Obscure Russian Monkey Island game

TheHutt · April 2010

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 · April 2010

No offense but, that looks like ass.

Chyron8472 · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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

Chyron8472 · April 2010

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

idk, however many colors the original DOS version has:

Hayden · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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

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

Chyron8472 · April 2010

haydenwce27 wrote: »

But these images only have two colours.

yeah, I fixed it.

Nosehair · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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

MusicallyInspired · April 2010

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

Ripcord · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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

Joop · April 2010

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 · April 2010

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...

Obscure Russian Monkey Island game

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