GOB: Woodruff - Strange behavior after picking up the newspaper in Factory's Front Yard

[rafaelmessias]

In the area "Factory's Front Yard", if you pick up the newspaper that is on the ground, the game will break and almost every action after that will result in a failure (e.g. Woodruff reacts with one of his random "fail" animations and nothing else happens). That includes: trying to exit the area (you're locked in); trying to talk to the NPCs; or trying to ring the doorbell.

For some reason, clicking the bench will result in Woodruff sitting down and not getting up again (as he would normally, before picking up the newspaper). It is not possible to get up again after that.

[sdelamarre]

Ahah, it's only the gameplay. :) But this part is indeed tricky.

Here's a hint (stop reading here if you don't want any help !) :

• There is a repeated action that will make Woodruff cry. Then another action will cause a character to appear that will cheer him up, and the game will continue.

[rafaelmessias]

Thanks... I feel stupid now, I actually went through the trouble of installing Windows 3.1 to check the behavior in the original, and then it clicked that it was actually the expected behavior!