![]() Got the game and my girlfriend didn’t hate me – good trip! Finally, after opening the fifth drawer, he pulled out Gobliiins 4. The clerk came out and started unlocking various drawers beneath the display case behind the counter. He went to the back of the store, opened the office door, and began speaking to the store manager, who replied that, yes, it was supposed to be released that day. “Sorry, it appears that the game isn’t supposed to be released until next week,” the clerk said. He said he hadn’t heard of the game but started checking the store release date files. I had come too far to leave empty handed and I asked the store clerk about it. We arrived at the store and the game wasn’t on the shelves. That fateful day came and ever patient with my search, Liz was fine with us braving the morning rush hour on the Tube, and a torrential downpour to get over to Oxford street mere hours before our flight. Checking the internet yet again, I found that the on-sale date had been changed – to the last day we’d be in England. Eventually the day came but the game still wasn’t in stores. In the city of York, after finding an internet café, I decided to check the UK retailers’ websites for a release date.įinally! One of the sites was showing an on-sale date which was only days away! I still couldn’t help myself and kept checking any stores that I hadn’t yet gone into – just in case they had the game early. As we traveled city to city we would see the sights and stop in every video game store we passed. I comforted myself with the fact that it was a pretty small store, mostly geared toward console games and big-title PC releases, but as we came across more game stores in London it didn’t get any better. Being the great girlfriend that she is, she smiled, rolled her eyes, and followed me in. ![]() Seeing that she was confused about why here in England I’d want to buy a video game, I explained the whole exclusive European release thing. I asked Liz to wait a moment I wanted to check for a game. I had mostly forgotten about Gobliiins 4 in all the getting ready for the trip and seeing the store quickly brought it back to my mind. We explored a large chunk of the city that day and after a while, walked past a video game retailer. Our first day, severely jet-lagged, we walked around London non-stop knowing that if we stood still, we’d fall asleep. We started our trip in London and were going to be traveling around the country visiting as many places as we could. Late April quickly arrived and Liz and I flew across the Atlantic. I seemed to recall reading somewhere that the UK was its own market but I ignored that thought and hinged my hopes on being able to pick up the game on our trip. “In the world of video game markets, does the UK count as being part of Europe?” I wondered. The European video game vendor websites that I found (that could be translated into readable English) weren’t listing Gobliiins 4 at all.īut wait! Liz and I were taking a three week vacation to England at the end of April! I looked into ordering the game from a European online distributor and having it mailed, but with no luck. I emailed the companies involved several times begging asking for any information about a release in the U.S. I simply had to try and get a hold of the latest installment. The games are a lot of fun and pretty silly. They require the player to manipulate objects in a room or rooms to move on to the next set of puzzles. While the storylines featured in the series are laughable, the puzzles are top notch. The Goblins series are point-and-click adventure/puzzle games. I loved Sierra On-line games (who later bought the license from Coktel Vision) so I probably saw it in one of the catalogues the company would send me. ![]() It was designed and produced by the French company Coktel Vision. The first game of the series, Gobliiins (an “i” for each member on the goblin team you control), was released in the U.S. ![]() I don’t remember exactly when or how I first discovered the Goblins series. |en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools The game was being released in Europe in March 2009 but there was no scheduled release date in the U.S. After having Google translate it, my heart sunk. After scouring the internet for release information, I eventually found the game’s official website, but unfortunately, it was in French. In early March, while conducting my usual search for upcoming adventure games, I stumbled upon a sparse listing of its impending release. Before I get into writing about the Goblins series, let me first thank my girlfriend, Liz, for her patience with the journey it took to actually get a copy of the newest installment, Gobliiins 4.
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