit it all on a fat stack of floppy disks!</span></p> <p data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">In this definitive oral history as told by the game鈥檚 designers, musicians, and artists, writer Bob Mackey tells the inside story of </span><i data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Day of the Tentacle</span></i><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">鈥檚 lightning-in-a-bottle production, and reveals how two first-time directors boiled down the lessons of past adventure games into a tight and satisfying experience, how their team grappled with evolving technology to achieve the coveted status of "multimedia" at the dawn of the CD-ROM age, and how a remastered edition brought </span><i data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Tentacle </span></i><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">to a new generation of fans.</span></p> <p data-mce-fragment="1" style="text-align: center;" data-mce-style="text-align: center;"><a title="Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey Goodreads Page" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle" data-mce-href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Goodreads</span></a><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;"> * <a title="Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey ebook in the Google Play store" href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=TBTWEAAAQBAJ">Google Play</a></span></p> <p data-mce-fragment="1"><i data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1" style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Bob Mackey is a writer, podcaster, and video game historian, and has been the co-host of the classic gaming podcast, Retronauts, since 2011. He's also the co-host and co-creator of the Talking Simpsons and What a Cartoon podcasts, and transitioned to being a full-time podcaster after video game websites simply stopped existing. You can find him in Vancouver, BC with his wife and parrot, though often not at the same time. 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And somehow, they fit it all on a fat stack of floppy disks!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn this definitive oral history as told by the game鈥檚 designers, musicians, and artists, writer Bob Mackey tells the inside story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDay of the Tentacle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e鈥檚 lightning-in-a-bottle production, and reveals how two first-time directors boiled down the lessons of past adventure games into a tight and satisfying experience, how their team grappled with evolving technology to achieve the coveted status of \"multimedia\" at the dawn of the CD-ROM age, and how a remastered edition brought \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTentacle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eto a new generation of fans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey Goodreads Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGoodreads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e * \u003ca title=\"Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey ebook in the Google Play store\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=TBTWEAAAQBAJ\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBob Mackey is a writer, podcaster, and video game historian, and has been the co-host of the classic gaming podcast, Retronauts, since 2011. 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With two weird friends, Hoagie and Laverne, Bernard must stop the evil Purple Tentacle from conquering the world鈥攂y freezing hamsters, pushing old ladies down the stairs, abusing Swiss bank accounts, and ever so slightly changing some of the most significant moments in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDave Grossman and Tim Schafer鈥檚 1993 time-trotting point-and-click adventure game \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDay of the Tentacle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e brought LucasArts' game design to a new standard of excellence with smart puzzles, hilarious characters, and an animation style that harkened back to classic Warner Bros. cartoons. And somehow, they fit it all on a fat stack of floppy disks!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn this definitive oral history as told by the game鈥檚 designers, musicians, and artists, writer Bob Mackey tells the inside story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDay of the Tentacle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e鈥檚 lightning-in-a-bottle production, and reveals how two first-time directors boiled down the lessons of past adventure games into a tight and satisfying experience, how their team grappled with evolving technology to achieve the coveted status of \"multimedia\" at the dawn of the CD-ROM age, and how a remastered edition brought \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTentacle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eto a new generation of fans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey Goodreads Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/123029070-day-of-the-tentacle\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGoodreads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e * \u003ca title=\"Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey ebook in the Google Play store\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=TBTWEAAAQBAJ\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBob Mackey is a writer, podcaster, and video game historian, and has been the co-host of the classic gaming podcast, Retronauts, since 2011. 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