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The Thief and the Cobbler PC Game

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I am a huge game fan and think that games are better than movies. Sorry, I just had to get that across.

Anyway, I found out there was a PC game based on the Thief and the Cobbler. Unfortunately, this is the only screenshot I could find of it:
http://www.orangecow.org/thief/thiefadventure1.jpg

According to the screenshot, the game was a point-and-click adventure in the tradition of Monkey Island. Even though I deemed MI boring because I didn't know where to go, I'd like to give this game a shot, because I know how the movie progresses and it should be a breeze.

So does anyone here have any more information about this game? And if possible, where I can download it?
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I know a lot about this lost gem called Thief and the Cobbler, and this is so absolutely fake, I don't even have to proceed with the whole "dead thread" speech.

I can read your signature, I'm from Brazil, that is written in portuguese. I never log in so I won't PM you, what is it about?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I was about to say, those graphics are WAAY too good to be real. Not even Sam & Max has graphics that good.

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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All right, prove it's fake.

Ricar: You lucky son-of-a-bitch. It's the opening to the Thief and the Cobbler. I wrote the text and translated it into Portugeuse. I wanted to translate it to Japanese, but it didn't look right in the forums, and Spanish would have been too easy, so I settled with Portugeuse. But what's funny is, when you translate it back to English, it's not perfectly translated.
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Is it? I didn't read it fully, and I don't know it by heart, I've seen it about three times. Yeah now that I read it, it looks like it was generated by a translation program. Let me try to translate it to english.

It's written, between the unlimited constellations, from the "heavenly skies", and from the deeps of the emerald sea, and over each grain of sand, in the extense desert, that the world we see, is a world "from outside and visible dream", from an inner visible reality...
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Pretty good, but still not perfect.

Here's the original, unedited dialogue that I typed into the translator:
It is written, among the limitless constellations, of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald sea, and upon every grain of sand, in the vast desert, that the world which we see, is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and visible reality...
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OK so here's from someone who speaks portuguese for 24 years:

Está escrito entre as constelações infinitas, nos paraísos celestiais, e nas profundezas do mar esmeralda e em cada grão de areia, no vasto deserto, que o mundo que nós vemos é um sonho visível externo, de uma realidade visível interna...

Translated "heavens" as paraísos (paradises/heavens), not as céus (skies/heavens).
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I'd still like to know whether this game is real or fake.
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Gonna make it easy for you: fake.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Such a shame. It would have been really nice to give that game a shot.