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Senteria: We should hold a petition to get The Neverhood on GOG. Raise a GOG army and spam their CEO.
I guess if they get more requests, it might help, but those corps are usually deaf to anything users have to say.

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Senteria: I loved skullmonkeys so much I even played a song of the soundtrack on guitar and put it on youtube 7 years ago or so.

Favourite songs are: Sno' Yell Oh, The sewers, Castle de los Muertos, The Divy Ride and of course the title screen song.
My favorites from there are "She reminded Me With Science", "Beep Bop Bo Shards" and the main theme ("Skullmonkeys' theme"). Part of it also plays in the Neverhood intro.
Post edited November 25, 2014 by shmerl
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Senteria: We should hold a petition to get The Neverhood on GOG. Raise a GOG army and spam their CEO.
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shmerl: I guess if they get more requests, it might help, but those corps are usually deaf to anything users have to say.

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Senteria: I loved skullmonkeys so much I even played a song of the soundtrack on guitar and put it on youtube 7 years ago or so.

Favourite songs are: Sno' Yell Oh, The sewers, Castle de los Muertos, The Divy Ride and of course the title screen song.
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shmerl: My favorites from there are "She reminded Me With Science", "Beep Bop Bo Shards" and the main theme ("Skullmonkey's theme").
Oh yes beep bop bo! That's the one I meant.

bee dap da doobee doobee da dam. Badeep bob bo. Bu dabadee da dee da dee do.
Ba dup da do, buda dabada dee da dee do. Ba dee dop do. do do dum do...... :D

Reminded me with Science is also another one of my favourites. It's so hard to make a top list. I never managed to beat Skullmonkeys to be completely honest. Evil Engine #9 kept on going FOREVER and it was brutally hard. Also I initially never got past the YNT boss because I did not figure out where he was going to strike. Hey I was just a little kid.
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Kerchatin: Yeah, I definitely agree. I just think the likelihood of EA releasing it is low. :(
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Senteria: We should hold a petition to get The Neverhood on GOG. Raise a GOG army and spam their CEO.

I loved skullmonkeys so much I even played a song of the soundtrack on guitar and put it on youtube 7 years ago or so.
Is the video still up? I'd love to see it! :)

Let's all revel in the greatness that was Terry S. Taylor's Neverhood music!
I have a hard time believing it's not some obscure legal issues holding back a re-release here.
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Kerchatin: Is the video still up? I'd love to see it! :)

Let's all revel in the greatness that was Terry S. Taylor's Neverhood music!
Yeah, would be interesting to listen to Senteria's guitar playing :)

Here is the Neverhood OST split by tracks.

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Senteria: I never managed to beat Skullmonkeys to be completely honest. Evil Engine #9 kept on going FOREVER and it was brutally hard. Also I initially never got past the YNT boss because I did not figure out where he was going to strike. Hey I was just a little kid.
I actually got Skullmonkeys first time not so long ago (disks are still possible to get). But I played Neverhood around the time when it came out.

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tfishell: I have a hard time believing it's not some obscure legal issues holding back a re-release here.
I doubt there are any issues. Probably just regular EA slowness to do anything and legacy publishers' attitude of "no one needs that".
Post edited November 25, 2014 by shmerl
ha, the emberassment is real...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PiLq4bEy8

I've never been good at playing the guitar and it was recorded by a shitty webcam. I played the song having learned it by ear. I managed to learn the sewer song too, but forgot it a little bit and it was never recorded.
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Senteria: ha, the emberassment is real...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PiLq4bEy8
That's nice actually! I started learning some mandolin recently, and it's a lot of fun.
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Senteria: ha, the emberassment is real...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PiLq4bEy8
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shmerl: That's nice actually! I started learning some mandolin recently, and it's a lot of fun.
Mandolin. Now that's an instrument you don't hear too often. Pretty awesome!

