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McGrandpa wrote:
>
> "Gary Mitchell" <wb6yru@ix.nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:41F37052.5937C4D0@ix.nospam.netcom.com
> > Gordian Slash wrote:
> >>
> >> McGrandpa wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "-Andy-" <see2go4me@spamworm.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:see2go4me-D0FC6E.18133822012005@news.giganews.com
> >>>> In article <B6CdnUwybPGrN2_cRVnyrA@pipex.net>, "Nick"
> >>>> <no_bother@all> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The booklet which comes with Tomb Raider Chronicles says in the
> >>>>> introduction:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "It is a cold dark rainy day, the Memorial service for Lara Croft
> >>>>> over, Charles Kane, Winston and Father Dunstan retire to Croft
> >>>>> Mansion....."
> >>>>
> >>>> I feel cheated! The rrent Mac version of the game says:
> >>>>
> >>>> "It is a cold, dark, rainy day. With the memorial service for Lara
> >>>> Croft over, her old friends retire to the Croft Mansion.
> >>>>
> >>>> As they sadly collect their thoughts, they reminisce about Lara's
> >>>> past adventures."
> >>>>
> >>>> It doesn't say who the old friends are. And Von Croy is in Egypt:
> >>>>
> >>>> "Meanwhile...
> >>>>
> >>>> Hundreds of miles away, Werner Von Croy co-ordinates the frantic
> >>>> dig - searching for answers buried deep beneath the Egyptian
> >>>> desert."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course, as I mentioned elsewhere, it does come with that opening
> >>>> video that has some unnamed priest address someone who looks like
> >>>> the butler as "Winston."
> >>>>
> >>>> -Andy-
> >>>
> >>> Ok, I just checked my PC CD version (bought it the day it was
> >>> released, of course).
> >>> Nick is just teasing us man
Mine says what yours does.
> >>> "A Tragic Loss ...
> >>> It is a cold, dark, rainy day. With the memorial
> >>> service for Lara Croft over, her old friends retire
> >>> to the Croft mansion."
> >>>
> >>> I'll look thru my stuff from all the other TR's. But I don't think
> >>> his name is mentioned.
> >>> McG.
> >>>
> >>> I still think it's Winston!
> >>
> >> Ok, thanks all! I'm going with WINSTON for my latest Tales of The
> >> Croft ( coming soon to a newsgroup near you! )...it's not like
> >> anyone is looking to me to set the Croft Cannon in stone anyway, so
> >> who can it hurt to just pick one?
> >
> > OK, OK... with this debate still going on, I finally got motivated
> > enough to go back and check...
> >
> > In the intro video of TR C, (the one with the butler and the priest
> > in the limo), more than once the priest calls Lara's butler "Winston."
> >
> > So, no guess work needed, LJ, his name *is* Winston.
> >
> > I knew I remembered hearing that in TR C. It's nice to know at
> > least a few of the old neurons are still firing properly.
> >
> > -- G
>
> Good Job Gary!
Well, I don't know about that. It's not like I did anything
wonderful. :/
> Dunno why, but I've always thought him "Winston", even
> during all the time of TR1 before TR2 came out. Might be that I'd
> heard the name in one of the cut scenes or something.
Hmmmm... I don't recall ever hearing the butler's name until TR C.
We here always called him Jeeves, until TR C.
> Not at all sure
> why, just that it's always been "Winston". :0\
> Maybe I just like "Winston"
> McG.
The thing I don't understand is why this had to wait for me to
get around to popping in that CD and checking. This is the Tomb
Raider NG after all. Half the group should have checked right
then. But, apparently not. <shrug>
-- G