Loom Radio Drama
Wow. I am awesome. How awesome? Lemme tell you. I was recently inspired by a crazy nostalgia kick to hunt down the first video game I ever played to completion. That game was LucasArts’ Loom. (The second and third games I played to the end – over and over again – were Mad Dog McCree and Street Fighter II.) Anyway, after a long bout of searching, I found the version of the game that I used to play, which runs perfectly on the ScummVM emulator.
To quickly convey the story of Loom is difficult. It’s a point and click adventure game, with you controlling a character called Bobbin Threadbare. He’s a member of the great guild of Weavers. They used to do cloth and stuff, but they became so good at it that they weave directly in the fabric of reality by wielding light and music. This basically means that you’re gonna point at a lot of stuff with a stick and then play 4 notes and hope something happens. It’s magic, see. It’s cooler than I make it sound. Anyway, if you follow along and keep reading, you’ll get more than just the gist of the game.
During my searching, I came across a few sites that mentioned a radio drama that was included with boxed editions of the game back in the day. Being a colossal nerd, I had already collected duplicates of the documents that came with the game. The manual, the hint book, and the Book of Patterns (a place to collect sequenced musical notes called patterns), to be specific. I looked around, and sure enough, I found the audio tracks. I first nabbed the English version and the official transcript. Then, on this site, I scored – I found the original audio drama in Japanese! (Ogg Vorbis format audio files, English language PDF only.) There was no transcript, though, so that’s my goal – to create an accurate transcript of the audio drama. If you’d like to come along for the ride, I’m more than happy to have you. Read on for the introduction to the drama in English and Japanese. Read more…
