Toiletnojutsu
04-11-2006, 12:24 PM
I think it's up to me to enlighten you guys with some proper gaming culture.
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Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of four graphical point-and-click adventure games produced and published by LucasArts. These games were made when games still looked like games and not real life, you smiled and you laughed at each little puzzle you solved, The monkey island series are the pride of the adventure genre. Even today, when I play The secret of monkey island, the first game, it's pure pixlated joy. "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate"
Guybrush, our antihero, arrives on Island of Mêlée to become a pirate. He finds out that all pirates on the island are too afraid to even sail because of an evil ghost pirate named LeChuck. Still, Guybrush starts his pirate initiation known as The Three Trials. Just when he finally masters the arts of thievery, sword fighting and treasure hunting, he hears that LeChuck has kidnapped the beautiful governor Elaine Marley whom he plans to marry. Guybrush, as any good hero is destined to do, now must find a way to the legendary Monkey Island and rescue Elaine.
The setting is in the "Tri-Island-area" a fictional group of islands in the Caribbean. The Games' plot is usually that Guybrush has to get from one island to another before finally getting to monkey island. We're introduced to a whole bunch of exciting characters and islands. But a key element in all the monkey island games is that it's impossible to put the game into an unwinnable state or cause Guybrush to die. Except for one very unlikely situation in SMI where you're beeing informed that Guybrush boasts about his ability to hold his breath for 10 minutes. And later in the game you're faced by a puzzle where you have to walk under water, and if you stay there for 10 minutes you eventually drown.
The thing that makes these games so special it's that they're made out of love. Ron Gilbert (my main man) is a genius. The game is filled with infamous cult events, like insult-sword-fighting, and insult arm wrestling, monkey combat, jokes, pop-culture references, and famous one liners like "Look, a three headed monkey!" or "I'm selling these fine leather jackets" Thats used in the indiana jones games and almost in every lucasarts game. And we're beeing constantly reminded that it's a game. Like when Guybrush finds himself trying to climb down a hollow tree stump, the game prompts the player to successively insert "disk #23," "disk #47" and "disk #98" (I have the original SMI on 8 floppy disks=) This doesn't work out of course, and Guybrush climbs up. This gag was removed on the CD-rom version because lucasarts tech department got a large amount of complaint calls on that the customers didn't have all the discs. There's a spoof on this in Lechuck's revenge where you can call Lucasarts hint line and ask "Who thought up that dumb stump joke" "Do you know how many calls a DAY i get about that" And in the third game you can stick your head into an opening and you briefly appear with your head sticking out that very same tree stump rendered in EGA graphics.
I could continue like this forever. But I wont cause it's much more fun to experience it yourself. But you have to solve the games chronologically cause you will lack a lot of the history if you don't. And you'll miss out on a lot if you don't play Lechuck's revenge, aka the best video game ever made. This game was meant to spill the secret of monkey island. I just have to go on a sidetrack here for a bit. You know when you watch a movie , a serious one, and it's close to the ending, and you just say or think something like "haha, what if he just <insert vague surreal ending here>". That's exactly what Ron Gilbert did with Lechuck's revenge, the ending is so bizarre and it leaves tons of interpretations. Play it, see if you can figure it out.
The two newest games are the ones with the most comcical graphics. The Curse of monkey island is pure awesomeness, the music is never annoying, it's always joy, it was also the first dubbed game, and it works out great. This is also the last game designed with the famous SCUMM engine, (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion(Maniac mansion is also a good game btw)) Before going with the GrimE engine for grim fandango and escape from monkey island.
I remember when I sat by my brother while he was going at the very first monkey island. I don't think we spoke at all(this may be my imagination playing tricks on me) , but I sure laughed though. Monkey Island is fucking justified nostalgia, I can play the game now and have a blast, just when thinking about it I get this warm feeling in my chest. Summer evenings with Guybrush threepwood, getting totally captivated by his swashbuckling adventures, the art is just so peaceful. And I might be wrong about this but I think all credit goes to Lucasarts for bringing humor into video gaming.
Please, play it now, let it blow you away. Be charmed by salesman stan, feel sorry for Herman Toothrot, laugh at Lechuck, bang your head against the wall for not beeing able to solve a puzzle with sucha obvious and logical solution (happens all the time), be amazed by "Murray the demonic talking skull", just enjoy the game in any way you want.
