I had a nice little idea for an article gestating in my head an hour ago — something to do with spears and ice cream and rampaging mutant bears and whatnot. It was going to be awesome.

Then I got the news. Larry Laffer is getting a remake. And it’s none of that fake Larry bullshit that’s been coming out for the past few years, either. This is a real, honest-to-god remake of a real, honest-to-god adventure game. This is big. This is earth-shattering. This is how the story of my article about the spears and ice cream and rampaging mutant bears became doomed to spend eternity in writer’s limbo, fated to spin aimlessly and inertia-free in a colorless void amidst shapes that follow non-Euclidean geometry.

I got so worked up that I emailed Al Lowe right away to gush like an epileptic hemophiliac in a Gillette factory. He hasn’t replied yet, but I’m waiting. I’m so excited.

There’s one big thing that games from the past decade had that we don’t get much of today, and it shall be revealed after the jump:

I saw your post on Good Old Games forum. Good to see there are fellow GoGers here.