The first of two new Marioke video game karaoke songs of mine to debut this month – first performed by @MazHem_ 10/11/2017.
Thimbleweed Park is a neo-retro graphic adventure game by the creators of Maniac Mansion. If you liked Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games you’ll definitely get a kick out of it. As with the SCUMM games, Thimbleweed was made by a tiny team with the minimum of external interference, and is a very personal, precisely crafted work as a result. The mid-1980s setting begged the choice of song.
“Thimbleweed Park”
– after “The Riddle” by Nik Kershaw
Back at LucasArts
Maniac Mansion and
Monkey Island one and two
Were his, so we’ll kickstart
Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game
Now let’s play
A body by a river
Near the old Thimble town
Where two FBI agents
and a nerd and a clown
Hope to find out the reason
By the end of the night
But adventure game puzzles
Can take long to get right
And we’ll never use a guide for a clue
We’ll break into the
Old pillow factory
Send Reyes ahead of me
I keep on finding specks of dust
Those signals are strong tonight
Where to find a vacuum tube?
Though reluctantly
Ransome the Insult Clown
Will help Dolores out
So they can solve the mystery
Meanwhile old Franklin is a ghost
Why? Who knows
A body by a river
Near the old Thimble town
Where two FBI agents
and a nerd and a clown
Hope to find out the reason
By the end of the night
But adventure game puzzles
Can take long to get right
And we’ll never use a guide for a clue
It’s got tentacles
Sprites from the Commodore
Creator cameos
The hot dogs there will make you ill
Find me a thimbleberry pie
How we’ve tried
[BREAK]
A body by a river
Near the old Thimble town
Where two FBI agents
and a nerd and a clown
Hope to find out the reason
By the end of the night
But adventure game puzzles
Can take long to get right
And we’ll never use a guide –
WALK TO Tree
LOOK AT River
PICK UP corpse from the ground
We’re not sure all these puzzles
Are quite logically sound
As we hunt for a pixel
Use everything in sight
Tweet out to @GrumpyGamer
Hope that he’ll set us right
Cause we’ll never use a guide for a clue
No we’ll never use a guide for a clue
Tags: karaoke, lucasarts, Maniac Mansion, marioke, Nik Kershaw, one life left, pc games, ron gilbert, scumm, Terrible Toybox, The Riddle, The Secret of Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park