You can also solve the games in one second by pressing Ctrl + Shift + W. But thats cheating
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Mi1cover.jpg
http://www.worldofmi.com/images/categories/2/screen10.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Mi2cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Curse_of_monkey_island_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Escape_from_monkey_island_mac_cover.jpg
Go here for more monkey fun:
http://www.worldofmi.com/
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2521/screen068xm.gif
Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of four graphical point-and-click adventure games produced and published by LucasArts. These games were made when games still looked like games and not real life, you smiled and you laughed at each little puzzle you solved, The monkey island series are the pride of the adventure genre. Even today, when I play The secret of monkey island, the first game, it's pure pixlated joy. "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate"
Guybrush, our antihero, arrives on Island of Mêlée to become a pirate. He finds out that all pirates on the island are too afraid to even sail because of an evil ghost pirate named LeChuck. Still, Guybrush starts his pirate initiation known as The Three Trials. Just when he finally masters the arts of thievery, sword fighting and treasure hunting, he hears that LeChuck has kidnapped the beautiful governor Elaine Marley whom he plans to marry. Guybrush, as any good hero is destined to do, now must find a way to the legendary Monkey Island and rescue Elaine.
The setting is in the "Tri-Island-area" a fictional group of islands in the Caribbean. The Games' plot is usually that Guybrush has to get from one island to another before finally getting to monkey island. We're introduced to a whole bunch of exciting characters and islands. But a key element in all the monkey island games is that it's impossible to put the game into an unwinnable state or cause Guybrush to die. Except for one very unlikely situation in SMI where you're beeing informed that Guybrush boasts about his ability to hold his breath for 10 minutes. And later in the game you're faced by a puzzle where you have to walk under water, and if you stay there for 10 minutes you eventually drown.
The thing that makes these games so special it's that they're made out of love. Ron Gilbert (my main man) is a genius. The game is filled with infamous cult events, like insult-sword-fighting, and insult arm wrestling, monkey combat, jokes, pop-culture references, and famous one liners like "Look, a three headed monkey!" or "I'm selling these fine leather jackets" Thats used in the indiana jones games and almost in every lucasarts game. And we're beeing constantly reminded that it's a game. Like when Guybrush finds himself trying to climb down a hollow tree stump, the game prompts the player to successively insert "disk #23," "disk #47" and "disk #98" (I have the original SMI on 8 floppy disks=) This doesn't work out of course, and Guybrush climbs up. This gag was removed on the CD-rom version because lucasarts tech department got a large amount of complaint calls on that the customers didn't have all the discs. There's a spoof on this in Lechuck's revenge where you can call Lucasarts hint line and ask "Who thought up that dumb stump joke" "Do you know how many calls a DAY i get about that" And in the third game you can stick your head into an opening and you briefly appear with your head sticking out that very same tree stump rendered in EGA graphics.
I could continue like this forever. But I wont cause it's much more fun to experience it yourself. But you have to solve the games chronologically cause you will lack a lot of the history if you don't. And you'll miss out on a lot if you don't play Lechuck's revenge, aka the best video game ever made. This game was meant to spill the secret of monkey island. I just have to go on a sidetrack here for a bit. You know when you watch a movie , a serious one, and it's close to the ending, and you just say or think something like "haha, what if he just <insert vague surreal ending here>". That's exactly what Ron Gilbert did with Lechuck's revenge, the ending is so bizarre and it leaves tons of interpretations. Play it, see if you can figure it out.
The two newest games are the ones with the most comcical graphics. The Curse of monkey island is pure awesomeness, the music is never annoying, it's always joy, it was also the first dubbed game, and it works out great. This is also the last game designed with the famous SCUMM engine, (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion(Maniac mansion is also a good game btw)) Before going with the GrimE engine for grim fandango and escape from monkey island.
I remember when I sat by my brother while he was going at the very first monkey island. I don't think we spoke at all(this may be my imagination playing tricks on me) , but I sure laughed though. Monkey Island is fucking justified nostalgia, I can play the game now and have a blast, just when thinking about it I get this warm feeling in my chest. Summer evenings with Guybrush threepwood, getting totally captivated by his swashbuckling adventures, the art is just so peaceful. And I might be wrong about this but I think all credit goes to Lucasarts for bringing humor into video gaming.
Please, play it now, let it blow you away. Be charmed by salesman stan, feel sorry for Herman Toothrot, laugh at Lechuck, bang your head against the wall for not beeing able to solve a puzzle with sucha obvious and logical solution (happens all the time), be amazed by "Murray the demonic talking skull", just enjoy the game in any way you want.
You can also solve the games in one second by pressing Ctrl + Shift + W. But thats cheating
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Mi1cover.jpg
http://www.worldofmi.com/images/categories/2/screen10.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Mi2cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Curse_of_monkey_island_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Escape_from_monkey_island_mac_cover.jpg
Go here for more monkey fun:
http://www.worldofmi.com/