The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!

Let’s discuss the Monkey Island series. What is your favorite game? What aspects do you like about it? What doesn’t work for you? Are there games that gave you a similar experience? Feel free to share any thoughts that come up, or react to other peoples comments. Let’s get the conversation going!

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  • UKFilmNerdEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn’t coming to the Atari.

    I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

    The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

    I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

    There’s also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.

      • UKFilmNerdEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        It’s an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It’s very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you’d be laughing. The music is awesome.

        The program is called Dreamm.

        DREAMM is a backronym for:

        DOS
Retro-
Emulation
Arena for
Maniac
Mansion (and other LucasArts Games).
          • UKFilmNerdEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.

            For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.