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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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

deeblering4 wrote: post #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 bein…

Whats funny to me about this too is that retro gamers come in all ages and would probably think this guys an idiot for writing something like that. "Youngsters" who would even be interested in this article probably already know about Monkey Island, at least theres a good chance. I wouldnt underestimate younger gamers, I know some that know more than me about games I know like the back of my hand.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by acomjean »

crtasm wrote: post #23
gwbas1c wrote: post #15

Just 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

When making the Thimbleweed park game, they kept a blog. Its decent and has some interesting tidbits on how they designed the game. I read after I played through to avoid spoilers, but it was a fun game.

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/archives.html

There is even some code in there.

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/pseudorooms.html

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by growlist »

deeblering4 wrote: post #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 bein…

Kind of a patronising comment in itself, as if the poor little snowflakes are so weak that they'll run away from tech after an extremely minor bit of ribbing at their expense.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by derwiki »

FpUser wrote: post #17

Oh sweet memories. I did not play the game, my daughter did. But I absolutely loved the music and still have it in my playlist.

Music is very memorable! I kept the original game disc at my parents’ house so I wouldn’t lose the music. Silly me! There’s an entire internet of folks who won’t let this stuff die.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by amichal »

I never shipped gold floppies but I did ship golden master CDs on a 1x (maybe 2x?) writer for a very early ebook publisher (sometime in late 1990s). I was young and inexperienced in the business side of things. The machine doing it was underpowered and frequently overran it' buffer. I remember that one late night when more sr folks had gone for drinks and i was left to do burn, I went through a stack of 16+ blanks trying to get a single disk to verify. This took hours and at the time blanks were something like 20$ each. I spent the whole night stressing I would get in trouble for spending so much and maybe I should have waited for someone who knew the process better. CTO told me the next day what being a single day late to get them to mfg would have cost and I felt better.

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Post by LukeShu »

rpeden wrote: post #30
dudul wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People give it a lot of crap, but honestly: It's better than Temple of Doom.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by sevencolors »

deeblering4 wrote: post #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 bein…

Yeah this type of curmudgeon sarcasm is how you end up with "Ok, boomer".

I feel a better way to be jokey about the old tech, is to just be amazed at it. Folks know how to google something when they don't know what it is

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by [deleted] »

robertakarobin wrote: post #38
deeblering4 wrote: post #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 bein…

I hate this stereotype. "Hurr durr, stupid Millenials don't even know what a book is, amirite?"

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Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by geephroh »

FpUser wrote: post #17

Oh sweet memories. I did not play the game, my daughter did. But I absolutely loved the music and still have it in my playlist.

You might check out the Super Mercato Bros podcast. They've done a couple of episodes on the Monkey Island franchise:

http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/tag/monkey+island

(And FWIW, my brother played marimba and some assorted percussion on Escape from Monkey Island. One of his weirdest gigs ever...)

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by ksangeelee »

robertakarobin wrote: post #38
deeblering4 wrote: post #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 bein…

I hate this stereotype. "Hurr durr, stupid Millenials don't even know what a book is, amirite?"

I think it's more a moment of realisation that a lot of time has passed, that things have changed to such an extent, and that it's hard to imagine something so large having so little function, relative to today's tech. I don't think it's written in the spirit of the stereotype you suggest.
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