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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
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Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#22Just curious: How would I go about playing Monkey Island today? I know DOSBox comes to mind? But, is there an official port, like the "remastered" versions of Final Fantasy that are in the Play store?
Steam [0] and GOG [1], at least, have Monkey Island 1 & 2 special editions. Looks like GOG has them 65% off right now too. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6588/Monkey_Island_Col... [1] https://www.gog.com/game/the_secret_of_monkey_island_special... [1] https://www.gog.com/game/monkey_island_2_special_edition_lec...
it's also on the app store and it's a very good fit for tablets, slightly less so for mobiles
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#23Just curious: How would I go about playing Monkey Island today? I know DOSBox comes to mind? But, is there an official port, like the "remastered" versions of Final Fantasy that are in the Play store?
I've played it on PC/xbox/iOS, I think it's available on pretty much every store.
If you have an original copy you can run it with ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/
Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick made a new game in 2014 too, it's excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimbleweed_Park
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#24I spent two months trying to cross the bridge at the beginning of the story keeping all money, gold, treasury bonds...
I had a real ball playing this game.
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#25I'm still not willing to accept that it's all the imagination of a child running wild at a theme park.
MONKEY ISLAND 2 SPOILERS
Didn't the ending heavily imply that the theme park was just a trick of LeChuck? I never interpreted it as being what was actually going on.
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#26Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Sam n Max made me want to study CS away from my home country. I loved those games as a young teenager. 30 years later I still do...
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#27Just curious: How would I go about playing Monkey Island today? I know DOSBox comes to mind? But, is there an official port, like the "remastered" versions of Final Fantasy that are in the Play store?
I've played it on PC/xbox/iOS, I think it's available on pretty much every store. If you have an original copy you can run it with ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/ Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick made a new game in 2014 too, it's excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimbleweed_Park
Thimbleweed Park is awesome. It feels exactly like it had been made by Lucasarts in the early 90s, and is definitely on par with others in the genre.
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#28Just curious: How would I go about playing Monkey Island today? I know DOSBox comes to mind? But, is there an official port, like the "remastered" versions of Final Fantasy that are in the Play store?
Steam [0] and GOG [1], at least, have Monkey Island 1 & 2 special editions. Looks like GOG has them 65% off right now too. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6588/Monkey_Island_Col... [1] https://www.gog.com/game/the_secret_of_monkey_island_special... [1] https://www.gog.com/game/monkey_island_2_special_edition_lec...
Played MI1 and 2 recently with my 6 year old from steam. We had a great time. Worked flawlessly with proton.
Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
#29> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.
I know that this is a joke, but let's remember to be inclusive and kind to our younger readers and take the time to explain (reiterate even) what pieces of old tech are, and what they were used for.
Computers have a long and complicated history. And the technical parts are being abstracted away more and more.
I think it's important to help people understand how we got to where we are today, and why it is (or isn't) an improvement from the way things used to be.
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#30I was just the right age when ‘Monkey Island’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis’ appeared in my life. That kind of in-world puzzle solving seems absent from a lot of what I see my early-teenage nieces/nephews (choose to) play now.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is the true 4th Indiana Jones movie in my book. And yes, I'll die on that hill.
Better to die on that hill rather than in a refrigerator like Indy should have given how hard that thing landed.