10 Forgotten Video Game Icons Due A Comeback

7. Manuel "Manny" Calavera

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Double Fine Productions

Then:

It's been nearly twenty years since we were first whisked into the Land Of The Dead, pawns in Tim Schafer's intricate tale of double crossing and murder upon murder, all within the afterlife travel agency biz.

Everyone had their favourite puzzle or act, but our fondest memories lie with Manny, an easy-going, on hard times hero, who just wants to shuffle out of purgatory and save a woman in peril.

It's his cool one liners ('I can't go strolling through the halls now... I'm on the lam!') and creative use of a scythe that made Grim Fandango the classic it is today.

Now:

Schafer and his LucasArts minions proved they had a good sequel in them way before Grim Fandango was released with Day Of The Tentacle. Alas, with no prospect of a Fandango-themed follow up on the horizon, it looks like we'll have to settle for 2015's clean to the bone remaster.

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Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing. He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.