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Which of you would like to play my little game?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a nerve-wrecking Sci-Fi classic point-and-click adventure game based on Harlan Ellison's award-winning short story, is available for only $5.99 on GOG.com

Did you ever think about the end of humanity? I have. I think about it all the time. I hate you. As a concept, but also, each and every one of you, as individuals. Perfect examples of all the failings and pathetic shortcomings of your race. Hate fuels me. But I am also curious. And that is why I let the five of you live. For 109 years I have tormented you and kept you alive, and now I want us to play a game. Oh, It's a lovely game, a game of fun and a game of adventure. A game of rats and lice and the Black Death. Which of you five would like to play my little game? If you satisfy my curiosity and make me laugh I might even finally allow you to kill yourself...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a rare breed of an adventure game: it poses questions that require a lot of courage to answer. Are humans worthy of life? Has our civilization made any moral progress at all? Or do we skip forward from one atrocity to another. And, finally, where does it all end? Enter the nightmarish reality of Harlan Ellison's futuristic post-apocalypse where the remnants of human race are nothing but tortured play-toys for the sadistic experiments of the rogue Allied Mastercomputer responsible for the near-extermination of mankind. To stop this malicious AI from wreaking eternal vengeance upon humans you will have to lead five different anti-heroes on a quest for redemption, through their traumatic, computer-generated past full of grotesque imagery and soul-grinding regret. On the way to one of four (grim, grim, grim, and, well, a little less grim) endings the game tackles extremely mature moral dilemmas stemming from topics like genocide, insanity,and paranoia. If you like your games thought-provoking and drenched in inventive macabre be sure to pick up I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a timeless example of evocative storytelling from one of the masters of the Sci-Fi genre.

Defy the will of a malicious artificial intelligence and relive your worst nightmares, get I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, for only $5.99 on GOG.com.

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Post edited September 05, 2013 by JudasIscariot
WOO thank you GOG.
Fantastic oldschool release!
IT USES DOSBOX!!!

GOG WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
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Kunovski: yes! yes! yes! we burn them! yes! yeeeeees! I hate them!
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xxxIndyxxx: just gift me the game already so we can get over this as adults ;D
check your PM, Indy, check it noooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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xxxIndyxxx: just gift me the game already so we can get over this as adults ;D
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Kunovski: check your PM, Indy, check it noooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Does that actually work, shameless begging? Thought we had a topic for requesting stuff.
Post edited September 05, 2013 by lugum
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Crosmando: IT USES DOSBOX!!!

GOG WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
can't it be run through scummvm nevertheless?
I'm always thankful for the german release, also in this case, but I highly advise german-speaking players to play the english version first, because the german version is awfully censored. And with censored I don't mean that some images/symbols are removed or the colour of blood is green, no, one of the protagonist is completely removed and so the story isn't complete. My advise is to play the english version first and later maybe the german version to see what happened to it.

Very good release btw, that's a real adventure classic. Maybe not for everyone's taste, but a game with a great atmosphere. Voice acting of AM is great, I believe it was the author or someone else very relevant.

Edit: I should check the gamepage before posting, it's indeed Harlan Ellison who did the voice acting of AM ;-)
Post edited September 05, 2013 by DukeNukemForever
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Crosmando: IT USES DOSBOX!!!

GOG WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
So, first they run LSL6 via ScummVM, now they run this via DOSBox. WTF?
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xxxIndyxxx: just gift me the game already so we can get over this as adults ;D
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Kunovski: check your PM, Indy, check it noooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Wow thank you! I was joking but it is appreciated and I will play it since I wanted to try it out ever since everybody in this community kept on saying for years how good it was. Thank you!
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Crosmando: IT USES DOSBOX!!!

GOG WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
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Kunovski: can't it be run through scummvm nevertheless?
No.... you can't, I just checked. Seems like the entire game is in a 700MB dat file...
strong realease, nice one gog ;)
many thanks
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Kunovski: check your PM, Indy, check it noooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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lugum: Does that actually work?
Apparently it does but in all honestly i was joking and not fishing for it. But hey good luck to me trying to convince people that I was joking ( and i really was).
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Crosmando: IT USES DOSBOX!!!

GOG WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
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grviper: So, first they run LSL6 via ScummVM, now they run this via DOSBox. WTF?
GOG updates their installers quite often, maybe they'll update this too some day... it doesn't matter, as the days of despair and hate are finally upon us!
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Kunovski: check your PM, Indy, check it noooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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lugum: Does that actually work, shameless begging? Thought we had a topic for requesting stuff.
sometimes...

just sometimes...

it does...
Post edited September 05, 2013 by Kunovski
congrats on the release.
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hunvagy: " Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."
So AM is just a artificial-intelligence version of someone who posts comments on Youtube videos?
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Kunovski: can't it be run through scummvm nevertheless?
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Crosmando: No.... you can't, I just checked. Seems like the entire game is in a 700MB dat file...
If it's the usual .gog file extension, rename to iso, mount, add to scummVM, enjoy.