Gamlet Trivia #38 — 2026-08-09
The answer was Grim Fandango — It is routinely cited as the brilliant classic that killed the adventure genre commercially — beloved, awarded, barely sold..
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- A 1998 Windows adventure lost to licensing limbo for years, until a 2015 remaster brought it to PlayStation 4 and Vita.
- A graphic adventure crossing film noir with Mexican folklore: a travel agent of the dead untangles corruption along the four-year passage of souls.
- Written and directed by Tim Schafer at Lucasfilm Games' adventure division — his last project there before founding Double Fine.
- Its hero sells travel packages to the recently deceased; the Day of the Dead calavera art and swing soundtrack have not aged a single day.
- The reaper-turned-salesman hero's initials: M.C.