Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time CD-ROM

 

Solve the Secret to Intergalactic Success

"It's one of those annoyingly silly things that you can spend hours on to work out. And when you finally discover what it's all about, you realize you've wasted a great chunk of your life and can never get it back." - Terry Gilliam

Once in a decade there comes an interactive CD-ROM thingy so momentous that none dare miss it. So, while you're waiting for it to arrive, why not take a moment to try this CD-ROM thingy from Monty Python instead?

The Game

You'll face a series of gaming challenges on your quest to discover the secret to Intergalactic Success.

Collect clues and hints in every scene

Unlock the fiendishly complex master puzzle hidden deep within a secret dimension of the program

Earn a chance to win prizes

The Interactive Monty Python Show

Interact with entirely new comedy and animation created especially for this insidious product by the depraved minds who brought you the original BBC-TV series.

Watch your favorite highlights from the BBC-TV episodes, including: The Dead Parrot, The Cheese Shop, Nudge and The Argument Clinic.

More than 30 classic sketches.

Test your skill with demented arcade-style games featuring flying pigs, hammer-wielding madwomen and flatulent chickens.

Explore six giant scenarios: the Exploratorium, the Corridor, the Exploring TV Room, the Portrait Gallery, the Stage and the Brain.

Celebrate the terpsichorean muse singing loudly and off-key to famous numbers such as the Lumberjack Song, The Money Song and Spam.

The Desktop Pythonizer (Windows 3.1 Only)

Finally, you can inject a reasonable character into your computer with the Desktop Pythonizer. This special deluxe CD-ROM version contains material not available on diskette version.

It's a complete customization kit:

Irk your colleagues with more than 20 interactive animated screen savers.

Add zest to tedious Windows events with "Noisy Bits", a collection of more than 40 classic dialogue lines and sound effects.

Rejuvenate your tired desktop icons with a profusion of policemen, Spam, chickens and other silly cartoon icons.

Proudly display splendid wallpaper featuring highlights from the original BBC-TV series.

Furthermore, the Desktop Pythonizer includes brand new, never-before-seen utterly innovative, totally unique features unparalleled in the entire universe:

Create instant custom wallpaper from any scene with Wallpaper Zapper.

Squander precious time playing Living Wallpaper games while your computer continues doing productive work in the background.

Let us harass and intimidate your callers with pre-recorded telephone messages featuring a range of antisocial and silly comments.

Infest your other Windows application with OLE-compatible animation.

Requirements:

IBM, Tandy or compatible 486 25 MHz or greater with a minimum of 4 MB RAM, 256-color display or better, mouse and CD-ROM drive, MPC compatible sound card and amplified speakers, DOS 3.3 with Windows 3.1 or later...up to XP. Will not work on Vista

Reviews:

Multimedia World, December 1994.

"Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time is the best example I've seen of existing content being successfully adapted to multimedia."

"Gilliam's animations dominate the CD-ROM, as it contains only a few hours of video. The result is less a retrospective of skits than a way to participate in the sketches themselves."

"Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time is a great multimedia title that will set standards, spawn imitators, and keep you laughing for a long time. It succeeds partially because of the quality of the content, but ultimately shines for the ability to improve on how that content was presented in the first place."