Congratulations to all you lucky winners.
Love, Betty Lou

LOTUS!!!!!!!!!!! YeeHaH!!!! way to go girl!!


Soot ENJOY!!!!!

Rai

SharonB

Hope ya all enjoy your game~



Doc

congrats to you all!

Now, about that 10 grand for getting off the island......:-)

Hi ya guys,

Wanted to let you guys know that the game came in today. Thanks so much to GameBoomers and to Merscom.

Thanks L4L, glad it arrived safely.

ana

I received Lost City of Z today and I just wanted to say a Big thank you to GameBoomers and Merscom.

A special thank you to Lloyd Melnick of Merscom. It was an unexpected surprise and so very thoughtful of you to include Big Kahuna Words.

"Q"

My game arrived yesterday as well. Thanks Gameboomers and Merscom! And thanks to Lloyd Melnick for the bonus game "Kahuna Words" !

Hey HOGS!!

I haven't received the game yet...

Should I be worried?

I'm looking forward to the National Geographic expedition I never could take!

Should be any day now. As you can see they are just arriving on theor doorsteps.

Ana

Me too Raj, I'm still waiting patiently, well at least more patiently than Ana waits for her weekends, !!!

The dancing on the tables starts at 2 Lotus! The weekend officially begins then.

I think that would be noon my time...shall I join you in a token shuffle? I will be thinking of you at any rate and will this occur within the hallowed halls of "work"?

The more the merrier!

ana

I will do this on my art table !!

YIPPEE! YIPPAY!! IT CAME TODAY!!!

I guess I was so excited I got a bit of anxiounctuousness. (See, I'm so excited I invented a word just for this post! )

I haven't fired up this puppy and strolled the Lost City yet, but I can't wait to!

Tonight I think I'll scatter some National Geographics around the room for atmosphere, maybe turn on the Discovery channel without the sound, sit back with my clicker finger nice and limber and... and... and ooze with gaming goodness!!

Now how much would you play? But wait!

In the package was a nice hand-signed letter from the kind and generous Mr. Lloyd Melnick-- Chief Customer Officer -- thanking me!

So now how much would you play? ... BUT wait!!

The lovely Mr. Melnick (did I mention he was kind and generous?) thoughtfully saw fit to...
Send another game along: Big Kahuna Words!!!

NOW how much would you play?

Buuuuuuuuut WAIT!!!!

Big Kauna Words comes with...

Free Extra Games!:
-Triple Word Play
--- Puzzle Word
--- Word Buzz Gold
--- and Word Juice (which... um... title-wise... is perhaps just a touch... um... scary. )


And yet!
AND yet!
AND YET!!!!

If you continue reading this post (within the next 30 minutes) you will find...

THAT THERE'S ALSO A BONUS GAME: Fruity Garden!!!

(Man! You gotta love Merscom! )

I'm drowning in a sea of casual treasures! (But, oh no, don't throw me that lifeline quite yet. )

(But... erm... just by the by... d'ya think there's a 12-step program for casual gaming? -Nah, I think my higher power is a gamer anyway!)

Thank you Merscom for sponsoring!
Thank you Gameboomers for hosting!
Thank you BrownEyedTigre (and Loony4Labs) for All you do!!


And Thank You Boomers, One and All! (Y'all are more fun than a dancing burger! )

Raj, you totally crack me up! Your graemlins fit the emotions so well, but alas, we have an 8 graemlin limit per post so I had to delete a few...or a lot.

But your enthusiasm is certainly not lost, and your excitement makes it all worthwhile.

And yes, Lloyd and Merscom are a pleasure to deal with.

Ana

Oh no!
I just popped in Lost City of Z and can't figure out how to run it.

Maybe someone here can help? Or perhaps I should go to Glitches and Patches and Technical stuff?

Does this mean I have to clean up all the National Geographics?

Raj, Raylinstephens had the same problem with Rioghteous Kill and maybe something in her post will help you:



Ana

I also got my super game package from UPS, no less, on Friday and I can't believe I forgot to post immediately!!! If this is what happens when a developer is slow in mailing I am all for it. Thank you so much Merscom, and Mr. M and Ana. What hours of fun are in store. I am just wondering if the second game and it's many sub-games don't want to work in 64 bit. I do have my XP computer if not....I'll fool around with it until I get it or need to come back for help on Glitches. Raj, you are hilarious!!!

Glad I gave you a giggle Lotus77!

Ana, thanks for the post from Linda but her problem was entirely different from mine.

BUT... WHOO HOO!! I got the game working!

For the record, though, here's my story.

On the disc is one zipped file.
I clicked on it and it opened in a window.
There was one folder of data called "access", an application called "The Lost City Of Z" and a ".pdb" file (whatever that is).
SO... naturally, I clicked on the application and got a gray windows window telling me I had to extract more files, even though I couldn't find any other zipped files.
When I clicked "Extract all" I got the windows extraction wizard.
Then I got an extract window with the location to extract to blank filled in with a long file name.
I figured that this was where the game wanted to go, so I left it. But then the extraction wouldn't work because it said it couldn't find the folder.

TURNS OUT... what I needed to do was go back to the zipped file on the disc and use WINZip to extract it to a folder I made.

BOOM!... The extraction worked and the little application file turned into an icon of a yellow bordered rectangle (like the National Geographic logo) and my heart went all pitter-pat.

WHOOPEE!! Clicked on that and... away we go!!

I will post something about my experience with the game as such news reports come in.

Signing off,
Your dedicated HOG (Hidden Object Gamer),
~Raj