I didn't know there was other Calevera = )

Yay, completely forgot about this. Thanks for the sponsorship, wpegg! I like the avatar and will be keeping it, but maybe someone else wants to have a chance to receive the benefits of sponsorship now, so: If wpegg is ok with it, anyone can pick a character that is not yet used as his avatar (there are some left: http://www.grim-fandango.com/characters.php) and receive my sponsorship reward for the next 3 months.

I just want to say that I am not in this for any giveaway, I have used Celso as my avatar as he is the very start of a fantastic story, he is also a link to the corruption in Mannys office that unfolds later in the story.

I want to do this to support an amazing classic game that is right up there in terms of story telling and humour. Lucasarts adventuring at its very best.

It's cool dude, we kind of worked that out by your emphatic posting. It's good to have you on board. Welcome to GOG too, you seem relatively new to the forums.

Cool,

Never really used the GOG forums previously, only been the past week or so decided to actually start using them. Lately I have been playing more retro stuff than newer stuff so thought why not start using the GOG forums as they fit in with what I am playing.

My usual haunts are Eurogamer but primarily HEXUS as I am one of the forum admin there.

Enjoying the banter here with other retro fanatics!

I changed my avatar to the Gate Keeper in hopes that GOG will add this game so I can finally play it. I've watched scenes on youtube and would love to play the game, but I can't afford $40 to get a copy off of ebay.

Dont know why it is so expensive in the U.S

Why not get in touch with some of the sellers on Amazon UK, see if they would ship to the USA. Its a lot cheaper and more readily available in the UK and Europe.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=grim+fandango&x=0&y=0

Always wanted to play this. Bought it many years ago but I can't get the damn thing working properly on XP or Windows 7, not even with compatibility or fan patches. If I actually get into the game I get a lot of graphical bugs. It's a game I'd happily buy again on GOG if it meant I could actually play it on my netbook.

Maybe you like to try Residual. This will bring Manny back to life, even on your Netbook!

http://www.residualvm.org/

Thanks. I will take a look at it. :)

that seems hardly finished.

besides you dont need that to be able to run it on windows 7

I've got it on one of my windows 7 pc's and it doesn't run properly. It runs but I get graphical errors that make it unplayable (forget exactly what happens but it's something to do with opening the menu)... tried compatability modes, disabling desktop enhancement etc but it still causes issues. It is 64bit 7 though.

i am running windows 7 64bit too.

grab the replacement installer from Http://quick.mixnmojo.com (also has a fine replacement for monkey island 4)
install as usual.
run the update called gfupd101.exe
start the game (no compability change whatsoever)

i think i had some graphical issues too at first but i managed to fix that some months ago.
but i just tried what i described above and it works without a hitch.

Thanks I'll try that.

I can't be the only one who thought the fiery beaver comment was hilarious. I refuse to think I am the only immature user on the internet.