If you want to watch an hour of me alternately roasting and fawning over The 7th Guest (and its sequel), come join me at the premiere of my new video. It starts in two hours. https://youtu.be/pTd7JahjHy0
You can also watch it on PeerTube now: https://spectra.video/w/kc8bCcQqkR4CjgLWftsVEh — but come hang out with us at the YouTube premiere anyway! I'll be in the chat. 
First video of 2025: A megaspective of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. These games get a lot of shit these days, but do they really deserve it? Let's find out!
Join me for the premiere tomorrow on YouTube (your local time in the link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTd7JahjHy0
Need some tunes to get you through the rest of the holiday season? Our industrial/rock cover albums of games such as The 7th Guest, Duke Nukem 3D, Space Quest III, and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers might scratch an itch.
Download them all for free: https://error47.bandcamp.com
We've uploaded the entire Soup's On album to YouTube: https://youtu.be/X3021sM-1lY
Give it a listen and please spread the word! It's been hard sitting on this, so I'm very excited to hear what you think now that it's out in the wild. :)
"Soup's On: Selections from Stauf's Infernal Jukebox" is now available for download on Bandcamp: https://error47.bandcamp.com/album/soups-on-selections-from-staufs-infernal-jukebox
Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6i414HkXlPmgZD2rRV2qwv
(And other streaming services should follow soon...)
Happy Halloween — and stay soupy!
The soundtrack to The 7th Guest VR by Jonathan van der Wijngaarden on vinyl arrived this morning. Yum yum. 
We had the very special honor of having George "The Fat Man" Sanger complete the lyrics to The 11th Hour's original theme song, "This Old House."
Back when The 11th Hour came out, this tune was scrapped and replaced with "The Final Hour" as the game's theme song (and reappropriated as the music in the train puzzle), but here it is for the first time with original lyrics. https://youtu.be/c9Eg52o7Yp0
Soup's On releases on Oct. 31st!
Seeing that the classic FMV puzzle/adventure game "The 7th Guest" turns 31 today, reminded me that *this* was an Easter (bargain) pressie for myself 
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when I first saw the animated sweep up the staircase when I first used an early multimedia PC 
#The7thGuest #Retrocomputing
Remember the sealed The 7th Guest box I showed a while ago? I got a second one so I could have a look at its contents without taking the shrinkwrap off, and... it's just a jewel case with the CDs inside and the manual in the booklet. Thrilling stuff.
Although, interestingly, the CD-i version was cut down so the entire game fits on the first disc. The second disc just contains the soundtrack. That's fun.
The 7th Guest - CD-i version, big box, still factory sealed. The only trouble is... now I can't open the box to have a look inside 'cos all the big box enthusiasts would kill me if I took the shrinkwrap off. 
Recorded about ~2 hrs of game footage from The 7th Guest in its native resolution of 640×320 (yes, you read that right). I even got footage of what happens when you beat the Microscope Puzzle... 'cos you better believe I cheesed that fucking thing! https://analogbit.com/software/infection_ai
We sat down with the composer for The 7th Guest VR's soundtrack to talk about how we both have gone about paying tribute to the original music of The 7th Guest while putting our own stamp on it. Quite the fascinating 1 hr chat, if we do say so ourselves. https://youtu.be/whQX05L76yI
Reality Bytes: The 7th Guest VR is a sumptuously spooky remake - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/reality-bytes-the-7th-guest-vr-is-a-sumptuously-spooky-remake #ActionAdventure #TrilobyteGames #PointandClick #RealityBytes #SinglePlayer #vertigogames #The7thGuest #VirginGames #Firstperson #Puzzle #iOS #VR
@sqhistorian
I mean, you're already "retelling" the music from #The7thGuest and #The11thHour, which is really cool! And your teleplay idea sounds different enough from this project that there could be room for both. Especially since I assume you're not thinking of releasing it this October. 
Why Nine Inch Nails' Quake soundtrack wouldn't have happened without The 7th Guest: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLyqWQN2mW3LCGkCTDIWQJg_BPziMQinw?si=rNHDgN52_ZF8dTgV
We had the incredible good fortune to sit down and pick the brains of two legends: George Sanger and Graeme Devine, the composer and lead programmer of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, respectively.
Lots of cool nuggets about the music and the wizardry that went into these two games. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PF-rKMgnSA
This demo of The 7th Guest VR looks even better than I imagined. The mechanics shown here, particularly the hand through the hat thing, are also super cool, but I also can't imagine them working outside VR, so my hopes of a non-headsqueezing version just dropped.
@sqhistorian
That does look a lot smoother than I remember #The7thGuest being on DOS. But how would that have even happened? Why would the #CDi of all things have ended up with the best version of these animations?
We're 98% funded with only 3 days to go. Fingers crossed we get past that last little threshold!
FYI, there are only 14 copies of this colored vinyl variant left. We're only making 40 copies of it in total, and they will NOT be available after the campaign! So if you want some colored vinyl soup on your turntable, you have 3 days to get it... or it's gone forever!
Update: Test pressings will now be signed by us AND original 7th Guest/11th Hour composer, George "The Fat Man" Sanger!
Check your pledge add-ons to get one — only 10 are available!
And there are only 7 days left of the campaign, so... you know... share? Please? 
