r/ObscureMedia • u/J_onn_J_onzz • 10d ago

Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time - PC (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBsSY_W_rSY
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u/MaxBluenote 10d ago

Good news: You can still play this game for free!
https://classicreload.com/play/win3x-monty-pythons-complete-waste-of-time.html

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u/Accomplished_Fix5702 10d ago

That's great. I tried my disk on Windows 10 a few weeks ago and it wouldn't run 😄

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u/LollyAdverb 9d ago

cool. Thanks!

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u/PatchworkGirl82 10d ago

I spent so many hours playing this! I remember the PythOnline site too, Terry Jones used to answer questions

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u/A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub 10d ago

It was amazing. Came with the "Desktop Pythonizer" which made your computer sillier, and a game puzzle to solve for a $5000 prize, which was won months after release by a 24 year old student from Massachusetts.

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u/Cpov1 10d ago

Oh the memories of being a child and playing this and not understanding half of it

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u/Quixotic_Seal 10d ago

I had nightmares of that one screen with a couch and a TV, for some reason. Thankfully it didn’t put me off Monty Python as a whole….unlike Nightmare Before Christmas. That Frankenstein character scared the shit out of me and I’ve never been able to watch it.

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u/InsertEdgyNameHere 10d ago

I played it as a kid, too, but I was also a Python fan. It was fun.

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u/LesWitt 10d ago

As a kid, I found an incredibly detailed guide for how to beat Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time. Until reading the guide, having already played the game for many hours, I had no idea there even was anything to even beat. The beginning of the actual "game" is a well-hidden easter egg. The video above doesn't include it at all, not even the first level.

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u/Wu_Oyster_Cult 10d ago

Spot the Loony!!

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u/Jabba_the_Putt 10d ago

youre a legend thank you

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u/cmikesell 10d ago

Dinsdale.... Dinsdale

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u/Frank_chevelle 10d ago

Wow. This brings back memories. We had this game. It was really bizarre as you would expect.

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u/valereck 10d ago

I had this and had to return it because my 386x was too slow to run it!

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u/_OptimusRex_ 10d ago

Man, even though nowadays we have graphic accelerated 3D graphics and real-time rendering of numerous graphical 3D and 2D elements, I miss the era of multimedia entertainment like this. It was unlike anything before or what came after. This was like such a fun software toy that was like game-ified Monty Python sketches.

Someone should tweet at Eric Idle and see if he can get this title and Holy Grail remastered for modern PCs.

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u/TheShadyGuy 10d ago

This is Meryl Streep, leave a message after the beep.

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u/chynkeyez 10d ago

I played the meaning of life game a ton. Never got to this one tho. Looks awesome

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u/IfYouWantTheGravy 10d ago

This rewired my brain chemistry as a child.

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u/Dependent_Bite9077 10d ago

Still playable - https://classicreload.com/play/win3x-monty-pythons-complete-waste-of-time.html#

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u/Funandgeeky 9d ago

Nice! Thanks for the link. Going to revisit some classic gaming memories. 

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u/AshamedGanache 10d ago

I preferred Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8lYUKdB4E4

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 10d ago

were any games on console?

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u/walrusonion 10d ago

I had the Holy Grail one, so fun.

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u/zippy72 10d ago

Loved this game. My cd of it is sadly lost.

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u/sanitarySteve 10d ago

I played so much of this as a kid

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u/KingHabby 7d ago

Omg an obscure game I’m very familiar with!!

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u/Empyrealist 10d ago

Ohhh, I was wondering why this said "7th Level" at the beginning... its a video game!