'Alright, it’s a deal.' As he stepped closer to the man, he noticed something he didn’t before: a small badge on his raincoat. Ok, never mind, even if it had been stolen from the company back in the late 1990’s, nobody will ever learn about it. This guy surely didn’t look like a retired Virgin employee, so perhaps he bought the game from one of them… or simply stole it. Just two bucks! Even if it was phony, there was nothing to lose. Two bucks and…”ĭave suppressed an urge to scream out in excitement. The disk case was blank, without any images or letters: it could equally be a test copy from the Burst office, just an empty CD or virtually anything else. Have you heard about it?'Īs excited as he was, Dave understood it could have easily been a fake. 'No, something much better.' As he put his hand inside his enormous raincoat and took it out, Dave saw a CD case. 'What, another NES game?' Dave was way too bored to be bothered by politeness. 'I just wanted to offer you something.' His voice was low and raspy, as if he had been screaming for hours. However, compared to the children dressed up as Hulk or Spiderman and some Duke Nukem cosplayers, he seemed almost normal. Everything, including his walking-stick, seemed extremely old-fashioned, worn and tattered, as if it came from the beginning of the last century. This one was a tall man in a dark raincoat and a wide-brim, his face covered by a scarf and glasses. He turned around to see another shady guy, perhaps the shadiest of them all. While Dave’s pals were playing some new shooter, he yawned constantly and looked at the clock, when suddenly he heard a voice calling him.

To tell the truth, it was nothing special to him: mostly action and 3D shooters, with the exception of some shady guys selling outdated console games. One day he was invited by a couple of his pals to a video game conference. He even discovered some screenies and video footage on the Net but was never able to find the actual game, neither on torrents nor on Ebay. Years ago he learned about a 'Toonstruck 2' which was almost finished, but sadly never got released.

It belonged to the “To be continued” category, but there was never a sequel. However, there was one bad thing about it: the completely unsatisfying ending. However, his all-time favourite was 'Toonstruck.' It was an insane world with crazy clowns, masochistic cows, a real-life actor who starred in “Back to the Future” and “Who framed Roger Rabbit?”, and tons of dirty jokes. He loved it when he prepared a mummy for a beauty contest in 'Day of the Tentacle', he journeyed through the worlds of Strata in 'Torin's Passage', and was really amazed by the number of items one could find in a snake’s stomach (in 'Curse of Monkey Island'). Since as long as Dave could remember, adventure games have always been one of his passions.

Toonstruck remastered