Half Mandrill, Half Mandela

oldbookillustrations:

Natural cylinders (Wichita Mountains)

From Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau monde (Picturesque journey to the great deserts of the New World), by Emmanuel Domenech, Paris, 1862.

(Source: archive.org)

Art of the Wichita Mountains from 1862, or a background for Machinarium?

I just wrote about the cute, and also shockingly melancholy, Machinarium, which I finished playing last night. In it…

You get to flood a room, electrocute a (robot) cat, break out of prison, play arcade games, solve bizarre puzzles, and see a Jewish robot, for some reason.

It was also my first try at that strangely returning genre, the point-and-click adventure game.