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Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time

Windows 3.x - 1994
Also available on: Mac

The unique-- and, to some, repelling-- Monty Python humor comes to life in a trio of Pythonite games: Complete Waste of Time, The Holy Grail, and The Meaning of Life, thanks to active involvement of Pythonite Terry Gilliam as designer.

All titles are part game, part collection of Pythonesque skits and humor, and part more spam than you can stomach, with the latter 2 being faithful adaptation of the Python's movies of the same names. These games are a lot of fun if you are the Pythons' fan (like me). You will find them mildly amusing in a weird, incomprehensible way if you don't mind twisted humor, and downright disgusting if you're normal. Be warned.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

JV 18 Jul. 2026

This game was absolutely bonkers. I never figured out how to play the actual game and just clicked around trying to make things happen. Surprisingly fun for how confounding it was.

0
Large Wooden Rabbit 14 Apr. 2026

I managed to get another Monty Python game to run on my laptop by installing a version of Windows 95 and running it through there... Okay, my brother set it up for me, but it works! So I have Windows 95. How can I load this game? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks

0
(c°_} 16 Mar. 2025

Anyone else receiving the error message "can't find the file herald.bin" while trying to run the python.exe file? :/

1
TheFireBat 05 Sep. 2023
Top comment

Full Circle...

I ripped and submitted this game to this site about 2 decades ago. I no longer have the disc, a tragedy really. I'm so glad this site's still here, with my game intact. Any copy would do... but this one's mine. Super poetic.

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Terry Kunkle 02 Jun. 2023

I had this back 1995 but I don't know what happened to it. I think my son kiped it on me when he left to live with his grandparents, was fun though.

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edutoejam 20 Oct. 2022

when I was a little kid in the 90's I ended up playing this from a version of a CD with shareware games I had, but as I'm from Brazil and didn't know Monty Python at the time I've been trying to find this game for years, and to my surprise see him here now!!

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Joe Mama 10 Feb. 2022

I had the MP desktop pythonizer back in the days of Windows 3.11. though the version I had didn't have the other games. It was fun, you could make your keyboard sound like a typewriter, or you could make it make rude noises like burps and farts, or another selection was just wacky MP noises. It also had some brief clips from the show, and Python wallpaper. The screen savers could also be played as games.

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babs 12 Jul. 2015

this really was a complete waste of time, all I got was codes no real file or product!!!

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Windows 3.x version
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Win/Mac Hybrid

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563 MB
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Win / Mac ISO
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503 MB
Game file
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611 MB

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