The Other Secret of Monkey Island

http://www.geero.net/2010/02/other-secret-of-monkey-island.html

by andygeers • 16 years ago

53 19 16 years ago

roschdal• 16 years ago

Monkey Island: greatest game ever.

andygeers2• 16 years ago

There's something really inspiring about creating something quite as enduring as Monkey Island, that still has people talking about it all these years later.

metamemetics• 16 years ago

as far as Schafer games go, it was much better than Psychonauts and a true classic but not as good as Grim Fandango.

artagnon2• 16 years ago

The Monkey Island theme song gives me an adrenaline rush.

spiffage• 16 years ago

Then you'll probably like Eduardo Gouveia's "Monkey Island Rocks".

http://imuse.mixnmojo.com/fan.shtml#eduardo

artagnon2• 16 years ago

Awesome track! Thanks! :)

syl• 16 years ago

Interesting theory, but I thought the secret was "Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."

tarkin2• 16 years ago

That has to be the most satisfying theory yet. The "it's just a theme park" theory robs MI of its wonderful story-telling.

chuhnk• 16 years ago

They need to bring out a movie. But I only think they'd do it justice if done in CGI rather than acted out with real people.

andygeers2• 16 years ago

I think Ron Gilbert himself said on his blog that it hardly seemed worth it now that it had basically been done in the Pirates of the Caribbean

gcb• 16 years ago

I hope you mean 2D pixelated CGI

ja2ke• 16 years ago

I love that this game series is still spawning theories like this, 20 years later.

danteembermage• 16 years ago

In the first game, swashbuckling was handled by using insults to demoralize the pirates until you were victorious. You "leveled up" in sword fighting by learning witty comments. Then, at the final duel, all of the punchlines become useful for different insults. Source of this fascinating gem of video-game writing: Orson Scott Card.

teamonkey2• 16 years ago

Ugh. I wish I hadn't learned that he was behind them.

jacobolus• 16 years ago

Orson Scott Card is a complex and fascinating person and writer, who writes nuanced and sympathetic characters (Athiests, Catholics, independent women, housewives, nuns, children, Aliens, etc.) with not-clichéd interrelationships.

I find knee-jerk reactions like yours here pretty odd.

ranza• 16 years ago

oh wow! my head was just blown

tocomment• 16 years ago

Is there anywhere I can play Monkey island right now? Online perhaps or download to Linux?

I've never played it and would love to see what the fuss is about.

teamonkey2• 16 years ago

Steam, Xbox Live Arcade or iPhone.

stevejohnson• 16 years ago

ScummVM will let you play a lot of old games in that style. You will have to "acquire" the data files for it.

http://www.scummvm.org/

The Other Secret of Monkey Island

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