I have some talent for music though. I just never developed it. I can play songs without knowing the notes, just by listening to it. I can put my emotion into music as well. I truly should delve into it. It's just not easy. Especially since I've never been good at timing and rhythm.
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tfishell: I have a hard time believing it's not some obscure legal issues holding back a re-release here.
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shmerl: I doubt there are any issues. Probably just regular EA slowness to do anything and legacy publishers' attitude of "no one needs that".
Not to continue being a wet blanket, but we've gotten so many other EA games in the past I don't know why it wouldn't have come in a previous batch, unless GOG was waiting for the ScummVM build that supports Neverhood. (Or maybe they are holding off until Armikrog comes.) Given how many EA titles we received since they came aboard I have a hard time believing they have a strong "no one needs that" attitude, unless it was all thanks to Jeff Skalski or other people now not at EA.
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shmerl: I doubt there are any issues. Probably just regular EA slowness to do anything and legacy publishers' attitude of "no one needs that".
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tfishell: Not to continue being a wet blanket, but we've gotten so many other EA games in the past I don't know why it wouldn't have come in a previous batch, unless GOG was waiting for the ScummVM build that supports Neverhood. (Or maybe they are holding off until Armikrog comes.) Given how many EA titles we received since they came aboard I have a hard time believing they have a strong "no one needs that" attitude, unless it was all thanks to Jeff Skalski or other people now not at EA.
I think before ScummVM the only sane option of running Neverhood was Wine in Windows 95 mode. And that wouldn't help Windows users, so yes, GOG could be waiting for something else to materialize. ScummVM support was added in the end of July (in the release, master branch got it a while earlier) and since GOG were quite busy with tons of stuff they didn't get to it. I guess if there are no blockers from EA side GOG can get to it now. They never commented on this issue though.
Post edited November 25, 2014 by shmerl
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Kerchatin: Yeah, I definitely agree. I just think the likelihood of EA releasing it is low. :(
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Senteria: We should hold a petition to get The Neverhood on GOG. Raise a GOG army and spam their CEO.

I loved skullmonkeys so much I even played a song of the soundtrack on guitar and put it on youtube 7 years ago or so.

Favourite songs are: Sno' Yell Oh, The sewers, Castle de los Muertos, The Divy Ride and of course the title screen song.

Oh wait this was about The Neverhood. Hehe.
Oh man I LOVE Skullmonkeys, it was one of my first games ever and I still consider it the best platformer I've played. It's just about perfect in almost every way, including that absolutely fantastic soundtrack! If I ever get rich I'm gonna have to buy the rights and do a port to the PC haha.

I've never played The Neverhood but I'm really really wanting to, I will one day I'm sure. Come on GOG, take my money in exchange for it! You know you want to...come on....
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NoNewTaleToTell: I've never played The Neverhood but I'm really really wanting to, I will one day I'm sure. Come on GOG, take my money in exchange for it! You know you want to...come on....
In the worst case you can get Neverhood CD on Ebay (can be around $30) and play it in ScummVM without waiting for GOG :)

And as was already discussed above, Skullmonkeys can be played on PC in PS emulator. May be GOG should release it too %)
Post edited November 25, 2014 by shmerl
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NoNewTaleToTell: I've never played The Neverhood but I'm really really wanting to, I will one day I'm sure. Come on GOG, take my money in exchange for it! You know you want to...come on....
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shmerl: In the worst case you can get Neverhood CD on Ebay (can be around $30) and play it in ScummVM without waiting for GOG :)

And as was already discussed above, Skullmonkeys can be played on PC in PS emulator. May be GOG should release it too %)
I'll have to check Ebay, I have a local game store chain that sells really old games, I might go there and check too. Thanks for the Ebay recommendation, I don't think I've ever bought anything on there so I'm prone to forgetting that it exists.

I actually still have a working copy of Skullmonkeys on the Playstation (I have it right beside me right now.), so it's no big deal, I'd just prefer a PC version haha.
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tfishell: Not to continue being a wet blanket, but we've gotten so many other EA games in the past I don't know why it wouldn't have come in a previous batch, unless GOG was waiting for the ScummVM build that supports Neverhood. (Or maybe they are holding off until Armikrog comes.) Given how many EA titles we received since they came aboard I have a hard time believing they have a strong "no one needs that" attitude, unless it was all thanks to Jeff Skalski or other people now not at EA.
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shmerl: I think before ScummVM the only sane option of running Neverhood was Wine in Windows 95 mode. And that wouldn't help Windows users, so yes, GOG could be waiting for something else to materialize. ScummVM support was added in the end of July (in the release, master branch got it a while earlier) and since GOG were quite busy with tons of stuff they didn't get to it. I guess if there are no blockers from EA side GOG can get to it now. They never commented on this issue though.
In any case, both GOG and EA know thousands (at least according to the wishlist; it's probably closer to tens of thousands in reality) of people want the game here.
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NoNewTaleToTell: I'll have to check Ebay, I have a local game store chain that sells really old games, I might go there and check too. Thanks for the Ebay recommendation, I don't think I've ever bought anything on there so I'm prone to forgetting that it exists.
Example.