Obscure Russian Monkey Island game

TheHutt

A guy at Mixnmojo made some curious discovery considering good ole Monkey Island 2. It seems to have been unofficially adapted in Russia back in 1995:

Around seven or so years ago I stumbled upon an obscure version of Monkey Island 2 made for the Russian home computer Elektronika BK-0011(M). I got the thing running on some emulator and intended to do some research on it but I never did. I came to think of it the other day and thought that there might be some interest in it and as far as I know it has not been mentioned around here before.
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Obviously this is not an official port of the game but rather some sort of fan made thing. But a rather ambitious one at that. Potentially, it was made by some company and perhaps even sold. My Russian is a bit rusty so I don't know for sure. There appears to be some sort of copyright claim dated to the year 1995, so I assume that is when the game was made.

There is a gameplay video (without sound, though this game has music, some of which is re-arrangement of the MI theme) here:



Original post and dialogue translation of the Youtube video is here:
http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=203432

Secret Fawful

No offense but, that looks like ass.

Chyron8472

When did that come out? 1995? The graphics remind me of the original "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" game on 5.25" floppy. It only had 6 colors, the same as this (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and gray.)

MusicallyInspired

The Broderbund game? My copy had 16 colours. Which I thought was later enhanced to 256 colours.

Chyron8472

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/where-in-the-world-is-carmen-sandiego/screenshots

idk, however many colors the original DOS version has:

Hayden

Chyron8472 wrote: »

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/where-in-the-world-is-carmen-sandiego/screenshots

idk, however many colors the original DOS version has:

But these images only have two colours.

MusicallyInspired

Wow. Intriguing. My copy was a Win 3.1 game, I believe...maybe not. I saw the CD-ROM edition in a thrift store a few days ago. Should have bought it along with Unreal...

EDIT: This is the version I had. I guess it was also a DOS version. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/where-in-the-world-is-carmen-sandiego-enhanced/screenshots

StarEye

How about reading up the hardware before judging the graphics based on a year of release?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_BK

Chyron8472

haydenwce27 wrote: »

But these images only have two colours.

yeah, I fixed it.

Nosehair

Just to clarify, the original PC version of SMI was 16 colors, 320x200 px (EGA). These screenshots look like they're four colors (CGA). As I recall, SMI ran in that mode too.

TheHutt

BK0011M did have graphics similar to CGA in the resolution 256x256.

MusicallyInspired

SMI could be played in Hercules Monochrome. That's one colour (white, brown/orange, or green) and black.

Ripcord

Secret Fawful wrote: »

No offense but, that looks like ass.

You obviously never had a system with CGA.

Although it DID look like ass, this is a pretty impressive cyan/magenta/black/white (4 color) conversion, here. Probably not as grating to someone who actually played games like this in CGA.

Ripcord

Also, people are focusing on the graphics instead of the wonder that there is this crazy Russian MI2 (clone? port? rip-off?) floating around out there that virtually no one was aware of. Is there any chance anyone has ever heard of this before?

Edit: Wow, this thing was a PDP-11 clone, too? A PDP-11??

I love that this exists.

Irishmile

LOL looks like someone left their disks in the sun too long to me... Interesting find

Joop

So has anyone got a download link or something?
I'd love to see this with my own eyes... Or you know, not from screenshots...

MusicallyInspired

Speaking of CGA, there were multiple palettes I remember. There's the Cyan, Magenta, Black, White. Then there was a Red, Green, Blue, and Brown palette. Not even black! That was hard on the eyes...