How did you come across MI?
I know a lot of people here will have started from the original game, but it also seems lots of people first played Curse.
So I'm curious as to how you first came across the games and which was your first to play?
My brother got Curse of Monkey Island for the PC, and installed it on our computer, and I just started my own save on it, seeing what it was like, and I instantly fell in love with the humour and storyline. Then I sought out the first two games and played the 3 through in order before I finally foudn a copy of Escape.
So I'm curious as to how you first came across the games and which was your first to play?
My brother got Curse of Monkey Island for the PC, and installed it on our computer, and I just started my own save on it, seeing what it was like, and I instantly fell in love with the humour and storyline. Then I sought out the first two games and played the 3 through in order before I finally foudn a copy of Escape.
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Then I learned about pirating, and thought that the Secret of Monkey Island was such an old game that it wouldn't matter if I got it for free. I really enjoyed it, and later downloaded the sequel. I didn't download the other two games, because my conenction couldn't handle it, and I was suspicous of direct downloads of CD-ROM games.
A few years later, I saw the Curse of Monkey Island in a shop and, having developed a moral code that included not stealing computer games, was really happy for the opportunity to legally obtain a Monkey Island game. The only thing I regret is not getting Grim Fandango while I was there.
I've never played Escape From Monkey Island, and don't really have any desire to.
Since I regret not paying for the Secret of Monkey Island, I'll definitely get the remake when it comes out.
It was the Amiga version of the game. I had no idea what it was about, I didn't know the genre or anything. But I had to get it because of the big box and nice box art
Yeah, I was young back then.
Then some years later I bought CD which had both to my PC.
I still remember when I first watched that cutscene in Elaine's mansion that happens behind closed doors (so to speak). The fact you've only got dialogue and the sentence bar makes it so funny.
I was already acquainted with LucasArts games because I'd played versions of them in not-very-many colours on a friend's PC, and when they came out in many more colours for the Amiga, I picked them up. I have fond memories of games like Zak McKracken, Maniac Mansion, Loom, and so on.
I fell in love with Secret of Monkey Island as soon as I played it, and got it as quickly as I could for the Amiga, on which I played it to death. Then I proceeded to get many other LA adventures, including Fate of Atlantis, Lechuck's Revenge, and so on.
Finally I got myself a VGA PC (as they were all the rage at the time) and I picked up Lechuck's Revenge for that, too. And a while after that, a version of Secret of Monkey Island on CD with enhancced music came about, so I picked that up too.
I was really into LucasArts adventures way back when, so I played them all in order from their very earliest ones. I played the Sierra games too, but I can't say I was half as fond of thhose, though I do have fond memories of Quest for Glory, if nothing else.
So many great games out for the PC at that time though, and the way technology was progressing, every new year became a brand new wonder. Tech doesn't move as fast today in today's console dominated market, but the ideas in the indie and small company markets are flowing thick and fast.
Bless 'em.
When I got a PC, I remembered that article, and looked those games up online, and that's how I found Monkey Island.
The sound, the graphics which were amazing back then and the fantastic atmosphere and story... And then the humour. There were few games so entertaining back then and even more these days.
TSOMI is a complete classic and I played it during a few hours each day then I got stuck and came back to it a few weeks later. There were no internet and guides back then, so solving the puzzles and getting to the end was an amazing experience.
I don't know if it is because I played it during my teenage years, but I feel so nostalgic for the experience of playing it for the first time...
Monkey Island rocks!
maniac mansion lead me to lucas i think tho
Man, I had a photocopy of the codewheel too. My dad got the game from a friend when I was about six or seven. It was sometime around '91 or '92. I sat down one Saturday and played the game all the way through from start to finish, and I'll never forget it.
It wasn't until some years later.. '96 or '97 I think, that I even found out about LeChuck's Revenge. I got it in the back of a computer gaming magazine on one of those CDs they'd include, as well as a demo for The Curse of Monkey Island. That was a great day. Still have that CD too!
I bet you never foresaw that back in the day, eh
Must be something insane though, to be contributing to such a series that means a lot to people for various reasons.
Must have been only 10 years or so at the time.
Since then I've played all the games. Played SoMI and LeChucks Revenge in '04, when I discovered ScummVM.
When my dad got the family a Tandy 1000(tm) one year, I got the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade adventure game, then later Zack McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. Finished and loved both games thoroughly.
When Monkey Island suddenly appeared on my local computer store shelf, my heart almost jumped out of my throat. A new game in the style of those other 3 games I liked (at the time I didn't know they were called 'adventure games') and the box art looked like candy... only problem was, it required 640k an my Tandy 1000 only had 256!
I talked to my dad about it, and it turns out he was just looking for an excuse to upgrade the memory on that thing anyway. So after an annoying ordeal where the local shop tried unsuccessfully a few times to upgrade it, I finally had a computer that could play MI. I unwrapped the game on Christmas day that year, and the rest is history.
Fast forward years later, I just happened to see a copy on the shelf in some store and grabbed it. Played the whole thing threw and then eventually played all of the 1st through from some LucasArts adventure pack (I couldn't find the 2nd game). Then bought EMI when it came out, and eventually, finally got a copy of the 2nd online and finished that.
Moral of the story - demos and demo discs were very important before the internet.
Then, fast-forward to July 2001, and the PCG demo disc that had ALL FULL VERSIONS of games, including SOMI. Played it, loved it, and plan on buying the new XBLA version, and maybe even the new PC version too, I dunno.
BJ
How did you know about that?!
:eek:
it took me a while, but i eventually got it :P